Abstract We study the value of political connections directors on Chinese boards. build a new dataset that measures to members Politburo via past school ties, and find private firms with politically connected in boardroom get average about 16% higher subsidies over sales per firm (7 million yuan). Connected state-owned enterprises (SOEs) access debt at 11% cheaper cost, which translates into sa...

China currently adopts voluntary principles to disclose sustainable development information, and so considerable numbers of listed companies have chosen not such information. Since disclosure non-disclosure groups face different production opportunities, this research uses the meta-frontier framework completely analyze practices China’s artificial intelligence (AI) industry. Empirical results s...

Abstract This study investigates the antecedents of human rights infringements (HRIs) by emerging market firms (EFs). We used fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to examine HRIs in 245 based eight markets, between 2003 and 2012. Our findings disclose three equifinal configurations high levels HRIs, all involving EFs that have expanded a number foreign markets: (i) large, old, low...

This paper is based on “Opinion of the Audit-Commission Strengthening Resource and Environmental Auditing” issued by Audit Commission in 2009. The commission suggested studies impact industrial structure upgradation manufacturing enterprises China, 2006 to 2008 stocks listed companies Shanghai Shenzhen. Propensity Score Matching (PSM) Differences-in-Differences (DID) were used test induced effe...

The extant literature has shown the impact of demographic characteristics such as gender audit committee members on earnings management but ignored importance board room's age diversity. Going beyond prior literature, our study aims to examine how diversity financial experts (ACFEs) influences reporting quality Chinese non-financial firms. We found a negative relationship between ACFEs' and ear...

This paper examines the determinants of direct investment in UK by technology-intensive Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs). It also investigates ways which strategies are being employed for entry to and achieve access technology. Drawing on an inductive case study strategy it is found that SOEs motivated their ambitions close technology gap tapping into knowledge networks. In terms strategi...

The purpose of this study is to explore what configurations dimensions corresponding environmental, social responsibility, governance (ESG) and firm contextual factors can lead the high-quality development state-owned enterprises (SOEs). A configuration analysis framework with six conditions including (ESG), innovation intensity, capital structure, size was constructed. Moreover, multi-stage qu...

Introduction/Main Objectives: This research aims to empirically show the positive influence of board directors' characteristics on company performance, proxied by female directors, political connections, economic and/or business educational backgrounds, and education levels. Background Problems: Essential are required produce quality strategies because they directly affect performance SOEs, Reg...

After two decades of research on Emerging Market Multinational Enterprises (EMNE), the debate still concerns antecedents and strategies their foreign expansion. However, much less has been said effects international participation productivity. Building insights from Resource-Based View firm agency theory, we develop hypotheses presence complementarities among export, import R&D impact Our empir...

A new corporate governance model for SOEs with Chinese characteristics was implemented in China 2016, which a 4 + 1 (Chinese Communist Party committee, shareholders’ meeting, board of directors, supervisors managers) structure formed by integrating the organization into traditional Western 3 (shareholders’ managers), and it major breakthrough modern enterprise system characteristics. With this ...