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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2024, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (12): 60-70.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2021.1675

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Does Overseas Investment Improve Corporate Environmental Awareness? Empirical Test Based on Heterogeneity

Quanjing Wang, Wenzhi Li, Haijie Wang()   

  1. School of Business,Zhengzhou university,Zhengzhou 450001,China
  • Received:2021-08-23 Revised:2024-02-16 Online:2024-12-25 Published:2025-01-02
  • Contact: Haijie Wang E-mail:whj@zzu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Although a large number of academic literatures discusses the issue of overseas investment by Chinese companies from different perspectives, so far, there is no literature that analyzes the impact of overseas investment on corporate behavior from the perspective of corporate environmental awareness. The increasing number of Chinese overseas investment enterprises provides an opportunity for us to study this issue. The analysis and discussion of the impact of overseas investment on corporate environmental protection expenditure from the perspective of institutional distance can not only further expand and enrich the relevant research on overseas investment and corporate behavior in theory, but also provide a new perspective and theoretical basis for relevant government departments to formulate relevant policies to enhance the ability of enterprises to develop green and sustainable development.The relevant data of China’s listed companies from 2010 to 2019 and the two-way panel fixed effects model and the PSM-DID measurement method are used to test the impact of overseas investment on corporate environmental awareness and its dynamics, and further whether the heterogeneity of the company and the heterogeneity of the host country change this effect is examined. The research results show that the environmental awareness of overseas investment companies is significantly higher than that of other companies. The impact of overseas investment on corporate environmental awareness is dynamic, and it only help improve corporate environmental awareness after three years of investment. In the eastern region, private enterprises, and heavy-polluting industries, overseas investment has a stronger effect on corporate environmental awareness. When the institutional distance between the host country and China is higher, overseas investment is more conducive to improving corporate environmental awareness. It is conducive to causally identifying the logical relationship between overseas investment, institutional distance and corporate environmental awareness in this article.Accordingly, the following policy recommendations are put forward: First, in the context of complex international situation, the government should guide more enterprises to go global, regulate enterprises' overseas investment behavior, and adopt the reverse spillover effect and learning effect of enterprises in host countries and the institutional constraints of host countries on enterprises' behavior, and improve their own environmental protection efforts. Second, the government should formulate corresponding preferential policies to encourage enterprises to make more strategic long-term foreign investment rather than short-term profitable foreign investment. Third, government should strive to resolve the concerns of private enterprises in making foreign investment, improve the enthusiasm of Chinese private enterprises to go global, and use the interest competition and institutional supervision in the international market to improve the enthusiasm of enterprises in environmental protection. In addition, considering the high proportion of private enterprises in the market, in order to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of private enterprises to protect the environment, while fully releasing the economic vitality of private enterprises, the leadership of the Party should be integrated into all aspects of the governance of private enterprises, and the behavior of private enterprises should be regulated through the leadership of the Party and external systems, so as to promote private enterprises to operate in a more environmentally friendly way. Fourth, while guiding enterprises in the eastern region to invest abroad, the government should focus on promoting the opening up of the central and western regions and the improvement of the legal market, improve the ability of enterprises in the central and western regions to take advantage of the dual system advantages of the host country and China. Fifth, the government should properly guide heavy polluting enterprises to make foreign investment, protect the environmental interests of biochemical enterprises through international competition, and enhance the intensity of environmental protection expenditure of enterprises. Sixth, Chinese enterprises can invest in those countries with a higher distance from China's system, take advantage of the institutional constraints of the two countries, improve the international adaptability of enterprises, and improve the intensity of enterprises' environmental protection expenditure.

Key words: overseas investment, environmental protection expenditure, institutional distance, heterogeneity

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