Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the changing trend of China's power project investment value. Design/methodology/approach – The authors research the profitability of different power projects in recent years and summarize the reason why investment value varies between...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to refine the resource-based theory of the firm. It intends to deal with key theoretical issues affecting the development of a model that empirically captures the relevance of knowledge to performance. The research task is not only to look inside the firm...

Performance pay has been shown to have important implications for worker and firm productivity. Although workers' skills may directly matter for the cost of effort to reach performance goals, surprisingly little is know about the heterogeneity in the effects of incentive pay across workers. In...

This study presents novel empirical evidence on the optimal disaggregated public debt-growth threshold in the WAMZ over the period 1996-2022. Determining the public debt-growth threshold in a disaggregated form is crucial for macroeconomic policy measures in the region to curb high public debt...

To better understand the impact of the energy transition on the environment, this study examines the impact of structural changes in energy (renewable), economy (industrialization), society (urbanization), and trade (trade openness) on environmental degradation in lower-middle-income,...