Complementary technological linkages provide access to the external technology at lower cost and compensate for weak or absent local technological capabilities, which has an important role in improving carbon emissions efficiency. This study examines this issue in the industrial sector in China....

Blockchain is considered by many to be a disruptive core technology. Although many researchers have realized the importance of blockchain, the research of blockchain is still in its infancy. Consequently, this study reviews the current academic research on blockchain, especially in the subject...

Universities, enterprises, and students are the key subjects in the talent training system of Big Data. This study used text mining, interviews, questionnaires, and other methods to analyze the characteristics and deficiencies of Chinese universities in the training of Big Data talents, the...

Drawing upon a genealogy density of chairpersons' native places for Chinese family firms to measure the intensity of clan culture, this study uses regression analysis and chooses the fixed model with firm clusters to examine the impact of regional clan culture on firms' corporate social...

The establishment of government investment funds serves as a crucial measure for governments at all levels to leverage their certification role and financial resources in attracting social capital to support enterprise development. This paper empirically examines the guiding certification effect...

This study utilizes firm-level data from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey Indicator Database, conducted between 2009 and 2018 for 32 countries in Africa, to examine the causal relationship between firm productivity, innovation, and financial development. We show evidence that firm innovation...

This paper investigates the cross-section of expected commodity futures returns in China using a large panel of 13 individual factors. We find that 6 out of 13 individual factors produce positive and significant returns. To aggregate the information among these factors, we apply not only the...