The impact of sustainable public procurement on corporate ESG performance-The Chinese evidence.

ABSTRACT: Public procurement is an important bridge between public demand and market supply and may affect corporate behavior. However, in the advocacy of sustainable development, the extant research has rarely combined sustainable public procurement (SPP) with corporate ESG performance, to explore whether governments have contributed to the development of sustainable corporate performance through their sustainable procurement activities. This paper fills in the gap by matching the actual implementation of SPP of 42,369 projects in China over 2015~2020 with 20,125 corporate ESG performance data, to analyze the relationship between SPP implementation and corporate ESG performance. The results show that the implementation of SPP has a significant positive impact on corporate ESG performance. Further h

SUBMITTER: Li R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10586645 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature