Shouming Chen

Tongji University · Department of Business Administration

This study aims to determine why a firm would ever engage in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) during a turbulent era. Combining stakeholder theory, the resource-based view, and the literature on SSCM, we argue that SSCM can alleviate negative market reactions to severe external crises. Based on analyses of a sample of firms listed in Chin...

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on firm performance. The study examines the SDG coverage of international firms in six industries listed in the Corporate Knights’ Index, including banking, insurance, petroleum refineries, real estate investment and services, and investment services....

A perennial question for the pharmaceutical industry has been excessive drug prices. To alleviate patients’ burden of expensive medical bills and increase the affordability of medicines, China adopted the Two-Invoice System (TIS) in drug procurement for public medical institutions in 2017. In this paper, we study the impact of the TIS on pharmaceut...

Based on the upper echelons theory, previous literature has suggested that CEO's personal characteristics influence firms' internationalization. However, most research investigates the static traits such as age, education, overseas background, etc. Since CEO's communication skills exert influence on the firm as well, communication may also be of si...

Innovation is the key to the development of the pharmaceutical industry. The pilot program of China’s “4 + 7” volume-based procurement policy (“4 + 7” procurement policy) brings the drug price back to a reasonable level through trading procurement quantities for lower drug prices. The policy manages to reduce the burden of the health care system, i...

This study examines the association between CEO temporal focus and corporate engagement in philanthropy, and considers the moderating role of ownership. This association is investigated based on upper echelons theory and the conceptual framework of temporal focus. Using a sample of 2,285 observations of Chinese listed firms from 2010 to 2015, our r...

Resilience captures firm capability to adjust to and recover from unexpected shocks in the environment. Being latent and path-dependent, the manifestation of organizational resilience is hard to be directly measured. This article assesses organizational resilience of firms in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic with pre-shock corporate social resp...

This study links the gender diversity of the top management team (TMT) to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and examines the moderating role of the marketization level in their relationship. According to the token theory, females are “tokens” and have difficulty playing their roles when they are rare in groups, where their presence is used for...

Emotions and emotional labor play a crucial role in professional interactions. Due to the increasing participation share of women managers in the workforce, especially in the customer-oriented service context, our study adopts a multi-level approach and mobilizes person-job fit theory to investigate whether the emotional labor of female managers in...

This study aims to assess the impact of circular economy on economic growth. In the process of rapid economic growth, China has been facing with the pressure of insufficient supply of resources and environmental pollution, which makes the development model of circular economy (CE) an imperative transformation. China has carried out two batches of C...

Measuring changes in energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions of various large economies is fundamental for analyzing the impact and effectiveness of various policies in this direction. This study analyzes intertemporal changes in energy and CO2 emissions efficiency of economies by applying a network data envelopment analysis approach that t...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) concepts are spread out in different organizations and cultures. To comprehend the Muslim consumers’ perception of CSR, this study conducted a self-administered survey in two Muslim-culture-rich countries, Pakistan and Sudan. Combined with previous studies and Carroll’s pyramid of CSR, this study shows that Mus...

How can chief executive officers (CEOs) persuade employees to participate in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, so as to enhance firms’ corporate social performance (CSP)? The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between CEO rhetorical strategies and firms’ CSP. According to Aristotle’s classification, we divide CEO r...

This study attempts to investigate the influence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on firm value. Drawing upon stakeholder theory and a resource-based view, we argue that corporate social responsibility is expected to positively affect firm value because it helps firms gain positive stakeholder responses. Based on longitudinal data of Chines...

This research letter focuses on tourist behavior and tourism business operators’ contributions to rural mountain region economic growth and sustainable development when using social media. Data were collected from 43 interviews from different tourism business operators, and a questionnaire survey of 576 tourists from the Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan....

Will the top managers’ attention to financial goals such as profit targets, operating expenses or debt payback schedule affect the firm’s innovation investment? The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the attention that the top management team (TMT) allocate on financial goals and R&D investment in Chinese firms. The roles...

This study attempted to investigate the influence of managerial humanistic attention on corporate social responsibility. Drawing upon humanistic value, upper echelons theory and behavior decision theory, we developed and tested hypotheses using secondary from manufacturing firms listed at Shanghai Stock Exchange from year 2010 to year 2014. This st...

