Identification of the factors that affect the environmental administrative burden for businesses

Kotnik, Žiga (author), Klun, Maja (author), Slabe Erker, Renata (author)

Environmental regulations bring social benefits and contribute to lessening environmental damage. At the same time, due to the rapidly changing and complex environmental legislation, businesses incur costs, including administrative burdens. The article presents quantitative evidence on the factors that affect the compliance costs of environmental regulations. For this purpose, we used a binary model of logistic regression with the following predictors: enterprise characteristics, the relevance of environmental regulations for business operations, and the impact of environmental stimulus measures on compliance costs. The results of the study suggest that medium-sized enterprises are less likely to experience the environmental administrative burden than small enterprises. However, no difference has been found between large and small enterprises. Further, we show that environmental consents are an important determinant of the environmental administrative burden and that financial environmental measures can have a positive impact thereon.

• Language: English
• Keywords: compliance costs, environmental regulations, logistic regression, red tape
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FU - Faculty of Administration
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: 15 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 12, iss. 16, art. 6555
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-125633
• UDC: 502.131.1:658
• ISSN on article: 2071-1050
• DOI: 10.3390/su12166555
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25119491
• Publication date in RUL: 29.03.2021

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Sustainability
• Shortened title: Sustainability
• Publisher: MDPI
• ISSN: 2071-1050
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5324897

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 29.03.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: stroški uskladitve, okoljski predpisi, logistična regresija, birokracija

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0096
• Name: Nova razvojna strategija Slovenije v EU

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0093
• Name: Razvoj sistema učinkovite in uspešne javne uprave