The Study on the Impact of Environmental Regulation on the Performance of High-Tech Industry

Abstract:

In the era of knowledge and low-carbon economy, how environmental regulation can affect the performance of high-tech industry has become a hot topic in many academic studies. Basing on the study sample of the high-tech industry, this paper develops the scales of environmental regulation and the performance of high-tech industry, and then tests the impact of environmental regulation on the performance of high-tech industry through SEM. The results show that command-control environmental regulation has insignificant affect on high-tech industry economic performance, ecological performance and technological performance, but incentive environmental regulation and voluntary environmental regulation have significant positive effect on high-tech industry economic performance, ecological performance and technological performance.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 753-755)
• Pages: 3185-3193
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.753-755.3185
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Chang Hai Wu*, Yu Liang Song, Yan Ming Pan
• Keywords: Environmental Regulation, High-Tech Industry, Industry Performance, SEM

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