Does corporate R&D investment affect firm environmental performance? Evidence from G-6 countries

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2019-02-01

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Alam, Md. Samsul
Atif, Muhammad
Chien-Chi, Chu
Soytaş, Uğur

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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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General Energy, Economics and Econometrics

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38461

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ENERGY ECONOMICS

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2018.11.031

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Department of Business Administration, Article

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M. S. Alam, M. Atif, C. Chien-Chi, and U. Soytaş, “Does corporate R&D investment affect firm environmental performance? Evidence from G-6 countries,” ENERGY ECONOMICS, pp. 401–411, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38461.