A STUDY ON THE CORRELATION BETWEENT BOARD GOVERNANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE

作者：Shi Yihui^*; Zou Yan

来源：13th International Conference on Industrial Management (ICIM 2016), 2016-09-21 to 2016-09-23.

• Board governance
• Environmental performance
• mining industry

A firm's environmental performance is increasinglyattracting more attention, especially the impact from corporate governance. In this paper, we construct an unbalanced panel dataset from 2010 to 2014, using 72 firms in the mining industry as a sample. We focus on the perspective of board governance, which involves tothe board size, the proportion of female directorson boards, the board of directors' share proportion and the number of board meetings, investigating the correlation between board governance and environmental performance. The empirical results show that the size of the board is negatively related to environmental performance and the increase of the proportion of female directors contributes to the improvement of corporate environmental performance. The study also shows that the larger the enterprise scale, the better environmental performance. Moreover, the environmental performance of state-owned enterprises is significantly better than the non-state-owned enterprise environmental performance.

• 出版日期2016
• 单位北京航空航天大学