The rapid growth of local SOEs in China largely depends on high leverage, thus local governments and their SOEs will face harder budget constraints when the central bank implements tight credit policies. Using a sample of listed local SOEs in the Chinese A-share market, this paper attempts to...

The deep integration of digital technology with the real economy has reconstructed production systems. We explore the impact of digital technology on the resource allocation behavior and efficiency of manufacturing enterprises. Using a sample of Chinese A-share listed manufacturing firms over...

The active Chihshang fault in the southern segment of longitudinal valley of eastern Taiwan is part of the suture boundary between the Eurasia plate and the Philippine Sea plate. Radon anomalies in groundwater were recorded prior to three major earthquakes—(1) 2003 M <Subscript>w</Subscript> = 6.8 Chengkung, (2)...</subscript>

In modern organizations a large portion of senior management's time is now being spent on finding ways to measure the contribution of their organizations IS/IT investments to business performance. It has been shown that IS/IT investments in many organizations are huge and increasing rapidly...