Environmental performance and financial performance: the roles of reputation, voluntary regulation, and thin capitalisation in a multi-country study

Can green process innovation improve both financial and environmental performance? The roles of TMT heterogeneity and ownership

The impact of leanness and innovativeness on environmental and financial performance: Insights from Indian SMEs

This research evaluates the importance of government support in the financial and environmental performance of SMEs with the mediating role of differentiation and cost leadership strategy. For testing the model, data were collected from 315 owners/managers of Pakistani SMEs through a survey. The results of the structural equation modeling spectacle that both financial and non-financial incentives of government have a significant positive influence on financial performance, environmental performance, differentiation and cost leadership strategy. Differentiation strategy partially mediates the paths between government incentives (financial and non-financial) and firms’ performance (financial and environmental). However, cost leadership strategy fully mediates the relationship between government financial incentives and environmental performance, while it partially mediates the connection between government non-financial support and environmental performance. In addition, the cost leadership strategy partially mediates the path between government incentives (financial and non-financial) and financial performance. This research recommends the government and policymakers to provide financial and non-financial incentives to the industrial sector that can configure their competitive advantage and performance. In turn, these firms will able to contribute to environmental and economic growth. Additionally, firms need to build ties with the government to get valuable resources that are beneficial for competitiveness as well as environment and financial performance.

The dilemma of firms in developing economies was the crux of this study. In probing whether the adoption of organization-wide green strategy would enhance the product quality and the firm’s financial lifeline, while also improving the environment, we developed a mediation model. The specific objectives were to ascertain the direct effect of green strategy on both environmental and financial performance and its total effect on both environmental and financial performance through product quality. With data collated and analyzed from 648 respondents, using the Hayes mediation approach, results show that while environmental performance is strongly predicted by green strategy and product quality (as a mediator), financial performance is also positively predicted, but by a smaller effect. The import of the findings of this study is that the adoption of green strategy mediated by product quality improves both environmental and financial performance, implying that firms can remain financially viable while adopting product-focused green strategy.

Environmental and financial performance in the European manufacturing sector: An analysis of extreme tail dependency

<abstract> <p>The current study investigates the influence of financial resources on environmental and financial performance with the mediating role of green practices (innovation) in manufacturing firms of the emerging economy, Pakistan. The research model and its proposed hypothesis was using 294 manufacturing firms' samples, for fruitful insights, the hypothesis was tested through a structured equation model using Smart PLS 3. Our results exhibited a positive and significant impact of financial resources on financial performance but not on environmental performance. However, green innovation fully mediates the relationship between financial resources and financial performance, while partially mediate the relationship between financial resources and environmental performance. Considering our insight, we suggest to the government that financially support the SMEs sector because they have a lack of tangible and intangible resources due to small size, and to easily adapt the green practices.</p> </abstract>

Examining the correlations between stakeholder pressures, green production practices, firm reputation, environmental and financial performance: Evidence from manufacturing SMEs

Exploring financial performance and green logistics management practices: Examining the mediating influences of market, environmental and social performances

This study aims to examine transfer pricing aggressiveness, thin capitalization, political connections, financial performance, and tax evasion: corporate governance as a moderating variable in manufacturing companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) during the 2012-2021 period. The population in this study is the annual report (annual report) consists of 193 companies. The sample technique selected based on certain criteria using purposive sampling was 9 companies.This research is a quantitative research with secondary data. Methods of data collection using the method of literature study and documentation methods. The data analysis technique used was descriptive statistical test, hypothesis testing using panel data regression tools, and moderate regression analysis (MRA) was processed using the STATA 17 program.The results of this study indicate that the results of the partial test prove that transfer pricing aggressiveness has no effect on tax avoidance with a significance value of 0.279 > 0.05, thin capitalization has no effect on tax evasion with a significance value of 0.731 > 0.05, political connections have no effect on tax evasion with a value a significance of 0.861 > 0.05, and financial performance has no effect on tax evasion with a significance value of 0.178 > 0.05. Corporate governance can moderate the relationship between transfer pricing aggressiveness to tax evasion with a significance value of 0.015 <0.05, corporate governance cannot moderate the relationship between thin capitalization and tax evasion with a significance value of 0.631 > 0.05, corporate governance cannot moderate the relationship between political connections to tax evasion with a significance value of 0.317 > 0.05, and corporate governance can moderate the relationship between financial performance and tax evasion with a significance value of 0.009 <0.05. The results of this test indicate that the Adjusted R-squared value is 0.0645 or 6.45%.

