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Taddeo S, Agnese P, Busato F. Rethinking the effect of ESG practices on profitability through cross-dimensional substitutability. J Environ Manage 2024; 352:120115. [PMID: 38237333 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.120115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2023] [Revised: 12/23/2023] [Accepted: 01/12/2024] [Indexed: 02/04/2024]
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Over the last thirty years, sustainable business practices and ESG ratings have become increasingly popular in the business context and academic debate. Nonetheless, due to differences in methodological and theoretical approaches, more consensus has yet to be reached in the economic literature on the relationship between ESG practices and financial performance at the firm level. This work addresses the question empirically, focusing on a sample of firms listed in the Euro Stoxx 300 index. Three novel indicators are proposed to measure the firm's sustainable practices and capture the business's Environmental, Social, and Governance (E, S, G) dimensions. These indicators combine qualitative ratings on adherence to ESG standards with quantitative observations on ESG data disclosure to account for strategic behaviors on the part of firms. A dynamic panel model is implemented, considering the three dimensions of ESG practices separately and introducing interaction terms to identify cross-dimensional substitutability/complementarity relations. The results indicate that environmentally friendly business practices are associated with increased profits, while trade-offs across ESG dimensions are revealed.
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- Simone Taddeo
- Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change and Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy.
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- Faculty of Economics and Law, International Telematic University UNINETTUNO, Rome, Italy.
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- Department of Economic and Legal Studies, University of Naples Parthenope, Naples, Italy.
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Xia M, Dong L, Zhao X, Jiang L. Green technology innovation and regional carbon emissions: analysis based on heterogeneous treatment effect modeling. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2024; 31:9614-9629. [PMID: 38196040 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-31818-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/28/2023] [Indexed: 01/11/2024]
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The impact of green technology innovation on regional carbon emissions has been a contentious issue in academic research. In this study, we attempt to analyze the influence of green technology innovation on regional carbon emissions using panel data from 28 Chinese provinces for the period of 2007-2020. Utilizing a heterogeneous treatment effect model, we systematically examine the effects of green technology innovation on regional carbon emissions. Firstly, we conduct a feature selection analysis on the factors influencing regional carbon emissions using causal inference methods based on machine learning. Subsequently, we explore the conditional and marginal treatment effects of green technology innovation on regional carbon emissions using the heterogeneous treatment effect model. Finally, we investigate the dynamic effects of green technology innovation on regional carbon emissions across different periods. Empirical results indicate that firstly, green technology innovation indirectly reduces regional carbon emissions by promoting energy efficiency improvement; secondly, the impact of green technology innovation on carbon emissions exhibits significant regional heterogeneity, with the largest effect observed in the eastern region, followed by the western region and the smallest effect in the central region; thirdly, at a significance level of 5%, green technology innovation has a direct inhibitory effect on carbon emissions in certain regions.
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- Maosen Xia
- School of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, 233030, Anhui, China
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- School of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, 233030, Anhui, China
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- School of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, 233030, Anhui, China.
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- School of Finance, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, 233030, Anhui, China
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Chen S, Ding R, Shen S, Zhang B, Wang K, Yin J. Coordinated development of green finance and green technology innovation in China: from the perspective of network characteristics and prediction. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2024; 31:10168-10183. [PMID: 37093384 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-27028-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Accepted: 04/11/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Under the path of sustainable development, the key to achieving green and low-carbon transformation lies in green technology innovation (GTI), and how to effectively coordinate the relationship between green finance (GF) and GTI is an issue worth studying. This paper constructed an evaluation system of GF and GTI and combined them with the coupled coordination degree model to explore their coordination of Chinese provinces from 2012 to 2019. Then, the core network evolution and spatial structure characteristics of GTI and GF were studied using the modified gravity model. Finally, based on the link prediction, the general future network prediction is made to provide guidance and direction for the future GTI and GF development and construction. The results found that the coordination level between GF and GTI has been continuously improved from 0.356 to 0.436. The core network structure is keeping changing with their connection becoming more complex, and there is still room for optimization. Network centrality characteristics show that the spatial spillover effects are stronger in the more economically developed regions. The overall network possibility prediction shows the potential network connections in different urban agglomerations. This paper provides a certain reference role for China and developing countries to predict the GF and GTI cooperation network development in the future.
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- Shihui Chen
- College of Big Data Application and Economics (Guiyang College of Big Data Finance), Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, China
- Guizhou Collaborative Innovation Center of Green Finance and Ecological Environment Protection, Guiyang, 550025, China
- Key Laboratory of Green Fintech, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, China
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- College of Big Data Application and Economics (Guiyang College of Big Data Finance), Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, China.
- Guizhou Collaborative Innovation Center of Green Finance and Ecological Environment Protection, Guiyang, 550025, China.
- Key Laboratory of Green Fintech, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, China.
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- College of Big Data Application and Economics (Guiyang College of Big Data Finance), Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, China
- Guizhou Collaborative Innovation Center of Green Finance and Ecological Environment Protection, Guiyang, 550025, China
- Key Laboratory of Green Fintech, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, China
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- College of Big Data Application and Economics (Guiyang College of Big Data Finance), Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, China
- Guizhou Collaborative Innovation Center of Green Finance and Ecological Environment Protection, Guiyang, 550025, China
- Key Laboratory of Green Fintech, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, China
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- College of Big Data Application and Economics (Guiyang College of Big Data Finance), Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, China
- Guizhou Collaborative Innovation Center of Green Finance and Ecological Environment Protection, Guiyang, 550025, China
- Key Laboratory of Green Fintech, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, China
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- Center for China Western Modernization, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou, China
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Mighri Z, Sarkodie SA. Interdependency and causality between green technology innovation and consumption-based carbon emissions in Saudi Arabia: fresh insights from quantile-on-quantile and causality-in-quantiles approaches. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2024; 31:9288-9316. [PMID: 38190064 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-31571-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
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In this paper, we examined the asymmetric dynamics and causality of technological progress--proxied by green technology innovation--on both consumption-based carbon (CCO2) and territory-based carbon (TCO2) emissions in Saudi Arabia using quarterly data from 1990Q1 to 2021Q4. Our initial results reject the normality and linearity assumptions of data series and thus emphasize that the observed associations are quantile dependent. We firstly utilized the quantile-on-quantile regression (QQR) approach to draw the interdependency between green technology innovation and both CCO2 and TCO2 emissions. We found a strong emission-mitigating impact of green technology innovation only at (extreme) upper emission levels. We also identified a weak positive effect at (extreme) higher emission quantiles. Furthermore, we found that higher emission levels are linked with lower green technology innovation across all emission quantiles whereas a weak positive effect is perceived at lower and medium emission quantiles. We further utilized linear and nonlinear Granger causality-in- quantiles (GCQ) tests to capture an entire picture of the impact of green technology innovation on both CCO2 and TCO2 emissions. Under linear specifications of the quantile regression model, we found evidence of strong bidirectional causality between carbon emissions and green technology innovation across lower and upper quantiles. However, we found unidirectional causalities from carbon emissions to green technology innovation at medium quantiles of the conditional distribution. Besides, there is no causality at both extreme lower and extreme upper quantiles. Under nonlinear specifications of the quantile regression model, we found a weak unidirectional causality from green technology innovation to carbon emissions at (extreme) lower quantiles. We also found a weak unidirectional causality from carbon emissions to green technology innovation at medium and extreme upper quantiles. Overall, our findings indicate that green technology innovation helps abate both CCO2 and TCO2 emissions in Saudi Arabia. Our study shows policies that target green technology innovation would significantly change carbon emissions.
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- Zouheir Mighri
- College of Business, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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Liu Y, Lei P, Shen B, He D. Green technology advancement, energy input share and carbon emission trend studies. Sci Rep 2024; 14:2004. [PMID: 38263375 PMCID: PMC10805776 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-51790-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 01/25/2024] Open
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In order to study the theoretical mechanism of the impact of green technology progress on carbon emissions, this article constructs a theoretical mechanism of the impact of green technology progress on carbon emission growth. Explore the conditions for achieving carbon peak and carbon reduction. Based on the Cobb Douglas production function, construct a three sector model that includes capital, labor, and energy. Empirical methods were used to analyze the quantitative impact of green technology progress on carbon emission growth and the moderating effect of energy input share. This study mainly used provincial panel data from 1995 to 2020. Calculate carbon dioxide emissions based on energy consumption and carbon dioxide emission coefficients of various energy sources in different regions. Using the perpetual inventory method to calculate capital growth rate, green computing progress rate, etc., to provide data support for the green technology carbon reduction model. Empirical analysis of the impact of green technology progress on carbon emissions using the FGLS panel model. Theoretical and empirical analyses show that green technological progress promotes an increase in the carbon emission growth rate through the scale effect, with an impact coefficient of 0.607; it promotes a decrease in the carbon emission growth rate through the technological effect, with an impact coefficient of - 0.667; the combined effect promotes a decrease in growth rate of carbon emissions, with an impact coefficient of - 0.06. The share of energy inputs has a positive regulating effect on the scale effect.
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- YuXin Liu
- School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences (BEIJING), Beijing, 100083, China
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- School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences (BEIJING), Beijing, 100083, China.
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- Industrial Bank of China Limited, Fuzhou Chengbei Sub-branch, Fuzhou, 350003, Fujian Province, China
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- School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences (BEIJING), Beijing, 100083, China
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Ali I, Li R, Baz K, Ali H, Khan S, Huping S, Abbas Q, E. Ragab A. Evidence from the energy-technology-growth nexus: A new study based on technology-minerals based complexity index. Heliyon 2024; 10:e23883. [PMID: 38226215 PMCID: PMC10788506 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e23883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Revised: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/17/2024] Open
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The increasing trend in sustainable economic growth over the last few decades has elevated the energy demand, technological innovation, and access to minerals resources are contributing well to economic development. This article investigates the nexus among minerals resource complexity, energy consumption, technology, and economic growth by employing autoregressive distributed lag and vector error correction techniques for Pakistan from 1995 to 2021. Following thorough research, the long-term results show that an important 9.73 points of economic growth result from every 1 % increase in the complexity of natural resources. On the other hand, technology and energy use negatively affect economic growth, causing drops of -0.03 and -12.9 points, respectively. One-way causality was noted between mineral resources' complexity and economic growth. Moreover, a one-sided causality effect was also confirmed between energy use, technology, and economic growth. Additionally, it was predicted that there is a neutral causality between mineral resources and technology. Corresponding to this, technology and energy consumption have a bidirectional causal relationship. These results imply that energy consumption, technological advancements, and mineral resources contribute as major economic growth drivers and can improve environmental quality.
