Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the push and pull factors associated with the consumption of Chinese Table Tennis Super League (CTTSL) game events by online audiences and on-site attendants. Design/methodology/approach Conducting a comprehensive review of literature and a test of...

This paper explores the connection between the external opening of China and differences in innovation across Chinese regions. For the period 1995–2010, we find that regions that attract inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports have become more innovative. Further, we show a U-shaped...

Natural gas hydrate is a vast energy resource with global distribution in permafrost regions and in the oceans; its sheer volume demands that it be evaluated as a potential energy source. Understanding the mechanisms of natural gas extraction from hydrate-bearing sediments is critical for the...

Purpose Topic model has been widely applied to discover important information from a vast amount of unstructured data. Traditional long-text topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation may suffer from the sparsity problem when dealing with short texts, which mostly come from the Web. These...

Purpose The paper aims to know about energy condition’s impacts on inflation comprehensively. Design/methodology/approach This paper constructs China’s energy condition index (ECI) by bringing in three variables (China’s energy price, consumption and production) based on the financial...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how recent capital gains affect ex‐dividend stock pricing. Traditional models assume that investors are motivated to sell a stock before its ex‐date to avoid paying higher taxes on dividends. However, if a stock has appreciated significantly,...

Purpose Strategic fit is known to be an important antecedent to a firm’s performance, but there is little research explaining its influence on firm’s environmental performance. This paper aims to propose that strategic fit is likely to affect two firm-level outcomes: dynamic equilibrium and...

Purpose – This paper seeks to challenge the traditional wisdom that sheds light upon sequential entry modes in developed countries by exploring the dynamic entry mode choice in sequential foreign direct investment (FDI) in emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach – A review of the...

Domestic institutions can be a source of comparative advantage. This paper examines the role of Confucian clan culture, a long-standing institution at the heart of Chinese society, in firm exports. Using a nationally representative survey on private enterprises in China, we find that firms...