Purpose: This paper aims to investigate a firm’s incentive to innovate its basic product to be socially responsible and its decision on the product line. By constructing a competition model, the paper examines the factors that affect the firm’s choice on its product line with the socially...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the national brand manufacturer's ability from corporate social responsibility (CSR) innovation as a counterstrategy against the private label by a retailer. By constructing a model of manufacturer–retailer interaction, the paper attempts to analyze...

Purpose: This study introduced a focus on work flexibility-worry and intended to test whether work flexibility-worry would weaken the strengthening power of work flexibility-willingness on the relationship between work flexibility-ability and work–family conflict from the perspective of...

Purpose – Study of the interdependence among economies is of considerable importance. This area includes issues such as the increasing importance of regional economic interactions, the effects of economic growth and recession in the advanced economies on emerging market countries, and...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which researchers display citation information and examine whether there are researcher differences in citation personal display at the level of university, country, and academic rank. Design/methodology/approach Physicists from...

Purpose Despite most studies on political ties focusing on the interpersonal relationships between firms and government officials, this study suggests that local party committees (LPCs) create special forms of political ties in China – i.e. organizational political ties. The purpose of this...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to outline some key features of China's new rules on anti‐money laundering. Design/methodology/approach – This paper describes the expanded definition of “anti‐money laundering”; the application of the rules to a broader group of financial...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the roles Web 2.0 applications play in niche cultures such as rock music diffusion. Design/methodology/approach – This paper aims to examine the influence of online forums on fans of rock music and to validate the intermediating roles of the cognitive...