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How government environmental attention influences corporate green innovation: A chain mediating model

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  • Yuan, Dongliang
  • Wu, Xinmei
  • Shang, Duo
  • Pan, Lingling

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In response to environmental challenges, governments have paid increasing attention to environmental protection, but its potential impact on corporate green innovation has yet to be explored. Built on the attention-based view and institutional theory, this paper constructs a research framework to explain whether and how government environmental attention stimulates corporate green innovation. Based on the panel data of Chinese listed firms, our empirical findings validate a positive relationship between government environmental attention and corporate green innovation. Mechanism tests construct a chain mediating model and show that government subsidies, corporate environmental attention, and their sequential chain linage are key mechanisms of this relationship. Our findings still stand after a set of robustness checks. Overall, this paper uncovers the complicated mechanisms through which government environmental attention influences corporate green innovation and provides policy implications for emerging economies.

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  • Yuan, Dongliang & Wu, Xinmei & Shang, Duo & Pan, Lingling, 2025. "How government environmental attention influences corporate green innovation: A chain mediating model," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 218(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:218:y:2025:i:c:s0040162525002264
    DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124195
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