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The study of agricultural corporate social responsibility (CSR) is not only an extension of current CSR research, but also contributes to the deepening of CSR theory, and has important practical significance for promoting the common prosperity of farmers and in rural areas. Based on the modification and extension of the CSR pyramid model, this research developed the agricultural CSR star model and constructed an evaluation index system for Chinese agricultural CSR. Building on a clear understanding of the theoretical content of agricultural CSR, the study used monitoring data from 59 384 leading agricultural enterprises in China and employed factor analysis to quantitatively measure Chinese agricultural CSR from five dimensions: responsibility for increasing farmers' income, responsibility for ensuring consumer food safety, responsibility for employee welfare, responsibility for rural charity work, and responsibility for technological innovation. Furthermore, the study explored the differences and impacts of internal and external factors on Chinese agricultural CSR. The results showed that, in terms of internal factors, there were significant differences in Chinese agricultural CSR based on variables such as enterprise size, whether the enterprise was listed or not, the type of enterprise ownership, and the enterprise' s operational characteristics. Larger enterprises, those that are listed, and those with better operating conditions were more active in fulfilling CSR, while state-owned and controlled agricultural enterprises had lower levels of CSR compared to other ownership types. As for external factors, only the per capita GDP had a significant promoting effect on agricultural CSR, while cultural and institutional factors had significant inhibitory effects. The study emphasizes the need to improve the identification and monitoring management of leading agricultural enterprises, leverage the leading role of large agricultural enterprises, establish and improve the reporting system for agricultural CSR, strengthen the fulfillment of social responsibilities by state-owned agricultural enterprises, and enhance the awareness of agricultural CSR in economically developed areas. By doing so, agricultural enterprises can actively fulfill their social responsibilities and achieve win-win outcomes for both the enterprise and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

External financing is a key factor affecting the enterprises' green technology innovation. Based on the reference point theory, this paper has analyzed the relationship between external financing and green technology innovation with the fixed-effect threshold model of firm size. It is found out that firm size has significant threshold effects between green innovation and equity financing, debt financing as well as government subsidies. When firm size is below the threshold, the impacts of external financing towards green technology innovation are not significant, while there exists significant boost effect of external financing if firm size rise above threshold. Compared with private enterprises, the quantitative value of threshold is higher in state-owned enterprises, but the positive effects would be more intense if the firm size is within threshold. This paper can enrich the research of sci-tech finance, and can provide practical basis for manufacturing enterprises' innovative financing and green development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After loosening the hypothesis of bank size, this paper developed an improved three-bank model to analyze the relation between bank size and its systemic importance. By introducing L function, multivariate extreme theory and three indexes of banking systemic importance, the paper analyzed the impact of size on banks' systemic importance, and found that bank size is the necessary condition of the systemic importance, but not the sufficient condition. In addition, this study conducted an empirical analysis by examining the trading data of 14 listed commercial banks in China. The results were basically in accord with our theoretical prediction. Both the theory and empirical results point out that the size has played a critical role in banks' systemic importance and its impact would be weakened as soon as the size reaches some threshold. This study has theoretical and practical value for the identification and supervision of banks' systemic importance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We choose cross-shareholding A-share firms listed on China's stock market from 2005 to 2008 as our sample. Through empirical test, we find positive and significant relationship between the historical stock returns of shareholder firms and the current returns of the firms who hold stocks. By constructing a zero-investment portfolio rebalanced monthly, we capture abnormal return of 2.01% per month, which is significant after an array of adjustments. However, the significance of equity-link momentum returns are sensitive to various attention proxies, such as firm size, past performance, turnover and mutual funds' joint holding measurement, which is consistent with the hypothesis of limited attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The wave of information technology (IT) provides opportunities and challenges to traditional manufacturing industries. The problem that how to describe and measure the impact of IT investment and implementation on organizational performance, however, has been a vital issue which plagued to the domestic and foreign academia and practitioners in related research area. The study proposed a conceptual model for exploring the impacts from three informationization action patterns, IT infrastructure construction, specific transaction application, and collaborative integration on organizational performance, and effects from enterprise size as a moderator. Based on the survey data from companies in heavy-duty machinery industry, the paper conducted an empirical analysis by using structural equation modeling method. The theoretical value of the results and practical implications for informationization routing selection are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]