... focuses on reducing excessive executive compensation, rather than affecting ordinary employees’ pay. Specifically, digital government enhances corporate information transparency and reduces rent-seeking, thereby diminishing excessive executive compensation. This effect is particularly pronounced in large...

...Naihao Li; Zijie Li; Banruo Zhang; Yan Wang Purpose Information transparency is an important factor in enhancing trust and promoting interfirm cooperation. By combining transaction cost theory and institutional theory, this study aims to examines whether host-country firms’ information...