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This paper investigates the effect of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance on the enterprise value of heavily polluting listed companies in China’s Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share markets. The study found that ESG performance h...

Existing studies often reduce private firms’ environmental behaviors to mere greenwashing, rarely unpacking the underlying mechanisms that drive polluting enterprises to develop and sustain substantive compliance. This paper constructs a &ldquo...

In response to the global call for emission reduction, China has assumed international responsibility for energy conservation and emission reduction by enacting several environmental policies to save energy and reduce consumption. However, it is deba...

In the wake of the acceleration of China’s industrialization and rapid economic growth, environmental pollution has also attracted great attention. The technological innovation of heavily polluting enterprises is conducive to reducing pollution...

With the development of China’s industrial economy and urbanization, water pollution has become serious and gradually exposed to the public. The pollution fee policy is an important tool to force enterprises to reduce pollution. This study used...

Green credit is an important practical exploration to reduce the environmental pollution of enterprises through the allocation of financial resources. Based on the panel data for the Chinese enterprises, this research constructs a difference-in-diffe...

Identifying and governing enterprises’ greenwashing behavior is important for achieving green and low-carbon development. This behavior can be governed via digital transformation. Based on data from listed companies from 2013 to 2021, this arti...

The siting of enterprises is important for enterprises to formulate business objectives and business strategies, both of which are crucial to the development of enterprises in the future. Although there exists an irrefutable fact that the increasingl...

There is an urgent need for countries worldwide to promote the green transformation of their economies and reduce environmental pollution. Based on China’s Green Credit Guidelines policy in 2012 and the data of Chinese listed companies from 200...

Enterprises’ green technology innovation is critical to achieving the “win-win” of enterprise competitiveness and environmental protection. The impact of environmental regulation on green technology innovation by enterprises has bee...

More and more attention has been paid to the environmental problems brought about by the development of the global economy. Based on the principal–agent theory, this paper constructs an incentive model for the government and polluting enterpris...

In the era of low-carbon economy, green mergers and acquisitions (green M&As) have emerged as a pivotal strategic pathway for heavily polluting enterprises to not only carve out a competitive edge in the market but also contribute significantly t...

Will environmental “fee-to-tax”, which strengthens the rigidity of levies and increases the environmental costs of heavy pollution enterprises, force heavy pollution enterprises to de-capacity. This paper examines the impact and heterogen...

Although the Chinese government has promulgated a series of policies to mitigate air pollution, the air quality in a number of Chinese cities still has the potential to be improved. As the major source of air pollution, enterprises in the industrial...

China is currently facing the arduous tasks of energy conservation, emission reduction and structural transformation, making it of great significance to study the digital transformation of heavily polluting enterprises. As an important informal regul...

Under the state’s key surveillance, petrochemical industries are considered polluting enterprises. Even though large-scale petrochemical enterprises follow the complete treatment of combustion waste gas, process waste gas, and volatile organic...

Firm-level evidence for the impact of environmental vertical management on enterprise environmental performance is limited, especially on the performance of water pollution reduction (WPR). Taking the environmental vertical management reform (EVMR) a...

The migration of polluting enterprises and its mechanism are a recent research hotspot in enterprise geography and environmental economic geography. This paper finds that the “Pairing Assistance” policy (PAP) is an important driving force...

We constructed a three-tier tripartite evolutionary game model to analyze the interactive relationships among the government, clusters of heavily polluting enterprises, and the public regarding carbon emission reduction. The findings revealed that en...

Green technological innovation is critical for highly polluting agricultural operations to accelerate green transformation and achieve sustainable growth. A detailed review of these firms’ green technological innovation efficiency, as well as a...

We investigate the impact of green credit policies on pollution-intensive enterprises from a new perspective. Empirically, we utilize the issuance of China’s green credit policy in 2012 to construct a quasi-natural experiment. The results show...

This study analyses the relationship between greenwashing behaviour, a lack of government supervision, and imperfect green certification mechanisms in China. To improve green governance and greenwashing governance in light of rent-seeking behaviour b...

This article uses the “Green Credit Guidelines” promulgated in 2012 as an example to construct a quasi-natural experiment and uses the double difference method to test the impact of the implementation of the “Green Credit Guidelines...

At present, China’s economy is developing rapidly; however, at the same time, it is also bringing more and more serious environmental problems. Although many laws have been established in the country to limit pollution by enterprises—and...

In the process of evaluating the quality of a company’s development, the issues related to production capacity and environmental pollution have emerged as significant concerns. Drawing on the methodologies employed in previous related research,...

