Due to the change in attitudes and lifestyles, people expect to find new partners and friends via various ways now-a-days. Online dating networks create a network for people to meet each other and allow making contact with different objectives of developing a personal, romantic or sexual...

Large amounts of carbon have been emitted in both the production and consumption ends of the fuel vehicle. So this paper develops a game model of the fuel car supply chain involving a government, a manufacturer, and multiple retailers to address this issue. In it, the government imposes a fuel...

Local treasury cash management is an important public finance management activity. Through theoretical analysis and empirical test, this paper discusses the mechanism for transmission from treasury cash management to the real economy, and analyzes the impact of treasury cash management on...

This paper examines the impact of COVID‐19 lockdowns on exports by Chinese cities. We use city‐level export data at a monthly frequency from January 2018 through April 2020. Differences‐in‐differences estimates suggest cities in lockdown experienced a ceteris paribus 34 percentage points...

Hong, Li, Minor (2015) paper studied that agency cost perspective of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and concluded CSR activities are beneficial to both firm and shareholders. And there is existence of Executive compensation contract has incentive for CSR. But does CSR provide incentive...

Grounded in the institutional theory and impressive management theory, this study establishes a link between star CEOs and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. We first find that star CEOs are positively related to ESG performance and star CEOs related to the central...

This paper considers consumers' concerns about the conformance quality and greenness of products to investigate the impact of two coordination models, capital coordination and cost-sharing, on the optimal decision of a green supply chain consisting of a manufacturer and multiple retailers. The...

Developing an all-biomass feedstock, simple process and low-cost way to achieve cotton fabric flame retardation is of great significance in civil, military and industrial fields. Herein, making use of layer-by-layer coating of protein extracted from fishery waste fish scales and phytic acid (PA)...

Oxygen-containing functional groups on the surface of carbon materials can promote the adsorption capacity of radioactive thorium ions (Th(IV)), but their effect on the adsorption of Th(IV) has not been systematically revealed. Herein, to elucidate the nature of oxygen-containing group-mediated...