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How does energy quota trading affect the corporate pollution gap? Evidence from China (2025)
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Qiu, Z., Li, J., Liu, B., Jin, M., & Wang, J. (2025). How does energy quota trading affect the corporate pollution gap? Evidence from China. Economic Modelling, 146, Article 107025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2025.107025

Existing study lacks discussion on how market mechanism can reduce pollution gap among firms. We estimate the average effect of energy quota trading (EQT) on pollution gap among Chinese A-share listed firms. Generally, we find that EQT can significan... Read More about How does energy quota trading affect the corporate pollution gap? Evidence from China.

Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Land Investment: Evidence from National Plot-Level Data in Rural China (2025)
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Sun, X., Wang, J., & Rao, F. (2025). Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Land Investment: Evidence from National Plot-Level Data in Rural China. Land, 14(1), Article 191. https://doi.org/10.3390/land14010191

The linkage between land tenure security and land quality improvement investment is crucial given that the land tenure security system is a widely applied policy tool for the protection of cultivation land in developing countries. Drawing on the trip... Read More about Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Land Investment: Evidence from National Plot-Level Data in Rural China.

How does business credit environment affect exports performance of small and medium-sized enterprises: Evidence in China (2024)
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Liu, B., Sun, X., Wang, J., Yang, X., Xu, H., & Qiu, Z. (2024). How does business credit environment affect exports performance of small and medium-sized enterprises: Evidence in China. Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/09638199.2024.2394788

This paper uses matched data from the CSMAR database and the China City Statistical Yearbook through a fixed effects model to examine the impact of business credit environment on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) exports at the city level in... Read More about How does business credit environment affect exports performance of small and medium-sized enterprises: Evidence in China.

Land-based cooperation for alternative livelihoods in Laos: Case studies of Chinese agricultural companies (2024)
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Jin, Y., Wang, J., Wu, B., Zhong, S., Feng, L., & Si, Z. (2024). Land-based cooperation for alternative livelihoods in Laos: Case studies of Chinese agricultural companies. Journal of Cleaner Production, 448, Article 141615. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.141615

The eradication of illicit drug crops in developing countries through international agricultural cooperation in alternative livelihoods is a new mode of clean production. This paper examines the market-oriented alternative livelihood (AL) model imple... Read More about Land-based cooperation for alternative livelihoods in Laos: Case studies of Chinese agricultural companies.

How exports affect green technology innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises? Evidence from Chinese companies listed on the growth enterprise market (2023)
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Yang, X., Xu, H., Qiu, Z., Wang, J., & Liu, B. (2024). How exports affect green technology innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises? Evidence from Chinese companies listed on the growth enterprise market. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 31, 36384–36404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-30126-2

Using matched data from China Stock Market and Accounting Research (CSMAR) and Wind databases, this paper explores the impact of exports on the green technology innovation (GTI) of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The mechanisms are analyz... Read More about How exports affect green technology innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises? Evidence from Chinese companies listed on the growth enterprise market.

Institutional Investor Shareholding and the Quality of Corporate Innovation: Moderating Effects Based on Internal and External Environment (2023)
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Liu, B., Wang, J., Tong, X., Zhou, Z., & Qiu, Z. (2024). Institutional Investor Shareholding and the Quality of Corporate Innovation: Moderating Effects Based on Internal and External Environment. Managerial and Decision Economics, 45(1), 326-338. https://doi.org/10.1002/mde.4007

Improving the quality of enterprise innovation is a key path to implementing the innovation-driven development strategy and thus promoting high-quality economic development. Using a sample of Chinese A-share listed companies from 2011-2019, this pape... Read More about Institutional Investor Shareholding and the Quality of Corporate Innovation: Moderating Effects Based on Internal and External Environment.

National Innovative City and Green Technology Progress: Empirical Evidence from China (2023)
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Liu, B., Li, Z., Yang, X., Wang, J., & Qiu, Z. (2024). National Innovative City and Green Technology Progress: Empirical Evidence from China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 31, 36311–36328. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-023-27912-3

In this paper, a quasi-natural experiment of national innovative city pilot policy (NICPP) is carried out to investigate the impact of the NICPP on green technology innovation (GTI) and its intrinsic mechanism with the method of difference-indifferen... Read More about National Innovative City and Green Technology Progress: Empirical Evidence from China.

