环境绩效、绿色创新与企业财务业绩

尽管企业环境绩效与财务业绩、企业创新与财务业绩之间的关系得到了广泛关注，但这两个因素如何共同作用于企业财务业绩的综合影响尚未明确。通过对2002-2019 年中国上市风险投资公司数据的实证分析，进一步探究了环境绩效和绿色创新与企业财务业绩之间的相互作用。研究发现，环境绩效的提升和绿色创新的增加均能对企业财务业绩产生积极的推动作用。特别是在碳排放减少和绿色创新并行实施的情境下，对企业财务业绩的正向影响更为显著，并随时间推移而增强。此外，绿色创新水平较高的企业往往展示出更优越的财务表现。本研究不仅在理论上首次明确了环境绩效、绿色创新与企业财务业绩的综合关系，而且为管理层、投资者、监管机构和政策制定者在推动企业绿色创新战略方面提供了有力的学术支持。     

Does Foreign Venture Capital Provide More Value‐added Services to Initial Public Offering Companies in China?

This paper uses all 1404 initial public offerings (IPO) undertaken between 2002 and 2012 in China to analyze whether venture capital (VC) investment, especially foreign VC investment, brings more or less value‐added services to the invested companies during the 3 years following the IPO. The results show that venture capitalists choose to invest in companies with higher value potential, and, in turn, the value of the companies increases after the IPO is undertaken; foreign VC adds more value to companies than domestic venture capital. However, the profitability of VC‐backed and non VC‐backed companies after IPO does not differ significantly. Nevertheless, it is shown that VC plays an active role in China.     

An Integrated Corporate Governance Framework and Financial Performance in South African‐Listed Corporations

This paper investigates the relationship between an integrated corporate governance (CG) index and financial performance using a sample of 169 South African (SA)‐listed corporations between 2002 and 2007. We find a statistically significant and positive association between a broad set of good CG practices and financial performance. In a series of sensitivity analyses, we find that our results are robust to endogeneity, different financial performance proxies, alternative CG weighting scheme and firm‐level fixed effects. We further distinctively examine the link between complying with SA context‐specific stakeholder CG provisions and financial performance. In line with political cost and resource dependence theories, our results reveal a statistically significant and positive nexus between compliance with stakeholder CG provisions and financial performance.