Environmental Performance: The Impact of R&D Intensity on Firms’ Environmental Concerns

Jean D. Kabongo () and John O. Okpara ()
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Jean D. Kabongo: University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee
John O. Okpara: Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Chapter Chapter 6 in Corporate Social Responsibility, 2013, pp 89-110 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This study investigates the relationship between R&D intensity and firms’ environmental concerns conceptualized as negative environmental externalities resulting from manufacturing activities. The study uses a large sample of U.S. firms in manufacturing industries over the period of 1991–2009. Our finding, robust to a number of sensitivity analyses, is that environmental concerns tend to decrease with R&D intensity expenditures at the firm level. This finding supports previous research and fills a gap in that research linking R&D intensity to corporate environmental performance. The result strengthens the discussion about environmental performance—namely, the reduction of negative environmental externalities—and economic performance.

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Environmental Performance; Environmental Concern; Corporate Social Performance; Corporate Sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40975-2_6

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