How to Benefit from Balancing External Knowledge Acquisition? A Chinese EIT Industry Case (2022)
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Wang, J. M., Sun, Y. T., & Zhang, C. (2022). How to Benefit from Balancing External Knowledge Acquisition? A Chinese EIT Industry Case. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 178, Article 121587. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121587

This paper develops an integrated framework and examines how the implicit property-knowledge heterogeneity, acquisition costs and interactivity embedded in external knowledge acquisition (EKA) affect firms’ innovation performance. This is done by dis... Read More about How to Benefit from Balancing External Knowledge Acquisition? A Chinese EIT Industry Case.

政府研发补贴与企业创新投入：数量激励抑或质量导向？ (2021)
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Wang, J., Tong, X., & Yang, C. (in press). 政府研发补贴与企业创新投入：数量激励抑或质量导向？. Journal of Macro-Quality Research,

如何有效发挥政府“有形之手”对企业创新的激励作用，优化公共资源配置效率，是实施创新驱动战略和推动经济高质量发展的关键一环。本文使用研发投资衡量创新投入数量，使用专利产出衡量创新投入转化质量，基于2001-2017年中国非金融类A股上市公司面板数据，从理论上分析政... Read More about 政府研发补贴与企业创新投入：数量激励抑或质量导向？.

The internationalization of Chinese multinational enterprises under the Belt-and-Road Initiative (2021)
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Wang, J., Mirsardin, I., Sun, Y., & Yang, X. (2021). The internationalization of Chinese multinational enterprises under the Belt-and-Road Initiative. Strategic Change, 30(6), 509-515. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2467

This article explores how the Belt-and-Road Initiative has affected the internationalization of Chinese multinational enterprises with a case study of China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation. It is found that the Belt-and-Road Initiative can be consi... Read More about The internationalization of Chinese multinational enterprises under the Belt-and-Road Initiative.

Entry Mode Choices and Overseas Business Performance: Evidence from the Chinese Multinational Enterprises (2021)
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Zhang, H., & Wang, J. (2021). Entry Mode Choices and Overseas Business Performance: Evidence from the Chinese Multinational Enterprises. Strategic Change, 30(6), 517-525. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.2473

This article adopts the extended transaction cost theory to analyze the entry mode choices of Chinese multinational enterprises and their effects on overseas business performance. Theoretical hypotheses, which are developed from the perspectives of a... Read More about Entry Mode Choices and Overseas Business Performance: Evidence from the Chinese Multinational Enterprises.

The Role of MNE Subsidiaries in the Practice of Global Business Models in Transforming Economies (2021)
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Ngoasong, M. Z., Wang, J., Amdam, R. P., & Bjarnar, O. (2021). The Role of MNE Subsidiaries in the Practice of Global Business Models in Transforming Economies. Management and Organization Review, 17(2), 254-281. https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2020.55

This study provides new insights into the role of subsidiary managers in the practice of global business models of multinational enterprises in transforming economies. Drawing on the global business model literature and through semi-structured interv... Read More about The Role of MNE Subsidiaries in the Practice of Global Business Models in Transforming Economies.

New digital infrastructure, cross-border e-commerce and global vision of creating Electronic World Trade Platform (2018)
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Ma, S., Chai, Y., Wang, J., & Duan, Y. (2018). New digital infrastructure, cross-border e-commerce and global vision of creating Electronic World Trade Platform. Global Trade and Customs Journal, 13(4), 157-167

The rapid development of cross-border e-commerce has integrated with the global economy more closely in the past decade. How to create global digital customs to facilitate cross-border e-commerce on the basis of national Single Window system has beco... Read More about New digital infrastructure, cross-border e-commerce and global vision of creating Electronic World Trade Platform.

