Introduction to Chinas Listed

The China Securities Regulatory Commission issued in 2001, “Guidelines of Introducing Independent Directors”, which stipulated that by the end of June 2003, China’s listed firms must have at least one third of its directors as independent directors in the corporate board.

This study utilizes value enhancement theory, agency cost theory and crisis management theory to scrutinize the philanthropic giving (PG) of China’s listed hotel companies from 2003 to 2018.

Using a sample of China’s listed companies for the period 2012–2016, we empirically examined the relationship between board interlocks and interfirm innovation performance differentials.

The results show that: The impression management behavior is common in China’s listed companies.

The study’s objective is to explore the nonlinear effect of IC and its components on financial performance (FP) of China’s listed shipping companies over a six-year period (2014–2019).

This paper investigates the phenomenon of chief executive officer (CEO) pay upside down within China’s listed companies and examines its impact on enterprise performance.

This article investigates how the business cycle affects firm innovation performance by examining patent data for China’s listed companies from 2003 to 2017.

The results show that China’s listed polluting enterprises display an N-type environmental Kuznets curve.

Using SADF, GSADF and BSADF tests, this paper found that the phenomenon of the patent bubble is not common during the observation period in China’s listed companies from 2007 to 2019, and different degrees of patent bubbles occurred only in four industries.

Using the sample of China’s listed companies, this study investigates the effect of corporate innovation on dividend payout policy.

Therefore, this paper analyzes China’s listed ETE enterprises by evaluating their overall performance in two hierarchies namely operation management and stock performance.

In 2020, the COVID-19 has a certain impact on the credit risk of China’s listed of insurance companies.

The research in this paper will provide new ideas for the effectiveness of China’s listed companies to strengthen the internal governance mechanism, provide a broader direction for the study of investment theory, and also promote the transformation of the company’s human capital management practices.

Using executive resume data of China’s listed companies between 2006 and 2016, we investigated the relationship between pay disparities within top management teams (TMT) and firms’ innovation perfo.

In this paper, we use LP semi-parametric method and ACF method to measure the total factor productivity of China’s listed digital economy enterprises from 2013 to 2018, and construct multiple regression model to explore the influencing factors of total factor productivity.

Finally, this paper puts forward that China’s listed companies are supposed to make full use of the supervision power of foreign ownership to promote corporate social responsibility.

This paper selects the financial data of China’s listed manufacturing companies from 2015 to 2019 to study the moderating effect of governance structure on the relationship between innovation input and firm performance.

However, most of China’s listed companies are concentrated in large cities.

We adopt dummy variables data to quantify the firm inflation perceptions of China’s listed manufacturing companies from corporate annual reports during the period from 2008–2018.

As the empirical results demonstrate, the overall level of technological innovation is rather low among China’s listed companies.

According to the findings, CEO gender is not significant enough to affect firm performance while female CEOs, although capable of playing the same roles as male CEOs, receive a lower level of salary than male CEOs on average, which leads to certain degree of gender discrimination in the CEO position in China’s listed firms.

Guiding institutional investors to actively participate in corporate governance is a hot issue to improve the internal governance of China’s listed companies.

The relationship between corporate governance and high-polluting enterprises’ environmental protection investment was analysed by using the data of China’s listed enterprises in the high-polluting industry from 2015 to 2019.

Using the panel data of China’s listed companies, this study assesses the treatment effects of environmental protection tax law on the transformation and upgrading of heavily polluting firms by incorporating the intermediary role of the financial market.

Based on the panel data of China’s listed companies participating in PPP (Public–Private Partnerships) projects from 2010 to 2019, this paper constructs the time-varying DID method to test the impact of participation in PPP projects on the company’s TFP empirically, explore the mechanism of the effect of participation in PPP projects on the company’s TFP, and then conduct heterogeneous analysis from four perspectives: region, industry, ownership form, and operation mode.