Research on the Mechanism of Chinese FDI Enterprises' Environmental Performance——Double Mediating Model of Different Environmental Behavior

Abstract

Abstract: Based on the path of "factor-behavior-performance", the perspective of host country government and parent company, the conceptual SEM is built according to the existing researches. This paper investigates parts of FDI enterprises in China, then validates the relationship among environmental regulation, cross-border environmental management and high level environmental performance. In addition, we use Bootstrap method to test the mediating effect of coordinated mediating variables of environmental technology innovation behavior and environmental management innovation behavior respectively. Our research reveals that (1) Environmental regulation and cross-border environment management have no direct effect on high level environmental performance, and innovation behavior plays a full mediating role. (2) Environmental regulation could both stimulate the environmental innovation behavior directly and by the effect on parent company indirectly. However, the effect of cross-border environment management is much greater than environmental regulation. (3)The total effect of two mediating variables is greater than any of them obviously, but they have different roles between different independent variables. Finally this paper puts forward some suggestions based on the above conclusions.

Key words: environmental regulation, cross-border environmental management, environmental innovation behavior, environmental performance, Bootstrap mediating effect test

Jin Jiyao, Du Jianguo. Research on the Mechanism of Chinese FDI Enterprises' Environmental Performance——Double Mediating Model of Different Environmental Behavior[J]. Management Review, 2021, 33(1): 68-79.

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