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- Imad Ali
- School of Economics and Management, Changzhou Vocational Institute of Engineering, PR China
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- School of Economics and Management, Changzhou Vocational Institute of Engineering, PR China
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- School of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou, 311300, PR China
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- Department of Management Sciences, Abbottabad University of Science and Technology, Pakistan
- College of Economics and Management, Yan'an University, PR China
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- Department of Business Admiration, Surhad University of Information and Technology Peshawar, 25000, Pakistan
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- School of Economics and Management, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 100083, PR China
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- School of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University, PR China
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, P.O. Box 800, Riyadh, 11421, Saudi Arabia
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Tran TK. Can sustainable entrepreneurship be achieved through green knowledge sharing, green dynamic capabilities, and green service innovation? Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2024; 31:3060-3075. [PMID: 38079040 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-31308-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2023] [Accepted: 11/26/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2024]
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Expansion of business activities comes with various environmental and natural disasters, hence agitating the economies and academia to present the counter and effective solution. Researchers also pinpointed prior that there exists a dark side of business expansion such as lacking of green innovative activities and dynamic capabilities which are creating resistance to achieve sustainability. Besides, literature also claims that green innovation is a crucial segment to achieve competitive edge that leads to sustainable entrepreneurship; however, it is not easier to be achieved as green innovation along green capabilities makes a complex network which consists of embedded partners, hence, also in dire need of green knowledge sharing as well to make the process smooth. In this lieu, the study aims to scrutinize the effectiveness of green knowledge sharing, green dynamic capabilities, and green service innovation on green entrepreneurship in the presence of gender role as a moderator. Empirical estimations calculated through PLS methodology reveal that green knowledge sharing, green dynamic capabilities, and green service innovation has a positive and significant linkage with green entrepreneurship in Vietnam. The outcomes also exposed that the male gender role significantly moderates the said relationship in Vietnam. Findings confirm that adoption sustainability practices such as green knowledge sharing, innovation, and dynamic capabilities are helpful to fulfill sustainable entrepreneurship demand; hence, further research is needed to extend the framework along with existing concepts.
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- Trung Kien Tran
- School of Public Finance, College of Economics, Law and Government, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
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Waris U, Mehmood U, Tariq S. Analyzing the impacts of renewable energy, patents, and trade on carbon emissions-evidence from the novel method of MMQR. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:122625-122641. [PMID: 37971592 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-30991-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2023] [Accepted: 11/06/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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Achieving sustainable development necessitates proactive measures to mitigate the economy's negative impact on environmental standards. A new empirical association between renewable energy patent innovation and net international trade on carbon emissions in ASEAN countries from 1990 to 2021 is presented, along with its significance. Using present panel data techniques, this study investigates the connections between these factors. Second-generation cointegration and unit root tests, as well as a novel method of Moments Quantile Regression, are used in the econometric procedure. Compared to standard quantile regression, this method is more resistant to outliers and provides an asymmetric relationship between the variables. The findings show that trade increases carbon emissions in countries with medium to high emissions, that patent innovation contributes to increasing emissions, and that renewable energy mitigates carbon emissions in countries with low to medium emerging economies. Our results are consistent with other specifications, including quantile regression canay (Canay 2011), fully modified, dynamic, and fixed effect regressions, proving the EKC hypothesis. These countries need to prioritize greener products and adopt advanced manufacturing technologies to reduce carbon emissions from consumption. However, as prosperity increases, it also leads to higher consumption-based carbon emissions, worsening ecological damage in the region. Implementing policies like trade synchronization and increasing investment in patent innovations are proposed in this study to lower the current level of carbon emissions.
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- Umra Waris
- Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods, HSM, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
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- Department of Political Science, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Remote Sensing, GIS and Climatic Research Lab (National Centre of GIS and Space Applications), Department of Space Science, University of the Punjab, New-Campus, Lahore, Pakistan
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Geng B, Yuan G, Wu D, Khalid S, Mahmood H. Does green innovation reduce environmental degradation? A panel threshold analysis for BRICS countries. Heliyon 2023; 9:e22686. [PMID: 38213600 PMCID: PMC10782167 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e22686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2023] [Revised: 11/02/2023] [Accepted: 11/16/2023] [Indexed: 01/13/2024] Open
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In this present age, innovation has become inextricably tied to both long-term economic growth and environmentally sound development. In this context, the impact that environmentally focused technological advancements or innovations have on environmental quality is of the utmost importance. Therefore, the main goal of the present study is to determine how Green innovation (GI) affects environmental degradation in the BRICS countries from 1992 to 2021. The ecological footprint (EFT) is an indicator used in the study to measure environmental degradation. The study divides the components that contribute to the explanation into two categories: the GI threshold variable and the independent variables RE, GDP, and population (POP). Additionally, this study investigates the indirect impact of RE, GDP, and POP through the threshold effect of GI. The stochastic impacts of the explanatory factors are explored using sophisticated panel data estimation methods and a panel threshold model. According to the findings of the study, an improvement in environmental quality occurs when the threshold level of GI is achieved, which indicates that innovation in the form of a lower EFT is responsible for the improvement. In light of the findings, recommendations for policymakers and stakeholders in BRICS countries are to promote RE and drive GI.
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- Biao Geng
- Economical & Management College West Anhui University, Lu'an, 237012, China
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- Economical & Management College West Anhui University, Lu'an, 237012, China
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- School of Information Technology & Engineering, Guangzhou College of Commerce, Guangzhou, 511363, China
- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China
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- School of Economics and Finance Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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- School of Economics and Finance Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
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Jing T, Li X, Yu C, Bai M, Zhang Z, Li S. Examining Medical Staff Well-Being through the Application and Extension of the Job Demands-Resources Model: A Cross-Sectional Study. Behav Sci (Basel) 2023; 13:979. [PMID: 38131835 PMCID: PMC10741122 DOI: 10.3390/bs13120979] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2023] [Revised: 11/13/2023] [Accepted: 11/24/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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For medical staff, job satisfaction is essential for advancement on an individual and organizational level. This study looked into the relationships between challenging job demands, job resources, personal resources, and well-being. Additionally, it examined the potential mediating effects of emotional exhaustion and work motivation within the framework of the job demands-resources (JD-R) model. Results from a cross-sectional study of 267 medical employees at a second-grade comprehensive hospital in Jiangsu, China's mainland, indicated that challenging job demands and job satisfaction were positively correlated and mediated via (decreasing) emotional exhaustion. The relationship between job resources and job satisfaction was found to be mediated via (decreasing) emotional exhaustion and (increasing) work motivation. The investigation also demonstrated that the two regulatory focuses serve different purposes. It was discovered that promotion focus had a favorable effect on work motivation but a negative effect on emotional exhaustion. Conversely, preventive focus only positively predicted emotional exhaustion. Thus, the JD-R model offers a valuable structure for clarifying the job satisfaction of health personnel. The implications for enhancing individual and job outcomes are discussed.
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- School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
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- School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, China
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Martin AJ, Collie RJ, Holliman AJ. The role of health demands, health resources, and adaptability in psychological strain and life satisfaction. Stress Health 2023. [PMID: 37938071 DOI: 10.1002/smi.3341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Revised: 09/04/2023] [Accepted: 10/21/2023] [Indexed: 11/09/2023]
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The present study harnessed job demands-resources theory to identify key predictors of psychological strain (feeling overwhelmed by one's problems) and life satisfaction among a sample of 1060 adults randomly selected from the Australian electoral roll. The investigation sought to ascertain: (a) the relative contribution of health demands (e.g., inadequate health treatment) and health resources (e.g., access to helpful health-related information) in predicting psychological strain and life satisfaction, (b) the extent to which a recently proposed personal resource-adaptability-explained variance in wellbeing beyond individuals' health demands and resources, and (c) the role of psychological strain in predicting life satisfaction in the context of these demands and resources. Applying structural equation modelling we found that contextual health demands predicted greater psychological strain, individual health resources and adaptability both predicted lower psychological strain and greater life satisfaction, and psychological strain predicted lower life satisfaction. Notably, the adverse effects of health demands reduced significantly when health resources and adaptability were entered into the modelling. Taken together, the findings offer support for a health demands-resources framework that may be applied to better support individuals to respond to the stressors in their lives and in turn boost their sense of subjective wellbeing.
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- Andrew J Martin
- University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Hasan MA, Mahjabin T, Hossain MA, Kibria MG, Haseeb M, Hossain ME. Towards green economy and sustainable development in Bangladesh: assessing the role of social and environmental indicators. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:110324-110339. [PMID: 37787905 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-30060-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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The evolution towards a green economy integrating social, economic, and environmental concerns has opened a new window to pursue the sustainable development goals (SDGs), especially for emerging nations. Nonetheless, despite being a pressing concern on a global scale, empirical research into the potential for green economy development in the context of Bangladesh has remained notably inadequate. To fill this void, this study is an attempt to evaluate the connection among economic growth, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, education, life expectancy, and technology to conclude the ecological and socio-economic repercussions of a green economy in Bangladesh's framework of achieving SDGs. Considering the statistical features of the annual data from 1990 to 2019, the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) method has been employed to analyze the connections between the chosen variables. The empirical outcomes show that an upsurge in CO2 is accompanied by a 3.66% increase in GDP over the long term, suggesting a positive and statistically significant relationship between the two variables. In addition, GDP increases by about 4.2% for every 1% increase in life expectancy. However, the relationship between technological innovation and education found an insignificant positive linkage with GDP. The most important takeaway from these findings is that the growth of Bangladesh's economy is occurring at the expense of the environment. Hence, this research recommends that, as a developing nation, Bangladesh should concentrate on environment-friendly alternatives, which can be done through the introduction of a green economy to achieve a sustainably developed economy.
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- Md Atik Hasan
- Department of Economics, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali, 3814, Bangladesh
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- Department of Economics, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali, 3814, Bangladesh
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- Department of Economics, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali, 3814, Bangladesh
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- Department of Economics, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Noakhali, 3814, Bangladesh
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- School of Economics and Management, and Center for Industrial Economics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China
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- Department of Agricultural Sciences, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 78666, United States.
