The Chinese government encourages enterprises participating in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to improve their ESG performance to better align the BRI with sustainable development. This paper reveals the heterogeneous treatment effect of the BRI...
With the goal of promoting Chinese enterprises’ green development in overseas markets, China issued the Guidance on Promoting Green Belt and Road in 2017. The Guidance is the world’s first government document specifically designed to prov...
7 July 2021
Enterprise environmental performance has causal complexity. The purpose of this paper is to discover the possible combination of conditions for enterprises to achieve high environmental performance. Based on the resource dependence theory, stakeholde...
This study analyzes papers on the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of Chinese multinational enterprises (CMNEs) published in top-tier management and international business journals. We extracted six key constructs from these studies, examined th...
Recognizing the critical role of oil and gas resources as strategic assets and acknowledging the increasing emphasis on green development and social responsibility driven by international energy agreements and the “dual carbon” strategy,...
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in China’s sustainable development. With the increasing green awareness among SMEs, they have become more environmentally conscious, and many of them are considering the utilizat...
China is one of the world’s major environmental polluters, therefore, Chinese environmental efficiency is an issue of global importance. In this study, we aim to identify economic factors affecting environmental efficiency scores in different r...
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rapid spread of COVID-19 around the world has become one of the main focuses of concern in almost every country, and governments have taken numerous measures to prevent/mitigate the spread of the disea...
The environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of construction enterprises still needs to be improved. Therefore, in order to better utilize resources effectively to improve enterprise ESG performance, this paper explores the configuratio...
This study constructs a neural-network-inspired multi-layer machine learning model (RQLNet) to measure and analyze the effects of tail risk spillover and its associated sensitivities to macroeconomic factors among petroleum supply chain enterprises....
The urgent global challenge of mitigating climate change has intensified the need to reduce carbon emissions. China significantly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, placing substantial pressure on its industrial sector to shift toward a low-car...
17 February 2021
This paper embeds environmental compliance factor and compliance cost factor into the M-O monopolistic competition and multi-product firm model to construct a theoretical model applicable to environmental compliance and enterprise innovation. In addi...
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) in the traditional-apparel-manufacturing sector is accelerating innovation and transformation, as cutting-edge AI applications have been increasingly integrated into the industry in recent years....
By introducing net entropy into a stock network, this paper focuses on investigating the impact of network entropy on market returns and trading in the Chinese Growth Enterprise Market (GEM). In this paper, indices of Wu structure entropy (WSE) and S...
10 August 2022
In response to the global call for emission reduction, China has assumed international responsibility for energy conservation and emission reduction by enacting several environmental policies to save energy and reduce consumption. However, it is deba...
Proposing a new scoring method to evaluate the environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) performance of Chinese A-share listed companies over the period 2010–2019, this study investigates the impact of ESG on firm value, by taking T...
This study investigates the impact of the Top 10,000 Energy-Consuming Enterprises Program (hereafter referred to as the carbon reduction policy) implemented by the Chinese government in 2011 on the employment of manufacturing enterprises. The study i...
Under the wave of global industrial structure upgrading, Chinese manufacturing is developing towards a higher value chain. In this paper, 52 cases are selected and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) is used to analyze the configuratio...
Under the new situation of economic development in China, the logistics industry is facing unbalanced development regarding economic and environmental performance. From the enterprise level, this study investigated the sustainability of Chinese logis...
Although the importance of external involvement has been recognized in product and technology innovation, whether research and development (R&D) internationalization stimulates green innovation and under what conditions it is more effective is st...
Climate change and environmental conditions call for more attention to be paid to eco-friendly economic behavior. As a market-oriented environmental regulation, environmental tax can stimulate and guide enterprises’ environmental innovation in a neut...
Business model innovation is crucial for enhancing company performance. This study aims to investigate the relationship between the six dimensions of sustainable business model innovation and company performance among Chinese electric vehicle brands....
With the implementation of new round electricity system reform in China, the provincial electricity grid enterprises (EGEs) of China should focus on improving their operational efficiency to adapt to the increasingly fierce market competition and sat...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy fluctuated while the Chinese economy remained relatively stable—a distinction that has aroused people’s curiosity about the unique operation of Chinese enterprises. Compared with the regula...
With the rapid development of the digital economy, promoting green innovation through digitalization has become an important means for manufacturing enterprises to improve their core competitiveness. However, the existing studies focus more on enterp...
