Jiaying Liu’s research while affiliated with Dalian University of Technology and other places

Being the major players in promoting innovation, enterprises are therefore central to innovation–based development. Establishing how vibrant they are in terms of innovation has become a heavily debated issue in both academic and industry circles. Through a sample involving Chinese listed companies in advanced material manufacturing, this study utilizes exploratory factor analysis to develop an evaluation system of enterprises’ innovation vitality on the basis of three dimensions: innovation persistence, volatility, and growth. The study establishes deeper interaction between innovation vitality and two major indicators-persistence and volatility formats input and cooperation, while also promoting the growth of innovative input and output. This study adds insights related to the objective assessment of enterprises’ innovation vitality and the promotion of subsequent innovation efforts.

Previous reviews of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) have not provided an integrative and evolutionary analysis, and the academic literature generally reflects a fragmented research perspective. Therefore, this study combined a bibliometric analysis and text-mining to analyze the evolution of theories and topics as well as theory-topic co-occurrence. We also used a topic modelling technique to divide the articles into 10 subareas and further analyzed their subthemes and dynamics. Overall, we examined 1,197 articles published from 1989 to 2022. This study contributes to the current literature by providing data on theory-topic co-occurrence and its evolution in cross-border M&As, conducting theory-topic co-occurrence analysis that identifies popular research trends and provides new insights into how to integrate M&As practices with theories, identifying 10 sub-areas via bibliometric analysis and BERTopic modelling, and identifying key theories and emerging themes to be examined in future studies.