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69Critical Mass of Women on BODs, Multiple Identities, and Corporate Philanthropic Disaster Response: Evidence from Privately Owned Chinese FirmsJournal of Business Ethics 118 (2): 303-317. 2013.Although previous studies focus on the role of women in the boardroom and corporate response to natural disasters, none evaluate how women directors influence corporate philanthropic disaster response (CPDR). This study collects data on the philanthropic responses of privately owned Chinese firms to the Wenchuan earthquake of May 12, 2008, and the Yushu earthquake of April 14, 2010. We find that when at least three women serve on a board of directors (BOD), their companies’ responses to natural …Read more
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55An Effective Method to Identify Adolescent Generalized Anxiety Disorder by Temporal Features of Dynamic Functional ConnectivityFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 11. 2017.
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52How Does the Stock Market Value Corporate Social Performance? When Behavioral Theories Interact with Stakeholder TheoryJournal of Business Ethics 125 (3): 1-33. 2014.This study examines how the reference-point effect and sunk-cost fallacy interact with stakeholder theory and influence how investors evaluate corporate social performance. We propose that ex-ante (pre-IPO) corporate social performance influences ex-post (post-IPO) perceived riskiness and that this relationship is U-shaped. We also evaluate how CEO duality and company age moderate this U-shaped relationship. Using young and newly public entrepreneurial firms in China, and focusing on stock retur…Read more
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46Frequency-Specific Functional Connectivity Density as an Effective Biomarker for Adolescent Generalized Anxiety DisorderFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 11. 2017.
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40Does Servant Leadership Affect Employees’ Emotional Labor? A Social Information-Processing PerspectiveJournal of Business Ethics 159 (2): 507-518. 2019.Emotion management in the workplace is drawing increasing attention from researchers. However, they still know little about how positive leadership affects employees’ emotional labor. Building on social information-processing theory, we examine whether and how a servant leadership style influences employees’ emotional labor. Using a sample of 305 employees in 81 work units of 25 subcorporations at a food company in China, we find that servant leadership relates negatively to surface acting but r…Read more
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38Echoes of Corporate Social Responsibility: How and When Does CSR Influence Employees’ Promotive and Prohibitive Voices?Journal of Business Ethics 167 (2): 253-269. 2020.In this study, we examine whether, how, and when corporate social responsibility increases promotive and prohibitive voices in accordance with ethical climate theory and multi-experience model of ethical climate. Data from 382 employees at two time points are examined. Results show that CSR is positively related to promotive and prohibitive voices. Other-focused and self-focused climates mediate the relationship between CSR and the two types of voice. Moreover, humble leadership moderates the po…Read more
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32Word Power: The Impact of Negative Media Coverage on Disciplining Corporate PollutionJournal of Business Ethics 138 (3): 437-458. 2016.Sequences of individual words make up media reports. And sequences of media reports constitute the power of the news media to influence corporate practices. In this paper, we focus on the micro-foundations of news reports to elaborate how an atmosphere of negative news reports following an initial exposure of corporate pollution activity can help stop such activity through their impact on corporate managers. We extend our understanding of the corporate governance effect of news media by consider…Read more
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32Multilevel Examination of How and When Socially Responsible Human Resource Management Improves the Well-Being of EmployeesJournal of Business Ethics 176 (1): 55-71. 2021.Although empirical evidence has shown that socially responsible human resource management practices positively influence employees’ outcomes, knowledge on the social impact of SRHRM practices on employee well-being has been limited. Drawing upon the social information processing theory and attribution theory, we investigate whether, how, and when SRHRM practices increase the well-being of employees. Using multiphase and multilevel data from 474 employees in 50 companies, we find that SRHRM pract…Read more
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26Their Pain, Our Pleasure: How and When Peer Abusive Supervision Leads to Third Parties’ Schadenfreude and Work EngagementJournal of Business Ethics 169 (4): 695-711. 2019.Abusive supervision negatively affects its direct victims. However, recent studies have begun to explore how abusive supervision affects third parties. We use the emotion-based process model of schadenfreude as a basis to suggest that third parties will experience schadenfreude and increase their work engagement as a response to peer abusive supervision. Furthermore, we suggest that the context of competitive goal interdependence facilitates the indirect relationship between PAS and third partie…Read more
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25Echoes of CEO Entrepreneurial Orientation: How and When CEO Entrepreneurial Orientation Influences Dual CSR ActivitiesJournal of Business Ethics 169 (4): 609-629. 2020.We explore the potential impact of CEO entrepreneurial orientation on firm choice of CSR activities. Integrating upper echelon theory and attention-based view of the firm, we find that CEO entrepreneurial orientation leads to more engagement in CSR innovation rather than corporate philanthropy. We find that the effect of CEO entrepreneurial orientation on firm choice of CSR activities varies under two situational contexts: state-owned enterprises and incoming/departing CEO. The hypotheses are te…Read more
