This study investigates the influence of blockchain and smart contracts on partners' trust, increasing visibility, competitiveness, and environmental performance when implemented in manufacturing supply chains. Partial least squares (PLS) was the main method used to test and verify the research...

Based on external uncertainty environment and R&D innovation wave background, this paper explores the impact of information noise caused by economic policy uncertainty and the peer effect on corporate R&D innovation activities, using the multiple regression method and the quarterly data of...

Green financial policies play an important role in acceleration of China's green transformation. Existing associated studies mainly focus on the qualitative analysis and descriptive analysis. However, it still lacks empirical studies. To explore the relationship between green finance policies...

This paper aims to study the impact of salesperson human capital investment on the export performance of heterogeneous enterprises in China. To distinguish the different effects on the staff level and the management level, we define the human capital investment for the overall salespersons as...

This study examines the implications of sustainable management for the persistence of earnings and earnings components. This study also analyzes whether sustainable management influences investors' assessments of earnings persistence. According to previous studies, sustainable management...

This study examines the merger decisions from a sample of Greek listed companies in the economic crisis period and shortly after its end, by employing various quantitative and qualitative variables of mergers that signalize different levels of risk. The results revealed that the performance...

The use of controlling in the business sphere is relatively broad and its essence can be perceived diversely by enterprises of different sectors and sizes. The aim of the research is to identify the current state of the use of controlling in Slovak manufacturing enterprises with an assessment of...

The main objective of this research is to analyse the relationship between the board of director' structure of the banks from the Romanian bank sector, the capital demands and the risk management in what concerns these relationships. Regarding the structure of the board of directors, their size...

This paper investigates the relationship between corporate financialization and asymmetric cost behavior using the Chinese listed companies over the period of 2009-2017. To examine the heterogeneous impacts of corporate financialization on asymmetric cost behavior, the paper analyzes the...

How to manage financial performance through the utilization of intellectual capital (IC) is an important issue in the knowledge economy. The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of IC on financial performance for manufacturing listed companies in the Chinese context. Financial...