...Chenhao Hu Purpose This study aims to examine how state ownership affects the time-to-enforcement – the interval between the occurrence of corporate misconduct and its public disclosure by regulators. Drawing on moral licensing theory, this study argues that the legitimacy surplus conferred...

..., and this moderating effect is more salient after the Belt and Road Initiative. These results highlight the influence of the home government through state ownership and policies on the inverted U-shaped relationship. Originality/value This study helps to refine the understanding of Chinese MNEs’ global expansion...

... on transaction cost theory, this paper examined the relationship between the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Chinese firms’ OFDI, as well as the moderating roles of local government officials’ career horizons and state ownership. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 5,018 Chinese firm-year observations...

.... Findings There is an inverted U-shaped relationship between firm performance and CSR that first increases and then decreases. In addition, considering the boundary conditions, state ownership makes the inverted U-shaped curve steeper, while high executive wage concentration makes the inverted U-shaped...

...Qiuping Peng; Xi Zhong; Huaikang Zhou; Shanshi Liu Purpose This paper aims to investigate the moderating roles of negative attainment discrepancy and state ownership in the relationship between internationalization speed and firm innovation. Design/methodology/approach Panel fixed-effects...

... will be affected by both the type and the magnitude of restatements. More importantly, we find joint effects of restatements and state ownership on financial distress, which provides a unique contribution to the extant literature in restatement, financial distress and crisis management using Chinese stock markets...