ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Performance Pressure of Listed Companies
and Environmental Information Disclosure:
An Empirical Research on Chinese
Enterprise Groups
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School of Business Administration, Shandong University of Finance and Economics,
No. 7366 East Erhuan Road, 250014, Jinan, China
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Center for Corporate Governance, Shandong University of Finance and Economics,
No. 7366 East Erhuan Road, 250014, Jinan, China
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Business School, University of Jinan, No. 13 Shungeng Road, 250002, Jinan, China
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Department of Public Administration, Party School of Shandong Provincial Committee of C.P.C
(Shandong Academy of Governance), No. 3888 Lvyou Road, 250103, Jinan, China
Submission date: 2020-11-01
Final revision date: 2021-02-05
Acceptance date: 2021-03-17
Online publication date: 2021-09-08
Publication date: 2021-09-22
Corresponding author
Guiyu Bai
Business School, University of Jinan, Shungeng, 250002, Jinan, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2021;30(5):4789-4800
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ABSTRACT
As a non-productive activity, environmental information disclosure is not only a prerequisite for
environmental governance and sustainable development of listed companies, but also an effective
means for executives to relieve pressure on business performance. Taking Shanghai and Shenzhen
A-share listed companies as research samples, the authors have carried out an empirical study to test
the relationship between subsidiary performance pressure and environmental information disclosure in
enterprise groups, and examines the moderating effect of the parent company’s shareholding on the
main effect, as well as the differentiation of the moderating effect between high and low degree of
executives’ synergy allocation level in parent-subsidiary corporations. The results show that: firstly,
the performance pressure of listed companies has a positive impact on environmental information
disclosure; secondly, the parent company’s shareholding will weaken the positive impact of listed
company’s performance pressure on environmental information disclosure. The higher the parent
company’s shareholding ratio, the weaker the positive impact of subsidiary company’s performance
pressure on environmental information disclosure. Thirdly, when the degree of executives’ synergy
allocation level in parent-subsidiary corporations is low, the negative moderating effect of parent’s
shareholding ratio is stronger.
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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