Be Green to Be Innovative: The Role of Government Subsidies

Frontiers in Environmental Science

Yingbo Xu¹  Wei Liu¹  Yonghui Xu¹  Ruihui Pu² 

[1] Business School, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China;Faculty of Economics, Srinakharinwirot University, Bangkok, Thailand;

关键词: environmental investment;    corporate innovation;    government subsidies;    resource allocation;    institutional legitimacy;    China;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fenvs.2021.765100

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Corporate environmental investment has long been recognized as a non-market strategy that helps secure both economic and social benefits. However, we know much less about how environmental investment affects corporate innovation. We argue that investment in environmental protection is an important source of institutional legitimacy for firms to secure government resources, thus providing financial support for corporate innovation activities. Using a sample of Chinese industrial firms, we find that firms investing more in environmental protection can receive more government subsidies and then have better innovation performance. This study emphasizes the mechanism of government resources, which enriches our understanding of the effect of environmental investment on corporate innovation.

【 授权许可】

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