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’...     

The Interaction Between Suppliers and Fraudulent Customer Firms: Evidence from Trade Credit Financing of Chinese Listed Firms

Journal of Business Ethics - This study investigates the interaction between suppliers and fraudulent customer firms from the perspective of reputation damage and reputation recovery. Specifically,...     

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。     

开放度组合策略与创新绩效类型匹配关系研究——吸收能力的调节效应

根据创新开放广度与深度，提出高广度-高深度、高广度-低深度、低广度-高深度与低广度-低深度4种组合策略。以吸收能力为调节变量，构建开放度组合策略与创新绩效关系模型，以我国三大行业201家企业为调查对象，采用多元线性回归分析方法进行实证检验。研究表明：实施高广度-高深度组合策略的企业倾向于追求突破式创新绩效，实施其它三类组合策略的企业倾向于追求渐进式创新绩效；吸收能力不仅能够积极调节高广度-高深度、高广度-低深度、低广度-高深度组合策略与突破式创新绩效的关系，而且能够积极调节3种组合策略与渐进式创新绩效的关系，但是无法调节低广度-低深度组合策略与突破式创新绩效、渐进式创新绩效的关系。     

战略与复杂双重维度下商业生态系统形成机理研究

基于战略和复杂双重维度，剖析阿里巴巴商业生态系统形成逻辑。结果发现：较强的战略控制力有利于强化平台商业模式，催生跨行业多样化平台，继而推进生态内信息化不断深入发展；随后，商业生态系统积蓄丰富的共享数据资源，打开资源交易和创造边界，提升生态主体能力的同时重塑生态系统属性；有着更强复杂应配力的生态主体不断探索商业模式创新，生态内外的创新扩散催化商业生态系统竞争，进一步强化复杂应配力。在核心企业战略控制力和生态主体复杂应配力的双重作用下，商业生态系统呈现前生态状态、生态内卷、生态扩散和生态共生4种不同状态。     

技术创业型企业孵化资本投入的风险管控——来自多案例对比

待孵化的技术创业型企业同时具有概念性技术向差异化产品转化的高风险与产品异质性被认同后溢价评估的高收益特点，导致其投资者多处于隔岸观火却欲罢不能的的孵化投资矛盾中。对孵化资本实施有效的风险管控，成为吸引外部资本投入的关键。基于此，选择在可创概念选育与技术创业孵化领域探索出高成功率路径的概念证明中心、YCombinator和创新工场为研究案例，分析其在创业项目筛选、孵化资金运营等关键环节的风险管控方式，以期完善我国孵化资本管控理论、助力我国商业孵化器提高资金风险管控能力、促进外部资本投入。     

Determinants of China's bilateral trade balance in global value chains

This paper identifies the determinants of China's bilateral trade balance using a new measure based on international input–output data, the so-called ‘trade in value-added’ (TiVA), which can prevent double counting in the estimation of bilateral trade balance. Our results show that using a measure based on gross exports, rather than TiVA, causes relatively large overestimation of the impact of the RMB exchange rate on China's bilateral trade balance. This overestimation is mainly because that the increasing production of exports may require increasing intermediate imports as a consequence of international fragmentation of production in global value chains. In addition, our results also show that the impact of FDI inflows on China's bilateral trade balances depends on the position and role of China and its trading partners in GVCs.     

Farm Capital Investment and Deviations from the Optimal Path

We identify farms’ optimal investment path in capital assets and compare it with their actual investment to assess the direction and extent of deviation from the optimal investment. A probit model is further used to investigate the determinants of the probability that a farmer over‐ or under‐invests in capital assets. We use a panel dataset of Dutch dairy farms over the period 2003–2013, and find that most farms under‐invest in capital assets during the study period. Although the number of farms that had over‐invested in capital assets is relatively small, these farms account for the biggest share of total investment in capital assets. The probit results show that liquidity, agricultural support payments, age, land tenure and standard output size are important variables explaining the likelihood of over‐and under‐investment.