How 1to measure the attention bias of Top Management Team (TMT) which may affect enterprise' innovation input? Based on Upper echelons and Attention-based view theories, this paper employed Chinese Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (CLIWC) approach to extract TMT's attention from Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) document of 484 Chinese Ash...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how qualitative case research (QCR) has been conducted in the field of international entrepreneurship (IE) in terms of onto-epistemology and methodology. QCR can serve as an umbrella approach for contextualizing and capturing the complexity of IE opportunities, events, conditions and relationships, a...

This study examined the relationship between workplace sexual harassment as perceived by female employees and the family satisfaction of their husbands. It also considered the mediating roles of employees’ job tension and work-to-family conflict (WFC) and the moderating role of employees’ work–home segmentation preference in this relationship. The...

The present study investigated the crossover effects of employee perceptions of servant leadership and job social support on the family satisfaction and quality of family life experienced by the employees’ spouses. These effects were explored through a focus on the mediating role of employee organization-based self-esteem (OBSE). Results from a thr...

Drawing on conservation of resources theory, this study examined the link between negative mentoring experiences (i.e., interpersonal problems) perceived by mentors and their work-family conflict (WFC) by focusing on the mediating role of emotional exhaustion and the moderating role of revenge. The results of a field survey of 187 mentors in China...

Many studies have explored the antecedents of corporate social performance (CSP), such as institutional forces and stakeholder pressures. However, few studies examine CSP from a socio-cognitive perspective. To address this research void, this study adopts an attention-based approach to examine the relationship between managers' attention to social...

On the basis of upper echelons theory and social learning theory, we examined the direct effects of 2 cognitive characteristics—self-efficacy and risk propensity—on entrepreneurs' innovation in the early stage of entrepreneurial activities. We also investigated the moderating role of gender on these relationships, using data collected from the 2011...

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a reliability analysis technique which plays a prominent role in improving the reliability and safety of systems, products and/or services. Although commonly used in quality improvement efforts, the conventional risk priority number (RPN) method has been criticized much in the literature for its various li...

Drawing on upper echelon theory, this study examines how TMT attention to innovation (TMTAI) influences a firm's innovation activities in China. We predict that the impact of executive attention to innovation on firm innovation activities is moderated by the characteristics of corporate governance. We develop and test hypotheses derived from the pr...

This study attempted to answer a critical question regarding CSR reporting: whether and why could peer firms influence the quality of CSR reports of the focal firm? Drawing upon the behavioral theory of firm and following literature on aspirations, we showed that managers' aspiration levels for CSR reporting matter to growth of quality of CSR repor...

Research on gratitude usually focus on how trait gratitude can contribute to higher subjective well-being, but rarely focus on the role of state gratitude in shaping one’s subjective well-being at a given moment. Focusing on intra-individual differences, the first aim of this study is to examine whether state gratitude will contribute to higher sta...

We used the theory of planned behavior to hypothesize how economic poverty and perceived poverty predict college students' intention to start businesses. Based on the argument that entrepreneurial intention will be based on perception of both feasibility and desirability of a business venture, we tested whether or not people experiencing different...

This paper links advertising expenditures to enterprise value and examines the moderating role of the business environment on relationship between advertising expenditures and enterprise value. We develop and test hypotheses by using a multiple regressions model with a sample of manufacturing enterprises listed in Shanghai A-share stock exchange. T...

What factors affecting the initial public offering (IPO) underpricing rate has long intrigued scholar, however, no systematic relationship has been established. This study linked visibility to IPO underpricing and examined its role in this relationship. We used 272 listed companies' IPO underpricing rate and their “Baidu index” of 1 month before be...

There has been a significant reduction in the number of desperately poor people in the world in recent years. A great deal of that reduction in poverty can be attributed in China. There is great potential for new insights for scholars, in looking more deeply into the Chinese experience in terms of entrepreneurship and poverty reduction. This paper...

In this paper, we seek to address two important questions. First, why do companies outsource to countries with intensive entrepreneurial activities? Second, we examine the relationship between entrepreneurs and outsourcing success. We argue that national cultures determine the types of entrepreneurs that are more common in a country. We contend tha...

