We examine the relationship of the financial expert CEOs on firm innovation. Using CEO individual-level and firm-level data across Chinese A-share market from 2008 to 2015, the Poisson model estimation shows that the financial expert CEOs have significant negative impacts on firm innovation....

A new industrial development paradigm, the Fifth Industrial Revolution or 'Industry 5.0' is expected to humanise green technological innovation (GTI), social resilience, and sustainable development of industrial ecosystems. Emphasising the supplier-customer interaction, 'Industry 5.0' is...

New product development (NPD) has become a key factor for improving enterprise competitiveness. Integrated product development (IPD) is considered a best practice for addressing the complexities of NPD, but most enterprise NPD processes face problems, such as low efficiency, long turnover, and...

This paper investigates the impact of digital transformation on innovation within the agribusiness sector, both theoretically and empirically, through an examination of Chinese A-share agriculture-related listed companies spanning from 2011 to 2021. The findings suggest that digital...

In the digital economy era, the pathways of digital transformation and intelligent development have emerged as crucial avenues for enterprises' high-quality development. Focusing on listed private enterprises from 2011 to 2020, this study uses text mining to extract keywords related to digital...

Social networking learning is emerging in light of the European Skills Agenda and technological development. This aims to incorporate learning techniques in social networking environments to foster formal and informal learning. However, the classical customer-oriented social networks provide an...

This report investigates the impact of digitalization on firm-level performance using survey data from 681 digital entrepreneurs across six Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries. Results show that the reliance of the business on select digital applications and the...