Nankai Business Review International: Volume 9 Issue 1

Is institutional investor a supervisor or cooperator?: Based on the relationship between financial restatement and management turnover

Yuedong Li, Xianbing Liu, Qing Yan

The purpose of this paper is to discuss whether top management will assume their liabilities especially when financial restatement occurs, and,based on the “effective supervision…

Misfit or xenophillia: The impact of overseas work experiences on returnee entrepreneurs’ venture capital funding in China

Jie Wu, Zhenzhong Ma

Overseas work experiences have played a critical role in venture creation and success, yet the impact of overseas work experience on returnee entrepreneurs’ venture capital…

How to solve the dilemma of balancing between efficiency and flexibility in project-oriented organizations: A comparative multiple case study

Xiuxia Sun, Fangwei Zhu, Mouxuan Sun

This paper aims to explore the ways to solve the dilemma of balancing between efficiency and flexibility in project-oriented organizations (POOs). It investigates the…

Brand elongation effect: The impact of logo shape on assessment of products’ temporal property and brand evaluation

Ke Zhong, Haizhong Wang, Caiyun Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to test the brand elongation effect which is defined as the impacts of the aspect ratio of logo on consumers’ temporal property assessment and brand…

Do voluntary positive earnings forecasts of Chinese listed companies benefit publicly or privately?

Jing Zhang, Guihua Lu, Baoliang Liu

According to the Chinese Stock Exchange rules, the listed companies’ management earnings forecasts (MEFs) are divided into mandatory and voluntary earnings forecasts. Different…

Large shareholder participation behaviors, managers’ risk-taking and firm innovation performance: A shareholder activism perspective

Feng Zhang, Jianjun Yang, Zhi Xu, Guilong Zhu

Focusing on internal corporate governance, the purpose of this paper is to apply the shareholder activism perspective to consider how large shareholder participation behaviors…