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Rapid industrial development has caused a series of environmental problems, which is not conducive to sustainable development of society as a whole. It is necessary to build a sustainable development evaluation system. Most of the existing literature has evaluated corporate sustainable performance from the economy, environment and society on the basis of triple bottom lines. Considering the research gap and the practice need, an evaluation system is established from four dimensions, referred to as economy, society, environment and responsibility management, and 29 indicators are designed to measure these four dimensions. Twenty seven listed Chinese mining corporations are selected as research samples, and the entropy-weight-based Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) method is applied to calculate indicators’ weights. Results show that the four dimensions of sustainable performance weights from high to low are society, environment, economy, and management process.
Yuan Ma; Jingzhi Men; Mingyu Li; Xiaoyan Li. Sustainable Performance Evaluation: Evidence from Listed Chinese Mining Corporations. Entropy 2021, 23, 349 .
AMA StyleYuan Ma, Jingzhi Men, Mingyu Li, Xiaoyan Li. Sustainable Performance Evaluation: Evidence from Listed Chinese Mining Corporations. Entropy. 2021; 23 (3):349.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYuan Ma; Jingzhi Men; Mingyu Li; Xiaoyan Li. 2021. "Sustainable Performance Evaluation: Evidence from Listed Chinese Mining Corporations." Entropy 23, no. 3: 349.
Focusing on green technology innovation, the paper researches its motivation and implementation results from the perspective of internal corporate management. The impact of top manager team faultlines on green technology innovation and the moderating role of environmental information disclosure in the relationship between green technology innovation and financial performance are discussed. Using listed manufacturing corporate data obtained from China Stock Market & Accounting Research database, the hypotheses are tested. It is found that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between task-related faultline and green technology innovation, while bio-demographic faultline has no significant influence on green technology innovation. In addition, both green technology innovation and environmental information disclosure have positive effects on financial performance, while the moderating effect of environmental information disclosure on innovation-performance doesn't exist. Combined with the research results, the practical implications for policy makers and managers and future research avenue are proposed.
Yuan Ma; Qiang Zhang; Qiyue Yin. Top management team faultlines, green technology innovation and firm financial performance. Journal of Environmental Management 2021, 285, 112095 .
AMA StyleYuan Ma, Qiang Zhang, Qiyue Yin. Top management team faultlines, green technology innovation and firm financial performance. Journal of Environmental Management. 2021; 285 ():112095.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYuan Ma; Qiang Zhang; Qiyue Yin. 2021. "Top management team faultlines, green technology innovation and firm financial performance." Journal of Environmental Management 285, no. : 112095.
Many scholars have studied the relationship between environmental management and firm economic performance, but there is no consistent conclusion. According to the number of environmental management practices implemented by firms and the degree of integration of environmental management with other functions, this study divides environmental management into two dimensions: environmental management breadth (EMB) and environmental management depth (EMD), and explores the above issues. A sample including 246 Chinese listed companies is used to test the hypotheses by multiple regression analysis. The results show an inverted U-shaped relationship between EMB and economic performance; EMD has a positive impact on economic performance; green innovation mediates the relationship between EMB (EMD) and economic performance; environmental leadership moderates the impact of EMB (EMD) on green innovation.
Qiang Zhang; Yuan Ma. The impact of environmental management on firm economic performance: The mediating effect of green innovation and the moderating effect of environmental leadership. Journal of Cleaner Production 2021, 292, 126057 .
AMA StyleQiang Zhang, Yuan Ma. The impact of environmental management on firm economic performance: The mediating effect of green innovation and the moderating effect of environmental leadership. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2021; 292 ():126057.
Chicago/Turabian StyleQiang Zhang; Yuan Ma. 2021. "The impact of environmental management on firm economic performance: The mediating effect of green innovation and the moderating effect of environmental leadership." Journal of Cleaner Production 292, no. : 126057.
