The underrepresentation of females on corporate boards is an important ethical issue that raises serious concerns about gender equality in senior management teams. Relying on a large sample of public firms from the Chinese market, we examine how social trust affects female board representation....

Green development is the main theme of today's economic and social development. Given the principle of "a promising government and an effective market", how to promote the green development of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) through government regulations is a scientific problem to be solved...