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Li Y, Li Z, Liu T. Does university-industry collaboration improve firm productivity? Evidence from China. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0305695. [PMID: 39079154 PMCID: PMC11280223 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0305695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2024] [Accepted: 06/01/2024] [Indexed: 08/02/2024] Open
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China's high-quality development cannot be achieved without high-quality research. As the university is an indispensable source of advanced research, analyzing the impact of university-industry collaboration (UIC) on firm performance helps us understand the significance of universities for China's economic development and innovation activities. As existing research does not pay attention to the impact of UIC on the productivity of Chinese firms, we examine the impact of such collaboration on firm productivity using natural language processing and by matching China's intellectual property and listed firms' operations databases. The empirical results show that UIC can promote firm productivity by improving the quality of their innovations, strengthening internalization efficiency, and broadening their research horizons. Moreover, the UIC process has a pronounced effect on promoting firm productivity in technology- and intellectual property-intensive industries. From the UIC perspective, we interpret China's economic development and provide new insights for developing countries regarding using universities to alleviate the insufficiency of private R&D investments.
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- Yuanqi Li
- School of Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Shahe area, Changping District, Beijing, China
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- School of Economics, Central University of Finance and Economics, Shahe area, Changping District, Beijing, China
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- Suzhou Institute of Trade & Commerce, Huqiu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China
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Tan Q, Tan J, Gao X. How does the online innovation community climate affect the user's value co-creation behavior: The mediating role of motivation. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0301299. [PMID: 38652729 PMCID: PMC11037537 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
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Online Innovation Community (OIC) serves as a virtual space for users to exchange products and services, and share knowledge and information. Previous studies have indicated that community climate is an important factor affecting users' value co-creation behavior, however, the influencing process has not been clearly revealed from the perspective of motivation. In this study, we explored the relationship between online innovation community climate (supportive climate and controlling climate), user motivation and value co-creation behavior (user's participation behavior and user's citizenship behavior) based on the SOR model. The study sample included 29,835 pieces of information from 3,315 users in 14 product sections of the OnePlus Community which were analyzed with Mplus8.1. The findings revealed that: (1) The supportive climate had a positive impact on user's citizenship behavior(β = 0.042), while the controlling climate exerted a significant positive impact on user's citizenship behavior (β = 0.078) and user's participation behavior(β = 0.099); (2) The need for achievement played a suppressing effect between community climate and user's participation behavior, the need for power played a suppressing effect between supportive climate and user's value co-creation behavior, and the need for affiliation played a mediating role between supportive climate and user's citizenship behavior (β = 0.010) and user's participation behavior(β = 0.006); (3) Community trust positively moderated the relationship between the need for achievement and user's participation behavior(β = 0.058) as well as between the need for power and user's participation behavior(β = 0.043).
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- Qiong Tan
- College of Economics, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, China
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- Business School, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China
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- Business School, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China
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Rauf F, Wanqiu W, Naveed K, Zhang Y. Green R & D investment, ESG reporting, and corporate green innovation performance. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0299707. [PMID: 38547119 PMCID: PMC10977761 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2023] [Accepted: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 04/02/2024] Open
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Given the contradictory empirical evidence on the relationship between green R&D expenditure and corporate Green Innovation performance (GIP), The present research study is a distinctive investigation into the moderating impacts of ESG reporting on this relationship. We utilized a data collection of 3,846, firm-year observations of A-share listed firms in China from 2016 to 2022 from CSMAR and Bloomberg databases. The firm's Corporate GIP is assessed and measured by looking at the total quantity of green patents. Lastly, models with multiple regression analyses and fixed effects were employed. The findings show that ESG reporting has a positive and significant impact on the association between corporate GIP and green R&D expenditure, implying its compensating and supportive function in the form of green signals in green outputs. This research could help executives and lawmakers, especially in developing countries to build innovative environmental strategies for business sustainability.
