This study examines the impact of judicial protection of intellectual property rights on firms' independent innovation. Using a staggered difference-in-differences model with panel data from Chinese manufacturing listed businesses (2014-2021) and the successive establishment of intellectual...

We consider the actions of two suppliers investing in pollution abatement innovations and also choosing end-of-pipe pollution reduction levels when the buyer chooses different sourcing strategies. To encourage improvements in environmental performance of suppliers in emerging economies, the...

This study aimed at exploring the critical factors for enterprises to adopt broadband mobile applications. The results are expected to guide enterprises to strengthen their competitiveness. Further, since the broadband mobile applications were integrated with many characteristics of information...

When only short-term loans are available, innovative firms may become more reluctant to invest in long-term and highly risky investment projects (i.e., radical innovation). By exploiting the unique situation in China that patenting firms for the first time obtained patent-backed loans (PBLs),...