Purpose: To a large extent, the recent global instability is responsible for the rapid structural mutation of the career landscape, thereby affecting individuals' career development, especially expatriates who are subjected to an acculturation process. Even though the cultural element exists in...

Three typical rural villages are chosen as study areas to study the different effects of main influence factors on rural household energy consumption using the ordinary least squares (OLS) model and the quantile regression (QR) model. Three typical rural villages include an affluent rural...

In this paper, we examine the monitoring effect of Directors’ and Officers’ liability insurance (D&O insurance) on firms’ acquisitions in China. We find that firms with managers covered by D&O insurance are less likely to undertake acquisitions and if they do, their acquisitions are...

Purpose – This study examines the spatial and inter-temporal spillover effects of privatization on the corporate efficiency and regional income inequality of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs).Design/Methodology/Approach – The spatial Durbin model (SDM) is used in regressions to examine...