Kainat Iftikhar , Tanveer Bagh , Muhammad Nadir Shabbir
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Corporate reputation gains from green innovation: Moderating effects of subsidies and eco-friendly products
Green innovation is increasingly recognized as a strategic driver of sustainable development and corporate reputation. This study investigates the impact of green innovation on corporate reputation among Chinese listed firms from 2014 to 2022, employing rigorous identification techniques, including instrumental variable regression and propensity score matching, to address endogeneity. The findings demonstrate that green innovation significantly enhances corporate reputation. Furthermore, the analysis highlights the moderating roles of government subsidies and environmentally friendly products, indicating that subsidies can diminish the positive effects of green innovation. In contrast, firms producing green products experience greater benefits in terms of reputation. The mediating role of environmental certification in strengthening the relationship between green innovation and corporate reputation is also established. Cross-sectional analyses reveal asymmetrical influence of green innovation across high-tech, polluted, and environmentally friendly firms. Overall, this research contributes to existing literature and provides valuable policy insights for policymakers and business analysts, emphasizing the importance of balancing government support and market-driven approaches to enhance corporate reputation through green innovation.
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Research in International Business and Finance (RIBAF) seeks to consolidate its position as a premier scholarly vehicle of academic finance. The Journal publishes high quality, insightful, well-written papers that explore current and new issues in international finance. Papers that foster dialogue, innovation, and intellectual risk-taking in financial studies; as well as shed light on the interaction between finance and broader societal concerns are particularly appreciated. The Journal welcomes submissions that seek to expand the boundaries of academic finance and otherwise challenge the discipline. Papers studying finance using a variety of methodologies; as well as interdisciplinary studies will be considered for publication. Papers that examine topical issues using extensive international data sets are welcome. Single-country studies can also be considered for publication provided that they develop novel methodological and theoretical approaches or fall within the Journal''s priority themes. It is especially important that single-country studies communicate to the reader why the particular chosen country is especially relevant to the issue being investigated. [...] The scope of topics that are most interesting to RIBAF readers include the following: -Financial markets and institutions -Financial practices and sustainability -The impact of national culture on finance -The impact of formal and informal institutions on finance -Privatizations, public financing, and nonprofit issues in finance -Interdisciplinary financial studies -Finance and international development -International financial crises and regulation -Financialization studies -International financial integration and architecture -Behavioral aspects in finance -Consumer finance -Methodologies and conceptualization issues related to finance