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📈 economics

Corporate Social Responsibility Education Enhance Employer Brand Attractiveness through Sustainability Orientation Responsible Leadership Competencies and Green Psychological Climate

This study of 648 South Indian MBA students reveals that Corporate Social Responsibility-embedded business education enhances employer brand attractiveness by fostering sustainability orientation and responsible leadership competencies, though a strong green psychological climate surprisingly dampens the direct impact of such education on both sustainability orientation and employer attractiveness.

Srinivas Cheekatla, Naresh Babu Muddangala2026-06-30
📈 economics

Evaluating the Role of Bills of Quantities in Contract Management: Evidence from State- Owned Enterprises in the Maldives

This study evaluates the critical yet constrained role of Bills of Quantities (BOQs) in managing construction contracts within Maldivian State-Owned Enterprises, identifying institutional and operational barriers that hinder their effectiveness while proposing a tailored framework and strategic interventions to enhance procurement transparency, accountability, and efficiency in Small Island Developing States.

Mohamed Solah, Nadzirah Zainordin, Zairra Mat Jusoh2026-06-30✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
📈 economics

How artificial intelligence affects enterprise pollution emission intensity:Based on the perspective of enterprise ESG performance

Using data from Chinese manufacturing listed companies (2007–2022), this study demonstrates that artificial intelligence significantly reduces enterprise pollution emission intensity through internal incentives and external support, with this effect being further strengthened by strong ESG performance, particularly in regions with weaker traditional cultural influences.

Yanqi Han, Xiao Zhang2026-06-30
📈 economics

CSR and Sustainable Consumption: Cultural Boundary Conditions of Power Distance Belief in CSR Effectiveness

This study utilizes survey data from 630 Chinese consumers to demonstrate that power distance belief acts as a pathway-specific boundary condition that strengthens the direct impact of CSR on ethical repurchase intention while leaving the indirect effect mediated by brand equity unchanged, thereby offering a refined framework for understanding cultural variations in sustainable consumption.

Hui Jin, Jiawei Guan, Xiaoqian Lu2026-06-30
📈 economics

Regulation and Firm Entry in the U.S. Federal Build-Out Era: Targeting Bias and the Limits of Industry-Exposure Identification

This paper argues that conflicting findings in the literature regarding U.S. federal regulation and firm entry stem from identification challenges, specifically targeting bias and a post-2000 collapse in cross-industry regulatory variation that weakens industry-exposure instruments, ultimately suggesting a negative association between regulation and entry rather than a definitive causal claim.

Salman Raza2026-06-30
📈 economics

Wages Below the Subsistence Threshold and the Emigration Risk of Ukraine's Health Workforce After Border Reopening: A Comparative Analysis of the British Experience (1919–2023) and the Polish and Wider European Migration Destinations

Drawing on 2026 financial data and comparative historical analysis, this paper argues that Ukraine's health workforce faces imminent mass emigration once wartime and language barriers lift, as persistently inadequate wages relative to living costs make migration to higher-paying European destinations economically rational for medical professionals.

Oleksandr Krasutskyi2026-06-30
📈 economics

Hard and Soft Label Assignment for Cost-Sensitive Semi-Supervised Reject Inference in Credit Scoring

This paper proposes RI-CSCEM, a cost-sensitive semi-supervised Expectation-Maximization framework that assigns hard or soft pseudo-labels to rejected applicants in credit scoring, effectively mitigating sample selection bias and asymmetric misclassification costs to outperform accepted-only baselines on Lending Club data.

Abderrahim EL AMRANI, Mounir EL ANNAS, Badreddine BENYACOUB, Mohammed EL HAJ TIRARI2026-06-30
📈 economics

A Study on the Application of Alternative Data in Credit Assessment for the Unbanked Population

This study demonstrates that integrating alternative data, such as rent and utility payment histories, into machine learning credit assessment models significantly increases loan approval rates for the "credit-invisible" population without substantially raising default risks or compromising demographic fairness, thereby advancing financial inclusion.

Tianyi Xu, Weijun Zhu, Jiawei Zhang2026-06-30