High-level theory holds that CEOs can form different traits through past education and work experience, which to a certain extent affect their psychological structure such as attention tendencies, cognitive abilities, and values, and ultimately affect corporate behavior decision-making choices and their performance.
The CEO's green experience will make him pay more attention to sustainable development issues, thereby affecting the company's sustainable development commitment, can convey the needs of stakeholders to the company, and increase the company's attention to specific sustainable development issues, and then take corresponding environmental responses Behavior.
Data source: Arranged according to the literature
Time span: 2004-2020
Regional scope: Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed companies
Indicator description:
Referring to existing research (Jiang Fuxiu and Huang Jiji, 2013; Xu Nianxing and Li Zhe, 2016), manually find out whether the CEO has received "green" related education or engaged in "green" related work from the resume data of executives. If the CEO of the enterprise has green experience, Green takes the value of 1, otherwise, takes the value of 0.
references:
[1] Lu Jianci, Jiang Guangsheng. Can CEO Green Experience Promote Green Innovation of Enterprises? [J]. Economic Management, 2022,44(02):106-121.
[2] Liu Qiang, Wang Weinan, Chen Hengyu. Research on the Impact of the Implementation of the "Green Credit Guidelines" on the Innovation Performance of Heavy Pollution Enterprises [J]. Beijing: Scientific Research Management, 2020, (11): 100-112.
[3] Li Wenjing, Lu Xiaoyan. Do institutional investors care about corporate environmental performance? ——Empirical evidence from listed companies in heavily polluting industries in my country [J]. Beijing: Financial Research, 2015, (12): 97-112.
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