An empirical study on the impact of sustainable entrepreneurship: Based on the environmental Kuznets model

Wentao Gu and Xiaoyan Zheng

Journal of Business Research, 2021, vol. 123, issue C, 613-624

Abstract: The economy and environment are closely related and inseparable. This paper attempts to reinterpret the environmental Kuznets model from an entrepreneurial perspective. Therefore, in this paper, the panel regression model is used to test the relationship between entrepreneurship, economic development and environmental pollution under micro data, and a moderated mediation model is constructed to analyze the relationship between entrepreneurship and the three environmental effects. In addition, in this paper, the environmental Kuznets curve and entrepreneurial influences under different regions, industrial properties and property rights are considered from the perspective of enterprise heterogeneity. The results show that China’s listed polluting enterprises display an N-type environmental Kuznets curve. The direct effect of entrepreneurship promotes environmental pollution, but entrepreneurship exerts an adverse effect on the environment through environmental technological effects, scale effects and structural effects. At the same time, environmental regulation reverses the positive effect of the moderated effect on environmental pollution and then alleviates environmental pressure.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Environmental Kuznets curve; Mediation effect; Environmental performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.10.011

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