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Li H. Digital inclusive finance, agricultural green technology innovation and agricultural carbon emissions: Impact mechanism and empirical test. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0288072. [PMID: 37883510 PMCID: PMC10602255 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/17/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023] Open
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The impact of digital financial inclusion (If) and agricultural technology innovation (Gi) on agricultural carbon emissions has attracted wide attention from the academic community, but the inconsistent conclusions of existing studies and the reality that few studies have gathered them into a framework require more evidence to fill this gap, which can contribute more insights to promoting economic development and controlling carbon emissions. Taking the provincial-level relevant data of China's agriculture from 2011 to 2020 as a sample, the GMM method is used to integrally test the relationship between the three factors. The results show that (1) from 2011 to 2020, China's overall agricultural carbon emissions experienced two stages of fluctuating rise (2011-2015) and continuous decline (2015-2020). In 2015, China's agricultural carbon emissions peaked at 1,040 million tons; Overall, Hunan, Hubei, and Henan were the provinces with the largest agricultural carbon emissions; Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai are provinces with relatively low agricultural carbon emissions. (2) Although the impact of digital financial inclusion on agricultural carbon emissions is negative, it is not significant. (3) Agricultural technology innovation promoted the reduction of agricultural carbon emissions. If the level of agricultural technology innovation increased by 1 percentage point, agricultural carbon emissions would decrease by 0.09 percentage points. (4) Mechanism analysis showed that agricultural technology innovation could reduce carbon emissions through the efficiency of agricultural resource allocation, and its effect reached 56%. The results can provide a scientific basis for the government to formulate targeted policies, and the methods can be extended to other places.
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- Hui Li
- School of Business, Xuchang University, Xuchang, China
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Jiang Y, Ramzan M, Awosusi AA, Adebayo TS. Moderating role of green innovation and fiscal expenditure towards achieving the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 at provincial-level in China: policy implication from green total factor productivity. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:102818-102838. [PMID: 37674063 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-29551-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 09/08/2023]
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Amidst resource loss and environmental protection constraints, achieving green development necessitates enhancing green total factor productivity (GTFP) as a means of promoting rational and efficient resource allocation, thereby balancing economic growth and environmental preservation. Meanwhile, literature on the subject matter of GTFP from a sustainability viewpoint is minimal. As a result, this study employs the panel dataset from 30 provinces of China spanning the period 2005 to 2020 and utilizes the method of moments quantile regression (MMQR) developed by Machado and Santos Silva (2019) to analyze the heterogeneous role of green innovation, environmental regulations, and fiscal expenditure on GTFP. Moreover, the controlling variable for this study includes renewable energy and economic growth. Furthermore, this study investigates the heterogeneous combined impact of green innovation and fiscal expenditure (GTE*FSE) on GTFP. The findings of the MMQR reveal that green innovation has a positive impact on GTFP, while fiscal expenditure, environmental regulations, and renewable energy consumption have a negative impact. GTE*FSE has a positive and significant effect on GTFP, indicating that FSE can reinforce and increase the positive impact of GTE on GTFP in the long run. The study also reveals that economic growth has a mixed effect on GTFP, depending on the quantiles. Furthermore, environmental regulation has a significant and negative impact on GTFP, contradicting the Porter hypothesis. Likewise, the robustness of the findings is confirmed by the results of the fully modified OLS (FMOLS) and dynamic OLS (DOLS) estimations, which indicate a similar impact of the determinants on GTFP as observed in the MMQR analysis. This reinforces the validity of the findings and suggests that the observed relationships are robust to different estimation techniques. Furthermore, the findings of the Dumitrescu and Hurlin (D-H) panel causality test reveal significant bidirectional causality between renewable energy consumption and GTFP and fiscal expenditure and GTFP. Policy-makers need to channel a large chuck of their fiscal spending into green innovation so as to boost sustainability.
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- Yongzhong Jiang
- College of Management Science, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610051, China
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- Faculty of Management and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration, University of Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan.
- Adnan Kassar School of Business, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon.
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- Department of Economics & Data Sciences, New Uzbekistan University, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
- Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Science, Department of Economics, Bahçeşehir Cyprus University, Northern Cyprus, Mersin 10, Turkey
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- Faculty of Economics and Administrative Science, Department of Business Administration, Cyprus International University, Northern Cyprus, Mersin 10, Turkey
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Makhloufi L, Zhou J, Siddik AB. Why green absorptive capacity and managerial environmental concerns matter for corporate environmental entrepreneurship? Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:102295-102312. [PMID: 37665439 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-29583-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2023] [Accepted: 08/25/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023]
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Balancing environmental sustainability and green business growth is one of the primary goals of corporate environmental entrepreneurship, while green entrepreneurship orientation (GEO) represents balanced approaches to maximize green business value-added and maintain environmental performance (EP). Green innovation (GI) strengthens green business efficiencies and drives GEO achievements. Building on the natural resource-based view (NRBV) and dynamic capability view (DCV), this research addressed the critical role of GEO and GI on EP. In addition, the effect of green absorptive capacity (GAC) and managerial environmental concern (MEC) on EP is estimated. The results indicated that GEO significantly affects MEC and GI. While GI positively influences MEC, the relationship between GI and GAC was insignificant. Additionally, GAC and MEC positively and greatly influenced EP. As GAC partially mediates the effect of GEO and GI on EP, MEC also partly mediates the relationship between GI and EP. In the context of the environment, this study presents three quantitative achievements, namely (1) it confirms the vital role of green dynamic capabilities such as GAC to balance GEO's green business agenda and maintain environmental performance, (2) GAC converts knowledge creation to knowledge applications focusing on the development of eco-friendly products and processes to reduce environmental pollution, and (3) MEC determine and focus on GI core competencies to support GEO strategies, (4) GAC level up firms green dynamic capabilities to the level of GEO, and thus maintaining ecosystem and eco-business sustainability. In light of the study outcomes, theoretical and managerial implications were highlighted.
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- Lahcene Makhloufi
- School of Management, Mae Fah Luang University, 333 Moo 1 Tasood, Muang, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand
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- Guizhou Communications Polytechnic, Guiyang City, 551400, Guizhou Province, China.
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- School of Economics and Management, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi'an, 710021, Shaanxi, China
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Zhang Y, Cui X, Liu L. Environmental regulation, green technology progress and haze reduction and carbon reduction. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023:10.1007/s11356-023-29903-w. [PMID: 37749465 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-29903-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2023] [Accepted: 09/11/2023] [Indexed: 09/27/2023]
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Coordinated efforts to reduce haze and carbon emissions are important in promoting global climate governance and sustainable development. In this paper, based on prefecture-level data of China from 2005 to 2019, we investigate the impact of environmental regulatory intensity on the emissions of the concentration of PM2.5 and carbon dioxide (CO2). The research indicates that environmental regulation facilitates synergistic governance for PM2.5 reduction and carbon mitigation. Green technological advancement emerges as the primary mechanism through which environmental regulation achieves haze reduction and carbon mitigation. This conclusion remains robust after a series of robustness tests. Furthermore, the results from quantile regression reveal that the haze reduction and carbon mitigation effects of environmental regulation are subject to certain conditional dependencies. Environmental regulation exhibits a significant negative impact on carbon emissions across various quantile points. However, their influence on different quantile levels of PM2.5 concentration displays an asymmetric pattern. Finally, threshold regression findings suggest that there is no significant threshold effect of environmental regulation on CO2 emissions, but there are dual threshold effects on the PM2.5 concentration. Therefore, it is recommended that local governments judiciously implement environmental regulatory intensity, establish interregional policies for haze reduction and carbon mitigation, and fully harness the driving force of green technology to promote a comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.
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- Yunyun Zhang
- Business School, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250358, China
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- Business School, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250358, China
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- Business School, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, 250358, China.
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Javaid MU, Sohail M, Bano S, Ibrahim AM. Copenhagen Psychosocial "Work Organization and Job Content" as a Higher-Order Construct in Relation to Workers' Health: The Moderating Role of Leadership Quality. Risk Manag Healthc Policy 2023; 16:1721-1730. [PMID: 37675081 PMCID: PMC10478933 DOI: 10.2147/rmhp.s419551] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2023] [Accepted: 08/22/2023] [Indexed: 09/08/2023] Open
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Originality/Purpose The current study aims to investigate the novel approach of utilizing work organization and job content (WOJC) as a higher-order construct that is one of the domains of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ), examining its relationship with sleeping troubles and somatic stress, while also exploring the moderating effect of leadership quality. Sample/methods Snowball sampling technique was used to collect the data in this study, with a population consisting of 360 workers employed in hazardous work environments at poultry feed mills. The structural equation modelling technique was applied to achieve the range of outcomes. Results The results reveal that WOJC has a significant negative impact on both psychological (sleeping troubles) and physiological (somatic stress) health factors among poultry workers. Although leadership quality did not moderate the relationship between WOJC and physiological health factors, it did moderate the relationship between WOJC and psychological health factors. Conclusion/Implications This study has significant implications for researchers, poultry feed mill owners, policymakers, and regulatory bodies. Additionally, the methodological contribution of utilizing WOJC as a higher-order construct provides unique insights for researchers. Limitations Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the data was collected online from one province only; future studies should spread the sampling framework to all provinces with different domains of COPSOQ.
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- Department of Psychology, Lahore Garrison University, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Department of Management Sciences, GIFT Business School, Gujranwala, Pakistan
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Majekodunmi TB, Shaari MS, Abidin NZ, Ridzuan AR. Green technology, exports, and CO 2 emissions in Malaysia. Heliyon 2023; 9:e18625. [PMID: 37560688 PMCID: PMC10407134 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2023] [Revised: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/21/2023] [Indexed: 08/11/2023] Open
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The pressing global effort to tackle CO2 emissions has brought about a strong emphasis on adopting green technology by economies striving for low-carbon development. Within this context, this research investigates the environmental significance of green technology and exports in Malaysia. By examining 30-year data from 1989 to 2019 and utilising the autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL), this study explores these variables' long-run and short-run effects on Malaysia's environment. The outcomes reveal noteworthy insights: population growth and green technology negatively impact environmental degradation, whereas exports and economic expansion contribute to environmental depletion over the long term. However, the influences of a higher population and exports are inconsequential in the short term. Additionally, the study captures the influences of transient economic challenges, such as the COVID-19 outbreak. Consequently, the study emphasises crucial policy implications for the Malaysian government. Firstly, it strongly recommends increasing investment in sustainable technology, especially within the manufacturing sector, to mitigate the adverse environmental impact of exports. Furthermore, it suggests incentivizing companies to embrace green technology through subsidies for acquiring renewable energy and imposing higher taxes on non-renewable energy sources. Additionally, policymakers are urged to prioritise human capital development by raising public awareness about the dangers of heightened CO2 emissions. Malaysia can leverage its expertise to foster economic expansion without compromising the environment by engaging the working population in environmentally sustainable economic activities. These policy recommendations aim to expedite the shift towards a decarbonised economy, promote sustainable development, and safeguard Malaysia's natural resources.
