📈 economics

Making Sense of Mixed Signals: The Impact of (In)consistent Performance Feedback on Corporate Digital Technology Innovation

Drawing on behavioral theory and the attention-based view, this study reveals that while below-aspiration performance and inconsistent feedback differentially drive firms to pursue either mitigation or adaptation in digital technology innovation, these effects are significantly moderated by the quantity and stability of CEO attention.

Xiaotong Huo, Xiaoyu Wu, Shuyang Wang, Huan Shi, Xinran Hu2026-07-10
📈 economics

The Impact of Organizational Culture Practices on Organizational Performance: Evidence from Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, Gondar City Branches

This quantitative study of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia's Gondar branches demonstrates that all seven dimensions of organizational culture proposed by Robbins and Judge significantly and positively predict organizational performance, with "Attention to Detail" and "Outcome Orientation" identified as the most influential factors driving the bank's success.

petros degefa MULU2026-07-10
📈 economics

A Study on the Measurement of the Compatibility Between Population Changes and University Education Scale in Guangdong Province from an Equilibrium Perspective

This study employs an equilibrium perspective and entropy method to analyze Guangdong Province's 2015–2024 data, revealing that while population dynamics and higher education scale are generally converging, their compatibility remains moderate with significant regional disparities favoring the Pearl River Delta.

xiu chen, jiaxin luo, lianhua liu, luocong qi, linhai liang2026-07-10
📈 economics

Bounded Rationality and Resilience in Global Rare Earth Supply Chains: An LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Simulation

This paper introduces an LLM-powered multi-agent simulation framework that demonstrates how modeling sovereign decision-makers with bounded rationality significantly enhances the resilience and cost-efficiency of global rare earth supply chains compared to traditional static optimization models during geopolitical shocks.

junjie liang, ligang xu, weifeng wang, mengtao song, Siming wei2026-07-10
📈 economics

Mitigating Suppliers’ Environmental, Social, and Governance Greenwashing through Buyers’ Artificial Intelligence Application: Evidence from Listed Chinese Companies

This study empirically demonstrates that buyers' application of artificial intelligence significantly mitigates suppliers' ESG greenwashing in Chinese listed companies by enhancing information transparency and generating technological spillovers, with effects amplified by buyer power and geographical proximity.

Mao Jian Yu2026-07-09
📈 economics

How Does Supply Chain Finance Affect Intra-firm Income Inequality? Evidence from Market Power and Skill Premiums in China

Using data from Chinese A-share listed firms (2009–2022), this paper demonstrates that supply chain finance exacerbates intra-firm income inequality by enhancing core firms' market power to shift rents toward capital and executives, inducing skill-biased technical change that favors high-skilled labor, and reducing low-skilled labor supply elasticity.

Jing Gao, Yinyi Zhang2026-07-09
📈 economics

Evaluating the interrelationships among ESG dimensions in Taiwanese enterprises through a structural equation modeling approach

This study utilizes structural equation modeling on data from 202 certified Taiwanese firms to validate the bidirectional interrelationships among ESG dimensions and propose an integrated ESG–TQM framework that advances sustainability research and supports UN Sustainable Development Goals 12 and 13.

Ping-Lung Huang, Stephen Pao, Chen-Song Wang, Bruce C.Y. Lee, Sheng-Lun Tai2026-07-09