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Sustaining Public-Sector Capability as the Workforce Ages: Succession Exposure Across Federal, State, and Local Government in the United States

Utilizing 2024 American Community Survey data, this study reveals that the U.S. public-sector workforce is significantly older and more credentialed than its private-sector counterpart, facing a critical succession crisis with a thinner early-career pipeline and concentrated risks in management that necessitate shifting monitoring focus from headcount to composition and succession exposure.

Ali Akram2026-08-25
📈 economics

Harmonizing Supply Chain Decarbonization and Green Inflation: A Dual Perspective from Main Path Analysis and Acer’s Carbon-Neutral Practices

This study integrates a Main Path Analysis of 3,359 academic papers on supply chain decarbonization with a case study of Acer Inc.'s sustainability initiatives to explore the intersection of environmental goals, green inflation, and actionable corporate strategies for balancing economic viability with net-zero commitments.

Wei-Hao Su, Jen-Chieh Wang, Mengru Tu, Wen-Chuan Ke2026-08-25
📈 economics

From Technology Transfer to Ecosystem Value Creation: A Network-Aware Model of Adoption in University-Based Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

This paper proposes a network-aware, falsifiable model linking four technology-transfer arrangements to adoption and multi-dimensional value creation in university ecosystems, demonstrating its computational estimability and measurement requirements through synthetic data and an illustrative audit, while noting that empirical validation remains pending due to data limitations.

Maria Giovanna Trotta, Angelo Leogrande, Mauro Di Molfetta, Valeria Notarnicola, Alessandro Iusco2026-08-25
📈 economics

Do ownership reform pilots accelerate academic technology transfer? Evidence from China's job-related invention scheme

This paper evaluates China's job-related invention scheme, which granted ownership rights to scientists, and finds that while it increased individual firm-side patenting, it failed to accelerate university-industry technology transfer, suggesting that ownership reforms are ineffective without a supporting institutional infrastructure.

Xinzhe Li, Zhaoqiang Zhong2026-08-25
📈 economics

Assessing the Effects of Establishment Entry on Competition and Variable Profits

This paper utilizes plausibly exogenous variation in Washington's recreational cannabis market to demonstrate that new retail entry significantly reduces incumbent variable profits primarily by decreasing sales quantities rather than prices, with the most pronounced effects occurring in jurisdictions where regulatory caps had previously constrained competition.

Joshua Scott, Murad Zeynalli, Eddy Junarsin2026-08-25
📈 economics

The Creditor’s Smile: Debt, Covenants, and the Last Guardian of Workforce Well-Being

This paper argues that creditors, rather than shareholders, are the structurally positioned guardians against workforce collapse due to their concave risk exposure, and proposes replacing reactive financial covenants with proactive "well-being covenants" that trigger remediation based on operational indicators to prevent the austerity measures that currently exacerbate the very risks threatening debt repayment.

Shay Tsaban2026-08-25
📈 economics

Threshold-based liability regulation and the timing of radical innovation: Evidence from Korea's Serious Accident Punishment Act

Using a difference-in-differences approach on Korean manufacturing data, this study finds that the 2022 Serious Accident Punishment Act, which imposes criminal liability on officers of firms with 50+ employees, caused a transitory dip in radical innovation among covered firms during the enactment window without evidence of a permanent level shift or subsequent recovery beyond their pre-existing trend.

Jihwan Woo, Nari Kim2026-08-25