Environmental education pedagogy is divided into two categories: teacher-driven pedagogy and student-driven pedagogy. Their impacts on the environmental awareness of college students are analyzed using the propensity score matching method. The analysis results for 485 survey data points from college students show that both of these two pedagogies influence college students’ environmental awareness positively, and the effect of student-driven pedagogy is higher. The conclusion provides insight for the further development of college students’ environmental education.
Yuan Ma; Jingzhi Men; Wei Cui. Does Environmental Education Matter? Evidence from Provincial Higher Education Institutions in China. Sustainability 2020, 12, 6338 .
AMA StyleYuan Ma, Jingzhi Men, Wei Cui. Does Environmental Education Matter? Evidence from Provincial Higher Education Institutions in China. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (16):6338.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYuan Ma; Jingzhi Men; Wei Cui. 2020. "Does Environmental Education Matter? Evidence from Provincial Higher Education Institutions in China." Sustainability 12, no. 16: 6338.
According to the number of environmental management practices implemented by the firm and the degree of integration of environmental management with other functions of the firm, this study divides environmental management into two dimensions: environmental management breadth and environmental management depth. We argue that the impact of environmental management breadth on manufacturing performance is moderated by environmental management depth. A survey data including 225 Chinese manufacturing firms is used to test the hypotheses. Results show that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between environmental management breadth and manufacturing performance; the impact of environmental management depth is positive; meanwhile, environmental management depth moderates the relationship between environmental management breadth and manufacturing performance.
Qiang Zhang; Yuan Ma; Qiyue Yin. Environmental Management Breadth, Environmental Management Depth, and Manufacturing Performance. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019, 16, 4628 .
AMA StyleQiang Zhang, Yuan Ma, Qiyue Yin. Environmental Management Breadth, Environmental Management Depth, and Manufacturing Performance. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16 (23):4628.
Chicago/Turabian StyleQiang Zhang; Yuan Ma; Qiyue Yin. 2019. "Environmental Management Breadth, Environmental Management Depth, and Manufacturing Performance." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 23: 4628.
Abundant studies have been made around the impact of environmental management on economic performance in business, but there is still no consistent conclusion. This study focuses on labor productivity as a measure of economic performance. We argue that environmental management has a negative impact on the labor productivity of company in the special context of Chinese increasingly stringent environmental regulations, but this impact is moderated by quality management. Environmental management score and the years that companies have passed ISO 9001 are set as proxies for independent and moderating variable respectively. A sample including 229 Chinese listed companies is used to test the hypotheses by multiple regression analysis. Results show that environmental management has a negative impact on labor productivity, and quality management moderates the relationship.
Yuan Ma; Qiang Zhang; Hua Yin. Environmental management and labor productivity: The moderating role of quality management. Journal of Environmental Management 2019, 255, 109795 .
AMA StyleYuan Ma, Qiang Zhang, Hua Yin. Environmental management and labor productivity: The moderating role of quality management. Journal of Environmental Management. 2019; 255 ():109795.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYuan Ma; Qiang Zhang; Hua Yin. 2019. "Environmental management and labor productivity: The moderating role of quality management." Journal of Environmental Management 255, no. : 109795.
Although green process technology is vital to sustainable development, few articles focus on how to implement it from the perspective of firms. This article tries to answer this question. Being set as an antecedent of green process innovation, the influence of environmental management is analyzed and the influential path is elaborated. Hypotheses are tested by means of multivariate regression analysis and bootstrap method. The results show that environmental management is conducive to firms’ green process innovation, and the influence is through zero-order routine replication and higher-order routine replication. The mediating effect played by the interaction between the two is stronger than that of the individual. Implications are given to academia and practitioners.
Yuan Ma; Qiang Zhang; Qiyue Yin. Influence of Environmental Management on Green Process Innovation: Comparison of Multiple Mediating Effects Based on Routine Replication. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019, 16, 4346 .
AMA StyleYuan Ma, Qiang Zhang, Qiyue Yin. Influence of Environmental Management on Green Process Innovation: Comparison of Multiple Mediating Effects Based on Routine Replication. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16 (22):4346.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYuan Ma; Qiang Zhang; Qiyue Yin. 2019. "Influence of Environmental Management on Green Process Innovation: Comparison of Multiple Mediating Effects Based on Routine Replication." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 22: 4346.