China's pawn-broking industry and the puzzle of losses during the global financial crisis in 2008-2009 (2017)
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Zhou, L., Yao, S., Wang, J., & Ou, J. (2017). China's pawn-broking industry and the puzzle of losses during the global financial crisis in 2008-2009. China, 13(3), 128-144

Pawnbrokers in China, like those in many other countries, not only provide financial intermediation services to individuals and households to finance the shortfall between consumption and income in the short term, but also serve as a supplementary fi... Read More about China's pawn-broking industry and the puzzle of losses during the global financial crisis in 2008-2009.

The dynamic role of small- and medium-sized multinationals in global production networks: Norwegian maritime firms in the Greater Shanghai Region in China (2017)
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Amdam, R. P., Bjarnar, O., & Wang, J. (2018). The dynamic role of small- and medium-sized multinationals in global production networks: Norwegian maritime firms in the Greater Shanghai Region in China. Asia Pacific Business Review, 24(1), 37-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2017.1358929

This article examines the role of small- and medium-sized multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the dynamic development of global production networks (GPNs) in the maritime industry. It studies the dynamism between subsidiaries of Norwegian maritime fi... Read More about The dynamic role of small- and medium-sized multinationals in global production networks: Norwegian maritime firms in the Greater Shanghai Region in China.

Global financial crisis and China’s pawnbroking industry (2016)
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Zhou, L., Yao, S., Wang, J., & Ou, J. (2016). Global financial crisis and China’s pawnbroking industry. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 14(2), 151-164. https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2016.1173465

In most countries, pawnbroking is an intermediate financial instrument to help private households or individuals meet their short-term and urgent consumption needs. In China, due to market imperfection and institutional discrimination against the sma... Read More about Global financial crisis and China’s pawnbroking industry.

The effect of leadership style on talent retention during Merger and Acquisition integration: evidence from China (2014)
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Zhang, J., Faisal Ahammad, M., Tarba, S., Cooper, C. L., Glaister, K. W., & Wang, J. (2015). The effect of leadership style on talent retention during Merger and Acquisition integration: evidence from China. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 26(7), 1021-1050. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2014.908316

Leadership and talent retention are critical HR-related components in post-merger and acquisition (M&A) integration, but the extent to which these factors interact with each other and eventually contribute to the success of post-M&A integration is un... Read More about The effect of leadership style on talent retention during Merger and Acquisition integration: evidence from China.

Inequality, human capital, and innovation: China's remaining big problems (2014)
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Wu, D., Wu, Z., Wang, J., & Zhao, Z. (2014). Inequality, human capital, and innovation: China's remaining big problems. International Journal of Economics and Business Modeling, 5(1),

The purpose of this paper is to analyse China’s current problems in inequality and compensation of employees, and their impact on human capital accumulation and innovation, which is one of key factors influencing the sustainable economic growth in Ch... Read More about Inequality, human capital, and innovation: China's remaining big problems.

Institutional change and regional development in China: the case of commodity trading markets (2013)
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Wang, J., & Gooderham, P. (2013). Institutional change and regional development in China: the case of commodity trading markets. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 32(3), https://doi.org/10.1068/c11254b

With this paper we explore how institutional changes have influenced the regional development of Yiwu City, East China. The regional development in Yiwu City can be regarded as constituting a specific model in transitional China, which revolves aroun... Read More about Institutional change and regional development in China: the case of commodity trading markets.

Assessing Overall Network Structure in Regional Innovation Policies: A Case Study of Cluster Policy in the West Midlands in the UK (2013)
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He, S., MacNeill, S., & Wang, J. (2014). Assessing Overall Network Structure in Regional Innovation Policies: A Case Study of Cluster Policy in the West Midlands in the UK. European Planning Studies, 22(9), 1940-1959. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2013.812066

Revisiting the theoretical roots of the key concepts of " embeddedness " and " networks " that underpin many recent regional innovation polices, this paper strives to achieve a more systematic understanding of the overall network structure of geograp... Read More about Assessing Overall Network Structure in Regional Innovation Policies: A Case Study of Cluster Policy in the West Midlands in the UK.