Firms' GVC positioning and corporate environmental performance: Micro evidence from China

被引：7
作者：
Cheng, Jiajia [1 ]
Yu, Zhuangxiong [2 ]
Xue, Zhaojie [2 ]
Yang, Yang [4 ]
Shi, Xunpeng [3 ,5 ]
机构：
[1] Guangdong Univ Foreign Studies, Inst Int Trade & Econ, Guangzhou, Peoples R China
[2] Jinan Univ, Inst Ind Econ, Guangzhou, Peoples R China
[3] Univ Technol Sydney, Australia China Relat Inst, Sydney, Australia
[4] Sun Yat Sen Univ, Int Sch Business & Finance, 135 Xingang Xi Rd, Guangzhou 510275, Peoples R China
[5] Hubei Univ Econ, Collaborat Innovat Ctr Emiss Trading Syst Coconstr, Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples R China
来源：
STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND ECONOMIC DYNAMICS | 2024年 / 70卷
基金：
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词：
Corporate environmental performance; GVC positioning; Sustainable production; Smile curve; Downstreamness; Upstreamness; INTERNATIONAL-TRADE; POLLUTION; UPSTREAMNESS; STRATEGIES; INNOVATION; EMISSIONS;
D O I：
10.1016/j.strueco.2024.02.011
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
How firms' GVC positioning affects their environmental performance is an interesting but under-researched issue. This paper explores the relationship between GVC positioning and environmental performance from the firm level for the first time. Based on the Chinese Industrial Enterprise Pollution Emission Database from 2001 to 2013 combined with OECD's TiVA and China Customs databases, this paper identifies the existence of a rightside smile curve between firms' GVC positioning and Corporate Environmental Performance (CEP, represented by firms' SO2 emission intensity) among firms in developed regions, supported by industrial policies and with large scale, implying that the improvement of CEP could be driven by firms' downstream climbing in GVC. Mechanism analysis reveals that the demand diversity brought about by consumption-downstream GVC positioning expands firms' imported intermediate goods and enhances firms' innovation to promote CEP. The environmental improvement effects are more substantial when the export market is more efficient.
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页码：268 / 278
页数：11
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