Substantive or Symbolic Environmental Strategies? Effects of External and Internal Normative Stakeholder Pressures

Different forms of stakeholder pressures drive different environmental strategies in organizations. This article differentiates between internal and external normative stakeholder pressures to test their potentially unique effects on environmental strategies. The findings suggest that internal, normative stakeholder pressures primarily drive substantive commitments to environmental practices, reflecting an internalized, voluntary commitment to the natural environment and dedication to environmental leadership by the firm. External, normative pressures instead primarily drive symbolic commitments to environmental practices, aimed at managing the image of the organization to establish and reinforce an appearance of commitment to the natural environment. This novel perspective accounts for the institutionally plural contexts of organizations and their environments, in which internal pressures directly drive substantive environmental commitments and external pressures drive symbolic responses. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

我国绿色金融发展驱动因素与进展研究

随着社会政治和经济环境的变化,中国和全球经济都面临着严峻挑战,可持续性发展成为全球各国的共同课题。追求长期价值增长、兼顾经济和社会效益的绿色金融理念受到广泛关注和更多重视。政府制定的国家绿色金融发展路线、金融机构风险管理和履行社会责任的需要、企业寻求降低融资成本以及公众观念的转变推动我国绿色金融的发展。而融资缺口的存在,需要更多地借助市场的力量,最终形成政府、金融机构和市场资本合作的模式。     

Sustainable financing practices through green bonds: What affects the funding size?

Financing through the supply‐driven green bonds market has significantly surged in recent years. In this paper, we examine the factors influencing the size of financing though green bond supply, using cross‐section OLS regressions on a global dataset for 8 years (2010–2017) sourced from Bloomberg. We consider a set of tridimensional factors: bond characteristics, issuer characteristics, and market characteristics and examine their effects on issue size. Alongside whole sample estimation, we produce year‐wise estimations to realize the evolution and persistence of the effects over time. We then produce estimates across rating grades of the bonds. Finally, we carry Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition to see if average issue size has significantly changed over time and whether the factors considered can explain the difference. We find a large number of factors affecting issue size asymmetrically; however, many of the effects do not persist over time and are heterogeneous across rating grades. In contrast to the aggregate market trend, we find no evidence of increases in average issue size in the recent year. Furthermore, the average financing size is found significantly lower for high‐grade bonds. The paper provides a basis for encouraging green bond supply, particularly considering the rating of the bonds and the issuers.     

我国绿色金融发展的现状分析及建议

随着我国生态环境问题的日渐突出以及可持续发展理念的深入发展,绿色金融这一新兴形式受到更多的关注。在疫情影响下,促进绿色增长、助推绿色复苏也受到了更多的重视。近年来,我国在绿色金融体系的建设上有所成就,但我国绿色金融仍存在着相关法律法规不健全等问题。论文结合我国现状,对未来绿色金融的发展提出建议,以期促进其更长远地发展。     

绿色债券发行能缓解企业债务违约风险吗？——基于多期DID模型的研究

运用理论模型对企业发行不同债券时的差异性情景进行分析,提出企业的绿色债券发行对自身债务违约风险存在抑制效应,并选取2016—2020年1604家上市非金融公司的年度面板数据,基于多期DID模型进行实证检验。研究表明：企业发行绿色债券可以显著降低自身债务违约风险;企业发行绿色债券可以通过缓解融资约束、降低债务融资成本、提高股票流动性和增强绿色声誉这四个渠道降低自身的债务违约风险;外部融资依赖度高、研发支出占比低、信息披露程度高和管理者短视程度低的企业发行绿色债券可以更显著地降低自身债务违约风险。政策上应该进一步引导企业合理发行绿色债券,推动绿色金融的发展。     

