The increasing intensity and frequency of extreme climate events have made improving the adaptability to extreme climate events a strategic imperative for manufacturing companies. This paper investigates whether manufacturing enterprises increase green technology innovation affected by different...

By employing a panel dataset of Chinese listed companies spanning from 2010 to 2021, our study empirically examines the correlation between corporate financialization and corporate green innovation, and explores its heterogeneities in terms of property rights structure and digitalization. Our...

Purpose Doctors' labour and medicines are special necessities for human survival and evolution. Since China launched the healthcare reform, the theoretical circles' discussions have not yet clarified the respective special properties of doctors' labour and medicines as goods and the internal...

This paper examines the effect of ownership concentration on engagement in corporate environmental responsibility (CER) in time and spatial dimensions. The time dimension focuses on the macroeconomic environment, in particular, periods of rapid and moderate-speed economic growth. The spatial...

Purpose To enrich the research on the economic consequences of enterprise digital development from the perspective of capacity utilization. Design/methodology/approach Using a sample of listed firms from 2010 to 2020, this paper exploits text analysis of annual reports to construct a proxy for...

Based on a novel dataset constructed with the supplier-consumer paired sample, this paper uses a difference-in-differences approach to evaluate the impact of national high-tech zones on firm performance. We find that the supplier's sales growth rate increased by about 61.35% after the approval...

In this paper, based on the incomplete contract perspective, we select the implementation of the Electronic Commerce Law of the People's Republic of China as a quasi-natural experiment to study the tax compliance incentive effects of platform firms. Our study finds that the Chinese experience...

Despite the booming development of financial technology (fintech) in China, little academic literature has explored the effects of fintech on poverty. This paper explores the effects of fintech on poverty alleviation in the provinces of China. The sample includes data for 31 provinces for the...

Drawing from the circular economy, which prioritizes resource optimization, waste reduction, and operational efficiency, the objective of this study is to investigate the influence of environmental regulations on Green Financial Management (GFM), the role of GFM as a mediator between...