Nankai Business Review International: Volume 11 Issue 2

Guest editorial

Cheng Xinsheng

Non-founder CEOs, R&D investment and output: An empirical study based on Chinese growth enterprise market

Nan Xu, Hanyi Tian, Jing Cai

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of non-founder CEO succession on firms’ research and development (R&D) decision, and further explore its mechanism and…

Corporate social responsibility, product innovation, and product line

Heng Xu

This paper aims to investigate a firm’s incentive to innovate its basic product to be socially responsible and its decision on the product line. By constructing a competition…

Does new performance appraisal system (EVA) affect earnings management?

Weifeng He, Liping Chen, Wei Liu

Currently, most research studies focus on ownership reforms and governance reforms, while only a few research studies focus on management system innovations. Based on an evolution…

A study on the process and mechanism of social enterprise’s legitimation: Based on analysis of social enterprise’s coopetition with multiple stakeholders

Siqi Xu, Youmin Xi

This paper aims to explore the complete process and underlying mechanism that social enterprises obtain legitimacy during interactions with stakeholders from theoretical…

The driving force in corporate environmental governance: Turnover of environmental protection department directors as an indicator

Jun Hu, Wenbin Long, Xianzhong Song, Taijie Tang

Due to environmental externalities, micro-enterprises with profit-seeking features do not develop sufficient motivation for environmental governance. In a fiscally decentralized…

Revenue structure of the dual-role as investor-contractors in PPP project

Jiaqi Liu, Jicai Liu, Lujie Ruan

The purpose of this study is to discuss the phenomenon of dual-role participants in public-private partnership (PPP) projects. Contractors who are also investors hold a dual-role…

Are independent directors’ political connections valuable?: Findings based on a natural experiment in China

Yanyu Chen, Wenzhe Zheng, Yimiao Huang

The purpose of this paper is to use difference-in-difference method (DID) to study the influences of independent directors’ political connection on firm value.