Corporate environmental responsibility, CEO’s tenure and innovation legitimacy: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Peng Xu, Xiaomei Xu and Guiyu Bai

Technology in Society, 2022, vol. 70, issue C

Abstract: This study uses data from Chinese listed companies from 2010 to 2017 to analyze the influence of mechanism of corporate environmental responsibility on innovation legitimacy. The results show the corporate environmental responsibility of Chinese listed companies has a positive impact on innovation legitimacy. Specifically, the CEO's tenure serves as a mediator between corporate environmental responsibility and innovation legitimacy. Moreover, the paper finds that CEO's tenure of listed company will reinforce the positive effect of corporate environmental responsibility on innovation legitimacy at the same time. The purpose of this study is to present new empirical findings for Chinese listed companies to improve innovation legality and innovation performance, and further confirm the importance of the corporate environment by conducting a robustness test.

Keywords: Corporate environmental responsibility; Innovation legitimacy; CEO'S tenure; Corporate governance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.102056

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