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  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,769 Views
35 Pages

8 January 2021

Using a unique United States box office data set, we investigate the impact of environmental sentiment on corporate environmental and financial performance of the United States listed firms. The influence of mass media on public and investor sentimen...

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  • Open Access
193 Citations
23,805 Views
30 Pages

27 October 2017

The relationship between corporate environmental performance and corporate financial performance has been extensively studied in developed countries, and has received less attention in developing countries. For this reason, the main objective of this...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,951 Views
14 Pages

Corporate Sustainable Development, Corporate Environmental Performance and Cost of Debt

  • Haiyan Sun,
  • Guangyang Wang,
  • Junwei Bai,
  • Jianfei Shen,
  • Xinyuan Zheng,
  • Erli Dan,
  • Feiyu Chen and
  • Ludan Zhang

23 December 2022

High environmental performance of enterprises may reduce financing costs, while good environmental performance can promote sustainable development of enterprises. Therefore, this paper examines the impact mechanism of China’s corporate environm...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,343 Views
19 Pages

15 May 2023

The environmental tax reform implemented in 2018 is an important initiative of Chinese tax reform, which is deemed a valuable opportunity to encourage firms to improve their environmental performance. This study empirically investigates the impact of...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,662 Views
20 Pages

Environmental Performance and Corporate Governance: Evidence from Japan

  • Syeda Humayra Abedin,
  • Silima Subha,
  • Mumtaheena Anwar,
  • Md. Nurul Kabir,
  • Yasean A. Tahat and
  • Mohammed Hossain

10 February 2023

This study investigates the impact of corporate governance on corporate environmental performance among Japanese companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange for the period 2006–2019. Using fixed-effects modelling for 4617 firm-year observation...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,959 Views
27 Pages

2 September 2022

Facing the current increasingly severe environmental problems, the government and the public make increasingly strong demands for environmental protection. It is the key to sustainable development to study how to motivate enterprises to actively fulf...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,564 Views
15 Pages

25 November 2016

For more than 40 years, a tremendous number of studies have empirically explored the relationship between Corporate Environmental Performance (CEP) and Corporate Financial Performance (CFP). This study considers the relationship from a new perspectiv...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,038 Views
21 Pages

24 November 2024

This study investigates the relationship between green intellectual capital and corporate environmental performance, with a specific focus on the moderating role of environmental management accounting. Data were collected from a sample of 298 employe...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,599 Views
18 Pages

24 May 2023

Using archival data of the Chinese A-share listed companies from 2011 to 2019, this article empirically examines the effectiveness of the Chinese carbon emission trading pilot, from the perspective of market-ranked corporate environmental performance...

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  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,981 Views
21 Pages

23 December 2022

Environmental pollution remains a serious sustainable development issue. Enterprises, as important agents of sustainable development, are receiving increasing attention regarding their efforts to protect the environment. The rapid development of the...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,327 Views
20 Pages

20 September 2024

China’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) actions are driven by multiple factors, among which the government is an indispensable key player. This paper empirically examines the impact of government environmental information regulation...

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  • Open Access
59 Citations
7,026 Views
13 Pages

26 March 2018

With increasing concerns about environmental issues and the advancement of China’s “going global” strategy, a new issue-proactive corporate social responsibility has emerged. Proactive corporate environmental responsibility refers to business actions...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,563 Views
22 Pages

13 April 2025

Amid escalating ecological concerns and regulatory pressures, firms are adopting environmental sustainability commitments to enhance competitiveness and fulfill social responsibilities. However, the internal mechanisms linking these commitments to en...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,893 Views
12 Pages

9 May 2023

Environmental performance is a key aspect of business for both shareholders and stakeholders. However, it is necessary to examine whether current practices in corporate governance protect the key interests of shareholders and environmental stakeholde...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,727 Views
33 Pages

1 August 2023

In the dynamically evolving global environment, enterprises grapple with an intricate web of social, environmental, and technological changes that demand heightened environmental efficiency and sustainability-oriented strategies. This study investiga...

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  • Open Access
512 Citations
59,136 Views
20 Pages

11 May 2020

Within the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure–corporate sustainability performance (economic, environmental and social; EES) framework, our empirical analysis examined the impact of ESG information disclosure on EES sustaina...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,745 Views
17 Pages

2 March 2019

Employing a sample consisting of Chinese A-share listed companies, this study carries out an empirical research to investigate the influence path of political connections on enterprise environmental performance. The results show a strong positive ass...

