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Environmental Regulation, Promotion Pressure of Officials, and Enterprise Environmental Protection Investment
This study expands on the impact of local government environmental regulation on enterprise environmental protection investment. Furthermore, it analyzes the influence promotion pressure of officials has on the scale of enterprise environmental investment. The results show that the environmental pro...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8377723/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34422755 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.724351 |
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author | Chang, Ke-Chiun Wang, Di Lu, Yangyang Chang, Wen Ren, Guangqian Liu, Li Zhou, Xueya |
author_facet | Chang, Ke-Chiun Wang, Di Lu, Yangyang Chang, Wen Ren, Guangqian Liu, Li Zhou, Xueya |
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description | This study expands on the impact of local government environmental regulation on enterprise environmental protection investment. Furthermore, it analyzes the influence promotion pressure of officials has on the scale of enterprise environmental investment. The results show that the environmental protection investment of companies in China is generally insufficient. The attitude of companies toward environmental protection is passive under the policy regulation. The environmental supervision of the government is also still at a low level. Both of these observations are far from the intentions of the government. There is a U-shaped relationship between the pressure of official promotion and the scale of enterprise environmental protection investment. Only when the pressure of official promotion exceeds a certain limit can it positively stimulate enterprises to invest in environmental protection. Environmental regulation also exerts a threshold effect on the environmental protection investment by enterprises. This research provides a new way to understand the decision-making behavior of local officials and the environmental protection responsibility of enterprises. This study provides recommendations for improving the environment appraisal and government supervision system in China. |
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spelling | pubmed-83777232021-08-21 Environmental Regulation, Promotion Pressure of Officials, and Enterprise Environmental Protection Investment Chang, Ke-Chiun Wang, Di Lu, Yangyang Chang, Wen Ren, Guangqian Liu, Li Zhou, Xueya Front Public Health Public Health This study expands on the impact of local government environmental regulation on enterprise environmental protection investment. Furthermore, it analyzes the influence promotion pressure of officials has on the scale of enterprise environmental investment. The results show that the environmental protection investment of companies in China is generally insufficient. The attitude of companies toward environmental protection is passive under the policy regulation. The environmental supervision of the government is also still at a low level. Both of these observations are far from the intentions of the government. There is a U-shaped relationship between the pressure of official promotion and the scale of enterprise environmental protection investment. Only when the pressure of official promotion exceeds a certain limit can it positively stimulate enterprises to invest in environmental protection. Environmental regulation also exerts a threshold effect on the environmental protection investment by enterprises. This research provides a new way to understand the decision-making behavior of local officials and the environmental protection responsibility of enterprises. This study provides recommendations for improving the environment appraisal and government supervision system in China. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8377723/ /pubmed/34422755 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.724351 Text en Copyright © 2021 Chang, Wang, Lu, Chang, Ren, Liu and Zhou. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Chang, Ke-Chiun Wang, Di Lu, Yangyang Chang, Wen Ren, Guangqian Liu, Li Zhou, Xueya Environmental Regulation, Promotion Pressure of Officials, and Enterprise Environmental Protection Investment |
title | Environmental Regulation, Promotion Pressure of Officials, and Enterprise Environmental Protection Investment |
title_full | Environmental Regulation, Promotion Pressure of Officials, and Enterprise Environmental Protection Investment |
title_fullStr | Environmental Regulation, Promotion Pressure of Officials, and Enterprise Environmental Protection Investment |
title_full_unstemmed | Environmental Regulation, Promotion Pressure of Officials, and Enterprise Environmental Protection Investment |
title_short | Environmental Regulation, Promotion Pressure of Officials, and Enterprise Environmental Protection Investment |
title_sort | environmental regulation, promotion pressure of officials, and enterprise environmental protection investment |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8377723/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34422755 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.724351 |
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