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- Fawad Rauf
- College of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
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- College of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China
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- Department of Accounting, College of Business and Economics, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi
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- Management College, Beijing Union University, Beijing, China
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Li W, He J, Shi Y. Firms' shareholding behavior in green supply chains: Carbon emissions reduction, power structures, and technology spillovers. Heliyon 2024; 10:e25086. [PMID: 38318001 PMCID: PMC10839981 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Revised: 01/02/2024] [Accepted: 01/19/2024] [Indexed: 02/07/2024] Open
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Leaders in green supply chains are increasingly focusing on improving strategic synergy with followers through shareholding strategies. By constructing Stackelberg models, we explore the operational mechanisms in two models, manufacturer-led and retailer-led, which have forward and backward shareholding strategies, respectively. Compared with non-shareholding models, we find that the retailer's pricing becomes more sensitive to changes in the market environment after applying shareholding strategies, while the manufacturer's pricing depends on its power status. Interestingly, leaders and entire supply chains prefer shareholding strategies, while followers prefer shareholding strategies in good market environment or in bad market environment with their shares held by leaders below certain thresholds. Moreover, both forward and backward shareholding strategies can effectively promote carbon emissions reduction. Improving manufacturers' technology spillover positively impacts pricing and carbon emissions reduction and profits, and a reasonable shareholding ratio can encourage manufacturers to increase the level of technology spillover. Finally, a two-part tariff contract can effectively coordinate the vertical shareholding supply chain. The results provide decision guidance for managers in applying shareholding strategies to build a strategic alliance to improve firms' economic and environmental performance.
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- Wenqiang Li
- School of Transportation and Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
- National United Engineering Laboratory of Integrated and Intelligent Transportation, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
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- School of Transportation and Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
- National United Engineering Laboratory of Integrated and Intelligent Transportation, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China
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- Department of Management, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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Liao X, Lyu B, Abbas J. Sexual harassment in the workplace: Rituals as Prevention and Management Strategies in COVID-19 Crisis. Heliyon 2023; 9:e19530. [PMID: 37809644 PMCID: PMC10558741 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2022] [Revised: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/25/2023] [Indexed: 10/10/2023] Open
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This study aims to increase our understanding regarding the use of rituals as the prevention and management strategies for the external consequences resulting from sexual harassment in the workplace during the COVID-19 crisis. We conducted a qualitative study through semi-structured interviews (N = 30) with employees in five hospitals and analyzed the data with a grounded theory approach. The results indicated that rituals could positively influence reputation repair and legitimacy construction. Moreover, interaction patterns between organizations and stakeholders mediated the relationships between rituals and prevention and management results heterogeneously. Managerial perceptions, ritual factors and cultural factors influence rituals to achieve more effective results in terms of prevention and management. By presenting a process model illustrating rituals' unique capacity to prevent and manage the threats of workplace sexual harassment, we contribute to the literature on workplace sexual harassment and rituals in three ways. First, we extend the workplace sexual harassment literature by exploring prevention and management strategies for external consequence/reputation threats. Second, we present a process model to illustrate how rituals impact the results of sexual harassment prevention and management strategies. Third, we illustrate the mediating and moderating factors and their contributions toward developing better rituals that function in such prevention and management strategies.
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- Xiaoyu Liao
- School of Humanities and Management, Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guiyang, 550025, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Huaibei Normal University, Huaibei, 235000, China
- Chinese Graduate School, Panyapiwat Institute of Management, Nonthaburi, 11120, Thailand
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- School of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China
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Wang H, Wang Y, Lyu B, Yang Y, Huang H. Military Experience and Individual Entrepreneurship—Imprinting Theory Perspective: Empirical Evidence From China. SAGE OPEN 2023; 13:215824402311598. [DOI: 10.1177/21582440231159866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2023]
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Military experience, as a special early experience exerts a very profound impact on individual decision making. This paper investigates the impact of military experience on male labor force entrepreneurial choices and its underlying mechanisms, using the 2014 to 2016 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey data. It is found that military experience significantly reduces the probability of individual entrepreneurship. The analysis of the influence mechanism shows that military experience inhibits survival entrepreneurship mainly by increasing employment opportunities in state-owned units, increasing the probability of becoming a member of the Communist Party of China(CPC), and accumulating human capital. This paper also finds that the inhibitory effect of military experience on individual entrepreneurship varies across household registration groups and is more significant for laborers with non-agricultural household. This paper not only reveals the impact of the military experience on individual entrepreneurship choices, but also provides empirical evidence for the development of innovation and entrepreneurship policies in emerging economies.
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- Haojun Wang
- School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- School of Accounting, Guangdong Polytechnic College, Zhaoqing, China
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- School of Economics and Management, Huaibei Normal University, China
- Chinese Graduate School, Panyapiwat Institute of Management, Nonthaburi, Thailand
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- Faculty of Education, University of Macau, China
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