Environmental tax, SME financing constraint and innovation: Evidence from OECD countries
Environmental tax, SME financing constraint and innovation: Evidence from OECD countries
This article examines the impact of an environmental tax on small and medium enterprise (SME) innovation and how SME financing constraint moderates this relationship. Given the paucity of research on the implications of financing constraints on SMEs’ green innovative activities, the article adopts cross-country panel data to investigate the impact of environmental tax on SME's innovative activities across 24 OECD countries for the period 2000–2019. Results from our article indicate that an increase in environmental tax leads to a decrease in SME innovation. Furthermore, we also find that financing constraint positively moderates the relationship between environmental tax and SME innovation. Our findings shed new light on the theoretical and practical implications of financing constraints on SMEs’ green innovative activities.
Costs, Economic indicators, Economics, Environmental tax, Finance, Green products, Instruments, Technological innovation, governance, green innovation, small and medium enterprises (SME) financial constraints
Tingbani, Ishmael
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Salia, Samuel
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Hussain, Javid
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Yahaya, Alhassan
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Tingbani, Ishmael
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Salia, Samuel
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Hussain, Javid
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Yahaya, Alhassan
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Tingbani, Ishmael, Salia, Samuel, Hussain, Javid and Yahaya, Alhassan
(2021)
Environmental tax, SME financing constraint and innovation: Evidence from OECD countries.
IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.
(doi:10.1109/TEM.2021.3110812).
Abstract
This article examines the impact of an environmental tax on small and medium enterprise (SME) innovation and how SME financing constraint moderates this relationship. Given the paucity of research on the implications of financing constraints on SMEs’ green innovative activities, the article adopts cross-country panel data to investigate the impact of environmental tax on SME's innovative activities across 24 OECD countries for the period 2000–2019. Results from our article indicate that an increase in environmental tax leads to a decrease in SME innovation. Furthermore, we also find that financing constraint positively moderates the relationship between environmental tax and SME innovation. Our findings shed new light on the theoretical and practical implications of financing constraints on SMEs’ green innovative activities.
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Accepted/In Press date: 16 September 2021
e-pub ahead of print date: 18 October 2021
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Costs, Economic indicators, Economics, Environmental tax, Finance, Green products, Instruments, Technological innovation, governance, green innovation, small and medium enterprises (SME) financial constraints
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