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Title Can Urban Greening Construction Improve the Corporate Preventive Environmental Investment? Evidence from China
ID_Doc 30963
Authors Jiao, YX; Xu, F; Ma, WJ; Yang, HE
Title Can Urban Greening Construction Improve the Corporate Preventive Environmental Investment? Evidence from China
Year 2023
Published Sustainability, 15, 12
DOI 10.3390/su15129326
Abstract Preventive environmental investment can enhance corporate environmental pollution management at the source and facilitate green transformation development. As a form of government of green investment behavior, urban greening construction exhibits a "demonstration effect" and "innovation effect" on corporate preventive environmental investment. To investigate this, the present study utilizes Chinese listed company and city-level data from 2011 to 2020 to analyze the influence, mechanism, and heterogeneity of urban greening construction on corporate environmental preventive investment. The findings indicate that urban green construction significantly encourages corporate preventive environmental investments by increasing enterprises' willingness to participate in environmental regulation and advancing their green technology innovation. Furthermore, the environmental investment impact of urban greening construction exhibits considerable regional and corporate heterogeneity. Specifically, this effect is more pronounced in areas with lower marketability degrees and environmental regulation levels. It plays a more substantial role for state-owned enterprises and enterprises with lower agency costs.
Author Keywords urban greening; corporate preventive environmental investment; mediating effect
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Science Citation Index (SSCI)
EID WOS:001017875900001
WoS Category Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies
Research Area Science & Technology - Other Topics; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
PDF https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/12/9326/pdf?version=1686295900
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