Wang Shumin, Huang Yikun, Zhong Chao, Li Boxi
Research Center for Economy of Upper Reaches of the Yangtse River, Chongqing Technology and Business University, Chongqing, China.
School of Public Affairs Administration, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2022 Jul 6;13:946111. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.946111. eCollection 2022.
This study examines the relationship between chief executive officers (CEOs)' collectivistic cultural background and corporate pollution abatement behavior among industrial firms in China. Using hand-collected data on birthplaces of CEOs of the industrial firms, we provided robust evidence that CEOs born in provinces with a higher level of collectivistic culture promote corporate pollution abatement performance. This study further shows that firms exhibit significant differences in their emission reduction behavior when firms are subjected to environmental regulation shocks: firms with collectivistic CEOs tend to reduce more pollution than firms with individualistic CEOs without sacrificing their firms' production.
本研究考察了中国工业企业中首席执行官（CEO）的集体主义文化背景与企业污染治理行为之间的关系。利用手工收集的工业企业CEO出生地数据，我们提供了有力证据，表明出生在集体主义文化程度较高省份的CEO能提升企业污染治理绩效。本研究还表明，当企业受到环境监管冲击时，它们在减排行为上存在显著差异：具有集体主义CEO的企业往往比具有个人主义CEO的企业减少更多污染，且不牺牲企业生产。