This article selects 2992 Chinese heavily polluting listed companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets from 2014 to 2022 as research samples and conducts a natural experiment based on the implementation of the Environmental Protection Tax La...

Based on sample data from A-share listed heavy polluters from 2012 to 2021, this paper adopts the double-difference method to explore the influence of the construction of national pilot zone for ecological conservation on the ESG performance of heavi...

During the 2014 APEC Conference, there was a long presence of blue sky (APEC Blue) after a long-time occurrence of hazy weather in Beijing, China, which prompted the public’s attention to heavy-polluting enterprises to reach a new peak. Will the publ...

The black soil region in Northeast China serves as a ballast for food security. However, the presence of scattered polluting enterprises poses a threat to the safety of the surrounding soil and agricultural products. In this study, the distribution p...

Environmental protection is the top priority in the development process of all countries in the world, which directly affects public health. In response to growing environmental challenges, the government is implementing increasingly stringent indust...

To control growing environmental problems, the pollution rights trading (PRT) center was established in Jiaxing in 2007, and China officially joined the carbon emission reduction market (NCET) in 2011. Since power enterprises are the main participant...

“Green economy and sustainable development” has become the focus of contemporary world economic development. As an important part of green financial instruments, green credit has become a hot topic. This paper investigates whether the Gre...

Against the backdrop of intensifying global low-carbon transition and digital technologies’ profound empowerment of the real economy, widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) provides critical technical support that can help heavily...

Of the significant foreign investment by Japanese multinationals within South-East Asia, the Philippines is a key recipient and location for the establishment of subsidiaries. While foreign investment is thought to bring significant benefits to host...

This paper uses the provisions of the Soil Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan for industrial and mining enterprises as a quasi-natural experiment and constructs a difference-in-differences (DID) model to study its effect on increasing the q...

The carbon emissions trading policy is a key policy driving China’s low-carbon economic transition. Based on the policy environment of China’s carbon emissions trading pilot program from 2010 to 2021, this research selects representative...

This paper investigates the effects of enterprise environmental governance under low-carbon pilot policies in China with a difference in differences (DID) design. In examining the development of these policies, we focus on exploring their effects on...

China is one of the world’s major environmental polluters, therefore, Chinese environmental efficiency is an issue of global importance. In this study, we aim to identify economic factors affecting environmental efficiency scores in different r...

In the era of green transformation and sustainable development, green innovation has become a key force driving the greenization of the economy and society, as well as achieving global sustainable development goals. This study aims to investigate the...

In recent years, guided by the sustainable development strategy and ecological civilization strategy, the concept of green environmental protection has gradually become popular. Increasingly, enterprises are enhancing their environmental investment p...

This paper examines the impact of digital economy on corporate energy conservation and emission reduction (CECER) using China’s A-share listed heavily polluting enterprises from 2012 to 2019 as a sample. Our results show that: (1) Digital econo...

Against the backdrop of environmental governance systems transitioning from command-and-control to multi-stakeholder collaboration, elucidating the mechanisms and pathways through which voluntary environmental regulations influence green technologica...

This paper investigates the impact of green credit policy (GCP) on the green technological innovation capacity of heavily polluting enterprises (HPEs) from the perspectives of external financing and internal concerns. Using data from companies in Chi...

This paper analyzes the impact of the policy of replacing environmental protection “fees” with “taxes” on enterprise green innovation based on the Chinese A-share listed companies sample from 2015 to 2019. This paper tries to...

In the context of actively undertaking the transfer of domestic and foreign industries in the central and western regions of China, local regulatory behaviors influence the spatial distribution of polluting enterprises (PEs). This study examined the...

Green credit policy (GCP), as one of the key financial instruments to achieve ’carbon peaking’ and ‘carbon neutrality’ targets, provides capital support for the green development of enterprises. This paper explores the impact mechanism of GCP on the...

In 2022, China actively carried out economic transformation and sought high-quality development. To date, enhancing enterprise value is still one of the top priorities for enterprises. Enterprises should take various measures to continuously enhance...

In this paper, we assume that a professional pollutant treatment enterprise treats all of the pollutants emitted by multiple small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In order to determine the treatment price, SMEs can bargain with the pollutant tre...

The advancement of green technology innovation (GTI) is crucial for facilitating green development. China, the largest carbon-emitting economy, should prioritize the acceleration of GTI to augment global green economic growth and reduce carbon emissi...

Faced with increasing conflicts between economic and environmental development, it is extremely urgent to promote the green growth of enterprises. As an incentive environmental regulation measure, an environmental tax has been proven to effectively a...