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  • Open Access
4,688 Views
22 Pages

17 February 2025

This research adopted a distinctive approach to explore the link between corporate environmental performance, customer satisfaction, and firm performance. It also examines the moderating role of digital transformation on these relationships. We colle...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,853 Views
18 Pages

Environmental pollution is an inevitable primary responsibility in the production and management of enterprises, and it is the most severe challenge to achieving green production and sustainable development. Environmental pollution liability insuranc...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,911 Views
25 Pages

3 September 2020

This paper examines the value relevance of corporate environmental performance (CEP) using individual environmental performance indicators and multidimensional constructs derived from Trumpp et al. (2015). Accounting information can be described as &...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,012 Views
22 Pages

19 October 2023

Based on the data of China’s A-share listed companies from 2008 to 2021, this article explores the impact and mechanism of executives with environmental experience on corporate environmental performance (CEP) and finds that executives with envi...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,569 Views
18 Pages

This article selects the listed companies in China’s A-share heavy pollution industry from 2014 to 2018 as samples, uses a random effect model to empirically test the relationship between media attention and corporate environmental performance...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,881 Views
18 Pages

14 September 2022

As an essential means of reducing environmental stress, corporate innovation faces financial pressure and financial risk; so, whether corporate innovation contributes to environmental performance is related to the firm’s external capital enviro...

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,520 Views
25 Pages

30 October 2017

Government support systems are crucial for export SMEs (Small to Medium Enterprises) to cope with growing international environmental regulations. However, empirical studies show a limited research area to explore the performance of export SMEs with...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,831 Views
30 Pages

28 August 2024

Manufacturers have been under increasing pressure from various groups to recognize and deal with the environmental effects of their operations, especially in the past twenty years. To manage this challenge, they have adopted two practices: corporate...

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  • Open Access
1,180 Views
22 Pages

17 December 2025

In the context of the growing prominence of socially responsible investment, the debate over whether sustainable corporate practices translate into sustained shareholder value has intensified. As a key tool for aligning their investment portfolios wi...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,316 Views
18 Pages

Environmental, Social and Governance Performance: Analysis of CEO Power and Corporate Risk

  • Yan Zhao,
  • Ehsan Elahi,
  • Zainab Khalid,
  • Xuegang Sun and
  • Fang Sun

12 January 2023

This study explores the relationship between a company’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance, and corporate risk. Moreover, the study emphasizes how CEO power moderates this relationship. Using a sample of Chinese A-share li...

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,486 Views
19 Pages

5 November 2020

Corporate social responsibility (CSR), a current mainstream issue in global corporate governance, is often used to verify a company’s financial performance and corporate image; however, few studies have focused on CSR for environmental issues....

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  • Open Access
45 Citations
4,847 Views
17 Pages

Today, environmental protection has become a global issue, and various environmental regulations have been actively adopted. However, are these measures promoting or harming enterprise values? Is this effect the same for enterprises with different ow...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,381 Views
16 Pages

11 June 2023

The production and operation of corporates have a significant impact on the environment, and it is crucial for corporates to operate in an environmentally friendly manner, especially in the context of the China double carbon target. Corporate environ...

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  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,705 Views
22 Pages

The Impact Mechanism of Environmental Information Disclosure on Corporate Sustainability Performance—Micro-Evidence from China

  • Xiaowei Ding,
  • Lyu Ye,
  • Yueying Yang,
  • Olga Efimova,
  • Alina Steblyanskaya and
  • Junfeng Zhang

28 September 2022

As an effective regulatory tool, environmental information disclosure is significant in promoting the green upgrading of industrial structures and achieving green transformation of enterprises. In order to explore the impact mechanism of environmenta...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,845 Views
18 Pages

11 September 2019

This study examines whether a firm’s environmental corporate social responsibility advances the growth of its new product performance, and investigates the moderating roles of a firm’s heterogeneous local institutional environment and own...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,531 Views
23 Pages

10 June 2025

The enhancements of tax policies and their coordination have emerged as a significant way to promote corporate sustainability, especially in developing economies worldwide. Using panel data from Chinese non-financial A-share listed companies from 200...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,146 Views
23 Pages

