Research Summary Given the growing legitimacy of corporate social responsibility (CSR), many firms engage in symbolic communication to showcase CSR without undertaking commensurate substantive actions. This “CSR decoupling” can create a risk perceived greenwashing, which, turn, may negatively affect firm's performance. In this study, we explore an unexamined antecedent decoupling: interfirm aff...

Innovation ability has become an important factor affecting the global competitiveness and sustainable development of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China, particularly during COVID-19 period. This study examined association between heterogeneous shareholders SOE innovation, addition to moderating impact corporate governance characteristics pandemic on this association. Using data from Chine...

DAN ZHOU1, LI-WEI XU2, LI-BO LI3, YONG-ZHI DENG4, LI-JUAN WEI1, GUO XIN5,* 1Department of Ophthalmology, The affiliated Hospital to Changchun University of Chinese Medicine 2Department of Hematology Oncology, The affiliated Hospital to Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun 3Department of Radiology, The affiliated Hospital to Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun 4Dep...

Abstract O ur basic aim in this paper concerns the question that if overusing the Information Technology by service and manufacturing firms can increase the total productivity resulting from this kind of technology regarding the Iran's economic structure and conditions. For this purpose, we primarily evaluate the productivity resulting from the rate of firms' use of IT for...

Business groups have played a vital role in the development of emerging markets. However, we share very limited understanding business group that act on affiliated firms’ CSR performance. Using manually sorted data A-share listed companies and China from 2010–2017, examine whether company’s group-affiliation affects its corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance mediating mechanisms this...

Abstract Drawing upon an employer branding lens to help explore and inform our understanding of the marketing workforce diversity, here we argue that diversity is understood used in aesthetic commercialized way, rather than with a focus inclusion disadvantaged groups. Our analysis practices four small medium‐sized law firms demonstrates continued access‐and‐legitimacy approach diversity: desire...

1Department of Pathology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China 2Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China 3Department of Nuclear Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China 4Department of Respiratory Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow Universit...

Received February 10, 2006; revised April 16, 2006; accepted June 5, 2006. Drs. Hilty, Leamon, and Yellowlees are affiliated with the University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California. Dr. Alverson is affiliated with the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dr. Alpert and Mr. Mostaghimi are affiliated with Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Tong is affiliated...

This paper analyzes all-pay auctions where the bidders have affiliated values for the object for sale and where the signals take binary values. Since signals are correlated, high signals indicate a high degree of competition in the auction and since even losing bidders must pay their bid, non-monotonic equilibria arise. We show that the game has a unique symmetric equilibrium, and that whenever...

By departing from the previous attempt (Phys. Rev. E 51, 4114, (1995)) we give a detailed construction of conditional and perturbed Markov processes, under the assumption that the Cauchy law of probability replaces the Gaussian law (appropriate for the Wiener process) as the model of primordial noise. All considered processes are regarded as probabilistic solutions of the so-called Schrödinger ...