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Environmental accounting in China: the case of a medium sized Chinese state owned enterprise
(Department of Accounting and Finance, De Montfort University, Leicester, 2014-09)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the discussions about the radical change that is required if any notion of sustainability is to hold in the future. It is hypothesised that developments in environmental ...
An examination of Chinese responses to sustainability accountability: the move towards ecological civilization from a Foucauldian episteme-change perspective
(: ISDRS and theCenter for Environmental and Sustainability Research, School of Science and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2016-07)
This paper considers that the contingencies in place in China around sustainability are unique for a major emerging economy. Chinese actors in the sustainability network are dominated by government, not corporations, and ...
Does (or can) Confucianism inform environmental accounting and reporting in China
(Centre for Global Finance, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China, 2009)
This paper seeks to do two things: Firstly it reviews some of the literature on both Confucianism and its application to business. Secondly it outlines a proposed research project that will further explore the usefulness ...
Financial development and economic growth in China
(LLC Consulting Publishing Company Business Perspectives, 2015-08-12)
The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between financial development and economic growth. In particular, the authors examine the impact of financial development on the growth of primary, secondary, and ...
Initial Public Offerings in China: Underpricing, Statistics and Developing Literature
(Elsevier, 2018-04-30)
We review more than two decades of literature on initial public offerings (IPOs) in China,
discussing the research hypotheses that have been studied as well as the main findings. We summarize past and current developments ...
Host country institutions and firm-level R&D influences: An analysis of European Union FDI in China
(Elsevier, 2018-08-15)
The paper investigates the effects of institutions and their interaction with firms’ research & development (R&D) levels on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in China based on a sample of 680 European Union (EU) firms ...
Executive shareholding, compensation, and analyst forecast of Chinese firms
(Taylor and Francis, 2016-08-03)
We examine the impact of executive and leadership shareholding and cash compensation on analyst forecast error and dispersion as proxies for information asymmetry. We find that firms pay higher compensation (or excess ...
Ecological civilization - China's emerging ecological civilization
(World Scientific, 2019-04-01)
The prospects for environmental accounting and accountability in China
(Routledge, 2019-05-08)
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 ...
Environmental Policy, Environmental performance and financial distress in China: Do top management team characteristics matter?
(Wiley, 2018-09-03)
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 ...