This paper empirically studies the roles of productivity and other factors such as globalization and financial constraints in shaping the innovation-related activities of Chinese firms between 2005 and 2007, in a context of quickly developing economy. Our empirical analysis based on firm-level...

This paper empirically investigates the economic effects of environmental activities. To be specific, it investigates the interactive influence of firms’ environmental management and environmental innovation on their productivity. We consider both internal and external environmental management...

This paper empirically investigates the influences of financial constraint, sources, supports, and loan applications on firms’ research and development (R&D). We separately consider general R&D and green R&D. Further, under each R&D, we distinguish between independent innovation and dependent...