Photovoltaic (PV) technology, as a low-carbon energy technology, is crucial to mitigating climate change and achieving sustainable development. China has the largest total number of PV technology patents in the world, but the lack of core technologies has restricted the further innovative...

In the digital economy era, the pathways of digital transformation and intelligent development have emerged as crucial avenues for enterprises' high-quality development. Focusing on listed private enterprises from 2011 to 2020, this study uses text mining to extract keywords related to digital...

In this paper, we examine how religious and political factors affect a firm’s corporate workforce diversity policies and diversity performance.Our data is composed of 20,446 firms-year observations on S&P 1500 firms spanning a period from 2003 to 2012. We collect the religion and political...

In this research study, we seek to examine whether US public companies with gender diverse boards report better long-term, non-financial and financial performance. Using observations from 2003 to 2012, we find that gender diversity on corporate boards has a more positive impact on a firm’s...