Combined with the existing research gap, this paper divides firms’ environmental information disclosure styles into two types: Substantive style and symbolic style. This paper elaborates on the relationship between environmental information disclosure and firms’ profitability of these two disclosure types and tests this relationship using the data from 676 firms employed from the heave-polluting industry. Considering the endogenous and heteroscedasticity problems, 2-stage least squares method and weighted least square method were adopted. The results showed that (1) positive relationships exist between environmental information disclosure and profitability for both types; and (2) the contribution of symbolic-style disclosure to profitability is larger than that of substantive-style disclosure. These findings are important for corporate managers and highlight some policy implications in developing countries.
Hua Yin; Mingyu Li; Yuan Ma; Qiang Zhang. The Relationship between Environmental Information Disclosure and Profitability: A Comparison between Different Disclosure Styles. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019, 16, 1556 .
AMA StyleHua Yin, Mingyu Li, Yuan Ma, Qiang Zhang. The Relationship between Environmental Information Disclosure and Profitability: A Comparison between Different Disclosure Styles. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16 (9):1556.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHua Yin; Mingyu Li; Yuan Ma; Qiang Zhang. 2019. "The Relationship between Environmental Information Disclosure and Profitability: A Comparison between Different Disclosure Styles." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 9: 1556.
Abundant extant literature emphasizes the impact of board members attributes' influence on environmental information disclosure. Considering the voluntary nature of environmental information disclosure, executives have strong managerial discretion when they make such decisions, so this article focuses on top managers' influence on environmental information disclosure. We hypothesize that top managers' educational background and age will affect companies' environmental decision. The hypotheses are verified with the data from Chinese listed manufacturing companies. As the results show, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) educational background and average age of top managers positively affect environmental information disclosure, while the impact of legal educational background is negative. The company's environmental performance plays a U-shaped moderating effect on the relationship between MBA educational background and environmental information disclosure.
Yuan Ma; Qiang Zhang; Qiyue Yin; Bingcheng Wang. The Influence of Top Managers on Environmental Information Disclosure: The Moderating Effect of Company's Environmental Performance. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2019, 16, 1167 .
AMA StyleYuan Ma, Qiang Zhang, Qiyue Yin, Bingcheng Wang. The Influence of Top Managers on Environmental Information Disclosure: The Moderating Effect of Company's Environmental Performance. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16 (7):1167.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYuan Ma; Qiang Zhang; Qiyue Yin; Bingcheng Wang. 2019. "The Influence of Top Managers on Environmental Information Disclosure: The Moderating Effect of Company's Environmental Performance." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 7: 1167.
Compared with the abundant achievements of technological innovation, management innovation is still under-researched in academia. Putting management innovation in the context of environmental issues, this paper seeks to answer two key questions: (1) what factors stimulate green management innovation and (2) how can green management innovation affect firm performance. On the basis of literature review an operational definition of green management innovation is given. Then the relationships between green management innovation, its antecedents and consequences are hypothesized. A total of 267 valid questionnaires from mining industry in China are used. Different from the market pull and technology push of technological innovation, green management innovation is mainly pushed by external knowledge supply, while the internal efficiency demand does not play a significant role in our findings. Moreover, green management innovation has a positive effect on firm economic performance and internal efficiency demand moderates the effect. Our findings provide complementary insights to green management innovation.
Yuan Ma; Guisheng Hou; Qiyue Yin; Baogui Xin; Yajun Pan. The sources of green management innovation: Does internal efficiency demand pull or external knowledge supply push? Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 202, 582 -590.
AMA StyleYuan Ma, Guisheng Hou, Qiyue Yin, Baogui Xin, Yajun Pan. The sources of green management innovation: Does internal efficiency demand pull or external knowledge supply push? Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 202 ():582-590.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYuan Ma; Guisheng Hou; Qiyue Yin; Baogui Xin; Yajun Pan. 2018. "The sources of green management innovation: Does internal efficiency demand pull or external knowledge supply push?" Journal of Cleaner Production 202, no. : 582-590.