PurposeHistorically, investments in innovation are perceived as one of the paramount decisions businesses opt to thrive and the impact of such investments on businesses' market performance is well documented in the literature. However, the environmental aspects of making such investments are yet to be addressed by the firms, which in turn, present considerable damage to the environment. Coupling with the natural resource-based view (NRBV) and the stakeholder theory of the firm, this research builds on an earlier work of Khalil and Nimmanunta (2021) in an attempt to examine the link between innovation and firms' environmental and financial value. The authors extend their analysis and document a more consistent approach to measuring environmental innovation which allows the authors to investigate the firms from three additional economies with respect to firms' investments in both traditional and environmental innovations.Design/methodology/approachThe underlying models are tested using the time fixed-effects panel regression by utilizing information from publicly traded companies of ten Asian economies, including Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia. The reported sample covers annual firm-level ESG data obtained from Thomson Reuters' Datastream and Refinitiv Eikon during the 2015–2019 period.FindingsThis research offers support to the conventional wisdom that innovation is advantageous to the firms' market value. The authors further decompose innovation into traditional innovation and environmental innovation. The findings of this research suggest that traditional innovation is favorable only for the firms' market valuation and traditional innovation is strongly ineffectual for the environment – traditional innovation produces sizeable environmental distress by contributing substantially to carbon emissions. In contrast, the resultant effects of investments in environmental innovation are evident to be instrumental for both firms' financial performance and the environment.Research limitations/implicationsThis research has primarily focused on only two components of a company's environmental performance: reduction in carbon emissions (CO2) and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Given the complexity of firms' environmental strategies and the multidimensionality of the variable, which encompasses a wide range of corporate behavior in terms of relationships with communities, suppliers, consumers, and broader environmental responsibilities broadening the scope of the study by including other important aspects of environmental sustainability is, therefore, critical.Practical implicationsThe findings of this research signify environmental innovation as one of the vital investment approaches as firms can exploit benefits related to the market from firms' sustainable practices, developing eco-friendly processes by introducing steady yet systematic chains of green products and services. Such products and services may have a feature of enhanced functionality with a better layout in terms of improved product life with better recycling options, and lower consumption and exploitation of energy and natural resources. These sustainable practices would be advantageous for the firms regarding the possibility of setting prices above the standard level through establishing green brands and gaining market share of environmentally anxious consumers. For those companies that are striving to take the leading role in the green industry and longing to seek superior returns on the companies' environmental investments, these benefits, in particular, are exceptionally critical to them.Originality/valueThe linkage between firms' financial and environmental performance in the context of simultaneous inclusion of both green and traditional innovations remains unclear and is yet to be investigated by researchers. Thus, this research shed light on the role of environmental innovation and traditional innovation on firms' environmental performance and financial performance. The authors utilize a novel dataset with a clear indication of measuring different elements of innovation that allows us to develop a more robust approach to corporates' environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance metrics having the slightest biases related to transparency and firm size.

Subject. The environmental concept has become one of the main objectives in the field of sustainable development of management system. Along with a corporation’s financial sustainability, environmental and social sustainability constitute the modern notion of an economic entity’s sustainable development. The successful development of a corporation is possible, if there is an equilibrium in all areas of economic entity’s operations. Objectives. This paper investigates the complex interactions of financial and environmental performance at the corporate level. The aim is to develop a methodological approach to predictive analysis of corporate environmental and financial performance, focused on short-term oriented management forecasts. Methods. The predictive analysis of environmental and financial processes suggests the use of a large number of performance indicators. A statistical model based on a matrix predictor combining econometric and multidimensional prediction methods became the basis of our methodological approach to predictive analysis. In the empiric section, we present a predictive analysis for the environmental and financial performance of AO Minudobreniya. Results. We developed a methodological approach to the predictive analysis of corporate environmental and financial performance to identify potential risk areas and further plan preventive measures to ensure the desired level of economic sustainability. Conclusions. The findings can be useful for solving a number of specific problems related to information, organizational and methodological support to both a sustainable performance predictive analysis and formation of relevant information for stakeholders about the level of effectiveness of environmental protection measures.

