Impact Of Environment Management Misconduct On Industry Enterprises’ Pollutant Discharge

Environmental governance failure which has direct effect on the enforcement of environmental regulations mainly refers to government officials’corruption and malpratice actions. Environmental governance failure is one of the most significant reasons that lead to industrial enterprises’excess pollutant discharge behavior. There are many researches about the impact of corruption on the problem of environmental pollution and most of them take government officials’malpractice and corruption as the same, ignoring that their influence mechanisms are different. So, this paper will distinguish government officials’malpractice from corruption and analyze their effects on enterprises’profit and pollutant discharge strategies. In addition, as the Environmental Kuznets theory, with the development of economy, the societies’preference for environment protection will raise accordingly, which means that industrial enterprises that merely purse maximum profit while neglecting their duty on environment protection will hardly survive. Thus, this paper further considered the impact of social reputation on the relationship between corruption, malpractice and enterprises’pollutant discharge strategies.In the study, enterprises’profit function model that takes corruption and malpractice as two key variables was built up, and profits comparison under different situations was conducted to obtain the optimum discharge strategy. And the profit change diagram of different government officials’corruption degree and malpractice degree was made with Matlab to obtain the optimum discharge strategy. Seven findings are built up. To test the above findings, three measures are taken. Comparative Statics method is firstly used to test the stability of the model and the results shows that the change of the form of variables has no effect on the model. Secondly, the value of the related parameters, such as the parameter a that is used to reflect the society’s preference for enterprises’ economy contributions are changed to test the stability of the model and the results shows that changes in the value of related parameters have no effect on the model and the according findings; Finally, using the data of 520samples from 26cities in Zhejiang Province, Anhui province and Jiangsu Province from 2014to 2015, empirical analysis was carried on to improve the finding of the theoretical model:the existence of corruption will aggravate enterprises’pollutant discharge problem, government officials’neglect of duty problems will aggravate enterprises’pollutant discharge problem. The empirical result confirmed this conclusion once more.Totally to say, seven findings are built up by solving the theoretical model I built. For further, using the data of 520samples from 26cities from 2014to 2015, empirical analysis was carried on to improve the finding of the theoretical model. Finally, the findings of this paper are as follows:(1)the existence of corruption will aggravate enterprises’pollutant discharge problem.(2) government officials’neglect of duty problems will aggravate enterprises’ pollutant discharge problem.(3) Enterprises pollutant discharge amount will be maximized when corruption is serious and rise in government officials’diligence degree will have no influence on enterprise’s pollutant discharge behavior.(4)only when underlying discharge behavior is chosen, will enterprises choose to reduce their pollutant discharge amount voluntarily.(5)the lower the pollutant treatment cost is, the higher the elasticity of enterprises’ pollutant discharge amount on government officials’diligence degree.(6)social assessment have great impact on enterprises pollutant discharge behavior.(7)industrial sectors with higher pollutant treatment cost have larger pollutant discharge amount.