In the context of global sustainable development, the relationship between environmental, social responsibility, and governance (ESG) performance and multi-stakeholder value creation has been widely discussed. However, there is a complex causal relationship between ESG performance and value...

With the growing attention being paid to environmental issues by the public, environmental information disclosure (EID) has become a vital means for firms to convey their social responsibility and an important information source for lending institutions to assess firm credit risk. Based on the...

Purpose Some economic theories have influenced the reform of the socialist open economy with Chinese characteristics. As a new practice of socialism, an open economy is not only driven by China's productivity level and people's living standards but also regulated by the law of commodity...

This study examines the impact of husbands' wages on their wives' labor force participation rates and hours worked in urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of married women with similar education levels. Controlling...