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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Environmental Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1430137

Does environmental regulation truly enhance corporate green environmental investment? Evidence from the super vision of independent directors in listed companies

Provisionally accepted
Chao Wang Chao Wang 1Feifei Wang Feifei Wang 2*Ping Jiang Ping Jiang 3
  • 1 Hunan Institute of Engineering, Xiangtan, Hunan Province, China
  • 2 Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Zigong, China
  • 3 Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, Hunan Province, China

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    Abstr act: With the increasingly prominent environmental issues in China, the government and citizens alike have intensified their focus on corporate investments in green environmental protection. Nevertheless, as government regulations become more stringent, there is substantial debate over whether environmental regulatory policies can consistently encourage listed companies to increase green environmental investments. Simultaneously, independent board supervision plays a crucial role in promoting the compliance and sustainability of listed companies regarding environmental protection. This paper selected a sample of 246 Chinese listed companies from 2010 to 2019, and used a fixed effects model to examine the impact 3,

    Keywords: green environmental investment, environmental regulatory policies, independent director supervision, Heavy pollution industries, Government Regulation

    Received: 09 May 2024; Accepted: 28 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Wang, Wang and Jiang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Feifei Wang, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, Zigong, China

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