Signaling good by doing good: How does environmental corporate social responsibility affect international expansion?

Xu, Xiaodong; Zeng, Saixing; Chen, Hongquan

doi:10.1002/bse.2044

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“…According to natural resource‐based view, because natural environment imposes the utmost constraints and challenges, firms, cultivate green culture, and capability, which cannot be perfectly imitated by competitors, can build advantages in three interconnected levels, pollution prevention, product stewardship, and sustainable development (Hart, ). The way of a firm, or an industry, dealing with environmental problems probably is the most important indicator of its overall competitiveness (Chen, Zeng, Lin, & Ma, ; Xu et al, ). By this logic, corporate environmental ethics can improve firm performance.…”

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“…Environmental degradation is one of the greatest challenges for human society in the foreseeable future (Damert & Baumgartner, ; Tang & Demeritt, ; Zou, Xie, Qi, & Yang, ). A dramatic increase in environmental consciousness worldwide has been witnessed (Lin, Zeng, Ma, Qi, & Tam, ; Xu, Zeng, & Chen, ). Corporations, as the private sector, heavily determine the progresses against the rapid environmental disruption (Sukhdev, ).…”

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Turning corporate environmental ethics into firm performance: The role of green marketing programs

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In this study, we develop a better understanding of the mechanisms by which corporate environmental ethics influences performance through the adoption of substantive actions. The empirical results of a moderated mediating analysis show that firms with higher environmental ethics are more likely to implement green marketing programs, consisting of the green production, pricing, distribution, and promotion programs and then improve firm performance. It is also observed that closure mechanism negatively moderates the mediation effect of green marketing programs because it leads to low trust and unwillingness to internal cooperation. These findings indicate that the value of corporate environmental ethics could not be determined in a vacuum, both strategy and people do matter when pursuing environmentally driven performance.

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Turning corporate environmental ethics into firm performance: The role of green marketing programs

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Jiang-yan³

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“…There is a vast amount of research on the impact of corporate environmental policies on competition, firm performance, and firm risk (Al‐Najjar & Anfimiadou, 2012; Brouwers, Schoubben, & Van Hulle, 2018; Gallego‐Álvarez, García‐Sánchez, & da Silva Vieira, 2014; Klassen & McLaughlin, 1996; Lee, Cin, & Lee, 2016; Nakao, Amano, Matsumura, Genba, & Nakano, 2007; Sariannidis, Zafeiriou, Giannarakis, & Arabatzis, 2013; Yadav, Han, & Kim, 2017; Xu, Zeng, & Chen, 2018). The main motivation of these studies is to reveal how corporate environmental performance influences firm‐level financial outcomes.…”

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Environmental policies, national culture, and stock price crash risk: Evidence from renewable energy firms

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Karan

2020

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This study investigates the impact of country‐level environmental performance and national culture on the stock price crash risk of renewable energy firms. Employing a large sample of 626 renewable energy firms across 31 countries, we find a significant nonlinear relationship between country‐level environmental performance and crash risk. National culture dimensions are found to strongly predict the crash risk of renewable energy firms, particularly after the global financial crisis. On the contrary, national culture dimensions and environmental policies are observed to not exert any significance in explaining the crash risk of fossil fuel firms. Our results are robust with respect to alternative measures of stock price crash risk and the endogeneity of national culture dimensions. Overall, the findings of this paper contribute to the environmental economics literature by providing new evidence regarding the role of societal and environmental factors in explaining the stock price crash risk of energy firms.

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“…It is argued that ROA is one of the best performance measures in China (Dekker & Hasso, 2016). Better financial performance means more financial resources that can be invested in those activities benefiting to corporate environmental performance such as introducing green technologies, building new environmental management systems, and developing environmentalfriendly products (Xu, Zeng, & Chen, 2018).…”

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Monitoring effect of transparency: How does government environmental disclosure facilitate corporate environmentalism?

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Environmental information transparency is a key policy instrument in environmental governance, which has been emphasized in most of the literature. Although a large body of research has focused on its role at the national or industrial level in the developed countries, few studies have extended it to emerging economies and tested its role in the subnational context. In this paper, we have empirically examined how government environmental disclosure shapes corporate environmentalism in the context of China. It is argued that the information transparency of government environmental disclosure can promote corporate environmentalism by providing supports for governments' decision‐making of environmental governance, the activeness of environmental nongovernment organizations, and the participation of general public in environmental issues. Especially, we have highlighted two kinds of influences on focal relationship: booster role of bureaucratic capability in the diffusion of environmental institutional pressure and receiver role of organization slack and industrial competition in the perception of environmental institutional pressure. Using a panel dataset of Chinese publicly listed firms from 2008 to 2015, a positive relationship between government's environmental information transparency and corporate environmentalism is found. In addition, our result has shown that this relationship will be stronger for regions where government bureaucracy capabilities are stronger. This study contributes to understanding of the process of firms' strategic choice facing environmental and institutional changes in emerging economies.

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Signaling good by doing good: How does environmental corporate social responsibility affect international expansion?

Cited by 82 publications

References 66 publications

Turning corporate environmental ethics into firm performance: The role of green marketing programs

Turning corporate environmental ethics into firm performance: The role of green marketing programs

Environmental policies, national culture, and stock price crash risk: Evidence from renewable energy firms

Monitoring effect of transparency: How does government environmental disclosure facilitate corporate environmentalism?

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