Purpose: Food markets are characterized by asymmetric information between suppliers and consumers, which causes inefficiency of market and food safety risks. This paper studies how the food quality and safety information disclosed by the government affects the hazard analysis and critical...

Purpose: As technical barriers gradually become the important tools of trade protection, it is important to understand whether intensified enforcement of border controls is adopted as a hidden tool of trade protectionism and differs across periods and industries. Design/methodology/approach:...

Purpose: This study is based on knowledge-based view to examine the relationships among buyer–supplier interaction, ambidextrous innovation and business performance. It includes competitive intensity and dysfunctional competition to clarify boundary conditions. Design/methodology/approach:...

Purpose: Using a sample of listed Chinese companies that issued bonds from 2010 to 2019, the authors empirically test the link between CSR and corporate bond pricing, and the mechanism and channels behind this link. ...

Because of its heterogeneous nature, a web service can be composed of multiple composite web services. To improve profitability in the software-component economy, software as a service (SaaS) service providers compete more at the composite-service level than at the single-service level....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to research the impact of firms’ political connections on the stock price crash risk. Design/methodology/approach: Empirical methodology is used in this study. Findings: Using a large sample of Chinese firms for the period 2008-2013, the authors find that...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to calculate the bank efficiency of removing potential risks that are hidden from the extreme portfolio of bank’s assets and further compare the differences and causes of bank’s efficiency and potential risk level between China’s representative banks...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the intention of consumers to visit green hotels in China through the theory of planned behavior (TPB) extended by adding perceived consumer effectiveness and environmental concern. Design/methodology/approach: The TPB model is used as the basic theoretical...