In recent years, there has been increasing interest in whether and how bureaucratic
effectiveness contributes to development. Just what makes for an effective bureaucracy and …

Research summary: We use a novel theoretical framework to synthesize ostensibly
disparate streams of nonmarket strategy research. We argue that faced with weak …

A growing body of literature recognizes the critical impact of political connections on
enterprises' green innovation. This study enriches the literature by arguing that a corporate …

Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only
occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how …

Environmental regulation may lead to firm's behavior changes. This article explores the
effects of environmental regulation on corporate tax avoidance activities. Using China's new …

The present inquiry addresses the nexus between the development of electronic
government and corruption in the provision of public sector services in developing and …

When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he
vowed to build “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” More than three decades later …

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that
characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to …

This paper investigates the effect of anti-corruption on the financing of and investing in
innovation by using a detailed data set of Chinese listed companies from 2009 to 2015. We …

Corporate philanthropy is expected to positively affect firm financial performance because it
helps firms gain sociopolitical legitimacy, which enables them to elicit positive stakeholder …