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24How and When Does Corporate Giving Lead to Getting? An Investigation of the Relationship Between Corporate Philanthropy and Relative Competitive Performance from a Micro-process PerspectiveJournal of Business Ethics 166 (2): 425-440. 2020.The corporate ethics literature has considerably focused on whether giving results in getting. However, the relationship between corporate philanthropy and performance and the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Drawing on signaling and cue consistency theories, we develop and test a model that specifies whether, how, and when corporate philanthropy benefits relative competitive performance from a micro-process perspective. Using a Chinese sample of 1623 employees, 145 CEOs, and 145 human reso…Read more
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22News Visibility and Corporate Philanthropic Response: Evidence from Privately Owned Chinese Firms Following the Wenchuan EarthquakeJournal of Business Ethics 129 (1): 93-114. 2015.Considerable interest exists regarding the media’s influence on corporate reactions, but the link between media visibility and corporate philanthropic response is not clear. Natural disasters thus provide an environment that makes visible the general processes relevant to that link. Based on agenda-setting theory, stakeholder theory, and impression-management theory, we propose that corporations that are highly visible in the news media are more likely to engage in CPR and donate more money. We …Read more
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18The Role of Corporate Donations in Chinese Political MarketsJournal of Business Ethics 153 (2): 519-545. 2018.Many corporations actively engage in political activities to enhance their relationships with politicians, facilitating access to scarce resources and creating competitive advantages. We investigate corporate donations to explore how they initiate interactions between firms and new local leaders in China. Specifically, we propose that political turnover creates unique opportunities for firms to win over new officials via corporate donations, especially in competitive markets. Moreover, we find t…Read more
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14Buffering or Aggravating Effect? Examining the Effects of Prior Corporate Social Responsibility on Corporate Social IrresponsibilityJournal of Business Ethics 183 (1): 147-163. 2022.Prior studies on stakeholders’ responses to firms with high prior corporate social responsibility (CSR) engaging in corporate social irresponsibility (CSIR) show inconsistent results. To explore this inconsistency, we focus on the intentionality of CSIR and draw upon cognitive dissonance theory to examine how transgressional CSIR and accidental CSIR differently influence investors’ responses to firms with high prior CSR through both emotional (e.g., anger) and cognitive (e.g., moral judgment) pr…Read more
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14Hiding in the Crowd: Government Dependence on Firms, Management Costs of Political Legitimacy, and Modest ImitationJournal of Business Ethics 176 (4): 629-646. 2021.Although previous studies primarily claim that government-dependent firms can actively engage in compliance activities in order to achieve political legitimacy, access government resources, and build competitive advantages, these studies largely ignore how firms react when firm-dependent governments exert coercive pressures. We thus introduce institutional theory and the behavioral theory of social performance to develop a model of modest imitation, and we propose that the more governments depen…Read more
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13No Time for Ethics: How and When Time Pressure Leads to Abusive Supervisory BehaviorJournal of Business Ethics 188 (4): 807-825. 2023.We explore in this study whether, how, and when time pressure leads to abusive supervisory behavior. Based on the attentional focus model, we propose that time pressure impairs supervisors’ moral awareness, which increases their subsequent abusive supervisory behavior. We also propose that the trait mindfulness of supervisors mitigates the indirect effect of time pressure on abusive supervisory behavior through moral awareness. Based on an experiment conducted by using eye-tracking methods, Stud…Read more
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11A Virtual Net Locks Me In: How and When Information and Communication Technology Use Intensity Leads to Knowledge HidingJournal of Business Ethics 187 (3): 611-626. 2022.The research explores a novel phenomenon in which information and communication technology (ICT), which is originally designed for knowledge transferring, may result in employees’ knowledge hiding due to increasing use intensity. Specifically, drawing upon the appraisal theory of empathy, we develop a moderated mediation model of empathy linking ICT use intensity and knowledge hiding. The hypothesized model is tested by conducting a scenario-based experimental study (Study 1, N = 194) and a mult…Read more
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10A Machine Learning Approach to Evaluate the Performance of Rural BankComplexity 2021 1-10. 2021.In the current performance evaluation works of commercial banks, most of the researches only focus on the relationship between a single characteristic and performance and lack a comprehensive analysis of characteristics. On the other hand, they mainly focus on causal inference and lack systematic quantitative conclusions from the perspective of prediction. This paper is the first to comprehensively investigate the predictability of multidimensional features on commercial bank performance using b…Read more
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4The Effect of Law Students in Entrepreneurial Psychology Under the Artificial Intelligence TechnologyFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.With the increasingly serious employment situation in China, the government and schools encourage college students to start businesses to alleviate employment pressure. College student's successful entrepreneurship depends on national preferential policies, social support, and, most importantly, their healthy and solid psychological quality and entrepreneurial psychological quality. The purpose is to understand the entrepreneurial psychology of college students and study the entrepreneurial psyc…Read more
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4Spatial Size Can Affect Social Categorization of the Rich and the PoorFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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2The Impact of Organizational Psychology Factors for the Cross-Border Legal Service EntrepreneursFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.