Drawing upon organizational culture and institutional theory, this study investigates how institutional pressures motivate the firm to adopt Internet-enabled Supply Chain Management systems (eSCM) and how such effects are moderated by organizational culture. The results of a survey of 131 firms...

Electronic Supply Chain Management systems (eSCMS), as instances of information technologies spanning organizational boundaries, have the potential to provide operational and strategic benefits. However, the high uncertainty of adoption consequences impedes firms from adopting eSCMS. Research on...

Electronic supply chain management (eSCM) has become a popular Web-based seamless supply chain process. Given that Chinese firms are important parts of global supply chains, it is imperative to investigate factors that would affect eSCM adoption in China. In this study, we examine the impact of...

Purpose: The present paper aims to investigate the impact of two different dimensions of supply chain integration on two aspects of firm performance in the emerging economy of China. In addition, the moderating effects of market orientation on the relationship between supply chain integration...

Using a hand-collected sample of CEOs’ foreign experience data for Chinese listed firms from 2008-2018, we investigate the impact of CEO foreign experience on corporate financial investment behaviors. We find a significantly negative association between CEO foreign experience and risky...

Using the data of all A-share listed companies from 2009 to 2018, we find that the group finance companies inhibit the dynamic adjustment speed of capital structure to their optimal level of the related listed companies. The reason is that the controlling shareholders may occupy the related...

In digital economy, firm’s digital transformation is an important means of achieving high-quality development. Adopting career concerns theory, we examine rookie CEOs’ impact on firms’ digital transformations, using Chinese A-share listed firms from 2007 to 2019. (1) Rookie CEOs disclose...

Using data on Chinese listed companies for 2008-2018, we find that firms participating in overseas operations, proxied by overseas subsidiaries, generally have higher financial asset allocations than other firms. At the micro level, the effects are more pronounced when the parent company faces...

In a changing transition economy, Chinese government regulations that adopt the relatively simple bright line rule formula are enforceable in practice. Taking the early reform-oriented policies of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) as an example, we find that the CSRC did not...