Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of supervisor-subordinate guanxi (SSG) on managers’ feedback-seeking behavior in the context of Chinese organizations, especially the mediating role of psychological expectations and the moderating role of political skill....

Purpose Although crowdsourcing has gained significant attention and is being used by numerous companies to develop new products and solve practical issues, the performance of crowdsourcing is not optimistic. The purpose of this paper is to develop a validated risk profile of crowdsourcing and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which user liaison behavior and outcome control influence the process performance of information technology (IT) projects and how the IT experience, behavior observability, and outcome measurability of user liaisons affect...

Seed size is an important component of overall seed yield trait, and apricots cultivated for consumable kernels produce kernels that are large and sweet. The molecular mechanism of kernel development in these consumption apricots, however, remains unclear. We measured kernel weight, kernel...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to verify whether the disclosure of other comprehensive income has effectively improved the transparency of corporate disclosure and thus effectively reduced earnings management. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 391 valid samples are selected...

Previous studies about FTA's roles on promoting members' international trade usually neglect three unevennesses: first, neglecting the roles of WTO membership on FTAs, second, neglecting the uneven roles of North-North, North-South and South-South FTAs, third and the most important, ignoring the...

In this paper, I use gravity equation with all the possible controls and a large bilateral panel data over 50 years and more than175 countries to estimate the distance effect from 1950 to 1999. An extensive search reveals some new results: different from previous finding that distance effects...