Financial Attributes, Environmental Performance, and Environmental Disclosure in China

Die Wu, Shuzhen Zhu, Aftab Ahmed Memon and Hafeezullah Memon
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Die Wu: Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, Donghua University, Shanghai 200051, China
Shuzhen Zhu: Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, Donghua University, Shanghai 200051, China
Aftab Ahmed Memon: College of Public Administration, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
Hafeezullah Memon: College of Textile Science and Engineering (International Institute of Silk), Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 23, 1-14

Abstract: Contest between the international or national enterprises stimulates the formation of innovative or improved products or of well-organized processes. Nevertheless, reliance on carbon-based materials and energy emission sources has been highlighted as a primary problem of the 21st century. The current study examines the influence of carbon disclosure information (CDI), media reporting and financial influence on state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and non-state-owned enterprises (NSOEs) by using Shenzhen and Shanghai’s heavy polluting listed industries’ dataset from 2014 to 2019. By applying different data approaches, the estimated results demonstrate that the CDI level is significantly negative related to SOE compared to NSOE. The estimated results explain that media’s positive reporting offsets the additional benefits to stakeholders. While media’s negative reporting negatively influences a firm’s competitive position, it mitigates the stock price and its social value. Our results suggest that external factors are encouraging for the financial values of stakeholders, along with those of enterprises.

Keywords: carbon disclosure information; media reporting; corporate finance; environmental performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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