How government environmental attention influences corporate green innovation: A chain mediating model

Dongliang Yuan, Xinmei Wu, Duo Shang and Lingling Pan

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2025, vol. 218, issue C

Abstract: In response to environmental challenges, governments have paid increasing attention to environmental protection, but its potential impact on corporate green innovation has yet to be explored. Built on the attention-based view and institutional theory, this paper constructs a research framework to explain whether and how government environmental attention stimulates corporate green innovation. Based on the panel data of Chinese listed firms, our empirical findings validate a positive relationship between government environmental attention and corporate green innovation. Mechanism tests construct a chain mediating model and show that government subsidies, corporate environmental attention, and their sequential chain linage are key mechanisms of this relationship. Our findings still stand after a set of robustness checks. Overall, this paper uncovers the complicated mechanisms through which government environmental attention influences corporate green innovation and provides policy implications for emerging economies.

Keywords: Government environmental attention; Green innovation; Chain mediating model; Government subsidies; Corporate environmental attention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124195

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