AbstractTheory offers conflicting predictions on how bank specialization affects corporate innovation. We show that the sign and magnitude of this effect vary with the degree
of “asset overhang” across sectors—the risk that new technologies reduce the value of banks’ legacy loan portfolios. [...]
AbstractThis article explores the relationship between a firm’s legal contracting environment and its innovation incentives. Using granular data from the pharmaceutical industry,
we examine a contracting mechanism through which incumbents maintain market power: “pay-for-delay” agreements to delay the market entry of competitors. [...]
Sustainability has become a central strategic concern for multinational corporations (MNCs), yet the literature remains fragmented across theoretical traditions and analytical
levels, limiting a coherent understanding of how sustainability is governed across diverse institutional contexts. [...]
Green Human Resource Management (GHRM) has received growing attention as organisations are leveraging HRM to address environmental and social challenges. Although prior research
links GHRM to improved environmental and organisational performance, much of this literature focuses on performance-oriented outcomes and gives limited attention [...]
This study examines whether and how firms' adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is associated with corporate social irresponsibility (CSI). Ex ante, theories provide conflicting
predictions regarding this association, making it an important empirical question. [...]
This study examines whether working condition support, which has been identified from consumers' perspective as the corporate duty most closely approximating the notion of
perfect duty, maintains its relative priority across societies, product categories, and time. [...]
Sustainable Development Goal 11 promotes inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities by 2030. This study examined the drivers of environmental degradation in Ogbomoso
City, Nigeria, focusing on Ogbomoso North and Ogbomoso South Local Government Areas. [...]
In Central Java, salt is made on the north coast using conventional methods, such as compacted soil and geomembrane coating on crystallization plots, with low sodium chloride
(NaCl) content. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the impurity content in salt crystals produced by farmers on the north coast of Central Java using compacted [...]