Nankai Business Review International: Volume 11 Issue 4

The impact of institutional distance on sustainable investment: evidence from China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Heshan Sameera Kankanam Pathiranage, Huilin Xiao, Weifeng Li

In an attempt to satisfy the desire to become a global economic leader, China is working on a series of ambitious deals with several countries. As a major country in a region…

Are banks misled by leverage misestimate of Chinese listed companies?

Zhenjie Wang, Zhuquan Wang, Xinhui Su

The authors point out that the existing research confuses the operational liabilities formed based on the “transaction” relationship with the financial liabilities formed based on…

Consistency at different levels: A meta-analytic examination of organizational trust and performance

Tao Scofield Su, Chunhua Chen, Xiaoyu Cui, Chunsheng Yang, Weimo Ma

This paper aims to answer following three important but not well-answered or unanswered questions in the extant trust literatures: What is the true magnitude that trust impacts on…

IPO information acquisition and investor protection : A study based on sophisticated investor questionnaires

Fangliang Huang, Li Sun, Jing Chen, Chaopeng Wu

The purpose of this study is to examine investors’ intention and behavior concerning ex ante information acquirement and ex post claims from the micro-level perspective with the…

CEO overconfidence and firm internationalization: the moderating role of experience and managerial discretion

Runhui Lin, Fei Li, Adedigba Olawoyin

Overconfidence as an important psychological factor can also affect CEO’s cognitive preferences, while there are few studies about the impact of CEO’ overconfidence on the…

Designing creative teams from creative members: the role of reward interdependence and knowledge sharing

Yong Zhang, Guiquan Li, Mingxuan Wang

This paper aims to extend understanding of how team creative potential translates into team creativity. Drawing on social exchange theories, the authors propose that reward…

How does the distributors’ “banding together” affect contract governance in marketing channels?

Chao Feng, Guijun Zhuang, Hui Chen, Daxian Hu

Based on social network theory and the literature of contract governance, the purpose of this study is to explore how distributors’ “banding together” (network intensity) affects…