Strategic responses of stigmatized Chinese manufacturing firms to formal and informal environmental regulative pressures through enhanced corporate social responsibility effort

Jia, Xu; Wei, Jiuchang; Chen, Haipeng

doi:10.1002/csr.1744

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“…On one hand, a concrete example from the industry can be presented alongside the study to make the research problem attractive and present a better reflection of the topic. On the other hand, the GTU is not only affected by the environmental regulation from governments, but also the informal environmental regulation from social groups who can negotiate with manufacturing enterprises to affect the GTU of manufacturing enterprises [ 38 , 39 ]. Thus, the dual environmental regulation also requires further research.…”

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Impacts of Environmental Regulation on the Green Transformation and Upgrading of Manufacturing Enterprises

Shen

Fan

Wang

et al. 2020

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Since environmental problems are becoming increasingly prominent, macro policies and social development have placed higher requirements on manufacturing enterprises to promote green transformation and upgrading (GTU) in China. Considering that different manufacturing enterprises choose different green technology innovation levels for GTU under environmental regulation, a game model between manufacturing enterprises and the government is constructed. The relationship between the green technology innovation level (GTIL) and the environmental regulation intensity is analyzed. Through numerical examples, the influences of environmental regulation and consumer preference on system decisions are further examined. Moreover, an econometric model is constructed to explore the influence that the environmental regulation exerts on the GTIL using panel data from the Chinese manufacturing industry. Our results show that the increase in environmental regulation intensity contributes to improving GTIL and promoting the GTU of manufacturing enterprises. Furthermore, as the environmental regulation is enhanced, the sales price decreases, benefiting consumers. Consumers’ preference for high-GTIL products is conducive to GTU under environmental regulation. Empirical analysis shows that there is a U-shaped relationship between environmental regulation and the GTIL. Only when the intensity reaches a threshold can the environmental regulation be beneficial to improve the GTIL and promote the GTU of Chinese manufacturing enterprises.

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Impacts of Environmental Regulation on the Green Transformation and Upgrading of Manufacturing Enterprises

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Fan

Wang

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“…Regarding environmental policies, enterprises face different levels of enforcement, which can be classified as passive (Wilson et al, 2012) and active (Banerjee and Gupta, 2019); and some enterprises will even participate in voluntary projects to gain competitive advantages (Aragon-Correa et al, 2008; Jiang et al, 2018b). These voluntary projects include ISO4001 (Ni et al, 2019; Potoski and Prakash, 2005), company social responsibility reports (Xu et al, 2019) and other spontaneous environmental protection projects (Clemens and Douglas, 2006; Tatoglu et al, 2020). Arora (quoted 256) explored the potential of Spanish businesses to participate in the EPA’s 33/50 program to assess voluntary EM and emphasized that public recognition could improve the efforts of reporting environment situation voluntarily (Arora and Cason, 1996).…”

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The development of green enterprises: A literature review based on VOSviewer and Pajek

Wang

Tang

Jiang

et al. 2021

Australian Journal of Management

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Being a greener enterprise is the final goal of obtaining sustainable supply chain management, achieving environmental management (EM) and ensuring environmental performance. To provide scholars with knowledge of research trends of green enterprises, we carried out this research project, took 1142 articles as research objects and three methods to review the whole picture of green enterprises research. We found that this field is mainly concentrated in three areas. While small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) greening, EM and pollution emissions have been the enduring topics, green innovation has received the most attention from researchers. Furthermore, we found that scholars pay a great amount of attention to China-related research and Italian scholars have played a leading role in the future green enterprise research. JEL classification: Q57

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“…This effort at regaining legitimacy may take various forms. Stigmatized firms can ameliorate the damage through the reduction or termination of stigmatizing activities, diversification of their operations, or involvement in corporate social responsibility activities (Givel, 2007; Lerum Boasson, 2009; Palazzo & Richter, 2005; Xu, Wei, & Chen, 2019). These strategies help firms disengage themselves from the stigma, to protect their remaining legitimacy (Wiesenfeld, Wurthmann, & Hambrick, 2008), and to reshape their image as appropriate and desirable in the mind of the external stakeholders (Bansal & Clelland, 2004).…”

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Pollution Stigma and Manufacturing Firms’ Disengagement Effort: Interactive Effects of Pressures From External Stakeholders

Jia

Wei

Chen

2019

Organization & Environment

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Firms’ stigmatization due to deviation from social norms has received extensive attention in recent years. The increasing significance of the social norm requiring firms to protect the natural environment contributes to the emergence of pollution stigma over the heavily polluting firms. We apply the stigma theory to the National Specially Monitored firms of China and expand past research by developing a framework to understand the interactive effects of external stakeholder’s pressure on the tendency for these firms to disengage from the pollution stigma. We find that (a) there is diminishing returns to scale in the joint effect between hard and soft regulative pressure and in that between regulative and normative pressure, (b) the positive effect of mimetic pressure from environmental protection exemplary firms is exacerbated when dilution of stigma responsibility is low, and (c) dilution of stigma responsibility weakens the positive effect of stigma intensity on firms’ disengagement tendencies.

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Strategic responses of stigmatized Chinese manufacturing firms to formal and informal environmental regulative pressures through enhanced corporate social responsibility effort

Abstract: Linking two forms of regulative pressures to different motivations for firms' strategic choices, we propose that stigmatized firms' effort to enhance their corporate social responsibility (CSR) reflects legitimacy considerations when faced with formal regula-

Cited by 12 publications

References 127 publications

Impacts of Environmental Regulation on the Green Transformation and Upgrading of Manufacturing Enterprises

Impacts of Environmental Regulation on the Green Transformation and Upgrading of Manufacturing Enterprises

The development of green enterprises: A literature review based on VOSviewer and Pajek

Pollution Stigma and Manufacturing Firms’ Disengagement Effort: Interactive Effects of Pressures From External Stakeholders

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