Abstract
Based on the theory of paradox cognition, a relationship model among paradox cognition, industrial green production, and enterprise performance has been constructed, which mainly focuses on a study on whether the paradox cognition can have positive influences on the green production behavior of industrial enterprises, and then further promote the improvement of enterprises’ economic benefits. The author wrote this thesis on the basis of results obtained from 305 sample surveys and verified the direct and indirect influence relationships among variables in the model with structural equation path coefficient and mediation effect. The empirical results show that: firstly, paradox cognition has a positive and significant impact on the industrial green production behavior. The higher the level of paradox cognition, the more likely the enterprises are to implement the industrial green production behavior. Secondly, paradox cognition can improve the potential performance of enterprises by affecting "green product provision", "green production management", and "green production technology", and then indirectly improve the financial performance of enterprises.
Highlights
Industrial production plays an extremely important role in promoting the development of national economies, but it brings serious environmental issues [1]
Industrial green production plays an important role in the reduction of energy consumption and the improvement of the ecological environment, and it can be used to effectively reduce the environmental damage caused by industrial production [4]
Industrial green production is known as cleaner production, which means that an integrated environmental strategy is used in the production, product, and service, so as to save energy and reduce environmental pollution
Summary
Industrial production plays an extremely important role in promoting the development of national economies, but it brings serious environmental issues [1]. Industrial green production plays an important role in the reduction of energy consumption and the improvement of the ecological environment, and it can be used to effectively reduce the environmental damage caused by industrial production [4]. Industrial green production can improve the core competitiveness of enterprises, but can help those enterprises to maximally save energy and reduce environmental pollution. They believe that the implementation of green production can improve social and environmental benefits, but it will inevitably reduce the economic benefits for enterprises Based on this point, many enterprises find that it is very difficult for them to make industrial green production decisions. Smith and Lewis came up with the theory of paradoxical cognition [8] This theory indicates that economic benefits for enterprises have a close relationship with social environmental benefits, even though it looks like there is contradiction. Can industrial green production activities promote increases in enterprise performance? In other words, does industrial green production relieve the contradiction between the economic benefits and environmental benefits of enterprises?
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