School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310000, China.
College of Economics & Management, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, China.
Comput Intell Neurosci. 2022 Aug 9;2022:9736667. doi: 10.1155/2022/9736667. eCollection 2022.
At a new stage of "carbon peak" and "carbon neutral," we need to strengthen the internal impetus of institutions and policies to promote ecological civilization construction. The initiative implementation of voluntary environmental behavior (VEB) is an effective way for enterprises to achieve high quality sustainable development. The VEB of enterprises include but are not limited to compliance with voluntary environmental regulations (VER). Different from the existing literature on enterprise VER, most of which are just the verification of ISO14001, the study conducts a comprehensive exploratory research on the theoretical framework of what is driving the VEB of Chinese textile enterprises. First, based on grounded theory, the paper coded the hand-collected environmental text information of Chinese listed textile enterprises from 2004 to 2018 and constructed a complete theoretical analysis framework from motivation to performance evaluation of enterprise VEB. Second, PSM method is taken to verify the conceptual model. As a result, we find the following: (1) in addition to ISO14001, the textile enterprises involve many industry-specific VER. (2) The VEB and VER of Chinese textile enterprises promote each other. (3) Either following VER or implementing VEB can effectively increase the innovation input and then actively improve the innovation quality of Chinese textile enterprises. In this way, the conclusion not only provides analysis ideas for future empirical research, but also offers practical suggestions to Chinese textile enterprises and policy makers for environmental management.
在“碳达峰”“碳中和”的新发展阶段,需要强化制度和政策的内在动力以推进生态文明建设。企业主动实施自愿环境行为(VEB)是实现高质量可持续发展的有效途径。企业的 VEB 包括但不限于遵守自愿性环境法规(VER)。与现有大多只是验证 ISO14001 的关于企业 VER 的文献不同,本研究对中国纺织企业 VEB 的驱动因素进行了全面的探索性研究。首先,本文基于扎根理论,对 2004 年至 2018 年中国上市纺织企业的环境文本信息进行了手工收集,并从企业 VEB 的动机到绩效评估构建了一个完整的理论分析框架。其次,采用 PSM 方法对概念模型进行验证。结果表明:(1)除了 ISO14001,纺织企业还涉及许多行业特定的 VER。(2)中国纺织企业的 VEB 和 VER 相互促进。(3)无论是遵守 VER 还是实施 VEB,都能有效增加创新投入,进而积极提高中国纺织企业的创新质量。这一结论不仅为未来的实证研究提供了分析思路,也为中国纺织企业和政策制定者的环境管理提供了实用建议。