This paper took the panel data of 1052 heavily-polluting listed companies from both the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2010 to 2017 to empirically analyze the impact of environmental regulation (ERG) on firm performance (FP). The article i...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,296 Views
22 Pages

26 March 2025

Big data analytics (BDA) has recently received significant public interest and is widely considered as a transformative technology set to improve organizations’ environmental performance. However, prior empirical studies have yielded inconsiste...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,823 Views
19 Pages

14 February 2023

In the present study, we construct a model of greenwashing on employees’ environmental performance based on person–organization fit theory. Path analysis and hierarchical regression methods were used to examine randomly selected data coll...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,785 Views
19 Pages

Corporate Performance, Market-Industry Competition and Enterprise Environmental-Protection Investment

  • Liu Yang,
  • Junting Tan,
  • Weiyi Xia,
  • Zhaomei Chi,
  • Han Qin,
  • Quanxin Gan and
  • Qin Yang

Worldwide, many countries regard green as a keyword related to development, and investments into environmental protection are an important way for enterprises to achieve green development. Therefore, clarifying which factors influence enterprises to...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,942 Views
22 Pages

14 October 2024

This research proposes a model to assess the impacts of transformational environmental leadership and corporate social responsibility on sustainable performance with the mediating effect of competitive advantage in environmentally certified companies...

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  • Open Access
1,271 Views
32 Pages

28 October 2025

This study examines the impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance on corporate performance in China’s manufacturing sector, incorporating trade credit financing as a mediator and environmental information disclosure qual...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,296 Views
23 Pages

While researchers have long examined the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility (CER) and financial performance, the evidence remains inconclusive. Moreover, whether sustainable supply chain management plays a role in enhancing t...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,999 Views
24 Pages

21 November 2023

The study assesses whether CEO power and firm environmental sensitivity matter to board diversity (i.e., board cultural (BCD) and board gender (BGD) diversity) and corporate sustainability performance nexus. Australian S&P/ASX300′s firm dat...

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  • Open Access
1,469 Views
32 Pages

3 October 2025

The rise of common institutional ownership has a profound impact on corporate environmental policies, and the business environment in which the enterprises operate can significantly affect the decisions of institutional investors. This study evaluate...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,414 Views
20 Pages

17 December 2022

Environmental corporate social responsibility is important for firms to achieve both economic benefits and the sustainable development of firms and the environment, which are of great concern to theorists and practitioners. However, the relationship...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,294 Views
18 Pages

15 February 2020

This research investigates the corporate environmental performance (CEP) literature toward its financial performance of the firm. CEP is defined as the exercise and practices of companies to choose sensible measures to save and develop environment-fr...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,632 Views
20 Pages

17 December 2022

This research aims to examine the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR), firm environmental performance (FEP), and firm financial performance (FFP), as well as how green technology innovation performs a mediating role in this rel...

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  • Open Access
32 Citations
7,388 Views
20 Pages

20 July 2022

Small and Medium Enterprises in South Africa contribute critically to the economy, yet they face many challenges, such as lack of access to external finance. Thus, applying the stakeholder theory, this study tested the relationship between environmen...

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  • Open Access
176 Citations
28,367 Views
33 Pages

The Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility Practices and Environmental Factors through a Moderating Role of Social Media Marketing on Sustainable Performance of Business Firms

  • Jaffar Abbas,
  • Shahid Mahmood,
  • Hashim Ali,
  • Muhammad Ali Raza,
  • Ghaffar Ali,
  • Jaffar Aman,
  • Shaher Bano and
  • Mohammad Nurunnabi

21 June 2019

This precise study performed a focalized investigation to examine the association of environmental effects, new product development performance, superior customers’ value, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) on sustainable performance. Th...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,882 Views
17 Pages

11 August 2023

Environmental performance is extremely vital for sustainable growth in China, and the impact of a regional integration policy plays an important role in improving environmental performance. However, current studies are weak in causal inference, and f...

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  • Open Access
858 Views
27 Pages

2 October 2025

Global efforts to achieve carbon neutrality increasingly rely on institutional green policy that reshape corporate environmental behavior. This study examines whether green policy improves corporate environmental performance (EP). Using panel data of...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,243 Views
17 Pages

12 October 2023

Chief sustainability officers and sustainability consultants have become increasingly common today as many organizations have become more aware of their impact on the environment and society at large. With the growing importance of integrating sustai...

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