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Does corporate R&D investment affect firm environmental performance? Evidence from G-6 countries
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The rate of climate change due to global warming has become a substantial concern and appeared as a real-world phenomenon in the recent years. However, it is imperative to know how business enterprises alter such concern. Recent studies involve a variety of firm-level factors to create a robust link between business enterprises' environmental and financial performance. However, little is known regarding the role of research and development (R&D) investment on firms' environmental performance. Using a firm-level data for the period 2004–2016 from G-6 countries, this study empirically investigates how R&D investment affects the firm environmental performance measured by energy and carbon emissions intensities. We find that R&D investment improves the firm's environmental performance consistent with the theoretical argument of natural resource-based view (NRBV). Our findings are robust to alternative econometric specifications, alternative variable specifications, and sub-samples. Our findings offer novel insights to the policymakers, business managers, and regulators.
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- Authors
- Alam, M. S., Atif, M., Chien-Chi, C., & Soytaş, U.
- Venue
- Energy Economics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-02
- Volume
- 78
- Pages
- 401-411
- ISSN
- 0140-9883 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2902370153
- Cited by
- 438
- References
- 35
- FWCI
- 36.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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