Empirical Study on the Relationship between Environmental Responsibility and Enterprise Competitiveness of Textile and Garment Enterprises

The natural environment is deteriorating. As one of the main consumers of resources, enterprises should be aware of the importance of environmental responsibility to society and itself. Based on this background, this paper analyzes the status quo of textile and garment enterprises fulfilling their environmental responsibilities, and selects twenty domestic listed textile and garment enterprises, which disclose the net assets return rate, environmental protection investment, operating income, number of technicians, R&D invested in five data sources and collected, and analyzed that the environmental responsibility of the company has a positive impact on the competitiveness of the company. Enterprises should strengthen their emphasis on the natural environment and assume their own environmental responsibilities. Introduction With the rapid development of the economy, people's quality of life has greatly improved. Along with the ever-increasing level of industrial development, the environmental problems brought about by production have become more apparent. This paper takes textile and garment enterprises as the research object, analyzes the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility and enterprise competitiveness through case and data, and explores the importance of enterprises to assume their own environmental responsibility for their development, which causes enterprises to pay attention to environmental responsibility. In the study of corporate environmental responsibility and corporate competitiveness, some scholars start to derive competitiveness from environmental responsibility and corporate performance. Zhang Shiyuan and Liu Li (2001) believe that the company is not responsible for environmental responsibility and profit. Contradictory, the two are mutually influential relationships. Feng Simiao (2014) concludes that the company actively fulfills its social responsibilities while operating, and its performance will be relatively improved, thus improving the competitiveness of the company. Some scholars include environmental responsibility in social responsibility and analyze the relationship between corporate social responsibility and corporate competitiveness. Huang Man (2018) believes that there is a close relationship between the fulfillment of corporate social responsibility and the core competitiveness of enterprises. Enterprises can take social responsibility while gaining benefits, and they can be better recognized by the society. Analysis of the Status Quo of Environmental Responsibility of Textile and Garment Enterprises There are many ways for textile and garment enterprises to fulfill their environmental responsibilities. This paper summarizes the behaviors of enterprises in the development and use of environmental technologies, the selection of green raw materials, supply chain management, energy