How an international ambidexterity strategy can address the paradox perspective on corporate sustainability: Evidence from Chinese emerging market multinationals

Corporate sustainability (CS) is receiving considerable attention from emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs), playing an important role in the globalized market. However, theoretical and empirical knowledge about how EMNEs address CS is still scant, and the relationship between internationalization and CS has not been widely explored. This study aims to fill this gap, evaluating the relationship between an international ambidexterity strategy and CS in EMNEs, which highlighted the paradox perspective. Then we develop three hypotheses in which we argue how the dynamic capabilities underpinning international ambidexterity could be considered a driver of CS in EMNEs. We test the developed hypotheses against data from 300 Chinese EMNEs obtained by a survey. Our results contribute to shape ambidextrous international strategies and to consider CS as a springboard for the strategic intent to systematically and recursively outperform global competition. Testing a measurement scale of international ambidexterity, we suggest structural ambidexterity as a strategic option of internationalization that allows the achievement of economic, social, and environmental sustainability objectives.     

Investor visits to corporate sites and cost stickiness

A corporate site visit is an effective way to obtain information on a firm. Most studies focus on the information advantages of corporate site visits, but evidence of their impact on firm operations is limited. In this paper, we investigate whether investors’ corporate site visits affect cost stickiness. Using data on investor corporate site visits to Chinese listed firms from 2013 to 2018, we find that these visits can inhibit cost stickiness. This finding holds in robustness tests and when controlling for endogeneity, including firm fixed effects, and using the Heckman selection model and the instrumental variables method. Further analyses reveal this inhibition is more pronounced for nonstate-owned enterprises and the results are more significant regarding cost stickiness in firms consuming nonlabor materials and firms visited by institutional investors. Moreover, we explore plausible mechanisms through which corporate site visits inhibit cost stickiness, such as through a monitoring channel and a learning channel. Our study contributes to academic evidence on the benefit and value of corporate site visits to firm operations, showing these visits can be a useful way to build connections between investors and firms.     

土地财政与土地市场管理

城市土地市场的混乱会降低土地配置的效率,不利于经济的可持续发展及社会的和谐稳定。城市土地市场的混乱有诸多原因,而地方政府的土地财政是其根源。在剖析城市土地市场混乱原因的基础上,阐述了土地财政的原因与后果,论述了权力寻租与市场秩序的关系,并提出了相应的对策措施。     

计划经济逻辑与市场经济逻辑

计划经济与市场经济有其内在的逻辑依据,计划经济追求公平和效率,但结果是既无公平又无效率;市场经济以其效率著称,其本身也有公平性。市场经济的失败或漏洞可以由政府来弥补而不是代替。     

The impact of equity markets and corporate governance on labour market flexibility

Drawing from various literatures, this article explores links between equity markets and labour market flexibility. Various data sources are used to test relationships for a set of OECD countries, controlling for other likely influences on flexibility such as government and industrial relations institutions. The results are generally supportive as regards employment flexibility: equity market trading activity is associated with shorter job tenure, higher activity rates, and greater employment change over the cycle. However, the relationship between equity markets and pay flexibility is less statistically robust to the addition of controls.     

论企业财务监督——兼谈财务会计信息失真

当前财务会计信息失真的普遍经济现象，原因是多方面的，有些是由于法律、法规等方面存在漏洞造成的，有些是由于职能监管部门的监督手段不强造成的，也有些是由于企业自身的财务管理能力不够造成的。如不及时构建有效的监督管理机制，将会严重地扰乱中国经济秩序和经济建设的高速发展。对此，笔者认为应该从不断完善各项法律、法规制度着手，进一步加强政府职能监管力度，强化企业内部控制制度化，提升企业财务管理创新意识等方面入手，制定一系列科学有效的规章制度，从而达到避免和解决财务会计信息失真问题。     

集团母子公司财务内控制度设计的思考

本文认为,母子公司间财务内控制度的设计制定,应充分考虑公司性质、资产规模、经营特点及股权分布等因素;集团控股公司财务管理模式是母子公司间财务内控制度设计的出发点和落脚点,集团总部指导下的相对分权式管理更具有可行性;母子公司财务内控制度的设计应涵括资金管理、筹资管理、投资管理.收益与分配管理、内审与考评管理、财务关键人员管理以及财务信息管理等方面。     

The commuting time paradox

We examine the conditions for the ‘commuting time paradox’ which states that the average commuting time does not vary between different periods. We develop therefore an equilibrium job search model with endogenously chosen commuting costs. Presuming wage bargaining between workers and firms, the optimally chosen maximum commuting costs jointly maximise the worker's and firm's payoffs. We demonstrate that when productivity levels increase over time, average commuting costs and average wages both increase, which affects the optimally chosen commuting time. We establish the conditions under which the paradox holds.     

