Why Does the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Enhance Firm Value? The Case of Japanese Manufacturing Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 517-529

  Nishitani, Kimitaka ^a   Kokubu, Katsuhiko ^b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental management system; Market discipline imposed by stockholders investors; Random effect instrumental variable model; Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; Tobin's q

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; INVESTMENT; MANUFACTURING; STAKEHOLDER;

JAPAN;

EID: 84870236384     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: 10990836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.734     Document Type: Article

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