Analyzing the Impact of Governmental Environmental Attention on Enterprises’ ESG Performance

Organizer

Research group on economics

Date:

March 14th, 2025 (UTC +2)

Symposium Chair

Dr. Javier Cifuentes-Faura

Dr. Javier Cifuentes-Faura works in the Department of Financial Economics and Accounting . His lines of research include those related to public administration and economics, transparency, government, sustainability and green economics. He has published in more than 100 JCR impact journals, such as Public Performance & Management Review, Renewable Energy, Resources Policy, Local Government Studies, Economic Analysis and Policy or Journal of Policy Modeling. He is associate editor of several SSCI journals. He has participated in several international conferences, being invited to some of them as keynote speaker. He has been included in the prestigious Stanford University rankings as one of the 2% most influential researchers in the world in 2022.

Call for Papers

Background:

Global nations now prioritize sustainable development as they deal with serious issues including unemployment, environmental degradation, and climate risk.

The United Nations General Assembly recognized Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) as a key component that will propel sustainable development. As a result, businesses are being forced to take on greater environmental governance, social responsibility, and social welfare responsibilities. Despite the increased political focus on a global scale to companies' ESG performance, the majority of developing economy companies are unwilling to declare their ESG performance. Thus, encouraging more businesses to participate in ESG initiatives is a fundamental concern for policymakers and the scientific community.

Goal/Rationale:

We measure government environmental attention (GEA) and investigate its effect on enterprises' ESG performance by manually extracting environment-related textual information from urban government activity reports. We examine the limits of GEA's influence on businesses' ESG performance from a micro-level viewpoint, offering insightful data on how to successfully direct business actions to improve their ESG performance.

The outcome suggests that a rise in GEA improves the ESG performance of businesses. We validate this result with several robustness tests. According to our mechanism study, green investment, environmental governance information disclosure, and green technology innovation are the three environmental-related business behaviors that are changed by GEA in order to support firms' ESG performance.

The results of the heterogeneity study show that the beneficial effect varies depending on the business ownership, experience of the CEO, and factor intensity. Our research offers guidance to policymakers on how to encourage businesses to engage in greater social responsibility.

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Business

Business analysis
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Requirements Analysis and Documentation
Strategic Analysis and Design

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Business Rules
Object-oriented Analysis
Structured Analysis

Finance

Business Intelligence
Business Information Systems
Corporate Finance and Governance
Digital Financial Intermediation
Finance & Investment

Financial Risks and Capital Flows
Global Business
International Finance
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles

Meanwhile, submissions aligned with the overall conference theme are also welcome.

Management

Advertising
Business Performance Management
Decision Sciences
Development Planning and Policy
Entrepreneurship
Human Resource
Information Systems
Information Technology Management
Labor Relations & Human Resource Management
Management Information Systems

Operations Research
Organizational Behavior & Theory
Production/Operations Management
Public Administration and Small Business Entrepreneurship
Public Relations
Public Responsibility and Ethics
Strategic Management
Systems Thinking
Time Management
Total Quality Management

Economics

Economic Development
Comparative Economic Systems
Consumer Behavior
Economic Systems
Financial Economics
Household Behavior and Family Economics
Industrial and Manufacturing
International Economics

Labor Economics
Law and Economics
Market Structure and Pricing
Marketing Research and Strategy
Public Choice
Productivity and Economic Growth
Regulatory Economics
Travel/Transportation/Tourism
Welfare Economics

Submission

Prospective authors are kindly invited to submit full papers that include title, abstract, introduction, tables, figures, conclusion and references. It is unnecessary to submit an abstract in advance. The deadline for general submission is March 7, 2025.

Each paper should be no less than 4 pages. One regular registration can cover a paper of 6 pages, and additional pages will be charged. Please format your paper well according to the conference template below before submission. Paper Template Download

Please prepare your paper in both .doc/.docx and .pdf format and submit your full paper by email with both formats attached directly to sympo_murcia@icmred.org

Important Dates:

Submission & Payment

Type	Specific Information
Paper Submission Deadline	March 7, 2025
Review Process	2 weeks
Revise & Acceptance	2 weeks
Registration & Payment	2 weeks

Fees

Fees (VAT Included)	Amount
Registration and Publishing Fee (6 pages included)	$450
Additional Page	$40/extra page

Publication

Accepted papers will be published in Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences (AEMPS) (Print ISSN: 2754-1169) and will be submitted to Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), Crossref, CNKI, Portico, Google Scholar, and other databases for indexing. The situation may be affected by factors among databases like processing time, workflow, policy, etc.

Proceeding Title: Advances in Economics Management and Political Sciences (AEMPS)
Press: EWA Publishing, United Kingdom
ISSN: 2754-1169 2754-1177 (electronic)

* The papers will be exported to production and publication on a regular basis. Early-registered papers are expected to be published online earlier.

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