Small and medium-sized businesses, as well as individuals, increasingly use online crowdfunding platforms to raise funds in the fintech world. Creators of crowdfunding projects depend heavily on social networks such as Facebook to publicize their projects. Social media activities such as...

Innovation and competition are two major pillars in the IT industry. In this paper, we examine the causal relationship between product market competitiveness and the innovations in the IT industry. We measure the innovations from both the quantity (number of patents) and the quality (number of...

We examine firms listed on the Shanghai/Shenzhen Stock Exchange to investigate stock market reactions to 294 Chinese manufacturing firms involved in 618 environmental incidents between 2006 and 2013. Through our event studies, we find empirical evidence of a significantly negative stock market...