A Study on the Relationship between Paradox Cognition, Green Industrial Production, and Corporate Performance

Yi Gao, Zhiguo Li and Kashif Khan
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Yi Gao: School of Economics and Management, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi’an 710061, Shaanxi, China
Zhiguo Li: School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum (East), Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China
Kashif Khan: International Education College, North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan 063210, Hebei, China

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 23, 1-18

Abstract: Based on the theory of paradox cognition, a relationship model among paradox cognition, industrial green production, and enterprise performance has been constructed, which mainly focuses on a study on whether the paradox cognition can have positive influences on the green production behavior of industrial enterprises, and then further promote the improvement of enterprises’ economic benefits. The author wrote this thesis on the basis of results obtained from 305 sample surveys and verified the direct and indirect influence relationships among variables in the model with structural equation path coefficient and mediation effect. The empirical results show that: firstly, paradox cognition has a positive and significant impact on the industrial green production behavior. The higher the level of paradox cognition, the more likely the enterprises are to implement the industrial green production behavior. Secondly, paradox cognition can improve the potential performance of enterprises by affecting “green product provision”, “green production management”, and “green production technology”, and then indirectly improve the financial performance of enterprises.

Keywords: paradox cognition; green industrial production; corporate performance; structural equation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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