Promoting or Inhibiting? The Impact of Enterprise Environmental Performance on Economic Performance: Evidence from China’s Large Iron and Steel Enterprises

In recent years, the importance of corporate environmental responsibility has gradually become more prominent. This study combines Slack-based Measurement (SBM) model with “Super-efficiency” to construct an performance evaluation based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), which is used measure China’s large iron and steel enterprises from 2009 2017. Moreover, impact enterprise economic studied by regression analysis. The results show that in China are inverted U-shaped relationship. encourages be proactive management maintain enhance their competitive edge. Therefore, this research suggests should balance relationship between performance, adopt protection behaviors carry out production operation, maximize performance.