关键词:
绿色投资者
环保投入
公司透明度
ESG表现
摘要:
绿色发展是经济高质量发展的核心要义之一,随着可持续发展理念的传播,作为企业利益相关者之一的绿色投资者要求企业承担更多的环境责任。本文基于2010~2022年中国沪深上市企业的数据,研究了绿色投资者对于企业ESG表现的影响及作用机制。研究表明,绿色投资者可以提升企业ESG表现;机制检验发现,绿色投资者通过激励企业加大环保投资和提高公司透明度来从而影响企业的ESG表现;异质性分析结果表明,相比于非国有企业,绿色投资者对于国有企业ESG表现的正向作用更为明显。此外,本文在稳健性检验中滞后解释变量、替换解释变量以及被解释变量后,结论依旧成立。本文不仅丰富了绿色投资者对可持续发展治理效应的研究,也为企业ESG治理提供了理论指引。Green development is one of the core principles of high-quality economic development. With the spread of sustainable development concepts, green investors, as one of the stakeholders of enterprises, demand that enterprises undertake more environmental responsibilities. This article is based on data from Chinese listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2010 to 2022, and studies the impact and mechanism of green investors on ESG performance of enterprises. Research has shown that green investors can enhance a company’s ESG performance. Mechanism testing found that green investors influence the ESG performance of enterprises by incentivizing them to increase environmental investment and improve company transparency. The results of heterogeneity analysis indicate that compared to non-state-owned enterprises, green investors have a more significant positive effect on the ESG performance of state-owned enterprises. In addition, after lagged explanatory variables, replaced explanatory variables, and the dependent variable in the robustness test, the conclusion still holds. This article not only enriches the research of green investors on the governance effects of sustainable development, but also provides theoretical guidance for corporate ESG governance.