This paper examines Business to Government (B2G) corruption in China. It contributes to existing empirical analyses in several ways. First, it draws on an extensive literature review of the cultural practice of guanxi that often facilitates corruption. Second, it offers new perspectives by...

A large fraction of the variance in aggregate crime rates cannot be explained by observable socioeconomic conditions. Social determinants of crime may drive the unexplained variation, but economic models of social influence so far emphasize the intensity of criminal effort, not the decision of...

In e-commerce live streaming, sellers choose the most suitable streamers to endorse their products. The streamer introduces the main functions of the goods, organizes marketing activities, improves the consumers' shopping experience, and finally facilitates transactions and obtains gifts....

Academic labor markets often exhibit steep hierarchies, with institutions at the top attempting to attract newly minted doctorates from similarly situated institutions in an effort to maintain or improve their reputations. Yet, despite recent research on labor market segmentation in academe, the...

Using data from over 2,000 professionals in 24 large corporations, we show that female leaders shape the relational culture in the workplace dierently than male leaders. Males form homophilic professional ties under male leadership, but female leadership disrupts this pattern, creating a less...