IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/eme/fegzzz/s1574-871520140000014017.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis: Evidence from Multinationals’ Investment Decision in China☆Reprinted fromBu, Liu, Wagner, and Yu (2013). Corporate social responsibility and the pollution haven hypothesis: evidence from multinationals' investment decision in China.Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics,20(1), 85–99. Reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd,www.tandfonline.comon behalf of The City University of Hong Kong and National Taiwan University

In: Globalization and the Environment of China

Author

Listed:
  • Maoliang Bu
  • Zhibiao Liu
  • Marcus Wagner
  • Xiaohua Yu

Abstract

This paper tests the pollution haven hypothesis by examining the relationship between environmental regulation and foreign investment with consideration of the role of corporate social responsibility, which has so far been neglected. Using multinationals’ investment data from China, our results in general support the pollution haven hypothesis that less stringent environmental regulation is more attractive for multinationals to invest in China, but high social responsibility can counteract attractiveness of weak environmental regulation.

Suggested Citation

  • Maoliang Bu & Zhibiao Liu & Marcus Wagner & Xiaohua Yu, 2014. "Corporate Social Responsibility and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis: Evidence from Multinationals’ Investment Decision in China☆Reprinted fromBu, Liu, Wagner, and Yu (2013). Corporate social responsibi," Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, in: Globalization and the Environment of China, volume 14, pages 109-127, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:fegzzz:s1574-871520140000014017
    DOI: 10.1108/S1574-871520140000014017
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S1574-871520140000014017/full/html?utm_source=repec&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=repec
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S1574-871520140000014017/full/epub?utm_source=repec&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=repec&title=10.1108/S1574-871520140000014017
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S1574-871520140000014017/full/pdf?utm_source=repec&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=repec
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1108/S1574-871520140000014017?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Pollution haven hypothesis; corporate social responsibility; foreign direct investment; environmental regulation; China; F18; Q56; O53;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F18 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Environment
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
    • O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eme:fegzzz:s1574-871520140000014017. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Emerald Support (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.