Together alone: a group-based polarization measurement

Quality & Quantity - The growing polarization of our societies and economies has been extensively studied in various disciplines and is subject to public controversy. Yet, measuring...     

Trust Erosion During Industry-Wide Crises: The Central Role of Consumer Legitimacy Judgement

Journal of Business Ethics - Widespread unethical corporate misconduct in an industry triggers industry-wide crises. This research investigates how industry misconduct affects consumers’...     

Time Orientation in Languages and Tax Avoidance

Journal of Business Ethics - Studies suggest that when a language requires grammatical marking of future events, speakers prefer immediate payoffs and engage in less future-oriented behavior. If...     

A Moral Disengagement Investigation of How and When Supervisor Psychological Entitlement Instigates Abusive Supervision

Journal of Business Ethics - Building on the emerging research on antecedents of abusive supervision, the current research offers an empirical investigation concerning how and when supervisor...     

The Joint Effect of Ethical Idealism and Trait Skepticism on Auditors’ Fraud Detection

Journal of Business Ethics - Although regulators have identified ethical lapses as a key factor contributing to auditors’ failure to detect their clients’ fraudulent financial reporting...     

In Pursuit of Happiness: Disentangling Sustainable Consumption,Consumer Alienation,and Social Desirability

Journal of Consumer Policy - This study makes a novel attempt to disentangle the complex relationships between making sustainable purchasing choices and happiness, while also considering the key...     

Entrepreneurial aesthetics

The Review of Austrian Economics - This paper examines the aesthetic dimension of innovative entrepreneurship. It treats markets as aesthetic systems that involve the creation, interpretation and...     

Uncovering asset stripping during China's privatization

This paper empirically studies the occurrence and extent of asset stripping via undervaluing public assets during the mass privatization of state-owned and collectively owned enterprises in China. Using three waves of a national survey of private firms, we provide evidence that state-owned and collectively owned assets were substantially underpriced, indicating the presence of corruption during privatization. Further analysis shows that the extent of underpricing is more severe in regions with less market competition or weaker property rights protection, and more pronounced for intangible assets such as intellectual property rights and land use rights. When comparing firm efficiency between privatized firms and de novo private firms, we find that the former group continues to enjoy considerable preferential treatments, yet significantly underperforms the latter, possibly due to continued government control and intervention. Finally, we provide evidence that insider privatization is an important source of corruption during the privatization process.     

金融发展、环境规制与经济绿色转型

推动经济绿色转型是"十四五规划"的主要目标之一,经济绿色转型的本质是发展方式变革,环境投资在这一变革中具有举足轻重的作用.在当前财政资金只能覆盖少量环境支出的情况下,激发微观企业自主环境投资需求并缓解企业环境投融资约束成为未来工作的重点,需要进一步推动金融发展和健全环境规制,从而在实体经济供需两端形成绿色转型的合力.基于2004-2015年全国284个城市工业生产、污染防治和战略新兴产业技术创新等数据,文章研究发现,在环境规制未能显著发挥政策效应的情形下,金融发展能协同环境规制促进经济绿色转型.这表现在,金融发展协同环境规制显著提升了城市环境效益但未对城市经济效益产生冲击.机制分析表明,协同作用能促进工业污染治理提升城市资源使用效率,并促进战略新兴产业技术创新推动产业结构转型.上述结论在一系列内生性和稳健性检验中均保持不变.异质性分析揭示,环境信息不对称加剧、市场中介组织发育不完善以及技术创新转化能力弱等显著削弱了协同作用的发挥.因此,提升金融部门资金配置和开展绿色金融业务的能力,注重发挥金融发展与环境规制的协同作用有利于促进经济绿色转型.     

组织模块化对研究型大学技术转移绩效的影响

技术转移是将社会科技资源转化为实体经济效益的重要途径。当前，我国研究型大学技术转移渠道不畅、技术转移绩效不高、大学科技成果成功产业化“最后一公里”问题凸显。基于现实需求和研究缺口，构建组织模块化对研究型大学技术转移绩效影响的理论模型。在此基础上，收集我国38所研究型大学样本数据，采用SPSS24.0和AMOS软件进行结构方程路径分析，论证和检验组织模块化对于研究型大学技术转移绩效的影响机制。结果表明：组织模块化对研究型大学技术转移绩效具有显著正向影响；技术创新能力在组织模块化与技术转移绩效之间起显著中介作用；知识共享的调节作用主要体现在组织模块化独立性、响应性与技术创新能力之间的关系上，其对组织模块分工性与技术创新能力关系的影响作用不显著。