Boundary Conditions of the Curvilinear Relationships between Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility and New Product Performance: Evidence from China
This study examines whether a firm’s environmental corporate social responsibility advances the growth of its new product performance, and investigates the moderating roles of a firm’s heterogeneous local institutional environment and ownership type. Based on a multi-informant su...
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doaj-bf636a466d16459caa4114bdf67409a12020-11-25T02:08:00ZengMDPI AGSustainability2071-10502019-09-011118496810.3390/su11184968su11184968Boundary Conditions of the Curvilinear Relationships between Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility and New Product Performance: Evidence from ChinaZhuoer Yang0Yahui Zhang1Yu Gao2Shanxing Gao3Kuo-Feng Huang4School of Humanities and Economic Law, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, ChinaChina Merchants Bank, Shenzhen 518040, ChinaSchool of Economics and Finance, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710061, ChinaSchool of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, ChinaDepartment of Business Administration, National Chengchi University, Taipei 116, TaiwanThis study examines whether a firm’s environmental corporate social responsibility advances the growth of its new product performance, and investigates the moderating roles of a firm’s heterogeneous local institutional environment and ownership type. Based on a multi-informant survey dataset of 303 Chinese firms, we found that a firm’s environmental corporate social responsibility has a U-shaped relationship with the firm’s new product performance. In addition, compared with non-state-owned enterprises, state-owned enterprises with a higher environmental corporate social responsibility would receive relatively lower new product performance. Firms located in the provinces with a lower local institutional development level and higher environmental corporate social responsibility may experience relatively higher new product performance than firms located in the provinces with a higher local institutional development level.https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/18/4968environmental corporate social responsibilitynew product performanceinstitutional development levelownershipsignaling theoryinstitutional theory |
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Zhuoer Yang Yahui Zhang Yu Gao Shanxing Gao Kuo-Feng Huang Boundary Conditions of the Curvilinear Relationships between Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility and New Product Performance: Evidence from China Sustainability environmental corporate social responsibility new product performance institutional development level ownership signaling theory institutional theory |
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Boundary Conditions of the Curvilinear Relationships between Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility and New Product Performance: Evidence from China |
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Boundary Conditions of the Curvilinear Relationships between Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility and New Product Performance: Evidence from China |
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Boundary Conditions of the Curvilinear Relationships between Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility and New Product Performance: Evidence from China |
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Boundary Conditions of the Curvilinear Relationships between Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility and New Product Performance: Evidence from China |
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Boundary Conditions of the Curvilinear Relationships between Environmental Corporate Social Responsibility and New Product Performance: Evidence from China |
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boundary conditions of the curvilinear relationships between environmental corporate social responsibility and new product performance: evidence from china |
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This study examines whether a firm’s environmental corporate social responsibility advances the growth of its new product performance, and investigates the moderating roles of a firm’s heterogeneous local institutional environment and ownership type. Based on a multi-informant survey dataset of 303 Chinese firms, we found that a firm’s environmental corporate social responsibility has a U-shaped relationship with the firm’s new product performance. In addition, compared with non-state-owned enterprises, state-owned enterprises with a higher environmental corporate social responsibility would receive relatively lower new product performance. Firms located in the provinces with a lower local institutional development level and higher environmental corporate social responsibility may experience relatively higher new product performance than firms located in the provinces with a higher local institutional development level. |
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environmental corporate social responsibility new product performance institutional development level ownership signaling theory institutional theory |
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