Environmental Uncertainty, Environmental Regulation and Enterprises’ Green Technological Innovation

Jinyong Chen, Xiaochi Wang, Wan Shen, Yanyan Tan (), Liviu Marian Matac and Sarminah Samad
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Jinyong Chen: Business School, Hubei University, Wuhan 430000, China
Xiaochi Wang: Business School, Hubei University, Wuhan 430000, China
Wan Shen: Business School, Hubei University, Wuhan 430000, China
Yanyan Tan: Accounting School, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
Liviu Marian Matac: Department of Accounting and Audit, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010374 Bucharest, Romania
Sarminah Samad: Department of Business Administration, College of Business and Administration, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 16, 1-28

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of environmental uncertainty and environmental regulation on enterprises’ green technological innovation, using a panel data of Chinese A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2005 to 2019 to conduct an empirical study using an OLS model and Poisson regression model. We employ environmental complexity and environmental dynamism to measure environmental uncertainty, and we have the following findings: first, both environmental uncertainty and environmental regulation promote enterprises’ green technological innovation, while environmental regulation has positive moderating effects on the relationship between environmental uncertainty and enterprises’ green technological innovation; second, environmental complexity positively affects enterprises’ green technological innovation, while environmental dynamism has negative effects on enterprises’ green technological innovation; third, environmental regulation accentuates the relationship between environmental complexity and green technological innovation, while it weakens the relationship between environmental dynamism and green technological innovation.

Keywords: environmental uncertainty; environmental regulation; green technological innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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