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- Temitayo B. Majekodunmi
- Faculty of Business & Communication, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 02600, Arau Perlis, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Business & Communication, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, 02600, Arau Perlis, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Melaka Campus, Alor Gajah, 78000, Malaysia
- Accounting Research Institute (ARI), Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, 40450, Malaysia
- Institute for Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (IBDAAI), Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, 40450, Malaysia
- Centre for Economic Development and Policy (CEDP), Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, 88400, Malaysia
- Institute for Research on Socio Economic Policy, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, 40450, Malaysia
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Zhou X, Sun N, Zhao X, Wang L, Tong R. Revealing the practical strategies for promoting Chinese migrant workers' health and well-being: Organizational empowerment perspective. Appl Psychol Health Well Being 2023; 15:1085-1109. [PMID: 36539304 DOI: 10.1111/aphw.12428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The health and well-being of migrant workers struggling to make ends meet are being compromised, especially with the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim is to analyze how organizational empowerment promotes health and well-being from an applied psychological perspective, taking into account the shaping role of individual vulnerability. Links between theory and practice will be established to achieve equitable health and well-being. The underlying mechanism by which organizational empowerment mitigated workplace-induced adverse outcomes was validated in the analysis of construction workers (n = 966). In addition, individual characteristics, namely, excitability, low perceptual threshold, control, and knowledge, attitude, and practice, were identified as critical factors, as well-being consequences vary from person to person. Moderating effect analysis showed that high excitability enhanced the association between work environment exposure and health and well-being. Control and knowledge, attitude, and practice have opposite effects. Moreover, the dual effects of the low perception threshold are verified, that is, facing the work environment produces more negative consequences, whereas perceiving more resources stimulates more positive consequences. Overall, the research provides a clearer dialectical view of vulnerability, contributing wisdom toward accurate management based on empowerment theory, which lays a solid foundation for bridging gaps in health and well-being.
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- Xiaofeng Zhou
- School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing, Beijing, China
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- School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing, Beijing, China
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- School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing, Beijing, China
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- School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing, Beijing, China
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- School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing, Beijing, China
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Ismail IJ, Amani D, Changalima IA. Strategic green marketing orientation and environmental sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa: Does green absorptive capacity moderate? Evidence from Tanzania. Heliyon 2023; 9:e18373. [PMID: 37539274 PMCID: PMC10395641 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2023] [Revised: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/14/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023] Open
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Small and medium-sized enterprises are increasingly promoting environmental sustainability, a trend that has raised environmental awareness and inspired individuals and organizations to work together to create a more sustainable and greener future by implementing environmentally friendly practices. This study examines the influence of strategic green marketing orientation on environmental sustainability. Also, the study examines the moderating effect of green absorptive capacity on the relationship between strategic green marketing orientation and environmental sustainability. We used partial least squares structural equation modelling to test hypotheses with data obtained from 391 manufacturing enterprises in Tanzania via structured questionnaires. Our study's main findings show that strategic green marketing orientation has a significant and positive influence on environmental sustainability, and green absorptive capacity strengthens the positive effect of strategic green marketing orientation on environmental sustainability. Although there is scholarly interest in incorporating environmental considerations into business endeavors, there is little evidence on ways that a strategic green marketing orientation promotes environmental sustainability in a manufacturing context. Thus, our findings add to the literature on understanding environmental sustainability for manufacturing enterprises by revealing the role of strategic green marketing orientation and green absorptive capacity in explaining environmental sustainability. The study suggests that manufacturing enterprises should integrate environmental considerations into their strategic resources and endeavors to improve eco-friendly outcomes.
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- Corresponding author. Department of Business Administration and Management, The University of Dodoma, P.O Box, 1208, Dodoma, Tanzania.
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Shi M, Jia Z, Mehmood U. Exploring the roles of green finance and environmental regulations on CO2es: defining the roles of social and economic globalization in the next eleven nations. Environ Sci Pollut Res 2023; 30:62967-62980. [PMID: 36952155 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-26327-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 03/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Achieving sustainable environmental growth and preventing further environmental degradation are challenging goals for policymakers. This study looks at environmental laws and green finance's role in fostering a more sustainable environment. The literature still needs to empirically or theoretically investigate how environmental laws and green financing affect carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, particularly when combined with moderating factors such as social and economic globalization. As a result, this study investigates how environmental laws and green funding can help the N-11 nations cut their CO2 emissions. Our research uses empirical data from a group of the N-11 nations that span the years 2000 to 2019. To handle issues with panel data analysis, such as cross-sectional dependence and slope heterogeneity, we use advanced panel approaches (CIPS and CADF unit root and cointegration test and cross-sectional augmented ARDL). This research demonstrates that green financing (GFI) and environmental laws (ENV) have a negative but significant effect on CO2 emissions. While social globalization moderates the causal relationship between energy consumption and GDP while negatively and significantly causing GFI and ENV with CO2 emissions among the N-11 countries, economic growth has had a positive and significant effect on CO2 emissions in the N-11 countries. According to our research, nations could achieve the SDG-7 and SDG-13 goals if they adopted green financial and environmental policies.
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- Mengjie Shi
- Research Center, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt, Germany
- Faculty of Economics and Business, Goethe University Frankfurt Am Main, Frankfurt, Germany
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- School of Business, Tulane University, 6823 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA, 70118, USA.
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- Department of Political Science, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
- Remote Sensing, GIS and Climatic Research Lab (National Center of GIS and Space Applications), University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
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Jiang R, Liu B. How to achieve carbon neutrality while maintaining economic vitality: An exploration from the perspective of technological innovation and trade openness. Sci Total Environ 2023; 868:161490. [PMID: 36634768 PMCID: PMC9827710 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2022] [Revised: 12/26/2022] [Accepted: 01/05/2023] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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The significant drop in global carbon emissions in 2020 was credited to the enormous loss of economic activity from the impact of COVID-19. The challenge is now to reduce carbon emissions without causing massive disruption and damage to economic production. To achieve carbon neutrality while maintaining economic vitality, the impact of technological innovation and trade openness must be considered. This paper sets technological innovation and trade openness as core variables and establishes two extended Stochastic Impacts by Regression on Population, Affluence, and Technology (STIRPAT) models. The first model focuses on carbon emissions and the second focuses on economic growth. Comparisons were made between the BRICS (i.e., Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and G7 (i.e., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the USA) countries. The fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) regression analysis was used to explore the impact of technological innovation and trade openness on low-carbon economic development. A Panel Granger Causality Test explores the causal relationship between the core, control and dependent variables. The results illustrate that: (1) technological innovation is the primary factor that inhibits carbon emissions and promotes economic growth in both international organizations, (2) trade openness promotes the growth of carbon emissions in BRICS countries, but restrains G7 growth, confirming the "Pollution Haven Hypothesis", (3) per capita GDP is the largest contributor to carbon emissions growth in both the G7 and BRICS countries, which illustrates that per capita GDP is the largest contributor to carbon emissions. It is proportional to G7 and BRICS carbon emissions. This paper provides several policy recommendations: breaking through basic research, adjusting the science and technology evaluation system, optimizing the export trade structure, and increasing the proportion of renewable energy.
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- Rui Jiang
- School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China; Shanghai Research Center for Innovation and Policy Evaluation, Shanghai 200030, China
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- School of International and Public Affairs, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China; Shanghai Research Center for Innovation and Policy Evaluation, Shanghai 200030, China.
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Bi S, Shao L, Tu C, Lai W, Cao Y, Hu J. Achieving carbon neutrality: the effect of China pilot Free Trade Zone policy on green technology innovation. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:50234-50247. [PMID: 36790713 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-25803-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2022] [Accepted: 02/04/2023] [Indexed: 04/16/2023]
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Evaluating the effect of China pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ) policy on green technology innovation is important for achieving China's carbon neutrality targets. Based on the panel data of 30 provincial administrative regions in China from 2009 to 2019, this study investigates the effect of the pilot FTZ policy on green technology innovation by using the difference-in-differences method. The study's findings indicate the following: (1) The pilot FTZ policy promotes the development of green technology innovation, and there is a policy lag in a few pilot regions. (2) The mediation effect analysis shows that the pilot FTZ policy promotes the development of green technology innovation by improving the marketization process and enhancing innovative talent gathering. (3) The heterogeneity analysis shows that the pilot FTZ policy is more effective in promoting green technology innovation when implemented in regions with developed economies or higher levels of human capital. Moreover, the pilot FTZ policy mainly has a significant promoting effect on green utility model patents. Based on these results, policy recommendations are proposed to promote the development of green technology innovation and the achievement of China's carbon neutrality targets.
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- Shenghao Bi
- School of Business Administration, Liaoning Technical University, Huludao, 125105, China
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- School of Business Administration, Liaoning Technical University, Huludao, 125105, China
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- College of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611134, China
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- School of Business Administration, Liaoning Technical University, Huludao, 125105, China.
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- College of Economics, Xihua University, Chengdu, 610039, China
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- School of Big Data Application and Economics, Guizhou University of Finance and Economics, Guiyang, 550025, China
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Shen Y, Ren X. Asymmetrical effects of renewable energy consumption, financial development, and urbanization on the economic growth of China: does the role of technology matters. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:50248-50256. [PMID: 36790715 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-25783-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/03/2023] [Accepted: 02/03/2023] [Indexed: 04/16/2023]
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Our paper investigates the association of renewable energy, financial development, urbanization, and growth in China along with technology. The newly developed econometric techniques (asymmetries) have been applied to explore short and long-run nonlinear relation among variables by utilizing annual data for the period of 1965-2021. In nonlinear cointegration, findings highlight the importance of renewable energy consumption for growth and development. Urbanization also confirms a positive association with growth and development where positive shocks were more dominant to support the growth process. The stock of technology brings a positive impact on growth and development whereas financial development results reveal to consider policy carefully. Asymmetric causality supports a uni-directional causal association between renewable energy, financial development, and growth. Policy recommendations are also highlighted according to the results.
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- Yuchen Shen
- Suzhou Polytechnic Institute of Agriculture, Suzhou, 215000, Jiangsu, China.
- Suzhou Rural Reform and Development Institute, Suzhou, 215000, Jiangsu, China.
- Suzhou Rural Economy Institute, Suzhou, 215000, Jiangsu, China.
