“Noon Sunshine-Young Scholars Seminar” is a regular academic exchange platform held by School of Finance. It aims to offer valuable occasions of communications among scholars in our college, between teachers and students, the domestic and the oversea. In this semester, we keep our original intention, set off for a new voyage. We will devote ourselves to fostering the academic atmosphere in the college, and promoting the academic level for both teachers and students.

The seventh session of “Noon Sunshine-Young Scholars Seminar” for the Autumn Semester in 2023 is arranged as follows:

Lecture topic

National Culture and Clean Global Supply-Chain  

Keynote Speaker: Duan Yuejiao

Commentator: Zhang Yunqi

Date

Thursday, November 9th, 2023

Time

12:00-13:00

Lecture Venue  

Room 116, School of Finance

Abstract

The environmental performance propagates from customers to suppliers. Using a worldwide unique database, we examine whether customer’s national culture plays a significant role in the transmission of corporate environmental policies in global supply-chain context. We show that a customer characterized by higher individualism is negatively associated with supplier’s environmental performance, whereas customer with higher uncertainty avoidance has a positively significant effect. The results are robust to endogeneity tests, subsample, alternative culture measures, and additional controls. It indicates that global supply-chains act as a transmission mechanism for customer’s culture requirements and standards, and suppliers perform differently in their environmental policies.