Conciliating environmental and financial performance in emerging countries

Maurizio Dallocchio, Francesco Pistolesi and Emanuele Teti

Finance Research Letters, 2025, vol. 74, issue C

Abstract: We evaluate the relationship between environmentally sustainable conduct – on the whole Pillar E (e_score) and broken down into the three sub-pillars: environmental emission, resource use and environmental product innovation – of Chinese companies and their economic and financial performance (FP) through an analysis on 3,550 firm-year observations in the period 2010–2022. The results confirm hypotheses, showing statistically significant coefficients related to all the four independent variables: e_score, emission, resource_use, and product_innovation. Findings are corroborated by conducting robustness test. It can be inferred that also in the most important emerging country from a financial point of view a new business architype can be modelled, in which investors are addressed towards a more cognizant meaning of finance, in which they try to reconcile economic performances with environmental impact of their decision-making process.

Keywords: Environment; Financial Performance; China; Emission; Product Innovation; Resource Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2025.106781

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