Entrepreneurship resilience during a crisis is an important research area. However, prior research has not examined cognitive antecedents of entrepreneurial resilience. Using the 2014 oil price crisis in the Middle East as a natural experiment, we draw on system justification theory to...

From the perspective of high-quality acquirers (with generated goodwill), this study analyses the conflicting issues in the formation, recognition and subsequent measurement of goodwill and finds that good enterprises are not willing to make a timely provision for goodwill impairment, and the...

Much research has examined the positive effects of legitimacy spillover. However, negative events may reduce the extent of legitimacy, which may in turn spillover to affect the legitimacy of important stakeholders including alliance partners. This study examines incidents of regulative...

With the increasingly stringent global restrictions on carbon emissions, enterprises are facing increasing carbon risks, which would drive up enterprise costs. However, at the same time, the increase of carbon risks may also force enterprises to improve investment efficiency by optimizing...

The consensus on sustainable development is now global. However, carbon risk constrains the operation, investment and financing activities of enterprises. Is carbon risk beneficial for enterprises to improve investment efficiency? Can carbon regulations result in a win–win situation for both...

Decrease of chlorophyll and photosynthetic efficiency co-occur during aging-leaf senescence. Here, we reported the positive functions of melatonin (MT) on delaying leaf senescence of cucumber plants. Results showed that natural leaf senescence induced the accumulation of endogenous MT and...