Empirical analyses exploring the relationship between environmental and financial performances hypothesise that good corporate environmental performance and the associated re-evaluation of production processes and adoption of innovative solutions increase the resource productivity and/or competitive advantage, thereby creating opportunity for improved financial performance. Although recent studies provide evidence supporting this hypothesis, they do not establish that good environmental performance causes good financial performance, nor do they control for underlying firm characteristics, such as management quality, that may enhance both environmental and financial performances, thus overstating the relationship between the two. The primary objective of this study is to explore the relationship between environmental performance, risk and expected cash flows/earnings, and the resulting impact on stock returns so that managers and investors can make more informed decisions. In addition, this study examines potential factors driving corporate environmental performance. The empirical analysis suggests that to the extent that investors consider environmental performance, they perceive environmental improvements and management as costly, unless made to avoid non-compliance penalties. Furthermore, the empirical analysis indicates that corporate financial performance does not influence environmental performance. Instead, the level of corporate sophistication and trust and transparency are the driving factors behind environmental performance improvements.

In recent years, the number of firms that give importance to environmental problems such as consumption of natural resources, decline in water resources and global warming are increasing. However, the classical view of literature argues that firms’ environmental protection operations decrease the financial performance of them. For that reason, in this study, it is aimed to analyze the relationship between financial performance and environmental performance of the firms. The sample of the study consists of firms listed on Borsa Istanbul 100 index and has a climate change score declared in CDP Turkey Climate Change Report 2015. Climate change score is used for measuring environmental performance. Accounting (Return on Asset) and marketing measures (Market Value/Book Value) are used for measuring financial performance. The relationship between the environmental performance and financial performance of the firms compared with the help of correlation analysis. Findings reveal that there is a positive relation between financial performance and environmental performance. The correlation between market performance and environmental performance is weaker than the correlation between accounting performance and environmental performance. Moreover, multidimensional scaling technique is utilized to cluster the firms in terms of their financial and environmental performance. A map is formed with the help of multidimensional scaling that shows the relative positioning of the sampled firms due to their environmental performance and financial performance.

Traditionally, firms tend to incline toward financial performance and profitability to surge shareholder's wealth. In the modern day, in addition to financial performance, innovative and environmental performance has also become a central effort. However, all firms are not flourished in the achievement of financial, innovative, and environmental performance, particularly small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs), which need adequate financial resources due to lack of resources and can search for opportunities to boost their performance. This research examines the role of financial availability in financial, innovative, and environmental performance with a mediating role of opportunity recognition. Empirical evidence is collected through structured questionnaires from 347 SMEs operating in the emerging market Pakistan. Hypotheses are tested in Analysis of a Moment Structure (AMOS) using structural equation modeling. Results indicate that satisfactory financial resources significantly contribute to financial and innovative performance but play an insignificant role in environmental performance as well. In addition, firms with enough financial capital recognize new opportunities significantly via opportunity recognition mediator, where partially mediating the relation between financial availability and financial/innovative performance. However, firms fully mediate the link between financial availability and environmental performance. Our research findings recommend CEOs and top managers to utilize their financial resources in an efficient way to achieve the advantage of the new opportunity recognition, superior financial, innovative, and environmental performance.

This study aims to examine the interrelationships among environmental strategy, environmental management accounting (EMA), environmental performance, and financial performance within manufacturing firms in Vietnam, a topic rarely addressed in previous research. Specifically, the research investigates the role of EMA use and environmental performance in mediating the relationship between environmental strategy and financial performance. Drawing on stakeholder theory, contingency theory, and the natural resource-based view theory, this study develops and tests a serial mediation model to explain how EMA use and environmental performance link environmental strategy to improved financial performance Data were collected from 198 manufacturing firms in Vietnam. The research employed partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) with SmartPLS software for data analysis. The findings reveal that environmental strategy positively influences both EMA use and environmental performance. Moreover, EMA and environmental performance act as significant mediators, positively influencing financial performance. This study focuses on manufacturing firms in Vietnam, an emerging market, which may limit the generalizability of the findings to other geographic contexts. Cultural differences, variations in environmental standards, and different levels of economic development across countries may influence the relationship between environmental strategies and performance outcomes, suggesting that the results may not be universally applicable. This research is the first to explore the interconnections between environmental strategy, EMA use, environmental performance, and financial performance in manufacturing firms in Vietnam. It provides valuable theoretical and practical insights for managers and policymakers, highlighting the importance of integrating environmental strategies into business operations.