Purpose This study aims to track the historical development in tourism and hospitality research over the past 30 years by applying a novel interdisciplinary approach, combining both corpus linguistics and bibliometric analysis. Design/methodology/approach Most frequently discussed topics and...

Purpose The main purpose of our study is to investigate the impact of daily leader humor behaviors on healthcare workers’ daily psychological state and behavioral outcomes. Design/methodology/approach Based on the conservation of resources (COR) theory, this study proposes that daily leader...

We examine whether M&A transactions between firms sharing a common lender differ in important ways from those without common lenders. Consistent with the idea that banks serve a positive matchmaking role, we find higher abnormal announcement returns for deals in which the bidder and target share...

PurposeDid Chinese cities whose public health departments are headed by medical professionals fare better in fighting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)?Design/methodology/approachThe authors collected the professional background of the directors of the public health departments of 350 Chinese...

Using employment history data from LinkedIn, we report the number and characteristics of employees who joined public corporations after leaving the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 1980 to 2012. Public corporations hired more than 1,200 former IRS employees, a number similar to the number of...

This study investigates the effect of targeted reserve requirement ratio cuts (TRRRCs) on tax avoidance among small and micro enterprises (SMEs) with operating revenues below specific cutoffs in China. Using a regression discontinuity design, we causally show that, by increasing loan...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relations of investment and stock prices (Tobin‐Q), the impact of asymmetric information on the investment sensitivity to stock price, and the impact of asymmetric information on the stock price sensitivity to investment....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of idiosyncratic risk on firm decisions. Design/methodology/approach – By introducing managerial ownership as a key variable, the paper presents a parsimonious model to describe the consequences of idiosyncratic risk on firm...

Purpose This study aims to examine the effects of human capital, such as top managers and employees, on the relationship between export and firm innovation. Although the issue of how firms remain creative and competitive in international markets is important both in practice and in research,...