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- Jiangyin Chaoyang Securities Business Department, Haitong Securities Co., Ltd., Jiangyin, 214400, Jiangsu, China
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Xinxing S, Sarkar A, Yue D, Hongbin Z, Fangyuan T. The influences of the advancement of green technology on agricultural CO2 release reduction: A case of Chinese agricultural industry. Front Sustain Food Syst 2023. [DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1096381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023] Open
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The development of green technology (GT) may have a vital influence in decreasing carbon releases, and the linkage between the advancement of GT and CO2 releases in China's agricultural industry has not attracted enough attention. The main objectives of this study are to assess the influence of agricultural green technology advancement on efficiency enhancement, release control capabilities, agricultural energy structure, and agriculture industrial structure. This article decomposes the advancement of green technology (AGTP) in the agricultural industry in China into resource-saving green technology advancement (AEGTP) and emission reduction green technology advancement (ACGTP). At the same time, to evaluate the intermediary impact of green technology advancement, a two-step econometric model and an intermediary impact model were utilized to evaluate the panel data of 30 provinces in China from 1998 to 2018. The role of AGTP (including ACGTP and AEGTP) and CO2 release concentration has also been explored critically. The results show that (i) under the two-step measurement method, AGTP has substantial favorable impacts on agricultural energy efficiency (EF) and possesses a negative impact on agriculture industrial structure (PS) and agricultural energy structure (ES). Agricultural energy efficiency (EF) and agriculture industrial structure (PS) under AGTP will reduce CO2 release concentration, but the path of agricultural energy structure (ES) will increase CO2 release concentration. (ii) At the national level, AGTP has an immediate unfavorable influence on CO2 releases. After introducing the intermediary variables, the intermediary impact of AGTP on CO2 releases through agricultural energy efficiency (EF), agriculture industrial structure (PS), and agricultural energy structure (ES) is also significantly negative, and the direct impacts of each variable are higher than the intermediary impact. (iii) In terms of different zones, the direct impacts of AGTP are all significant. The order of significance of the direct impacts of different zones is west to central and central to eastern. The overall significance ranking of the mediating impact is ACGTP > AEGTP > AGTP, and the significance ranking of each index is ES > EF > PS. Finally, this article puts forward some policy recommendations to reduce CO2 releases.
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de Campos EAR, de Paula IC, Caten CST, Tsagarakis KP, Ribeiro JLD. Logistics performance: critical factors in the implementation of end-of-life management practices in the pharmaceutical care process. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:29206-29228. [PMID: 36409409 PMCID: PMC9676775 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-24035-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 04/16/2023]
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The management of healthcare waste and end-of-life medication coming from different sources are primary challenges faced by public health leaders. Several factors may be considered critical and inhibitive to reverse logistics within the context of waste management processes. If those factors are not addressed, they may become obstacles to reverse logistics implementation. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect that critical factors play in the adoption of end-of-life management practices for medication and its influence on logistics performance. Literature provided some critical factors: management factor, collaboration factor, information technology factor, infrastructure factor, politics factor, financial and economic factor, end-of-life management practices, and logistics performance factor. A sample of 67 professionals from the public pharmaceutical care process answered a structured questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed using partial least square-structural equation modeling. The theoretical structural test confirmed eleven out of the fifteen hypotheses considered. The results have indicated that end-of-life management practices exert a direct influence on logistics performance. The analysis confirmed a direct effect of the information technology factor on end-of-life management practices, but not a moderation effect. Findings have contributed to the literature by providing deeper insights into the relationship between end-of-life management practices for medicines and logistics performance. Moreover, it supports health managers' decision-making in the pharmaceutical care process improvement and engagement with solid waste management policies.
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- Industrial Engineering Graduate Program, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Industrial Engineering Graduate Program, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Industrial Engineering Graduate Program, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Patwary AK, Sharif A, Aziz RC, Hassan MGB, Najmi A, Rahman MK. Reducing environmental pollution by organisational citizenship behaviour in hospitality industry: the role of green employee involvement, performance management and dynamic capability. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:37105-37117. [PMID: 36567391 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-24710-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Accepted: 12/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Being a prominent tourist destination, the hotel industry's demand in Malaysia has been increasing day by day. There is still a shortage of studies focusing on how hotels can make environmental management routine work, take environmental laws seriously and be more responsive to the environment. This study focused on the connections between green employee involvement, green performance management and green dynamic capability in implementing environmental law in the hospitality industry. The study also evaluates the mediating role of implementing environmental law between green employee involvement, green performance management, green dynamic capability and organisational citizenship behaviour to reduce pollution. This study employed a quantitative approach to test the hypotheses and a convenient sampling method to collect the data from hotel employees. Out of 600 distributed questionnaires, useable responses were 253 to proceed with data analysis. Data were analysed through structural equation modelling (SEM) using the Smart-PLS and SPSS. The relationship between green employee involvement, green performance management, green dynamic capability and implementation of environmental laws was discovered and considered unique in the hotel industry in Malaysia. The study further established the mediating role of environmental law between independent and dependent variables.
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- Ataul Karim Patwary
- Faculty of Hospitality, Tourism and Wellness, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Pengkalan Chepa, Malaysia
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- Department of Economics and Finance, Sunway Business School, Sunway University, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
- Department of Management Sciences, The Superior University, Punjab, Malaysia.
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- Faculty of Hospitality, Tourism and Wellness, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Pengkalan Chepa, Malaysia
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- Department of Management, Sunway Business School, Sunway University, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
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- Faculty of Entrepreneurship and Business, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Pengkalan Chepa, Malaysia
- Angkasa-Umk Research Academy (AURA), Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, Pengkalan Chepa, Malaysia
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Fernandez De Henestrosa M, Sischka PE, Steffgen G. Challenge, threat, coping potential: How primary and secondary appraisals of job demands predict nurses' affective states during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nurs Open 2023; 10:3840-3853. [PMID: 36840623 PMCID: PMC10170884 DOI: 10.1002/nop2.1642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Revised: 11/29/2022] [Accepted: 02/05/2023] [Indexed: 02/26/2023] Open
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AIM The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a rapid raise of work-related stress among nurses, affecting their emotional well-being. This study examined how nurses appraise job demands (i.e. time pressure, emotional demands and physical demands) during the pandemic, and how primary (i.e. challenge and threat) and secondary appraisals (i.e. coping potential) of job demands predict nurses' affective states (i.e. positive affect, anger and anxiety). DESIGN A cross-sectional online survey. METHODS 419 nurses completed self-report measures of job demands and related appraisals. Data analyses comprised correlation analysis, factor analysis, hierarchical linear regression analysis and dominance analysis. RESULTS Emotional and physical demands correlated exclusively with threat appraisal, while time pressure correlated with challenge and threat appraisal. Time pressure, emotional demands and threat appraisals of job demands predicted negative affective states, while challenge appraisals of emotional and physical demands predicted positive affect. Coping potential was identified as the most important predictor variable of nurses' affective states. PUBLIC CONTRIBUTION The current study identified statistically significant risk and protective factors in view of nurses' affective states experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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Tanveer A, Song H, Faheem M, Daud A. The paradigms of transport energy consumption and technological innovation as a panacea for sustainable environment: is there any asymmetric association? Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:20469-20489. [PMID: 36255583 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-23453-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2022] [Accepted: 09/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Technological innovations have a great potential to develop the transportation system as more efficient, intelligent, connected, and sustainable. Therefore, transport energy consumption fundamentally transmutes how goods and people are moved with significant effects on transport demand with related energy consumption on a sustainable environment. To this end, our research aimed at investigating the environmental performance (carbon dioxide and ecological footprint) by stochastic impact by regression through a population, affluence, and technology (STIRPAT) model, and econometric approach for estimation of transport energy consumption from 1975 to 2018 for Pakistan. Moreover, our study supports the literature by exploring the association of technological innovations, financial development, carbon damage costs, and economic growth with the environment. The linear relationships of the variables are governed by the autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) model that interestingly explored that economic growth and energy consumption, and financial development degrade the environment and resource depletion; however, technological innovations are inclined towards cleaner technologies. For asymmetric findings, we employ the non-linear autoregressive distributive lag technique recently introduced by Shin et al. (2014). The findings validate the existence of an asymmetric relationship between transport energy consumption and environmental indicators. The policymakers' prerequisites the alternative energies apart from conventional energies in the transport sector with technological innovations in transport sector energy consumption like the electronic and hybrid vehicles for a cleaner environment.
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- Arsalan Tanveer
- School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China.
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- School of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, China
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- School of Economics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan
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Pan HY, Ren JJ, Zhang Q, Du SX. Effect of "green technology-institution" collaborative innovation on ecological efficiency-the moderating role of fiscal decentralization. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:19132-19148. [PMID: 36223022 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-23472-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2022] [Accepted: 10/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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With the tightening of resource constraints and the proposal of the Chinese High-quality Development strategy, innovation-driven has emerged as a new option to balance economic progress with environmental protection. The paper takes Chinese inter-provincial panel data from 2007 to 2017 as a research sample and is based on a spatial Durbin model, investigating the association among green technology innovation (GTI), "green technology-institution" collaborative innovation, and ecological efficiency (EE), while fiscal decentralization is discussed as a moderating factor. According to the results, "green technology-institution" collaborative innovation is positively promoting ecological efficiency and causing spatial spillovers if the economic distance is taken into account. Compared with the single role of green technology innovation, collaborative innovation has a greater role in improving ecological efficiency. Among them, to improve ecological efficiency, it is best to develop green technology innovation and encourage production institutions in a coordinated manner. According to the moderating effect, fiscal decentralization moderates the impact of innovation collaboration on ecological efficiency in a negative way. Therefore, balancing the decentralization of local fiscal expenditures is important to promoting China's ecological efficiency. In addition, China should purposefully promote the degree of synergy between green technology innovation and related institutions for enhancing eco-efficiency.
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- Hai-Ying Pan
- School of Business, Hohai University, Nanjing, 211100, China
- Jiangsu Research Base of Yangtze Institute for Conservation and High-Quality Development Nanjing, Nanjing, China
- Yangtze Institute for Conservation and Development, Nanjing, China
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- School of Business, Hohai University, Nanjing, 211100, China.
- Jiangsu Research Base of Yangtze Institute for Conservation and High-Quality Development Nanjing, Nanjing, China.
- Yangtze Institute for Conservation and Development, Nanjing, China.
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- School of Business, Hohai University, Nanjing, 211100, China
- Jiangsu Research Base of Yangtze Institute for Conservation and High-Quality Development Nanjing, Nanjing, China
- Yangtze Institute for Conservation and Development, Nanjing, China
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- School of Business, Hohai University, Nanjing, 211100, China
- Jiangsu Research Base of Yangtze Institute for Conservation and High-Quality Development Nanjing, Nanjing, China
- Yangtze Institute for Conservation and Development, Nanjing, China
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Adanaqué-Bravo I, Escobar-Segovia K, Gómez-Salgado J, García-Iglesias JJ, Fagundo-Rivera J, Ruiz-Frutos C. Relationship Between Psychological Distress, Burnout and Work Engagement in Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review. Int J Public Health 2023; 67:1605605. [PMID: 36686389 PMCID: PMC9849247 DOI: 10.3389/ijph.2022.1605605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2022] [Accepted: 12/20/2022] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Objective: The psychological distress that the COVID-19 pandemic has produced has generated negative effects on workers, and in one way or another this has affected their work engagement within companies. The aim of this research was to assess the relationship between psychological distress, burnout and work engagement in workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A systematic review was carried out following the PRISMA methodology, taking articles from the Scopus, Pubmed, and Web of Science databases from the beginning of the pandemic until November 2022. The methodological quality was assessed using the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) critical appraisal tools for non-randomised studies. Results: 24 articles were selected. All the articles found an association between psychological distress, burnout or other factors and work engagement. Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on work engagement and a negative relationship with psychological distress and burnout, hence the importance of companies taking measures to minimise levels of psychological distress and burnout.