公众环境关注度促进了绿色金融发展吗？——来自中国284个城市的经验证据

基于2011—2019年中国284个城市的面板数据,实证检验了公众环境关注度对绿色金融发展的影响。研究结果表明,公众环境关注度对绿色金融发展存在显著正向影响,这一结论在经过一系列稳健性检验后依然成立。传导机制检验表明,公众环境关注度促进政府提高环境规制强度,进而推动绿色金融发展。调节性效应检验表明,地区经济发展水平、地区绿色创新水平能够正向调节公众环境关注度对绿色金融的正向影响。异质性检验表明,在中西部地区、教育水平较高、污染排放量较高、环境信息公开的地区,公众环境关注度对绿色金融的促进作用更加显著。推进绿色金融发展必须激发公众对环境的关注,完善公众参与机制,提升绿色创新水平,制定差异化发展战略。     

浅谈绿色材料引导的建筑节能

传统的建筑材料对资源消耗和环境的污染相对较为严重,而相对应的绿色建筑材料具有低消耗、低污染以及有益于人体健康和与环境和谐发展等优势,因此,绿色建筑材料已经出现,便得到了人们的支持并取得了快速的发展。本文立足于思维革新,从环境、节能的角度入手,分析绿色建材的优点与不足,探索这种新型材料的前景与发展趋势。     

浅议幼儿的可持续发展教育

可持续发展是指既满足现代人的需求以不损害后代人满足需求的能力,使子孙后代能够永续发展和安居乐业。在幼儿阶段开展可持续发展教育,决定了他们的可持续发展意识的认识水平和其将来参与环境保护实现可持续发展的程度。     

浅谈绿色建筑设计及对环境的影响

全世界都在倡导绿色,城市建筑必须由传统高消耗型发展模式向高效绿色型发展模式转变,而实施这一转变的必由之路就是绿色建筑。绿色建筑满足了人们的物理需求和精神需求,达到了文化与建筑、科技与环境的和谐统一。     

环境保护与绿色壁垒

近年来,随着人类环境保护意识的加强,环境保护和国际贸易的关系日益密切,在国际贸易中出现了一种非关税形式的贸易壁垒——绿色贸易壁垒。发达国家利用这一概念对产品的进口进行限制,称为绿色贸易壁垒。绿色贸易壁垒对于发展中国家来说既是压力也是动力,应对这种挑战对于实现我国的可持续发展具有重要意义。     

北京市绿色金融发展的路径优化

本文在回顾我国绿色金融政策的基础上,总结了我国金融机构绿色金融业务和北京市绿色金融行业的发展现状,分析了北京市绿色金融发展存在的问题,并提出解决相应的对策建议。     

Public value,institutional logics and practice variation during austerity localism at Newcastle City Council

This article outlines how a local authority, Newcastle City Council (NCC), employed a public value strategy to address austerity localism. Borrowing from neo-institutional theory, it traces how organizational change constituted also a variation of democratic deliberation practices. Legitimation of budget decisions against central government cuts involved such practice variations as public consultations to change NCC’s vision and mobilize support, building operational capacity beyond the organization, and new accountings for measuring public value. Insofar as such organization changes constituted instances of institutional entrepreneurship of local government as a key democratic institution, our article refines existing theorizing of public value accounting.     

Does Institutional Theory Need Redirecting?

Greenwood, Hinings and Whetten (2014) present two major criticisms of current institutional scholarship, and see need for a broad redirection: institutional organization theory, they argue, has lost sight of the claim to study organizations and, with its overwhelming focus on isomorphism and similarity, has fallen short on adequately theorizing differences across organizations. In our article, we offer support as well as a riposte. First, while we agree that the organizing of collective efforts needs to be at the core of organization research, we warn that focusing on formal organization – a rationalized cultural product itself – may direct attention away from studying alternative modes of organizing, and underestimates the dynamic developments that have transformed contemporary organizations into increasingly complex objects of inquiry. Second, we are concerned that, by abandoning the analysis of similarities in favour of differences, institutional theory may eventually lose sight of its pivotal quest: to study institutions.