Organisational regulatory legitimacy,entrepreneurial orientation,and SME innovation: an optimal distinctiveness perspective

The optimal distinctiveness perspective argues that firms face competing pressures to be both ‘like’ and ‘different from’ their peers. On the one hand, institutional scholars assert that firms need to be similar to peers in order to gain legitimacy. On the other hand, strategy scholars insist that firms need to strive to be different to gain competitive advantage. In order to enrich the optimal distinctiveness perspective, the present study builds a conceptual model that addresses the relationships among organisational regulatory legitimacy, entrepreneurial orientation, and SME innovation under the context of China’s transition economy. Our empirical results show that organisational regulatory legitimacy has an inverted-U relationship with SME innovation. Further, entrepreneurial orientation strengthens this inverse-U shaped relationship. That is, entrepreneurial orientation magnifies both the positive and the negative effect of organisational regulatory legitimacy on SME innovation. This study echoes to the call to conduct broader optimal distinctiveness research by integrating institutional theory and strategic management. Furthermore, our findings provide new evidence for the strategic balance perspective of optimal distinctiveness.     

Investor sentiment and the cross-section of stock returns: new theory and evidence

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting - Narrative reporting is an important avenue for investors to know more about a company from the eyes of its board of directors. This study aims to...     

Rank-based Tests for Cross-sectional Dependence in Large (N,T) Fixed Effects Panel Data Models

Most existing methods for testing cross-sectional dependence in fixed effects panel data models are actually conducting tests for cross-sectional uncorrelation, which are not robust to departures of normality of the error distributions as well as nonlinear cross-sectional dependence. To this end, we construct two rank-based tests for (static and dynamic) fixed effects panel data models, based on two very popular rank correlations, that is, Kendall's tau and Bergsma–Dassios’ τ*, respectively, and derive their asymptotic distributions under the null hypothesis. Monte Carlo simulations demonstrate applicability of these rank-based tests in large (N,T) case, and also the robustness to departures of normality of the error distributions and nonlinear cross-sectional dependence.     

The effects of slack resource of R&D professionals on firm performance: evidence from traditional manufacturing firms in an emerging economy

Abstract

As an important component of organizational human resource slack (HR slack), the slack of research-and-development (R&D) professionals has been studied by several authors. However, it remains unclear whether and how this small component of general HR slack, i.e. the slack of research-and-development professionals (RHR slack), may affect overall firm performance in an emerging economy without much R&D tradition or pro-R&D institutions. Based on two organizational theories, i.e. institutional theory and the resource-based view of the firm (RBV), we propose competing hypotheses on the relationship between RHR slack and firms’ accounting performance. We also examine whether the relationship between RHR slack and firm performance should be linear or curvilinear. Finally, we also test the relationship between RHR slack and other dimensions of firm performance. Several interesting findings have been obtained. For instance, neither the perspective based on institutional theory nor that based on RBV can fully predict all types of RHR slack-performance relationships, be these relationships linear or curvilinear.     

区域规划的必要性与困境:从英格兰废止"区域空间战略"所引发的思考

面对全球经济衰退和地方可持续发展的严峻挑战,英国政府自2010年以来,为解决规划体系存在的层级过多、官僚、效率低下等弊端,通过重构空间规划体系,调整规划和发展之间的关系,实现经济的复苏.英国空间规划体系改革废止2004年《规划和强制收购法》所设立的法定"区域空间战略",区域协调出现问题.区域间的协作长期以来就是空间规划的一个难题,解决这个难题有两种模式,一个是政府行政的模式,另一个是市场和经济的模式.由于英国 自身具有自由裁量权特征的规划体系,区域间各方的合作十分重要,但以什么机制开展协作一直未能解决.这次的改革废除了区域规划和区域机构,希望以市场的手段进行协调、平衡区域间各方的利益在理论上具有操作性,但至今为止的实际运作并不理想.     

加强政策事中事后评估的思考

党的十九届四中全会明确提出要强化决策执行、评估、监督,做好政策评估对优化政府职能、推动国家治理体系和能力现代化有积极作用。加强政策运行情况的评估,应从优化评估工作机制、完善和培育评估机构、强化评估结果的应用入手,不断提升评估工作质量,形成适应中国特色社会主义现代化治理体系的事中事后政策评估机制。     

Does economic policy uncertainty raise corporate precautionary cash holdings? Evidence from China

Using China as the research setting, this paper investigates the relationship between economic policy uncertainty and corporate precautionary cash holdings. Empirical results show a U-shaped relation between economic policy uncertainty and corporate precautionary cash holdings. Empirical analysis, in terms of ownership structure, firm size, corporate competitiveness and geographical location, further shows that (i) the effects for economic policy uncertainty in both state-owned and non-state-owned enterprises are significant, but the effect is stronger for state-owned enterprises; (ii) such significant effect is also found more strongly in small and medium-sized enterprises and highly competitive enterprises; and (iii) the effects for eastern, central and western China are all statistically significant, but the effect is strongest for eastern China.     

基于价值链的全过程工程咨询业务流程再造研究

基于价值链视角对全过程工程咨询业务再造流程进行分析与构建,以期使重构后的流程体系更好的适应全过程工程咨询业务的发展需求.通过对全过程工流程再造动因及可行性进行分析,然后确定价值目标,构建价值链模型对工程咨询业务服务流程进行再造重组.旨在为工程咨询企业进行业务整合和转型升级提供了具体可行的全过程工程咨询业务流程再造实施方案.     

Social media bots and stock markets

This study examines the link between information spread by social media bots and stock trading. Based on a large sample of tweets mentioning 55 companies in the FTSE 100 composites, we find significant relations between bot tweets and stock returns, volatility, and trading volume at both daily and intraday levels. These results are also confirmed by an event study of stock response following abnormal increases in the volume of tweets. The findings are robust to various specifications, including controlling for traditional news channel, alternative measures of volatility, information flows in pretrading hours, and different measures of sentiment.     

新时期做好企业思想政治工作的四大维度

企业思想政治工作是党的思想工作的重要组成部分。加强企业思想政治工作,需要从完善企业思想政治工作的运行机制、注重企业思想政治工作的开拓创新、丰富企业思想政治工作的文化内涵、培育企业思想政治工作干部队伍四大维度努力。