Purpose: The purpose of this paper discusses the fundamental nature of the corporate awards disclosed in the annual reports of Chinese A-share listed companies. The authors hypothesise and investigate the role of awards playing as non-financial performance, which is a Chinese characteristic,...

Purpose: Previous literature suggests that people might purchase symbolic products to signal their social identity. However, in the organizational context, subordinates as customers might choose products with less brand prestige than what they want and can afford, just to make sure their...

By using the relevant data from 273 valid questionnaires of rural households in Jianhu County, Jiangsu Province and the Probit model, the influencing factors of rural households’ credit demand are analyzed. The results show that the factors that influencing the credit demand of rural...

With the rising of social media, firms seek to contract with key opinion leaders (KOLs) who have strong influence on their social media followers, to promote products of the firms by making videos. This paper studies the problem of how to select KOLs and schedule their advertising campaigns in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine Chinese firms’ long-term value creation derived from cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBMAs). Design/methodology/approach – The authors collected a sample of 140 CBMAs conducted by Chinese firms listed in Shenzhen and Shanghai stock...

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to explore the association between eating patterns, social identity and the well-being of adolescents via a mixed methods study of Chinese teenagers. The specific research questions presented in this study are as follows: What is the relationship between...

Purpose: This study aims to examine the effect of workplace sexual harassment (WSH) on hospitality employees’ workplace deviance and family undermining behaviors by focusing on the mediating effect of depression. Design/methodology/approach: This research uses a three-phase field survey to...

Purpose: This paper aims to describe the results of four studies that examine the interaction effects between locus of causality and social presence on consumers’ emotional response to a service failure and how they subsequently cope with the negative emotional experiences through...