This is a pioneer study investigating the relationship between environmental compliance and TFP convergence for SMEs. It examines the impacts of environmental compliance, and its combination with innovation, on TFP convergence of manufacturing SMEs. We applied the dynamic panel regression method...

This research investigates the intricate connections between environmental crimes, profitability, leverage, and environmental disclosure in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia from 2014 to 2019. The study adopts legitimacy theory as its theoretical lens. This study focuses on the...

It remains an open question whether the impact of environmental regulations differs by the size of the business. Such differences might be expected because of statutory, enforcement, and/or compliance asymmetries. Here, we consider the net effect of these three asymmetries, by estimating the...