ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Visible Hand: Do Government Subsidies Promote
Green Innovation Performance
– Moderating Effect of Ownership Concentration
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School of Economics, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China
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Suzhou University of Science an Technology, Wuhan, China
Submission date: 2020-02-08
Final revision date: 2020-06-06
Acceptance date: 2020-06-06
Online publication date: 2020-09-09
Publication date: 2020-11-10
Corresponding author
Sumin Hu
School of Economics, Wuhan university of Technology, China
Pol. J. Environ. Stud. 2021;30(1):881-892
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ABSTRACT
Enterprise green innovation is an important way to promote sustainable development of the
environment. This paper focuses on the impact of government subsidies on enterprise green innovation,
as well as the moderating role of ownership concentration on the relationship. Using China’s data on
high-tech enterprises listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2011 to 2016, the hypotheses are tested.
The results suggest that: government subsidies effectively improve the enterprises green innovation
performance; ownership concentration displays a positively U-shaped effect in relation to green
innovation; equity concentration has an inverted U-shaped moderating effect on the relationship
between government subsidies and green innovation performance. Moreover, the baseline conclusions
applied to SOEs do not apply to non-SOEs. Thus, an integrated framework of public supported resources
and internal governance is built to improve the efficiency of government subsidies to develop green new
technologies and ultimately promote the sustainability of the environment.