Motivated by government policies and decision-makers’ opportunity perception, many firms have invested in green product innovation. The effect of this type of innovation has been analyzed in extant literature thoroughly, but how to improve innovator’s economic performance is still under-researched. When considering this research gap, the business model theory is used in this paper. An empirically based and testable framework is developed. Using survey data from 231 traditional manufacturing firms in China, these hypotheses are tested. The results show that novelty-centered and efficiency-centered business model design themes all play a moderating effect on the relationship between green product innovation and firm performance, while a fit between green product innovation and novelty-centered design theme is better for firm performance.
Yuan Ma; Qiyue Yin; Yajun Pan; Wei Cui; Baogui Xin; Ziqian Rao. Green Product Innovation and Firm Performance: Assessing the Moderating Effect of Novelty-Centered and Efficiency-Centered Business Model Design. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1843 .
AMA StyleYuan Ma, Qiyue Yin, Yajun Pan, Wei Cui, Baogui Xin, Ziqian Rao. Green Product Innovation and Firm Performance: Assessing the Moderating Effect of Novelty-Centered and Efficiency-Centered Business Model Design. Sustainability. 2018; 10 (6):1843.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYuan Ma; Qiyue Yin; Yajun Pan; Wei Cui; Baogui Xin; Ziqian Rao. 2018. "Green Product Innovation and Firm Performance: Assessing the Moderating Effect of Novelty-Centered and Efficiency-Centered Business Model Design." Sustainability 10, no. 6: 1843.
As the world faces great challenges from climate change and environmental pollution, China urgently requires energy saving, emission reduction, and carbon reduction programmes. However, the non-cooperative energy saving model (NCESM), the simple regulation mode that is China’s main model for energy saving, is not beneficial for optimization of energy and resource distribution, and cannot effectively motivate energy saving at the provincial level. Therefore, we propose an interprovincial cooperative energy saving model (CESM) from the perspective of electricity utilization, with the object of maximizing the benefits from electricity utilization of the cooperation union based on achieving the energy saving goals of the union as a whole. The CESM consists of two parts: (1) an optimization model that calculates the optimal quantities of electricity consumption for each participating province to meet the joint energy saving goal; and (2) a model that distributes the economic benefits of the cooperation among the provinces in the cooperation based on the Shapley value method. We applied the CESM to the case of an interprovincial union of Shanghai, Sichuan, Shanxi, and Gansu in China. The results, based on the data from 2001–2014, show that cooperation can significantly increase the benefits of electricity utilization for each province in the union. The total benefits of the union from utilization of electricity increased 38.38%, or 353.98 billion CNY, while the benefits to Shanghai, Sichuan, Shanxi, and Gansu were 200.28, 58.37, 57.11, and 38.22 billion CNY respectively greater under the CESM than the NCESM. The implementation of the CESM provides the provincial governments not only a flexible and incentive way to achieve short-term goals, but also a feasible and effective path to realize long-term energy saving strategies. To test the impact of different parameter values on the results of the CESM, a sensitivity analysis was conducted. Some policy recommendations are made at the central government level and the provincial government level to promote the implementation of the CESM.
Lijun Zeng; Laijun Zhao; Qin Wang; Bingcheng Wang; Yuan Ma; Wei Cui; Yujing Xie. Modeling Interprovincial Cooperative Energy Saving in China: An Electricity Utilization Perspective. Energies 2018, 11, 241 .
AMA StyleLijun Zeng, Laijun Zhao, Qin Wang, Bingcheng Wang, Yuan Ma, Wei Cui, Yujing Xie. Modeling Interprovincial Cooperative Energy Saving in China: An Electricity Utilization Perspective. Energies. 2018; 11 (1):241.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLijun Zeng; Laijun Zhao; Qin Wang; Bingcheng Wang; Yuan Ma; Wei Cui; Yujing Xie. 2018. "Modeling Interprovincial Cooperative Energy Saving in China: An Electricity Utilization Perspective." Energies 11, no. 1: 241.