As society becomes more and more aware of the negative impacts of many business operations on environment and many other aspects of society, many companies start to adopt environmental–friendly activities due to the increasing pressures and concerns. How to improve company's environmental...

Increasing concerns regarding environment and sustainability drive firms to devote resources to green product development to satisfy customers’ preference and gain competitive advantage. Organizations require an effective learning orientation along with a market-based orientation in order to...

Consumers may need help using an inherently complex or information-intensive product after purchase. This paper studies the incentive for a manufacturer or a retailer to invest in pre-sales service effort that would reduce the consumer's likelihood of seeking after-sales support. Because...

This study investigates how a professional service provider’s external integration with global clients and internal integration across various functional units impact its innovation and performance under various external environmental uncertainties. Drawing on the theory of organisational...

As emerging markets increasingly play important roles in outsourcing, we focus on the complex relationships in the professional service outsourcing environment. Building on information processing and contingency theories, this paper contributes to the much-needed efforts in the study of...

Many business managers start to adopt environmental-friendly activities due to pressures and concerns regarding the potential adverse environmental impacts from their regular activities. However, there is no consensus regarding whether better environmental performance can lead to superior...

In March 2018, the US used an immense trade deficit as an excuse to provoke trade friction with China. This study uses the EGARCH model and event study methods to study the impact of the major risk event of Sino-US trade friction on soybean futures markets in China and the United States. Results...

China's speedy industrialization has undertaken mostly a crude path with extensive energy consumption and severe environmental damage. In face of the challenge of global warming and resource restrictions, it calls for urgent green transformation for the sustainable development of China's...

This paper investigates the impact of Contingent Convertible (CoCo bonds) on systemic risk. Based on the network and liquidity channel, we compare the differences in default contagion and clearing payment between financial systems with and without CoCo bonds. By analyzing the sensitivity of...

Background: Intuitively speaking, there is an inverse proportional relationship between exports and overcapacity, which means in export’s busy season, enterprises would expand output and improve capacity utilization rate but control yields to avoid dull sale in slack season, causing...