Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Environmental Non-Governmental Organizations in China

Sustainability

Jun Sun¹  Weihao Liu²  Zhaojun Yang²  Yali Zhang³ 

[1] College of Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX 78539, USA;School of Economics and Management, Xidian University, Xi’an 710126, China;School of Management, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China;

关键词: environmental non-governmental organizations;    corporate environmental responsibility;    government regulation;    enterprise implementation;    public participation;   

DOI  :  10.3390/su9101756

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In China, environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) play an important supervisory role to address ecological issues together with government regulation and enterprise implementation. This study examines the effect of ENGO presence on corporate environmental responsibility (CER) performance, along with internal factors as covariate variables. With a sample of 677 enterprises, it operationalizes the independent variable in terms of the number of ENGOs within certain distances from each enterprise, and the dependent variable based on the corporate social responsibility report using the specific criteria in the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) sustainability reporting guidelines. The results of Tobit regression analyses indicate that ENGO presence is conducive to CER performance, and asset size, power concentration, and industry type also make differences. The findings suggest that ENGOs are helpful in solving environment issues by bridging the gap between private and public sectors. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

【 授权许可】

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