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- Ingrid Adanaqué-Bravo
- Faculty of Engineering in Mechanics and Production Sciences, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador
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- Faculty of Engineering in Earth Sciences, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador
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- Department of Sociology, Social Work and Public Health, Faculty of Labour Sciences, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain,Safety and Health Postgraduate Programme, Universidad Espíritu Santo, Guayaquil, Ecuador,*Correspondence: Juan Gómez-Salgado,
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- Department of Sociology, Social Work and Public Health, Faculty of Labour Sciences, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain
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- Centro Universitario de Enfermería Cruz Roja, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Sociology, Social Work and Public Health, Faculty of Labour Sciences, University of Huelva, Huelva, Spain,Safety and Health Postgraduate Programme, Universidad Espíritu Santo, Guayaquil, Ecuador
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Manigandan P, Alam MS, Alagirisamy K, Pachiyappan D, Murshed M, Mahmood H. Realizing the Sustainable Development Goals through technological innovation: juxtaposing the economic and environmental effects of financial development and energy use. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:8239-8256. [PMID: 36050553 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-22692-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2022] [Accepted: 08/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The BRICS comprise of group of emerging market economies which are committed to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals agenda of the United Nations by the end of the year 2030. In this regard, it is critically important for these nations to sustain their annual rise in their economic growth rates while simultaneously declining the rate of discharge of carbon dioxide emissions. Against this backdrop, this study aims to investigate how financial development, greater primary energy consumption, and technological innovation affect the prospects of the BRICS nations in achieving economic and environmental sustainability. Considering the period from 1990 to 2020 and utilizing methods that are robust to working with cross-sectionally dependent, heterogeneous, and endogenous panel data, the key analytical findings derived in this study reveal that higher levels of financial development, primary energy consumption, and technological innovation boost the per capita economic growth rates of the BRICS nations. Besides, technological innovation also moderates the financial development-economic growth and the primary energy consumption-economic growth nexuses by jointly boosting economic growth rates with these two macroeconomic variables. On the other hand, financial development and higher primary energy consumption are seen to boost the annual per capita carbon dioxide emission growth in these emerging nations, while technological innovation is observed to do the opposite. Furthermore, technological innovation is witnessed to moderate the nexus between energy use and economic growth to further reduce the emission growth rate in the BRICS nations. Accordingly, a set of policies are recommended to the concerned governments in order to enable the BRICS nations to attain the Sustainable Development Goals agenda.
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- Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business Administration, University of Bahrain, Sakhir, 32038, Bahrain
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- School of Business and Economics, North South University, Dhaka, 1229, Bangladesh.
- Department of Journalism, Media and Communications, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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- Department of Finance, College of Business Administration, Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, 173, Alkharj, 11942, Saudi Arabia
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Koengkan M, Kazemzadeh E, Fuinhas JA, Tash MNS. Heterogeneous impact of eco-innovation on premature deaths resulting from indoor and outdoor air pollution: empirical evidence from EU29 countries. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2023; 30:2298-2314. [PMID: 35930155 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-22423-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2022] [Accepted: 08/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Environmental innovations play a vital role in reducing air pollution and the number of pollution-related mortality. Most of the previous studies have examined the role of eco-innovations in environmental quality. However, to our knowledge, no study has evaluated the effects of eco-innovation on air pollution as a cause of mortality. For this purpose, this research examines the effect of eco-innovations on premature deaths from indoor and outdoor air pollution in twenty-nine European countries from 1995 to 2019. The Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MM-QR) is used to assess the impacts. The results confirm the heterogeneous effects of the main variables in both models. Both models indicate that eco-innovations reduce premature deaths from outdoor and indoor air pollution, and these effects are more significant in high quantities (75th and 90th). Also, the effect of eco-innovations on reducing mortality due to indoor pollution is more significant than that related to outdoor pollution. Eco-innovation, economic growth, renewable energy consumption, and urbanization reduce premature mortality indoors and outdoors, but CO2 emissions increase this mortality. The results of the Dumitrescu-Hurlin causality test also support that all variables, including eco-innovation and CO2 emissions, have a bidirectional causal relationship with indoor (LIND) and outdoor (LOUT) mortality due to air pollution. Governments and politicians can help mitigate this problem by providing more environmental innovations by increasing support packages and reducing taxes.
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- Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.
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Li W, Sun Y, Gao Y. Relationship between green entrepreneurship orientation, integration of opportunity and resource capacities and sustainable competitive advantage. Front Psychol 2022; 13:1068734. [PMID: 36600708 PMCID: PMC9806263 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1068734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2022] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Green entrepreneurial orientation (GEO) and sustainability have been the hot topics in green entrepreneurship research. The GEO integrates market orientation (MO) and environmental orientation (EO), and enterprises need to increase resource investment. However, it is not clear whether this strategic orientation can help new ventures achieve sustainable competitive advantages (SCA). In addition, the integrated role of opportunities and resources in the process of green entrepreneurship cannot be ignored. To fill the gap, we analyzed survey data from 274 emerging green enterprises in China, and we examined the effect of GEO on SCA. Additionally, we proposed the concept of integration of opportunity and resources capabilities (IORC) by integrating the core factors of green entrepreneurship. It can be divided into internal integration (ITI) and external integration (ETI), and the moderating effect of IORC on this relationship was also inspected. The results indicated that GEO significantly affects SCA, and IORC positively moderates the relationships between GEO and SCA. Indeed, compared with the enterprises that adopt a single strategic orientation, enterprises that adopt GEO can obtain greater SCA. In addition, focusing on the internal and external integration of IORC can further enhance the acquisition of SCA. This study not only integrates the theories of entrepreneurship and sustainable development but also compensates for the lack of green entrepreneurship theory while providing practical guidance for new enterprises seeking to engage in green entrepreneurship.
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- Wenjin Li
- School of Applied Mathematics, Jilin University of Finance and Economics, Changchun, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China,*Correspondence: Yu Sun,
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- Management School, Hainan University, Haikou, China
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Kim K, Zhang S, Ding P, Wang Y, Yim BH, Hu Z, Sui S. Changes in Physical Activity and Health Indicators among Koreans during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparison between 2019 and 2020. Healthcare (Basel) 2022; 10. [PMID: 36554071 DOI: 10.3390/healthcare10122549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2022] [Revised: 12/01/2022] [Accepted: 12/07/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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This study aimed to compare the changes in physical activity (PA), chronic disease, and mental health indicators of Koreans before and after the COVID-19 outbreak, using raw data from more than 400,000 representative samples from the 2019-2020 Community Health Survey by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and to explore the correlations among them. We used two-way ANOVA to analyze changes and differences in PA and obesity levels. We assessed the influence of gender and recurrent PA using chi-square tests for mental health status and chronic disease. Finally, we performed a correlation analysis to determine the relationships among PA days, mental health, and chronic disease. The results showed that, compared to the levels before the COVID-19 period, moderate-intensity (Days: 1.415~1.217; Time: 114.688~107.321) and high-intensity (Days: 0.798~0.671; Time: 112.866~106.110) PA significantly decreased in Koreans during the COVID-19 period, while low-intensity (Time: 60.305~61.735) PA increased. Before and during the COVID-19 period, men (18,436 (8.1%)~16,124 (7.0%)) performed PA more regularly than women (13,207 (5.8%)~9382 (4.1%)). Compared to the number of regular PA participants before the COVID-19 period, regular PA participants (male, female) decreased from 31,643 (13.8%) to 25,506 (11.1%) during the COVID-19 period. Compared with the levels before the COVID-19 period, the experience rates of stress (3.1%~2.6%), depression (0.8%~0.6%), HBP (3.0%~2.2%), and diabetes (1.2%~0.9%) significantly changed under different levels of conventional PA intervention. In addition, the obesity rate during the COVID-19 period (23.957) was higher than it was before COVID-19 (23.477). During the COVID-19 period, the PA of Koreans was greatly restricted, but low-intensity PA was maintained and increased. PA is an effective activity for maintaining mental health and for preventing and reducing chronic diseases. Recommendations for appropriate intensity or a combination of high-, moderate-, and low-intensity PA should be based on the health status of Koreans to help them maintain mental health and to reduce the risk of chronic diseases during COVID-19 social distancing.
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Ma Y, Lin T, Xiao Q. The Relationship between Environmental Regulation, Green-Technology Innovation and Green Total-Factor Productivity-Evidence from 279 Cities in China. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:16290. [PMID: 36498358 PMCID: PMC9737234 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192316290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2022] [Revised: 11/29/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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This paper employs the SBM-DDF method to measure the index of green total-factor productivity (GTFP), based on the panel data of 279 prefecture-level cities in China from 2007 to 2019, and constructs a spatial Durbin model (SDM) and a threshold effect to empirically test the effects of dual environmental-regulations and green technological innovation on GTFP. The results are as follows: (1) the SDM supports a nonlinear contribution of dual environmental-regulations spillover to GTFP. The relationship between formal environmental-regulation and GTFP is an inverted U-shape, while a U-shaped nonlinear relationship is found between informal environmental regulation and GTFP. (2) Green technology innovation has a significant negative moderating effect on the process of dual environmental-regulations affecting GTFP in local regions, but a positive moderating effect on informal environmental regulation in neighboring regions. (3) There is a significant green technology innovation threshold effect of dual environmental-regulations affecting GTFP. Specifically, the promotion effect of dual environmental-regulations on GFFP gradually increases as the level of green technology innovation increases.
