Clustered institutional investors, shared ESG preferences and low-carbon innovation in family firm

B Wu, Q Gu, Z Liu, J Liu - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2023 - Elsevier
As individual investors who act independently can generate only limited influence on
corporate decisions, this paper considers clustered institutional investors connected through …

The impact of COVID-19 on small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): empirical evidence for green economic implications

L Du, A Razzaq, M Waqas - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China have been hit hard by the coronavirus
(COVID-19) outbreak, which has jeopardized their going out of business altogether. As a …

Institutional investor ESG activism and corporate green innovation against climate change: exploring differences between digital and non-digital firms

C Jin, A Monfort, F Chen, N Xia, B Wu - Technological Forecasting and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper proposes that institutional investor ESG activism affects corporate green
innovation through two attention mechanisms: intra-firm allocation of attention and inter-firm …

Does the porter hypothesis work well in the emission trading schema pilot? Exploring moderating effects of institutional settings

C Jin, FS Tsai, Q Gu, B Wu - Research in International Business and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Using a dataset of Chinese private firms from 2002 to 2014, this study examines the impact
of China's SO 2 emission trading schema pilot on industrial innovation. In particular, this …

Institutional investor ESG activism and exploratory green innovation: Unpacking the heterogeneous responses of family firms across intergenerational contexts

B Wu, F Chen, L Li, L Xu, Z Liu, Y Wu - The British Accounting Review, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the heterogeneous responses to institutional investor ESG activism
by expanding reference point theory among non-family firms and family firms with different …

The impact of carbon emission trading policy on firms' green innovation in China

H Yu, Y Jiang, Z Zhang, WL Shang, C Han, Y Zhao - Financial Innovation, 2022 - Springer
This study aims to examine the green innovation effect of the carbon emissions pilot policy in
China. First, using the difference-in-differences method and regressions of instrumental …

Underdog mentality, identity discrimination and access to peer-to-peer lending market: Exploring effects of digital authentication

B Wu, Z Liu, Q Gu, FS Tsai - Journal of International Financial Markets …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vulnerable social groups are often the recipients of statistical discrimination by financial
institutions. They therefor try to access the P2P lending market through voluntary digital …

A multi-criteria decision-making framework for sustainable supplier selection in the circular economy and Industry 4.0 era

Z Xie, G Tian, Y Tao - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Supplier selection is a difficult and important issue in sustainable supply chain management.
This research proposes a managerial framework based on Industry 4.0, a plan for evaluating …

Economic policy uncertainty and commodity market volatility: implications for economic recovery

D Xiao, J Su, B Ayub - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022 - Springer
As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, most commodities experienced
significant price drops, which were expected to continue well into 2020. As a result, the …

Exploring the impact of social capital, institutional quality and political stability on environmental sustainability: New insights from NARDL-PMG

L Guan, Z Ali, KF Uktamov - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
The social aspect of sustainable development is often considered the least strong
component, particularly in terms of its analytical and theoretical foundations. Although there …