To resolve empirical inconclusiveness and conceptual confusion found in the literature relating corporate philanthropy and financial performance, in this paper we suggest a stakeholder sensemaking process linking corporate philanthropy to financial performance and explaining the variations in the magnitudes of this linkage. We use 773 firm-year obs...

Research into entrepreneurial optimism and its impact on firm performance has produced inconsistent results. We analyzed 146 Laotian entrepreneurs and found that entrepreneurial optimism was positively related to their new venture performance. We also found that level of education and motivation moderated the relationship between entrepreneurs' opt...

As an important component of corporate social responsibility, people pay more and more attention to enterprises environmental awareness, especially the listed company. Due to its multi-criteria nature, selecting a proper method involves an insight analysis among available multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques. Among numerous methods of M...

Purpose The purpose is to examine the role of TQM in a strategy‐TQM‐performance model. More specifically, it seeks to investigate whether TQM has a driving role in the formation of strategy or has a mediating effect in the strategy‐performance relationship. Design/methodology/approach A survey was used to collect data. The instrument was assessed...

This study examines how executive cognition influences a firm's innovation activities and examined the moderating role of market munificence in this relationship. Drawing on upper echelons theory, we developed and tested the hypothesis by using data collected from 394 Chinese manufacturing companies. Results show that executive cognition has a sign...

As an important component of China's opening-up, "going-out" strategy has aroused great attention of management academia and business practitioners but still lacks studies from the perspective of managers. Drawing on cognitive school, this study examines the effect of entrepreneur cognition on a firm's "going-out" strategy. Based on a sample of lis...

We examined which factors lead to entrepreneurial risk-taking behavior, using the 2 tests of entrepreneurial behavior theory (desirability and feasibility) to investigate how need for achievement and education interact to influence risk-taking propensity. Using data collected from 230 nascent entrepreneurs in a mid-western state in the USA, we test...

With increasing social awareness on the issue of corporate social performance (CSP), the measurement of CSP has received considerable attention in both academic literature and managerial practice. Though earlier literature provides several methods for measuring corporate social activities, almost all of them have some limitations. In this paper, we...

Recently, organizational research has paid more attention to the relationship between top executives' cognition and corporate innovation investment. Our research builds on behavioral decision theory and upper echelons theory, and we test this relationship empirically using data from 1000 Chinese listed companies in the manufacturing industry. In th...

This study links CEO cognition to patent application and examined the moderating role of slack resources in this relationship. Drawing on upper echelons theory, we develop and test the hypothesis by using original data derived from 394 Chinese listed companies in the manufacturing industry. The result shows that CEO cognition has a significant rela...

Online group-buying is a rapidly emerging e-commerce mechanism in china. The operating strategy of each group-buying website differs from others to a large extent. Some websites operate prosperously and attain a remarkable financial performance while others just survive hardly. For the sake of this, the evaluation of group-buying website is critica...

In order to understand how to leverage firm capabilities to support their entrepreneurial strategies in emerging settings, we examine whether the possession of an entrepreneurial orientation and the possession of its complementarities of market and guanxi capabilities, through which the entrepreneurial orientation is deployed into a successful entr...

With increasing social awareness on the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR), the measurement of CSR has received considerable attention in both academic literature and managerial practice. Following a review of CSR theory development and the literature on measures of CSR, this paper proposes a systematic approach to measure CSR using fuz...

This study linked CEO power to firm performance variability and examined the moderating role of state ownership in this relationship. Drawing on background theory on CEO power, we developed and tested hypotheses using the data of 465 samples from the listed Chinese enterprises. The positive relationship between CEO power and firm performance variab...

With the development of electronic information technique, electronic ecommerce grows rapidly, including B2C electronic commerce company. The evaluation of customer value in B2C electronic commerce company is a multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem with many quantitative and qualitative attributes. This paper proposes fuzzy analytical hie...

The group-buying online, a boom of e-commerce phenomenon, expands rapidly in China. Hence, the evaluation of group-buying website is essential for CEO to improve their website performance and for consumers to select the platform to purchase. However, the evaluation of group-buying website is a multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem that i...

The biotechnology cluster, as a kind of innovation cluster, plays an important role in the economic development. This paper employs the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process approach to evaluate the biotechnology clusters, which is meaningful not only for the academic research, but also for the policy-making practice. In addition, a case study is pres...