货币政策、会计稳健性与融资约束

以2004—2011年沪深A股上市公司为研究对象,采用现金现金流敏感性模型研究了货币政策、会计稳健性对企业融资约束的影响效应,并从产权性质分析了二者作用机制的差别。研究发现：首先,货币紧缩政策加剧了企业面临的融资约束,稳健的会计政策有助于缓解企业的融资约束;其次,稳健的会计政策可以削弱货币紧缩政策对企业融资约束的不利影响;进一步的研究发现,货币紧缩政策对非国有企业融资约束的影响更显著,会计稳健性对货币政策不利影响的缓解效应在非国有企业中也更加显著。     

物流金融下我国中小企业融资新渠道

中小企业在我国经济发展中的作用现在已为社会各方所关注,在当前我国信贷紧缩的背景下,中小企业更是步履维艰。第三方物流业与金融业相结合推出的物流金融业务,能更有针对性地解决部分中小企业的融资难问题,尤其是满足在生产或销售上季节性较强的企业的短期融资需求。文中从我国中小企业目前的融资团境出发,提出物流金融能有效地解决中小企业短期融资难题,并有针对性地对中小企业利用物流金融融资提出建议。     

An analysis on corporate governance

Corporate governance has become one of the major international issues that have succeeded in attracting a good deal of public interest in recent years, especially since the recent spate of ＂world famous＂ scandalous corporate failures. Today, it is considered that corporate governance plays an important role in the economic health of corporations and society in general. Improving corporate governance is a systematic project, it is necessary to the internal governance and external governance of the ways multi-pronged.     

Does corporate environmental responsibility engagement affect firm value? The mediating role of corporate innovation

This paper aims to construct a comprehensive corporate environmental responsibility (CER) engagement measurement to examine the relationship between CER engagement and firm value as well as explore the mediating effect of corporate innovation on this relationship based on a sample of 496 China's A‐share listed companies from 2008 to 2016. The results show that when firms start to adopt environmental regulations, CER would have a negative effect on firm value; however, at a specific level, CER would start to enhance firm value positively. In addition to this, corporate innovation plays a mediating role in the relationship between CER and firm value. Corporate innovation promotes firm value of firms with CER more than firms without CER. Overall, the findings of this paper are extremely relevant for the government, investors, and firm's managers and can be utilized for policy and investment decision making. Also, the findings encourage firms to enhance their sense of environmental responsibility in order to enhance their competitive advantages, enhance corporate innovation capabilities, and thus enhance firm value.     

Corporate Governance Viability： Theoretical Exploration

The purpose of this exploratory paper is to try to envision how corporate governance systems and practices are evolving and what eventually determines the forms they take and the functions they perform. Practical implications especially concern different consequences that recent global economic crisis has imposed on regulatory, business, and social aspects of corporate governance. In order to encompass different approaches to this ongoing issue, the author takes into account mainly theoretical contributions that address the issue from the following perspectives： interrelations between product market competition and corporate governance, assessment of capital market pressures on corporate governance; relation between labour market and corporate governance; and actors influencing corporate governance changes in national systems of corporate governance. Since the viability of any corporate governance system and practice, at national and international levels, depends on their ability to respond to both market pressure towards competitiveness and diversified requirements by influential social, political, and economic actors of change, the author suggests that all groups of factors should continue to be in the focus of future researches. On the other hand, as global economic crisis differently affects different countries and businesses, it is of particular importance for those that shape corporate governance policies and practices to be aware of the deep relatedness between corporate governance, on the one hand, and economic, social, and environmental aspects of growth and development, on the other hand.     

