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Relationship embedding and environmental governance performance research of pollution in a mining area, China

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The aim of this study was to explore the enterprises in the mining area, in the face of environmental pollution, to use relationship embedding to acquire new key knowledge from the external network, and to improve environmental governance performance. In this paper, a model between relationship embedding and environmental governance performance was established, and five main hypotheses were proposed. Luliang Mountain Area is a typical mining area in China. And this study used 310 sample datum and regression analysis to empirically test the mechanism, taking Luliang Mountain Area as an example. First, SPSS statistical software was used for reliability and validity analysis of the questionnaire, and the results showed good. Then regression analysis was performed to test the hypothesis. The results showed that relationship embedding has a significant positive impact on environmental governance performance, and enterprises in the mining area use relationship embedding to obtain key knowledge, which can enhance environmental governance performance. Internal social capital has a positive adjustment effect on the relationship between relationship embedding and knowledge acquisition. In order to control environmental pollution in the mining area, enterprises should make full use of the relationship embedding, acquire new key knowledge, improve environmental governance capacity, and improve the environmental governance performance of enterprises.

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This paper is supported by the Shanxi Province Advantage Discipline Climbing Plan Funds and the National Social Science Fund (General Projects): Research on the In-depth Development of Civil-military Integration (Grant No.: 19BGL295).

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    Jun Mi, Jie Bian, Yaru Liu & Wenxia Guo

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Mi, J., Bian, J., Liu, Y. et al. Relationship embedding and environmental governance performance research of pollution in a mining area, China. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27, 37199–37209 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-07390-2

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