Along with the development of electronic information technology, electronic ecommerce grows rapidly. The evaluation of customer value of B2C electronic commerce companies is a multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem with many quantitative and qualitative attributes. This paper proposes a fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) approach t...

This paper aims to examine consumers’ willingness to buy from an e-commerce vendor in Chinese online market by using empirical modeling. Initially, we hypothesize that six factors influence consumers’ willingness to buy significantly. Then we develop 5 structural equation models (SEM) integrated these factors to test our hypotheses with the data fr...

In this paper, we propose a new solution to Reactive Web Service Composition, via molding with Reinforcement Learning, and introducing modified (alterable) QoS variables into the model as elements in the Markov Decision Process tuple. Moreover, we give an example of Reactive-WSC-based mobile banking, to demonstrate the intrinsic capability of the s...

With the development of electronic information technique, electronic e-commerce grows speedily, including online book-shopping. The evaluation of online bookstores is a multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem with many quantitative and qualitative attributes. This paper proposes fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP) approach to evaluat...

In many countries, service sector has become the dominant sector. Modern service sector requires talents skillful at multidisciplinary subjects including IT services, business models, management skills, psychology etc. The multidisciplinary features bring about new challenges for services innovation. In this paper, we introduce the service culture...

With the fast growing of electronic market, fraud has become a top barrier to e-commerce. Subsequently, online escrow service, such as Paypal and Zhifubao, provided by trusted third party (TTP) is considered as an effective method to protect the business from the fraud. However, who will supervise the fraud of the TTP? TTP takes charge of more and...

This paper focuses on the factors that influence the consumers' willingness to buy from an e-commerce vendor. We develop 4 structural equation models (SEM) integrated these factors to test our hypotheses. The result shows that perceived reputation, perceived risk and ease of use are positively associated with the level of consumers' willingness to...

The architectural design service, a knowledge intensive industry, expands rapidly in China. Upgrading the service level becomes an important issue for managers and the assessment of architectural design services is a multiple-criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. Many traditional MCDM methods are based on the additive concept along with the inde...

According to the fact that consumer trust is widely perceived as an essential factor to the success of electronic commerce, we develop a model of consumer trust in e-commerce and use empirical research method to test it. After deep analyzing, we find that perceived size, propensity to trust, perceived privacy information protection, and perceived l...

The paper proposes a structured model for evaluating distance education system alternatives using the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP). Selecting process of an alternative has been very important issue for education centers for years. The paper aims to demonstrate how FAHP model can help in solving such decisions in practice. The effective...

In E-commerce world, participants’ action selection depends on other participants’ choice. We make use of a popular method in computer branch to analyze behaviors of people in internet and bring forward a different view to the issue. Conflict game is one kind of situations which happens frequently. Even if allowing interaction or negotiation, parti...

The architectural design service, a knowledge intensive industry, expands rapidly in china. The evaluation of architectural design services is necessary for managers in architectural design service industry to upgrade their service level and for consumers who purchase the services to select an architectural design vendor. However, the evaluation of...

Drawing on the literatures on what factors making consumer accept mobile commerce (MC) and what mobile commerce applications are acceptable by consumers, this study suggests that five main elements can help to select the best MC product project for the MC provider. And we construct a multiple-layer evaluation model using these elements. Then, for t...

Previous studies suggested that the development of producer service resulted from manufacturing outsourcing. On the other hand, competitive producer service can promote the progress of manufacturing industry. Theoretically, correlation may exist between them. According to co-integration theory, this paper empirically tests the time series data coll...

This paper analyzes mobile business in the context of traditional business as a strategic tool to create a sustainable competitive advantage through the implementation of an effective mobile business model. Uncertainty, risk, and open competition among firms have risen dramatically, thus firms have more and more difficulties to acquire and sustain...

This paper analyzes mobile business in the context of logistics industry as a strategic tool to create a sustainable competitive advantage through the implementation of mobile business. Uncertainty, risk, and open competition among logistics firms have risen dramatically, thus firms have more and more difficulties to acquire and sustain competitive...

This paper analyzes mobile business in the context of the China entertainment industry as a strategic tool to create a sustainable competitive advantage through the implementation of an effective mobile business model. Uncertainty, risk, and open competition among entertain firms have risen dramatically, leading to a situation that a firm has more...