Foucault’s ideas on episteme change are used to help understand change taking place in China from the “industrial civilization” to an “ecological civilization”. If episteme change is taking place this could be reflected ...

This study investigates the effect of environmental performance that is driven by good environmental policies, regulations and management on firm’s financial distress, and consequently, ascertains the extent to which top ...

Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: Past empirical efforts in corporate governance have examined the effects of large shareholders with the excess control rights on tunneling activities. However, no study ...

This paper examines whether foreign acquisitions lessen financial constraints, improve investment in research & development (R&D) and productivity of the target firms in China based on a sample of 914 cross-border mergers ...

Purpose: This study examines the factors that affect the level of Environmental Information Disclosures (EID) following the issuance of the “Environmental Information Disclosure Guidelines for Chinese Listed Companies”. ...

This study examines the motives, entry mode choice and challenges of the international expansion in an emerging country context. Data was collected via interviews from 30 senior managers based on a sample of 10 Chinese ...

This paper extends social entrepreneurship (SE) research by drawing upon a critical realist perspective to analyse dynamic structure/agency relations in SE opportunity emergence, illustrated by empirical evidence. Our ...

This study examines quadratic effects of three export decision-making approaches (planning, creativity and spontaneity) on innovation orientation, and the direct effect of innovation orientation on export market performance. ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the trends, patterns and the impact of cultural and home country macroeconomic influences on Chinese cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBM&A) as foreign entry strategy ...

This paper investigates the phenomenon of ‘daigou’. Daigou are perceived as harmful in China as they do not pay any import taxes. However, daigou have established well-organised supply-chain channels on the borders between ...