School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China.
Key Laboratory of Carrying Capacity Assessment for Resource and Environment, Ministry of Natural Resources, Beijing 100083, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jul 7;18(14):7290. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18147290.
Enterprise environmental performance has causal complexity. The purpose of this paper is to discover the possible combination of conditions for enterprises to achieve high environmental performance. Based on the resource dependence theory, stakeholder theory, and externality theory, this paper constructs the theoretical framework of enterprise environmental performance evaluation and applies the fsQCA method to study the major influencing factors and mechanism of the environmental performance of listed enterprises in the Chinese mining industry. Based on the data from 2016 to 2019, the results show that there are four configurations of multiple factors leading to high environmental performance. Based on these configurations, three possible paths, internally driven, internally-externally driven, and externally driven, are established to improve environmental performance. Further, we also find that, between profitability and government regulation and between enterprise size and board independence are interchangeable condition variables; public attention outweighs other factors for Chinese mining enterprises. Countermeasures and suggestions from perspectives of government supervision, public concern, and enterprise internal governance are proposed at the end the study.
企业环境绩效具有因果复杂性。本文旨在发现企业实现高环境绩效的可能条件组合。基于资源依赖理论、利益相关者理论和外部性理论，本文构建了企业环境绩效评价的理论框架，并运用 fsQCA 方法研究了中国采矿业上市公司环境绩效的主要影响因素和机制。基于 2016 年至 2019 年的数据，结果表明，有四种导致高环境绩效的多因素配置。基于这些配置，建立了三种可能的路径，即内部驱动、内部-外部驱动和外部驱动，以提高环境绩效。此外，我们还发现，盈利能力和政府监管之间以及企业规模和董事会独立性之间是可互换的条件变量；公众关注度对中国采矿业企业来说比其他因素更为重要。最后，从政府监管、公众关注和企业内部治理的角度提出了对策和建议。
