Environmental Uncertainty, Environmental Regulation and Enterprises' Green Technological Innovation

Jinyong Chen; Xiaochi Wang; Wan Shen; Yanyan Tan; Liviu Marian Matac; Sarminah Samad

doi:10.3390/ijerph19169781

Environmental Uncertainty, Environmental Regulation and Enterprises' Green Technological Innovation

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Aug 9;19(16):9781. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19169781.

Authors

Jinyong Chen¹, Xiaochi Wang¹, Wan Shen¹, Yanyan Tan², Liviu Marian Matac³, Sarminah Samad⁴

Affiliations

¹ Business School, Hubei University, Wuhan 430000, China.
² Accounting School, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China.
³ Department of Accounting and Audit, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010374 Bucharest, Romania.
⁴ Department of Business Administration, College of Business and Administration, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11671, Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

This paper examines the impact of environmental uncertainty and environmental regulation on enterprises' green technological innovation, using a panel data of Chinese A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2005 to 2019 to conduct an empirical study using an OLS model and Poisson regression model. We employ environmental complexity and environmental dynamism to measure environmental uncertainty, and we have the following findings: first, both environmental uncertainty and environmental regulation promote enterprises' green technological innovation, while environmental regulation has positive moderating effects on the relationship between environmental uncertainty and enterprises' green technological innovation; second, environmental complexity positively affects enterprises' green technological innovation, while environmental dynamism has negative effects on enterprises' green technological innovation; third, environmental regulation accentuates the relationship between environmental complexity and green technological innovation, while it weakens the relationship between environmental dynamism and green technological innovation.

Keywords: environmental regulation; environmental uncertainty; green technological innovation.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

China
Inventions*
Uncertainty

Grants and funding

This work was funded by Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University Researchers Supporting Project number (PNURSP2022R4) Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.