In recent years, air pollution has become an increasingly important issue along with economic and industrial development. To study the interaction between government and enterprises in pollution control, we have developed a differential game model and analyzed their dynamic decision-making process under different governance situations. Three scenarios are considered, including a Nash non-cooper...

This study employs panel data from 1884 listed manufacturing companies in China (2009–2021) to investigate the environmental effects of path dependence on atmospheric pollution emissions. Using dictionary-based textual analysis of annual reports, we measure three dimensions of path dependence—technological, institutional, and managerial—and examine their non-linear relationships with sulfur dio...