Does charitable giving reduce firms’ willingness to invest in green innovation?

Hongpeng Wang

PLOS ONE · 2022-12-29
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Evidence limits: Adjacent observational evidence from Chinese listed manufacturing companies in 2016–2019. Green patent measures are not verified environmental benefits; nonlinear estimated associations do not identify a causal donation optimum.
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