应学院可持续发展与环境管理研究所所长吴建祖教授邀请，南京大学商学院卜茂亮副教授将在我院开展学术交流活动,特开设如下讲座,欢迎有兴趣的师生届时参加!

讲座主题：跨国公司与中国可持续发展

讲座时间：2017年10月18日9:00-12:00

讲座地点：亚洲bet57365游戏大厅医学校区杏林楼学院第五教室

主 持 人：吴建祖 教授

讲座简介：

讲座将围绕以下文章，分享关于跨国公司与可持续发展的研究进展：

Bu, M. & Wagner, M. 2016. Racing To The Bottom And Racing To The Top: The Crucial Role Of Firm Characteristics In Foreign Direct Investment Choices. Journal of International Business Studies, 47(9): 1032-57.

文章简介：

This study builds on the pollution haven and induced innovation arguments as explanations for firm behavior with regard to international environmental management and argues both need to be integrated. This implies that foreign direct investment is capable of facilitating a ‘race to the bottom’ and a ‘race to the top’ simultaneously. Using novel and detailed data, we test whether environmental capabilities and weaknesses and other characteristics affect US firms’foreign direct investment choices in Chinese provinces with more or less stringent environmental regulation. This enables a more detailed analysis by allowing country regulation to vary spatially and over time. Our study finds that heterogeneity in capabilities and firm size jointly determine foreign direct investment and in doing so shows the simultaneity of a race to the bottom and to the top. Specifically, firms with environmental capabilities invest in more stringently regulated regions and firms with weaknesses are less likely to target such regions. These diverging effects are both moderated by firm size, which further amplifies each of them. Our findings underscore the need to integrate pollution haven and induced innovation arguments in a joint analysis. They furthermore show the relevance of methodological choices when testing hypotheses integrating the above arguments empirically.

主讲人简介：

卜茂亮，南京大学商学院副教授、Hopkins-Nanjing Center兼职教授、南京大学人文社会科学研究院驻院学者。曾获得德国洪堡学者荣誉称号，担任德国哥廷根大学博士后，荷兰格罗宁根大学、瑞典哥德堡大学访问教授。在Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS)等国内外高水平期刊发表论文二十多篇。担任International Studies of Management & Organization (ISMO)期刊客座主编，《南大商学评论》执行编委。

附件： Racing to the bottom and racing to the top：The crucial role of firm characteristics in foreign direct investment choices