In recent years, new retail has gradually started to catch people’s attention. During the current intensified competition in industry, it become an important competitive strategy for companies increase user stickiness by providing exclusive membership services and creating a distinctive paid system. Taking Sam's Club as example, strategies of membership-based stores were analyzed this paper fro...

In this paper we study the edge-thickness and the clique-thickness of a graph. The edge-thickness of a graph is defined as the thickness of the family of edges. The clique-thickness of a graph is defined as the thickness of the family of maximal cliques. Edges and maximal cliques of a graph are both considered as a collection of subsets of the vertex set. On one hand, we introduce a new paramet...

Following a recession, the aggregate labor market is slack–employment remains below normal and recruiting efforts of employers, as measured by help-wanted advertising and vacancies, are low. A model of matching friction explains the qualitative responses of the labor market to adverse shocks, but requires implausibly large shocks to account for the magnitude of observed fluctuations. The incorp...

Firms with high selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) cost stickiness may maintain environmental, social, governance (ESG) performance, customer firms that account for a large proportion of supplier firms' sales (main customers) have considerable bargaining power regarding terms. In this study, we examine the effect SG&A on their ESG performance. We further moderating customer's relations...

Based on the impact of industry extreme return attention institutional investors, taking Chinese A-share listed companies from 2011 to 2020 as a sample, this paper empirically tests relationship between investors’ distraction and executive compensation stickiness based multiple regression analysis. The study finds that promotes stickiness, which is more significant in group pressure-resistant i...