In the context of the digital economy, digital finance has emerged as a new driving force for the sustainable and high-quality development of the sports industry. The sports industry promotes economic growth, social well-being, and environmental sust...
In today’s globalized world, one of the great challenges for enterprises is integrating CSR adoption into their operations. The study aims to investigate how stakeholder pressure influences the adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR)...
An eco-labeling scheme is a method of environmental performance certification that is beneficial for reducing negative environmental impacts and promoting green consumption. Many types of research studies have shown its effectiveness. However, to the...
The Green Technology Innovation Behavior (GTIB) of construction enterprises is crucial for promoting green development in the construction industry. In order to clarify the mechanism of action affecting the GTIB of construction enterprises, this pape...
With the promulgation of the “Going Global” strategy, Chinese enterprises’ outward forward direct investment (OFDI) moved towards a stage of rapid development. Based on the data concerning projects of Chinese enterprises, this paper establishes a net...
As a major driving force in the current technological revolution, artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly accelerated the intelligence, automation, and informatization of enterprises, thereby inevitably influencing the sustainable development...
With uncertainty intensifying the international technological innovation environment, the innovation situation of Chinese manufacturing enterprises has been impacted. Based on 12,781 micro panel data in 2011–2020 of 2347 Chinese A-share manufac...
The dynamic relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and sustainable development has become a central topic of inquiry for academics and policymakers with rapid global economic growth. This study aims to clarify the impact mechanism and r...
As the core driving force of the new generation of industrial revolution, artificial intelligence technology has brought new opportunities for empowering enterprise innovation and advancing sustainability. Focusing on Chinese A-share listed enterpris...
In retail enterprises, employee well-being is recognized as a key factor influencing service quality and operational sustainability. While prior research has extensively investigated enterprise-centric approaches to improving employee well-being, lit...
Improving the energy efficiency of enterprises is one of the key means to solve the problem of energy shortage. It is of great significance to investigate how environmental information disclosure (EDI) promotes the green total factor energy efficienc...
According to literature review and the data of China’s logistics listed companies, this paper firstly designs the high-quality development evaluation system of logistics enterprises and establishes the panel data model group. Secondly, the meth...
Water environment governance of large rivers is an essential measurement of ecological protection in China. The effectiveness of governance depends highly on the fulfillment of strategic CSR (corporate social responsibility) of Chinese leading enterp...
With the rapid advancement of contemporary information technologies, intelligent manufacturing has emerged as a pivotal direction in the global technological transformation. To empirically examine the impact of intelligent manufacturing on enterprise...
In the context of the carbon neutrality vision and digital economy development, the green effects of blockchain technology (BT), a key innovation in the digital era, deserve special attention. Based on strategic choice theory, Chinese A-share listed...
This paper uses the panel data of A-share listed companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2008 to 2019 as the original sample and uses panel two-way fixed-effect, panel Tobit and mediation effect models to study the impacts of poli...
In the era of VUCA, cultivating and enhancing the resilience of high-end manufacturing enterprises is critical. Based on existing research, this paper defines enterprise resilience at the beginning and constructs an enterprise resilience evaluation i...
The improvement of grain processing capacity is crucial to the realization of grain security. Enterprises are important grain processing bodies and their productivity directly determines grain processing capacity. Chinese grain processing enterprises...
The purpose of this research is to empirically investigate the effect of internationalization on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and non-SOEs. The study employed an updated panel d...
In 2021, China’s power generation industry took the lead in launching carbon emissions trading, ushering in a major challenge and opportunity for the sustainable development of power enterprises. Assessing the sustainable development performanc...
The rapid digital transformation and the imperative for sustainable practices have made it crucial for Chinese manufacturing enterprises to adapt and achieve green product innovation by effectively utilizing digital technologies. This study takes a r...
Along with the constant changes in the current business environment, more and more enterprises have recognised the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Considering that profit maximisation is the eternal pursuit of enterprises and tha...
Globally, many enterprises are currently focusing on big data technology to improve their performance and operations. Recent literature points out several factors that influence the adoption of big data. However, enterprises often resist using the bu...
Artificial intelligence, as a novel form of infrastructure with both generality and knowledge spillover characteristics, plays a crucial role in facilitating the profound integration of the manufacturing and service industries, and achieving economic...
Digital transformation has become essential in promoting and upgrading enterprise elements and reshaping the market’s competitive landscape. However, whether digital transformation can further promote green and low-carbon synergistic developmen...
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