The impact of heterogeneous environmental regulation on innovation of high-tech enterprises in China: mediating and inte
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
The impact of heterogeneous environmental regulation on innovation of high-tech enterprises in China: mediating and interaction effect Ziyuan Sun 1 & Xiaoping Wang 1
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Chen Liang 1 & Fei Cao 1 & Ling Wang 1
Received: 14 April 2020 / Accepted: 11 October 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract It is important for China’s green innovation productivity and sustainable development to study the effect of heterogeneous environmental regulation on microenterprise innovation activities. Based on the panel data of high-tech enterprises in China from 2012 to 2017, the article studies the incentive effect of heterogeneous environmental regulation on technological innovation and the mediation of innovation input and explores whether different types of environmental regulations have interactive effects on enterprise innovation. The results reveal that compared with the command-controlled environmental regulation, the incentive effect of market-incentive environmental regulation and voluntary environmental regulation on enterprise innovation is more significant, where the innovation input fully plays its role as a mediating effect. Further research finds that there is an interactive effect between command-controlled environmental regulation and other two regulatory tools, but no interactive effect between market-incentive environmental regulation and voluntary environmental regulation, which shows that the control-based regulatory tools and more flexible regulatory tools have a complementary effect on enterprise innovation. Through revealing the internal mechanism of environmental regulation on enterprise innovation, the article displays the process of technological innovation, and it also finds that flexible regulation tools and the combination of rigid and flexible tools are more conducive to encourage enterprises to carry out innovation activities. Keywords Heterogeneous environmental regulation . Enterprises innovation . Mediating effect . Interaction effect
Introduction Nowadays, the rapid economic development brings great damage to the environment and seriously restricts the
Responsible Editor: Eyup Dogan * Xiaoping Wang [email protected] Ziyuan Sun [email protected] Chen Liang [email protected] Fei Cao [email protected] Ling Wang [email protected] 1
School of Economics and Management, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China
sustainable development. In April 2018, China ranked last in the global environmental performance index jointly released by Yale University and other institutions. Due to the negative externality of environmental pollution, market alone can hardly achieve effective regulation. Therefore, government intervention in pollution control and environmental protection is particularly important (Wang and Liu 2019). As the main policy tool of government intervention, environmental regulation is of great significance to the realization of the win-win situation of the environment and economy. The policy objective of environmental regulati
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