Nankai Business Review International: Volume 7 Issue 2

The focus and frontier of corporate social responsibility: A co-word analysis of articles in SSCI, 2001-2014

Xuzhong Qin, Zongshui Wang, Hong Zhao, Lars Bo Kaspersen

This paper aims to help scholars know about the focus and frontier in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Although related research in CSR started 60 years ago…

Corporate innovation and innovation efficiency: does religion matter?

Dan Huang, Dong Lu, Jin-hui Luo

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether and how the extent of religion in a firm’s social environment affects corporate innovation and innovation efficiency from the…

Institutional distance, firm heterogeneities, and FDI location choice of EMNEs

Ying Zheng, Daying Yan, Bing Ren

This paper aims to propose an integrated framework combining the cost-reduction rationale and the institution-leveraging rationale to explain how institutional distance, both…

The impact of executives’ perceptions of environmental threats and organizational slack on innovation strategies

Chengyuan Wang, Biao Luo, Yong Liu, Zhengyun Wei

The paper aims to study the relationship between executives’ perceptions of environmental threats and innovation strategies and investigate the moderating effect of contextual…

Do review valence and review volume impact consumers’ purchase decisions as assumed?

Jing Yang, Rathindra Sarathy, Stephen M. Walsh

To explore the psychological mechanism through which consumer reviews affect people’s purchasing decisions and behavior, this study aims to examine the impact of statistical…

Perceived ethicality of moral choice: The impact of ethics codes, moral development, and relativism

Mike Chen-ho Chao, Fuan Li, Haiyang Chen

Motivated by the heated discussion with regard to the Chinese milk powder incident, this paper aims to explore the determinants of Chinese managers’ moral judgment. Are Chinese…