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Will Corporate Green Production Be Affected by Peer CSR Stars?

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Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management – Volume 1 (ICMSEM 2022)

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The relationship between corporate green production and corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been concerned and discussed by scholars at home and abroad, but few studies consider the impact of peer social responsibility levels on corporate green production. Based on signal theory and expectancy theory, we studied the impact of peer CSR stars’ governance and output levels on the green production of private companies. An empirical analysis is conducted based on the listed stars of 16 industries and 3,416 private peer companies. The results show that the governance level of peer CSR stars negatively affects the green production of private companies, but the degree of negative influence decreases with the improvement of the social status of the founders of private companies. The output level of peer CSR stars positively affects the green production of private companies, and its positive influence increases with the improvement of the social status of the founders of private companies. Thus, we deepen existing research on the antecedents of corporate green production and the research on the effects of peer CSR.

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  1. Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China

    Chang Li & Zhiqun Zhang

  2. Chengdu Soft Innovation Intelligence, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China

    Chang Li, Qiuming Zhang & Zhiqun Zhang

  3. School of Public Administration, Sichuan University, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China

    Qiuming Zhang

  4. Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

    Zhanpeng Huang

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    Jiu** Xu

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering, Gazi University, Faculty of Engineering, Ankara, Turkey

    Fulya Altiparmak

  3. School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

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Table 6. The number of private enterprises in different industries and the governance level and output level of listed companies
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Li, C., Zhang, Q., Zhang, Z., Huang, Z. (2022). Will Corporate Green Production Be Affected by Peer CSR Stars?. In: Xu, J., Altiparmak, F., Hassan, M.H.A., García Márquez, F.P., Hajiyev, A. (eds) Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management – Volume 1. ICMSEM 2022. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 144. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10388-9_44

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