ESG 압력이 기업의 혁신활동에 미치는 영향: 규제 및 규범적 압력의 효과를 중심으로

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF-2022S1A5A2A03056146).

This paper is a developed version of a part of the first author’s mater’s thesis and used the Korean Innovation Survey (KIS) data provided by the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI).

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