The development of trust, a fundamental, complex aspect of human interaction, requires a combination of both controlled and automatic mental processes. Most trust models suggest that individuals' cognitive consciousness assess whether to trust. Nonconscious cognitive processes, however, can also...

Workplace equality is an important and integral component of firms’ corporate social responsibility. We argue that firms need to expend substantial resources to mitigate potential LGBT litigation risk or accommodate actual litigation costs, and absorb labor adjustment costs associated with...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study whether, of China's food and agriculture (agri-food) export, the trade relationships along the extensive margin can transform into short-term ones, and further convert into long-term ones along the intensive margin with survival and maintenance,...

Aiming at the outstanding housing problems of the high vacancy rate in our country, on the basis of analyzing the reasons for existing vacant housing, we used the smart growth theory as a guide to solve the problem of vacant housing, and to reduce resource waste caused by vacant housing from...

Because the choice to trust is inherently risky, people naturally assess others’ trustworthiness as a necessary precondition for trusting behavior. This conscious process depends on a type of relational schema - what we call a ‘trust schema’ - that provides an explicit cognitive starting...

This study examines foreign R&D in Shanghai and reveals that Shanghai has become one of the most concentrated centers of foreign R&D in China. Through interviews of 18 foreign R&D facilities in Shanghai, the study confirms the findings from previous studies that the majority of foreign R&D in...