How does anti-corruption affect enterprise green innovation in China’s energy-intensive industries?

Chen，Xiude1,2; Chen，Guocai1; Lin，Miaoxin1; Tang，Kai3; Ye，Bin4

2021

10.1007/s10653-021-01125-4

ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH   影响因子和分区

0269-4042

1573-2983

Rampant corruption exists in China’s energy-intensive industries. However, we know little about the nexus of corruption and enterprise green innovation in China’s energy-intensive industries. This paper discusses the impact of anti-corruption on enterprises’ green innovation and its effect margin. Analyzing the panel data of Chinese listed enterprises in energy-intensive industries from 2009 to 2017, we find that anti-corruption played a positive role in stimulating enterprises’ green innovation investments in energy-intensive industries. Then we adopt the instrumental variable approach and difference-in-differences model to alleviate the endogeneity problem. Moreover, we find that research and development investments from state-owned, high-tech enterprises and enterprises in the regions with more government intervention or weaker intellectual property protection were more prominent after the anti-corruption campaign. Finally, political connection played an intermediary role in this process, in which only the government-official political connection worked. Our results highlight the roles of enterprises’ attributes and environmental characteristics as important factors in the relationship between anti-corruption and green innovation investments. Policymakers should enhance the control of corruption to boost green innovation in energy-intensive industries.

Anti-corruption China Energy-intensive industries Green innovation investments

SCI

英语

其他

National Natural Science Foundation of China[71602038,71874036] ; Humanities and Social Science Fund of Ministry of Education of China["21YJA630006","20YJCZH144"] ; Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation[2019A1515010884] ; Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province["2021A1515011923","2016A030313696"] ; 13th Five-Year Plan Project of Philosophy and Social Sciences in Guangdong Province["GD20CGL21","GD20CYJ10"] ; Pearl River Talents Plan of Guangdong Province[20170133]

Engineering ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health ; Water Resources

Engineering, Environmental ; Environmental Sciences ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health ; Water Resources

WOS:000717461400002

SPRINGER

ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY

2-s2.0-85118825930

Scopus

1.College of Management,Guangdong University of Technology,Guangzhou,510006,China
2.Center for Education Big Data Research of Guangdong Province,Guangzhou,510520,China
3.Institute of City Strategy Studies,School of Economics and Trade,Guangdong University of Foreign Studies,Guangzhou,510006,China
4.School of Environmental Science and Engineering,Southern University of Science and Technology,Shenzhen,518055,China

Chen，Xiude,Chen，Guocai,Lin，Miaoxin,等. How does anti-corruption affect enterprise green innovation in China’s energy-intensive industries?[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH,2021.

Chen，Xiude,Chen，Guocai,Lin，Miaoxin,Tang，Kai,&Ye，Bin.(2021).How does anti-corruption affect enterprise green innovation in China’s energy-intensive industries?.ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH.

Chen，Xiude,et al."How does anti-corruption affect enterprise green innovation in China’s energy-intensive industries?".ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH (2021).