Ecological environmental protection has always been one of the key areas of national attention, it is related to the sustainable and healthy development of enterprises. Green investment and environmental protection, as the key issues of enterprise development and progress, require enterprises to take the green development road. Under the multiple requirements of social responsibility and environmental responsibility, enterprises need to highly coordinate and integrate environmental responsibility and corporate sustainable development to achieve common development of the two. While implementing green investment strategy, enterprises should pay attention to corporate performance, so as to achieve a win-win situation of good economic benefits and ecological protection. This paper sorts out the relevant research results on green input, enterprise performance and the relationship between them, summarizes the concept, research status and driving factors of green input, summarizes the connotation, evaluation and influencing factors of enterprise performance, and finally sorts out the existing research on the relationship between the two, and clarifies the sequence relationship.

Jihui Sun, Jin Zhang. Review on the Relationship between Green Input and Enterprise Performance. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 16: 138-143. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2023.051619.

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