The impact of environmental regulation on technology innovation is a hot spot in current research where a large number of empirical studies are based on Porter Hypothesis(PH). However, there are still controversies in...The impact of environmental regulation on technology innovation is a hot spot in current research where a large number of empirical studies are based on Porter Hypothesis(PH). However, there are still controversies in academia about the establishment of "weak" and "narrow" versions of PH. Based on the panel data of application for patent of energy conservation and emission reduction(ECER) technology of Chinese city scale during 2008-2014, comprehensive energy price, pollutant emission, etc., mixed regression model and systematic generalized method of moments method were adopted, respectively,to study the impact of market-oriented and command-and-control policy tool on China's ECER technology innovation. The results show that the environmental regulation hindered the technological innovation in the immediate phase; however, it turned out to be positive in the first-lag phase. Hence, the establishment of "weak" PH is time-bounded. The command-and-control policy tool played a more positive role in promoting technological innovation in the first-lag phase than market-oriented policy tool. Therefore, "narrow" PH is not tenable. The reason is that the main participants of China's ECER technology innovation are state-owned companies and public institutions. Regionally speaking, the impact which command-and-control policy tool has on technological innovation at sight was nonsignificant in the eastern, the central, and the western regions of China whilst market-oriented policy tool had a negative effect. And market-oriented policy tool in the central region had strongest negative effect, which would diminish in the eastern region and become weakest in the western region. This was related to regional energy consumption level and the market economic vitality.展开更多
The relationship between environmental regulation and green innovation has long been debated.One possible reason is that most studies overlook the dual heterogeneity of environmental regulations(command-and-control an...The relationship between environmental regulation and green innovation has long been debated.One possible reason is that most studies overlook the dual heterogeneity of environmental regulations(command-and-control and market-based)and green innovation(strategic and substantive).Drawing on institutional theory and knowledge management theory,this study develops a theoretical framework of“environmental regulation-knowledge search-enterprise green innovation.”Using multiple linear regression and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis(fsQCA),this paper tests the hypotheses based on 285 enterprise survey responses.The findings show that command-and-control environmental regulation promotes only strategic green innovation,whereas market-based environmental regulation promotes only substantive green innovation.Knowledge search depth mediates the relationship between command-and-control environmental regulation and strategic green innovation,while knowledge search breadth mediates the relationship between market-based environmental regulation and substantive green innovation.Furthermore,the fsQCA results identify five causal configurations,including two configurations leading to high strategic green innovation and three leading to high substantive green innovation.These findings expand the research dimensions on how environmental regulation influences enterprise green innovation and offer insights for governments to adjust regulatory policies and for enterprises to respond to external institutional pressures.展开更多
文摘The impact of environmental regulation on technology innovation is a hot spot in current research where a large number of empirical studies are based on Porter Hypothesis(PH). However, there are still controversies in academia about the establishment of "weak" and "narrow" versions of PH. Based on the panel data of application for patent of energy conservation and emission reduction(ECER) technology of Chinese city scale during 2008-2014, comprehensive energy price, pollutant emission, etc., mixed regression model and systematic generalized method of moments method were adopted, respectively,to study the impact of market-oriented and command-and-control policy tool on China's ECER technology innovation. The results show that the environmental regulation hindered the technological innovation in the immediate phase; however, it turned out to be positive in the first-lag phase. Hence, the establishment of "weak" PH is time-bounded. The command-and-control policy tool played a more positive role in promoting technological innovation in the first-lag phase than market-oriented policy tool. Therefore, "narrow" PH is not tenable. The reason is that the main participants of China's ECER technology innovation are state-owned companies and public institutions. Regionally speaking, the impact which command-and-control policy tool has on technological innovation at sight was nonsignificant in the eastern, the central, and the western regions of China whilst market-oriented policy tool had a negative effect. And market-oriented policy tool in the central region had strongest negative effect, which would diminish in the eastern region and become weakest in the western region. This was related to regional energy consumption level and the market economic vitality.
基金supported by the General Project of the National Social Science Fund of China(No.22BGL099).
文摘The relationship between environmental regulation and green innovation has long been debated.One possible reason is that most studies overlook the dual heterogeneity of environmental regulations(command-and-control and market-based)and green innovation(strategic and substantive).Drawing on institutional theory and knowledge management theory,this study develops a theoretical framework of“environmental regulation-knowledge search-enterprise green innovation.”Using multiple linear regression and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis(fsQCA),this paper tests the hypotheses based on 285 enterprise survey responses.The findings show that command-and-control environmental regulation promotes only strategic green innovation,whereas market-based environmental regulation promotes only substantive green innovation.Knowledge search depth mediates the relationship between command-and-control environmental regulation and strategic green innovation,while knowledge search breadth mediates the relationship between market-based environmental regulation and substantive green innovation.Furthermore,the fsQCA results identify five causal configurations,including two configurations leading to high strategic green innovation and three leading to high substantive green innovation.These findings expand the research dimensions on how environmental regulation influences enterprise green innovation and offer insights for governments to adjust regulatory policies and for enterprises to respond to external institutional pressures.
