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 Volume 7, Issue 6 (June 2020), Pages: 33-39

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Impact of environmental performance on sustainable development: A case study of GCC companies

 Author(s): Hichem Dkhili *, Lassad Ben Dhiab

 Affiliation(s):

 College of Business Administration, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5773-1494

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2020.06.005

 Abstract:

This paper aims to study the impact of environmental performance on sustainable development. The objective of the study is to examine the causal relationship between environmental performance and sustainable development. Based on a standard model, which includes the variables of environmental performance and development, the type of relationship was determined in a selected sample of the GCC companies during the period between 2012 and 2018. In this context, dynamic panel data models, especially GMM, will be used. The results are expected to show that the level of environmental performance has a positive impact on the level of sustainable development by analyzing the impact of institutional attributes significantly on environmental performance. Finally, we should focus on the determinants of this effect by studying the environmental and social impacts on environmental performance. 

 © 2020 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Environmental performance, Sustainable development, Institutional factors

 Article History: Received 30 November 2019, Received in revised form 6 March 2020, Accepted 8 March 2020

 Acknowledgment:

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 Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Dkhili H and Ben Dhiab L (2020). Impact of environmental performance on sustainable development: A case study of GCC companies. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 7(6): 33-39

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