Are firms' voluntary environmental management activities beneficial for the environment and business? An empirical study focusing on Japanese manufacturing firms

K Nishitani, S Kaneko, H Fujii, S Komatsu - Journal of environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
In this paper, to clarify whether a firm's voluntary approach to environmental protection is
beneficial for both the environment and business, we analyze whether a firm's voluntary …

An empirical analysis of the effects on firms' economic performance of implementing environmental management systems

K Nishitani - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2011 - Springer
This paper investigates whether environmental management system (EMS) implementation
influences a firm's value added, one of the indices of economic performance. Because it is …

Why do firms engage in environmental management? An empirical study in China

B Zhang, J Bi, Z Yuan, J Ge, B Liu, M Bu - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2008 - Elsevier
There are increasing pressures being put on firms, from a number of different sources, such
as governmental regulation, community participation and market demand, to engage firms in …

How firms select environmental behaviours in China: The framework of environmental motivations and performance

H Cheng, X Hu, R Zhou - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite previous findings devoted to the relationship between the environment and
performance, limitations have been identified regarding the impact of environmental …

Does environmental regulation policy help improve business performance of manufacturing enterprises? evidence from China

Y Zhang, J Wang, J Chen, W Liu - Environment, Development and …, 2023 - Springer
There is no doubt that environmental regulation policy will increase the production cost of
manufacturing enterprises, then can this policy help improve the business performance in …

[HTML][HTML] Environmental management: An industry classification

I Andersen, D Bams - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we seek to inform managers, regulators, and investors of the setting in which a
firm's environmental management activity is costly and when it is profitable. To identify this …

Identifying critical enablers to high performance environmental management: an empirical study of Chinese firms

C Kuei, WS Chow, CN Madu, JP Wu - Journal of environmental …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The aim of this paper is to identify the critical enablers to high performance environmental
management (EM). Using empirical data, we explore green operational practices associated …

Exploring the relationships between different types of environmental regulations and environmental performance: Evidence from China

R Li, R Ramanathan - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
The literature on the relationship between environmental regulations (ERs) and
environmental performance (EP) of firms has largely ignored consideration of different kinds …

Does environmental investment really contribute to firm performance? An empirical analysis using Japanese firms

E Nakamura - Eurasian Business Review, 2011 - Springer
The purpose of our study is to investigate the effect of environmental investment on firm
performance. It is believed that a firm can increase its economic performance by …

Symbolic reactions or substantive pro‐environmental behaviour? An empirical study of corporate environmental performance under the government's environmental …

S Ren, D He, T Zhang, X Chen - Business Strategy and the …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Do firms substantively improve their corporate environmental performance (CEP), or do they
just react symbolically under the government's environmental subsidy (ENS) scheme? There …