title: Influences of reverse outsourcing on green technological progress from the perspective of a global supply chain.
abstract: As a newly appeared trade mode in recent years, reverse outsourcing has made a great impact on traditional trade modes. This paper researched the influences of reverse outsourcing on green technological progress from the perspective of a global supply chain by using micro-data of enterprises. It worked out the rate of green technological progress from two innovative concepts: potential production technology and practical production technology. The empirical analysis results indicated that reverse outsourcing stimulates, and enterprise size and ownership type potentially affects, green technological progress. State-owned or foreign enterprises with high income levels would pay more attention to environmental protection, energy saving, and emission reduction, while small and micro enterprises with low incomes would choose to ignore environmental protection.
authors.affiliation: School of Economics, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China.
authors.forename: Shuhong
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: School of Statistics and Applied Mathematics, Anhui Finance and Economics University, Bengbu 233030, China. Electronic address: songmartin@163.com.
authors.forename: Malin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Song
keywords: Enterprise; Global supply chain; Green technological progress; Reverse outsourcing