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Wang L, Long Y, Li C. Research on the impact mechanism of heterogeneous environmental regulation on enterprise green technology innovation. J Environ Manage 2022; 322:116127. [PMID: 36067664 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2022] [Revised: 08/08/2022] [Accepted: 08/26/2022] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Green technology innovation (GTI) is an effective way to promote the green development of economy, and government environmental regulations are an important means to encourage enterprises to carry out GTI. Taking Chinese A-share listed enterprises from 2010 to 2019 as samples, this paper divides environmental regulations into three categories: command-based environmental regulation (ER1), market-based environmental regulation (ER2) and voluntary environmental regulation (ER3), studies their impact on enterprise GTI, and discusses the joint effect of enterprise research and development (R&D) investment and government support from the perspective of internal and external linkage of enterprises. In addition, this paper also analyzes the compound effect and time effect of environmental regulation. The research conclusions are as follows: (1) From the perspective of policy types, both ER1 and ER 2 could stimulate enterprises to carry out GTI, and the promotion effect of green utility model patents is slightly higher than that of green invention patents. ER3 inhibits enterprise GTI. In addition, this paper finds that the effect of three environmental regulations acting at the same time is greater than that of one of them. (2) The mechanism analysis shows that the R&D investment of enterprise positively could moderate the relationship between ER2 and green invention at the significance level of 5%, positively moderate the relationship between ER2 and green utility model patent at the significance level of 1%, and negatively moderate the relationship between ER3 and green utility model patent at the significance level of 5%. The government support could moderate the relationship between environmental regulation and green utility model patents at the significance level of 5% and 10%. (3) The effect analysis shows that the transformation rate of GTI in China needs to be improved. The three environmental regulations could have an effect on enterprise GTI in a short period, and ER1 has the fastest effect. (4) Considering the differences in the level of economic development and resource endowments in various regions of China, this paper classifies the sample enterprises and finds that the impact of environmental regulation on enterprise GTI is heterogeneous in terms of location, ownership nature, factor density and industry type. The research results provide the important reference for the formulation and implementation of environmental regulation policies according to local conditions.
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- Liping Wang
- Finance and Economics College, Jimei University, Xiamen, 361021, China
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- Finance and Economics College, Jimei University, Xiamen, 361021, China
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- School of Business Administration, Jimei University, Xiamen, 361021, China.
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Yang Y, Hu F, Ding L, Wu X. Coupling Coordination Analysis of Regional IEE System: A Data-Driven Multimodel Decision Approach. Processes (Basel) 2022; 10:2268. [DOI: 10.3390/pr10112268] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Coordinating regional innovation–economy–ecology (IEE) systems is an important prerequisite for overall continuous regional development. To fully understand the coordination relationship among the three, this study builds a data-driven multimodel decision approach to calculate, assess, diagnose, and improve the regional IEE system. First, the assessment indicator system of the regional IEE system is established. Secondly, the range method, entropy weight method, and weighted summation method are employed to calculate the synthetic developmental level. Thirdly, a multimodel decision approach including the coupling degree model, the coordination degree model, and the obstacle degree model is constructed to assess the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of the regional IEE system coupling coordination and diagnose the main obstacles hindering its development. Finally, the approach is tested using Anhui Province as a case study. The results show that the coupling coordination degree of the Anhui IEE system presents a stable growth trend, but the coupling degree is always higher than the coordination degree. The main obstacle affecting its development has changed from the original innovation subsystem to the current ecology subsystem. Based on this, some countermeasures are put forward. This study, therefore, offers decision support methods to aid in evaluating and improving the regional IEE system.
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Mansour S, Faisal Azeem M, Dollard M, Potter R. How Psychosocial Safety Climate Helped Alleviate Work Intensification Effects on Presenteeism during the COVID-19 Crisis? A Moderated Mediation Model. Int J Environ Res Public Health 2022; 19:13673. [PMID: 36294252 PMCID: PMC9603230 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192013673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2022] [Revised: 10/17/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Healthcare sector organizations have long been facing the issue of productivity loss due to presenteeism which is affected by psychosocial safety climate (PSC) and work intensification. Presenteeism has visibly increased among nurses during COVID-19 pandemic period. Grounded in COR theory and sensemaking theory, the current study aimed to examine the role PSC plays as driver or moderator to reduce presenteeism by lessening work intensification over time and the impact of work intensification over time on presenteeism during the COVID-19 pandemic. Adopting a time-lagged research design, this study gathered data from randomly selected registered nurses, practicing in Québec, Canada in two phases, i.e., 800 at Time 1 and 344 at Time 2 through email surveys. The study results showed that (1) PSC reduces presenteeism over time by reducing work intensification at time 1; (2) PSC moderates the relationship between work intensification at time 1 and work intensification at time 2; and (3) PSC as moderator also lessens the detrimental effect of work intensification at time 2 on presenteeism at time 2. Presenteeism among nurses affects their health and psychological well-being. We find that PSC is likely an effective organizational tool particularly in crises situations, by providing an organizational mechanism to assist nurses cope (through a resource caravan, management support) with managing intensified work.
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- Sari Mansour
- School of Business Administration, TÉLUQ University of Quebec, Montreal, QC H2S 3L5, Canada
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- School of Business Administration, TÉLUQ University of Quebec, Montreal, QC H2S 3L5, Canada
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- Psychosocial Safety Climate Global Observatory, Justice & Society, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
- School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
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- Psychosocial Safety Climate Global Observatory, Justice & Society, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
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Ye F, Yang Y, Xia H, Shao Y, Gu X, Shen J. Green entrepreneurial orientation, boundary-spanning search and enterprise sustainable performance: The moderating role of environmental dynamism. Front Psychol 2022; 13:978274. [PMID: 36324792 PMCID: PMC9621121 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.978274] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2022] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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As an important strategic decision for enterprise sustainability, the green entrepreneurial orientation can facilitate boundary-spanning search for external knowledge and resources to achieve triadic sustainable economic, environmental, and social performance. Based on organizational search theory and dynamic capability theory, this study introduces environmental dynamism into the model of the relationship between green entrepreneurial orientation, boundary-spanning search and enterprise triadic sustainable performance. By analyzing the questionnaire data from 202 managers of manufacturing SMEs, the study explores the internal and external influences of green entrepreneurial orientation on the enterprise sustainable performance. The results show that: green entrepreneurial orientation has a positive impact on enterprise economic, environmental and social performance; boundary-spanning search plays a fully mediating role between green entrepreneurial orientation and enterprise economic, environmental and social performance; environmental dynamism, as a key external environmental factor, positively regulates the relationship between boundary-spanning search and enterprise economic performance and environmental performance, and negatively regulates the relationship between boundary-spanning search and social performance. This study clearly demonstrates how green entrepreneurial orientation in the environmental era can drive triadic sustainable performance improvement of enterprises. In addition, this study argues that boundary-spanning search is an important tool that enables manufacturing SMEs to achieve a triad of coordinated sustainable development of economic, environmental and social benefits in a dynamic environment.
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- Fang Ye
- College of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan, China
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- College of Technology Integration, Kunsan National University, Gunsan, South Korea
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- College of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan, China
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- College of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan, China
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- College of Economics and Management, Zhejiang Ocean University, Zhoushan, China
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- Business School, Zhejiang Pharmaceutical Vocational University, Ningbo, China
- *Correspondence: Jiaqiang Shen,
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Afshan G, Ahmed F, Anwer N, Shahid S, Khuhro MA. COVID-19 stress and wellbeing: A phenomenological qualitative study of Pakistani Medical Doctors. Front Psychol 2022; 13:920192. [PMID: 36312191 PMCID: PMC9602938 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.920192] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 09/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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The COVID-19 stress and increased job pressure have largely affected healthcare professionals’ various life domains. This study particularly explores the effect of stress caused by treating COVID-19 patients on medical doctors’ wellbeing. To explore this phenomenon, we interviewed 12 doctors treating COVID-19 patients in hospitals of metropolitan cities in Pakistan. The thematic analysis using NVivo V.12 Plus software of interviews resulted in four major themes, COVID-19 Stressors, Effects of Stress, Nature and Personality, Stress Relievers, and Stress Coping Strategies. Physicians were physically and emotionally stressed as a result of the intense work. Although they were carrying a lot of pain and hurt on their insides, participants demonstrated a sense of professional determination to overcome obstacles. Physicians are currently dealing with their emotional issues, and they should have access to complete professional help to ensure their wellbeing. The COVID-19 pandemic’s mental health effects are anticipated to last far longer than the physical health effects. This study is well-positioned to investigate frontline physicians’ opinions and attitudes concerning the COVID-19 and its impact on their daily lives and mental health. This research will help implement context-specific innovative mental health solutions to help the frontline workers.
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- Gul Afshan
- Department of Business Administration, Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur, Pakistan
- *Correspondence: Gul Afshan,
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- Department of Business Administration, Sukkur IBA University, Sukkur, Pakistan
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- Lahore Business School, University of Lahore, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
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- Australian Institute of Business, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Department of Business Administration, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University Shaheed Benazirabad, Sanghar, Pakistan
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Zhong M, Xia J, He R. Spatial effect analysis of heterogeneous green technology innovations on pollution emission reduction: evidence from China's power industry. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2022; 29:67336-67352. [PMID: 35524099 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-022-20582-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 04/29/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Based on the provincial panel dataset of the power industry in China from 1997 to 2020, this study employed the dynamic spatial Durbin model (SDM) to investigate the spatial effects of heterogeneous green technology innovations (GTIs) of the power industry chain-clean energy GTIs (GTI1), fossil-fueled GTIs (GTI2), energy-saving GTIs (GTI3), and power transmission technology innovations (GTI4)-on three pollution emission reduction: SO2, solid waste (SW), and waste water (WW). The empirical results revealed that three pollution emissions showed "path dependent" and "snowball effects." GTI1, GTI2, and GTI3 reduced local SO2 and SW emissions, while GTI2 and GTI4 had no obvious reduction effects on WW emissions. Different GTIs had the same spatial "symbiotic effects" on SO2 emission reduction in the short term, showing positive spatial spillover reduction effects. Finally, it is of great significance to make full use of the positive spatial spillover effects of GTIs to promote the regional collaborative linkage of pollutant governance in the power industry.
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- Meirui Zhong
- School of Business, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China
- Institute of Metal Resources Strategy, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China
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- School of Business, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China
- Institute of Metal Resources Strategy, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China
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- Business School, Institute of Green Development, Longshan Green Economy Center, University of Jinan, Jinan, 250022, Shandong, China.
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Gao P, Wang Y, Zou Y, Su X, Che X, Yang X. Green technology innovation and carbon emissions nexus in China: Does industrial structure upgrading matter? Front Psychol 2022; 13:951172. [PMID: 35959076 PMCID: PMC9362775 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.951172] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Compared with traditional technological innovation modes, green technology innovation is more targeted for low carbon development and critical support for countries worldwide to combat climate change. The impact of green technology innovation on carbon emissions is considered in terms of fixed effect and mediating effect models through industrial structure upgrading. For this purpose, the sample dataset of 30 provincial administrative areas in China from 2008 to 2020 is employed. The results demonstrate that green technology innovation exerts significantly inhibitory effects on carbon emissions, whose conclusion still holds after removing municipalities and replacing the dependent variable. Industrial structure upgrading is vital for green technology innovation to diminish carbon emissions. There is significant regional heterogeneity in the effects of green technology innovation on carbon emissions, i.e., the direct and indirect impact of green technology innovation on carbon emission reduction is significant in the eastern-central area, but its effect is insignificant in the western region. Therefore, it is essential to realize carbon emission reduction by further bolstering green technology innovation and accelerating industrial structure upgrading to fulfill the synergy of technology and structure.
