This paper shows that a standard deviation increase in carbon emissions by listed firms in China increases the odds of M&A (a green asset acquisition) by over 33% (over 81%) to achieve a green transition. However, firms decrease their R&D investment which tends to be fraught with technical and...

Using the hand-collected ownership data from a large sample of Chinese listed firms, we examine the link between foreign strategic ownership and firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR). We find that foreign strategic ownership is significantly associated with higher CSR performance....

Brand naming challenges are more complex in logographic languages (e.g., Chinese), compared with phonographic languages (e.g., English), because the former features looser correspondence between sound and meaning. With these two dimensions of sound and meaning, the authors propose a four-way...