论企业形象及其塑造途径

文章认为,良好的企业形象已成为企业生存与发展的重要条件,充分认识企业形象的作用及其构成因素,并探讨其塑造途径,对于增强企业竞争力、促进企业可持续发展具有重要的意义。     

Smfs inter firm relationships and technological change

Industrial production and industrial technological change are characterised by complex flows of technological know-how and finished innovations. There is a variety of inter-firm relationships of varying intensity and duration involving large firm-large firm, large firm-small firm and small firm-small firm interchanges. Certain large firm-small firm relationships electively combine the advantages of large and small firms in technological innovation.     

论企业形象及其塑造途径论企业形象及其塑造途径

文章认为，良好的企业形象已成为企业生存与发展的重要条件，充分认识企业形象的作用及其构成因素，并探讨其塑造途径，对于增强企业竞争力、促进企业可持续发展具有重要的意义。     

Long-term finance and entrepreneurship

This paper investigates whether long-term finance affects firm entry worldwide. We construct a new database on short- and long-term credit provided by commercial banks to the private sector in 85 countries over the period 1995–2014. We then analyze whether differences in entrepreneurship are related to the provision of short- and long-term bank credit. Data on entrepreneurship are extracted from two frequently used databases: the Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring dataset and the Entrepreneurship Database, each of which captures different aspects of firm creation. The econometric results indicate that long-term credit does not stimulate firm entry. By contrast, we find that short-term credit is positively related to firm creation, from birth to registration. Controlling for potential endogeneity by implementing an instrumental variables approach does not affect our conclusions. Our findings suggest that better provision of short-term credit allows entrepreneurs to apply for formal loans instead of having to rely exclusively on informal loans or internal funds. The absence of impact of long-term loans can be explained by the difficulty entrepreneurs face in getting access to long-term credit.     

股权结构与公司绩效关系的实证研究——基于创业板上市公司的数据

公司的股权结构是公司所有权的一种结构安排,公司的股权结构会对公司的治理结构产生影响,公司的治理效率又会对公司绩效产生影响。鉴于创业板上市公司的特殊性,在对创业板上市公司股权结构的特点进行分析的基础上,从股权属性、股权集中度和股权制衡度、内部人持股比例三个方面检验了创业板上市公司的股权结构与公司绩效之间的关系,结果表明：国有股比例、内部人持股比例对公司绩效具有正面影响,但不显著;法人股比例、机构持股比例、股权集中度、股权制衡度与公司绩效正相关;流通股比例与公司绩效负相关。     

Factors affecting corporate environmental disclosure in emerging markets: The role of corporate governance structures

This study seeks to examine whether internal corporate governance (CG) mechanisms affect corporate environmental disclosure (CED) in emerging economies. Using a sample of 500 firm-year observations, this study distinctively applies a linear panel quantile regression (PQR) model to examine the CG–CED nexus in Jordan. This technique is supplemented with conducting a two-step dynamic generalised method of moment (GMM) model to overcome any potential occurrence of endogeneity problems. This study reports an increasing trend in CED practice among the sampled companies over the period of analysis, yet it is still at an early stage as compared with their developed counterparts. Furthermore, this study suggests that board size, board independence, CEO duality and foreign ownership have positive associations with CED. In contrast, managerial ownership, institutional ownership and ownership concentration are negatively associated with the disclosed amount of environmental information in the Jordanian context. Theoretically, board structures appeared to be more efficient than ownership structures in reducing agency conflicts by addressing the asymmetric gap of information and promoting the disclosure of environmental information. These findings add to the debate about whether ownership structures detrimental to CED in developing economies. Specifically, when it comes to spending money on CED, owners seemed to be more concerned about any reductions in their share of the pie and may, therefore, be less motivated to disclose their companies' environmental information. This paper provides managers, owners and policymakers with a set of context-specific recommendations related to the crucial need for a more concerted effort to integrate governance and environmental regulations in order to ensure sustainability in emerging markets.     

金融渗透理论与企业理财

随着市场经济的发展和经济全球化的深入,企业理财理论有必要从开放、动态的视角来分析和透视企业的理财活动。文章应用金融渗透理论重新审视了企业价值的创造过程。企业的历史沿革反映了金融渗透的互动过程。在某一特定时空条件下,金融渗透处于动态的均衡状态。金融市场的流动性创造、风险规避、资金融通、控制权市场等四项基本功能的发挥直接影响到金融渗透的程度和速度。文章进一步分析得出,宏观经济部门和市场微观组织的金融渗透与金融市场的结构密不可分。