大气污染与重污染企业绿色创新--基于公众环保监督的中介效应

Air Pollution and Green Innovation in Heavily Polluting Enterprises--The Mediating Effect of Public Environmental Supervision

大气污染一直是一个备受公众关注的问题,其对企业决策和公众健康都产生着深远的影响。随着互联网时代的到来,公众可以通过网络及时监督和发表意见,并通过抵制和投诉等方式对高污染企业施加压力。本文研究样本选择为重污染行业A股上市公司,用2014-2019年的数据实证检验大气污染对重污染企业绿色创新的影响,同时检验公众环保监督在大气污染对重污染企业绿色创新的中介作用。研究结果表明,大气污染程度越高,企业的绿色创新水平也越高,并且公众环保监督在其中扮演着重要的角色,对企业实施绿色创新产生了积极影响。

Air pollution has long been a public concern,exerting profound impacts on corporate decision-making and public health.With the advent of the internet age,the public can supervise and voice opinions in a timely manner,and exert pressure on highly polluting enterprises through boycotts and complaints.This paper selects samples from A-share listed companies in heavily polluting industries,and empirically tests the impact of air pollution on green innovation in heavily polluting enterprises using data from 2014 to 2019.Meanwhile,we examine the mediating effect of public environmental supervision in the relationship between air pollution and green innovation in heavily polluting enterprises.The results show that the higher the degree of air pollution,the higher the level of green innovation in enterprises,and that public environmental supervision plays an important role in this relationship,exerting a positive impact on the implementation of green innovation by enterprises.