生物多样性 ›› 2026, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (1): 25246.  DOI: 10.17520/biods.2025246  cstr: 32101.14.biods.2025246

• 生物多样性保护融资与企业参与专题 • 上一篇    下一篇

企业生物多样性保护驱动路径与模式

蒙仁嘉1,2, 秦涛1, 汤心萌1,*()   

  1. 1.北京林业大学经济管理学院, 北京 100083
    2.暨南大学经济与社会研究院, 广州, 510632
  • 收稿日期:2025-06-30 接受日期:2025-12-05 出版日期:2026-01-20 发布日期:2026-02-06
  • 通讯作者: 汤心萌
  • 基金资助:
    国家博士后创新人才支持计划(GZC20230251);国家博士后面上项目(2024M750194);中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金(200-GK122401318);中央高校基本科研业务费专项资金(YT6000052)

The driving path and mode of enterprises’ biodiversity conservation

Renjia Meng1,2, Tao Qin1, Xinmeng Tang1,*()   

  1. 1 School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
    2 Institute for Economic and Social Research, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
  • Received:2025-06-30 Accepted:2025-12-05 Online:2026-01-20 Published:2026-02-06
  • Contact: Xinmeng Tang
  • Supported by:
    Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(GZC20230251);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation General Program(2024M750194);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(200-GK122401318);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(YT6000052)

摘要:

当前全球生物多样性保护面临严峻的资金缺口问题, 亟需市场资金参与以缓解资金压力。同时, 生物多样性风险已成为企业重要的系统性风险, 迫使企业必须积极应对。因此, 亟需在微观企业层面展开深入研究, 以系统揭示企业生物多样性保护的内在驱动机制, 为我国企业深化生物多样性保护实践提供理论支撑。基于此, 本文构建“技术资源禀赋-组织治理结构-环境情景驱动”三维分析框架, 针对我国沪深A股2006-2022年1,714家上市公司, 运用模糊集定性比较分析(fsQCA)方法, 从组态视角解析企业生物多样性保护的驱动机制。研究发现: (1)技术资源禀赋、组织治理结构和环境情景驱动三者协同构成企业生物多样性保护的必要条件; (2)识别出4种典型企业生物多样性保护驱动路径, 包括企业治理引导型、财务状况驱动型、市场压力倒逼型以及自然禀赋依托型, 其分别能够解释大约14%、16%、18%和23%企业的生物多样性保护策略; (3)我国企业保护行为呈现“外部驱动主导、主动引领为辅”特征; (4)驱动与阻碍路径存在“非对称性”, 低水平保护企业主要受限于内部环境受限型和环境引导失效型两种情境。本研究识别出的差异化驱动路径可为政府部门制定生物多样性保护分类指导政策、精准激励企业参与提供科学依据。本文通过拓展技术-组织-环境框架并运用组态视角, 构建了三维分析框架, 系统揭示了企业生物多样性保护的多元并发驱动机制, 深化了对微观企业环境责任行为的理论认知。

关键词: 生物多样性, 企业保护行为, 驱动路径, 技术-组织-环境理论, 组态分析

Abstract

Background & Aims: Global conservation of biodiversity is currently confronting severe challenges, among which the funding gap is particularly pronounced. There is an urgent need for innovative mechanisms to channel market-based capital into conservation efforts and to stimulate corporate initiative. However, there is a significant structural imbalance exists within the current academic literature. Research at the macro level, focusing on conservation governance philosophies and development models, is relatively abundant. In contrast, studies at the micro level, particularly those investigating the driving mechanisms of corporate behavior, remain scarce. A systematic understanding of the specific pathways and models through which enterprises can enhance their biodiversity conservation performance has yet to be fully developed. Consequently, there is a critical imperative to conduct in-depth research at the micro enterprise level. Such research is essential to systematically unravel the intrinsic driving mechanisms behind corporate biodiversity conservation, thereby providing a theoretical foundation for Chinese enterprises to deepen their practical engagement in biodiversity protection.

Methods: In light of this research gap, this study undertakes dual efforts at both theoretical and methodological levels. First, through a theoretical extension and contextual adaptation of the traditional technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework, we construct a three-dimensional integrated analytical framework termed “technical resource endowment-organizational governance structure-environmental context-driven”. This framework provides a systematic antecedent explanation for corporate biodiversity conservation behaviors. Second, leveraging panel data from 1,714 A-share listed companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges’ (2006-2022), we empirically dissect the multiple driving pathways for corporate biodiversity conservation. This is achieved by applying the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method, which allows for an examination from a configurational perspective of causal conditions.

Results: (1) Within the modified TOE theoretical framework, the synergistic interaction of technical resource endowment, organizational governance structure, and environmental context-driven constituted a necessary condition for forming effective pathways driving high levels of corporate biodiversity conservation. No single dimension of these conditions was sufficient to effectively promote corporate biodiversity conservation on its own. (2) We identified several typical configurations leading to high levels of corporate biodiversity conservation. These archetypes included the corporate governance guided model, the financial condition driven model, the market pressure forced model, and the natural endowment reliant model. These configurations could explain the biodiversity conservation strategies of approximately 14%, 16%, 18%, and 23% of the sampled enterprises, respectively. (3) The current state of corporate biodiversity conservation in China was characterized by a distinct predominance of external drivers, with proactive leadership playing a supplementary role. Specifically, enterprises that were passively adapting, driven primarily by market pressures or natural resource endowments, collectively accounted for about 41% of the sample. In contrast, systematically proactive enterprises, characterized by active governance improvements or dedicated financial investments, constituted only 30%. (4) A significant “asymmetry” existed between the pathways that drive high levels of biodiversity conservation and those associated with low levels. Enterprises demonstrating low levels of biodiversity protection were primarily constrained by two specific situational configurations: the internal environment constrained type and the environmental guidance ineffective type.

Implications & Contributions: The differentiated driving pathways identified in this research offer a scientific basis for government agencies to formulate categorized guidance policies for biodiversity conservation. This enables more precise and targeted incentives to encourage corporate participation, moving beyond a one-size-fits-all approach. This study makes significant theoretical contributions by extending the TOE framework and employing a configurational perspective. The construction of the three-dimensional analytical framework systematically uncovers the multiple, concurrent driving mechanisms of corporate biodiversity conservation. This deepens the theoretical understanding of environmental responsibility behaviors at the micro-enterprise level, highlighting the complex interplay of factors that shape corporate action in this critical domain.

Key words: biodiversity, corporate conservation behavior, driving pathways, technology-organization-environment theory, configuration analysis