Numerous researchers acknowledge that the occupational pension protects employees. However, in China, the total cost of occupational pensions is shared between employees and employers, representing a significant financial commitment. This study aimed to explore the effect of the occupational...

Many business contexts, such as advance selling and new product introduction, feature both supply capacity constraints and consumer valuation uncertainty. This motivates investigation of the strategic interaction between consumers' endogenous preference-learning behavior (i.e., consumer...

Management narrative tone in annual reports, either positive or negative, can convey firm-specific information or mislead investors. However, the impacts of positive and negative narrative tones can be different and asymmetric. We provide novel evidence that negative tones facilitate the...

With rapid urbanization and the declining marine fishery, a large number of Chinese coastal fishing villages have transformed into new fishing villages with new industrial structures. Attempting to reveal the process and mechanism of fishing villages’ revitalization driven by industrial...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to investigate the factors influencing citizens' willingness to participate in the development of smart cities. Design/methodology/approach Citizens drawn from 30 second-tier cities in China were chosen as the research object for this empirical research. Based...

Purpose With the continuous development of online shopping, analyzing the competitiveness of products in the fierce market competition is becoming increasingly crucial to position their own product development. However, the information overload brought by the network development makes it getting...