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- Pengfei Gao
- School of Marxism, Xinjiang University, Ürümqi, China
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- School of Marxism, Liaoning Petrochemical University, Fushun, China
- *Correspondence: Yadong Wang
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- School of Tourism & Transportation Management, Guang Xi Eco-Engineering Vocational & Technical College, Liuzhou, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Ürümqi, China
- School of Economics and Management, Tarim University, Alar, China
- Xufeng Su
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- School of Public Administration, Liaoning University, Shenyang, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Ürümqi, China
- Center for Innovation Management Research of Xinjiang, Xinjiang University, Ürümqi, China
- Xiaodong Yang
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Anghel GA, Anghel MA. Green Entrepreneurship among Students—Social and Behavioral Motivation. Sustainability 2022; 14:8730. [DOI: 10.3390/su14148730] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The research is proposing to analyze the relationship between education for green entrepreneurship among students and their interests in implementing business ideas in the field of green entrepreneurship. The research has had the projection of an explanation regarding specific factors of students when approaching a subject like green entrepreneurship. It has started from the paradigm in which the rise of interest for green entrepreneurship is influenced by the knowledge regarding the opportunities of creating green business and by the level of developing entrepreneurial competencies. In this framework, a set of research hypotheses has been created as follows: students’ preoccupation for ecological entrepreneurship is influenced by their age (H1); students’ preoccupation for green entrepreneurship is influenced by identifying and recognizing ideas for green business (H2); students’ satisfaction regarding the quality of entrepreneurial education directly influences the preoccupation regarding the creation of a green business (H3). The research is a quantitative type and has been created on a sample representative (N = 123 students, valid N = 120) from the Valahia University of Targoviste, Romania of which the students are part. The research variables were constructed with the module style extracted from scientifically validated research tools. The measurements of variables have been conducted with the help of a Likert-type scale and interpretation with ANOVA. The results of the research were the following—according to the Likelihood Ratio Chi-Square test, there were compared and analyzed variables such as green knowledge and education for green entrepreneurship, to be able to quantify the students’ preoccupation values with green entrepreneurship. The p-value is ˃1, which means that the researched subjects manifest increased interest in green entrepreneurship. This fact demonstrates that the average of the values which were attributed according to the Likert-type scale has offered values between 4 and 5 (5 being the maximum level), a fact that confirms the students’ increased preoccupation with green entrepreneurship. The assigned values obtained are: 18–22 age (m = 4.1532), 22–25 age (m = 4.4375), 26–28 age (m = 4.4375), 29–39 age (m = 4.2396), and the over 39 age (m = 4.2750). We also concluded that the concern for green entrepreneurship among students correlates positively with entrepreneurship education and green knowledge.
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Bux C, Amicarelli V. Material flow cost accounting (MFCA) to enhance environmental entrepreneurship in the meat sector: Challenges and opportunities. J Environ Manage 2022; 313:115001. [PMID: 35381529 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2021] [Revised: 03/07/2022] [Accepted: 03/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The material flow cost accounting (MFCA) is one of the most broadly standardized tools accepted in environmental, social and economic research, which traces and quantifies material flows and stock in physical and economic units. Although its application has been recently developed in the field of resource and waste management, few academic articles have investigated its value towards food waste management, which represents a topical concern on a global scale. The present research applies the MFCA to investigate the material, energetic and economic costs associated with the Italian beef, pork and poultry production, exploring related challenges and opportunities towards the enhancement of the environmental entrepreneurship in the meat sector. The present countryside analysis is based on literature and empirical data collected during the Covid-19 pandemic. It highlights the need to improve knowledge on food waste issue under the economic perspective and its dual impact: when it is generated, in terms of income losses due to by-products and finished products sales failure, and when it is disposed, in terms of disposal costs sustained by farms, processing plants and distribution and sales centers. It is estimated that more than 0.45-0.50 Mt of fresh meat is wasted along the entire Italian agri-food chain, equal to more than 242-268 million euros, to which additional energy and water losses should be added (435-481 million euros). MFCA results are useful for business decisions, highlighting quantities, qualities and costs otherwise not considered in common financial reports.
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- Christian Bux
- Department of Economics, Management and Business Law, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
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- Department of Economics, Management and Business Law, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.
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Song S. The Effect of Sports Performance Entrepreneurial Project by Entrepreneurial Spirit. Front Psychol 2022; 13:914388. [PMID: 35846667 PMCID: PMC9278987 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.914388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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This study aims to analyze the effect of entrepreneurship on the growth of entrepreneurial enterprise projects, so that entrepreneurial projects can improve entrepreneurial performance, promote social and economic development, and improve resource allocation. Firstly, entrepreneurship is explored to analyze the role in the growth of entrepreneurial enterprise projects. The entrepreneurial essence requirements based on entrepreneurship provide a theoretical basis for sports performance entrepreneurship. Secondly, the idea and process of sports performance entrepreneurship are described. A growth model of sports performance entrepreneurship based on entrepreneurship is established. Finally, the entrepreneurs who started sports performances are considered to investigate the enterprises participating in a sports competition performance. The influence of six elements of entrepreneurship on the progress and performance of sports performance entrepreneurial projects is analyzed. The results show that the spirit of risk-taking, need for achievement, and professionalism in entrepreneurship have the highest consistency, all above 0.90. It shows that entrepreneurship can promote the sports performance entrepreneurship project, and the subjects have a high entrepreneurial spirit. The adventurous spirit has more than half of the coverage of sports performance entrepreneurial projects. The coverage rate of knowledge literacy, innovative spirit, advanced action, achievement needs, and professionalism in sports performance entrepreneurial projects are all about 0.43. Innovation, risk-taking, and creativity can boost the performance of sports performance entrepreneurial projects. Enterprise size has little influence on sports performance. These conclusions have reference significance for the impact of sports entrepreneurial project performance.
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Shaheen F, Lodhi MS, Rosak-szyrocka J, Zaman K, Awan U, Asif M, Ahmed W, Siddique M. Cleaner Technology and Natural Resource Management: An Environmental Sustainability Perspective from China. Clean Technol 2022; 4:584-606. [DOI: 10.3390/cleantechnol4030036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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In economies, cleaner technology, increased demand for renewable energy, and more efficient use of natural resources contribute to meeting environmental sustainability targets. The Chinese economy is no exception in its attempts to conserve economic and natural resources via collaborative efforts to embrace cleaner technology, green energy sources, and resource conservation management to preserve resources for future generations. This research examines the influence of cleaner technologies, green energy sources, and natural resource management on reducing greenhouse gas emissions using quarterly data for the Chinese economy from 2000Q1 to 2020Q4. The findings demonstrate that increasing demand for green energy reduces greenhouse gas emissions, hence substantiating the premise of ‘green is clean’ energy development. Additionally, optimum resource usage enhances environmental quality, corroborating the ‘resource cleaner blessing’ hypothesis. The positive link between inward foreign direct investment and greenhouse gas emissions substantiates the ‘pollution haven’ concept, according to which inward foreign direct investment uses unsustainable technology in manufacturing processes, hence degrading air quality indicators. Inadequate access to clean cooking technology and increased population density has a detrimental effect on the country’s environmental sustainability agenda, which must be corrected via sustainable regulations. The causality estimates show the feedback relationship between renewable energy demand (and economic growth) and cleaner technology, between economic growth and green energy (and inbound foreign direct investment), and between population density and economic growth (and green energy). The Impulse Response function estimates suggested that economic growth and population density would likely increase GHG emissions. In contrast, cleaner technology, green energy demand, natural resource management, and inbound foreign direct investment would likely decrease greenhouse gas emissions for the next ten-year time period. The sustainability of the environment and natural resources in China is bolstered by developing cleaner technologies, a greater reliance on renewable energy sources, and better management of natural resources.
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Shi J, Hua W, Tang D, Liu F. Sustainable Community Transformation and Community Integration of Agricultural Transfer Population—A Case Study from China. Sustainability 2022; 14:7737. [DOI: 10.3390/su14137737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Urban-rural integrated communities (URICs) are transitional areas for agricultural transfer population (ATP) in the process of urbanization in China. In the current urban renewal context, the demolition and renovation of communities often result in ATP living in a precarious situation and being marginalized in the city. Sustainable urban renewal should change this situation, take the transformation of URICs as a breakthrough, and promote the urban integration of the ATP. Based on the survey of the National Health Commission of China in 2017, this paper investigates the effects of community participation and community identity on community integration, using the ordered probit model with data of the ATP living in URICs. The results show that both community identity and community participation positively influence community integration, and there are intergenerational differences. The mediating effect test shows that community identity plays a mediating role in the process of community participation, influencing community integration. The findings of the study provide possible ideas for the practical promotion of community integration and urban integration of the ATP, facilitate the implementation of sustainable urban regeneration to reduce the costs of citizenship, and maximize the benefits of the cumulative effects of urbanization for all segments of the population.
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Ariza-montes A, Mahmood F, Han H, Saleem M. The Mental Well-Being of Health Care Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Occup Environ Med 2022; 64:429-442. [DOI: 10.1097/jom.0000000000002470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Chen J, Rojniruttikul N, Kun LY, Ullah S. Management of Green Economic Infrastructure and Environmental Sustainability in One Belt and Road Enitiative Economies. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int 2022; 29:36326-36336. [PMID: 35060037 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-18054-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2021] [Accepted: 12/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Green infrastructure has been considered as one potential solution for improving air quality as well as enhancing environmental sustainability in the modern era. Therefore, the study aims to examine the impact of green economic infrastructure on environmental sustainability in one belt and road initiative (OBRI) economies for the period 2007 to 2019. For empirical investigations, the study adopts 2SLS and GMM approaches. The study uses three proxies to measure green economic infrastructure, namely, green logistics, use of the internet, and green technology. Our 2SLS findings demonstrate that green logistics increases CO2 in OBRI, Central Asia, MENA and reduces CO2 in Europe. However, GMM findings report that green logistics increases CO2 in OBRI, central Asia, and MENA and reduces CO2 in Europe. While our 2SLS findings show that internet use reduces CO2 in OBRI and East and Southeast Asia Europe and increases CO2 in MENA. While GMM findings reveal that the use of the internet reduces CO2 in OBRI and Europe and increases in East and Southeast Asia and MENA. While green technology also enhances environmental sustainability in OBRI. Based on the findings, environmental policies can be revised for OBRI economies.
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- Jian Chen
- KMITL Business School, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand
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- KMITL Business School, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand.
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- Faculty of Industrial Education and Technology School, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand
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- School of Economics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
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