企业异质性环境实践方式与绩效关系的实证研究
2014-11-26缑倩雯蔡宁
缑倩雯+蔡宁
摘要:从企业环境实践行为日益普遍与自然环境持续恶化的现实矛盾出发,研究了差异性环境实践方式对企业环境绩效和财务绩效的影响,以及实施于不同层面环境实践对上述差异的贡献。通过对2010年沪深两市发行独立报告的上市公司研究发现,实质性环境实践方式与环境绩效正相关,与财务绩效负相关;象征性环境实践方式与之相反,负相关于环境绩效,正相关于财务绩效。同时,技术层面的环境实践行为,无论实质还是象征都优于制度层面对绩效改变的贡献。
关键词:环境实践;实质性方式;象征性方式;环境绩效;财务绩效
中图分类号:F272
文献标识码:A文章编号:1001-8409(2014)11-0015-05
Research on Corporate Heterogenic Environmental
Practices and Environmental and Financial Performance
GOU Qianwen, CAI Ning
(School of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310000)
Abstract:
Starting with the illogical reality that with a growing number of corporate involving in environmental protection, the nature environment is getting worse, this paper studied the effects of heterogenic environmental practices on corporate performance, and the different contribution from technical update or institution improvement. It choosed the listed companies that published social, environmental or sustainable reports in 2010 as a sample. Through content analysis, it found that substantive approach will benefit the CEP, while harm the CFP; symbolic approach positively affect the CFP, and negative correlated to CEP. Meanwhile , environmental practices implement in technical system, whether substantive or symbolic, contribute more to the performance changing than that in institutional system.
Key words: environmental practices; substantive approach; symbolic approach; corporate environmental performance; corporate financial performance
随着全球自然环境恶化、大众环保意识觉醒,企业作为污染环境的头号嫌犯被推到了风口浪尖。面对资源耗竭与公众压力的双重约束,越来越多企业开始重视环境问题。但事实上,企业对环境问题表现的关注并没有遏制污染日益严重的现实。Russo 和 Harrison对电力行业的研究发现,ISO14001认证的出现并没有缓解废弃物减量化问题,反而毒害气体排放比以前更多[1]。Rodrigue等用环境委员会、董事的环境意识和薪资计划中的环境激励作为代理变量,研究了企业环境治理对环境绩效(CEP)的影响,发现环境治理结构的完善对提高CEP的影响并不明显[2]。这不禁引来对企业环境行动诚意和努力的猜测。企业的环境行动究竟是实质性还是象征性的,不同方式的环境行动会带来不同结果吗?……
