Based on hand-collected information on private companies listed in the Chinese SME stock market, this paper studies how family involvement and political connection affect firms' IPO underpricing. Especially, we investigate how underpricing varies with higher- and ordinary level political...

In order to capture the value of cultural creativity, this study explored regional cultural creativities with different creative forms to understand how people interpret and interact with various regional cultural creative images. This was done by analyzing the abstract (performance) type of...

We draw insights from the status characteristic theory and conjecture that status beliefs lead to the formation of an informal gender-based status hierarchy on the boards. After controlling for several directors’ characteristics, we identify that the status ranking of female directors is...

How information is used to market different types of physical and virtual products on increasingly expansive virtual platforms is an important topic of consideration. The principal aim of this study was to examine the use of social media to engage the public and improve brand positioning. This...