Shanghai University of International Business and Economics

About: Shanghai University of International Business and Economics is a education organization based out in Shanghai, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Supply chain & China. The organization has 913 authors who have published 990 publications receiving 5792 citations. The organization is also known as: Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade.

Stakeholders Power, Corporate Characteristics and Social and Environmental Disclosure: Evidence from China

Abstract: This paper investigates the influences of stakeholders’ power and corporate characteristics on social and environmental disclosure practices of socially responsible Chinese listed firms identified by a social responsibility ranking list A stakeholder-driven, three-dimensional social and environmental disclosure index including disclosure quantity, disclosure type quality and disclosure item quality, is constructed to assess sample firms’ social and environmental disclosures in their two public reports: annual reports and corporate social responsibility reports Findings indicate that corporate social and environmental disclosures have significant and positive associations with firm size, profitability, and industry classification The roles of various powerful stakeholders in influencing corporate social and environmental disclosures are found to be generally weak in China, except that shareholders have influenced corporate social and environmental disclosures and creditors have influenced corporate disclosures related to firms’ environmental performance

Understanding the Impact of Opinion Leaders’ Characteristics on Online Group Knowledge-Sharing Engagement from In-Group and Out-GroupPerspectives: Evidence from a Chinese Online Knowledge-Sharing Community

Abstract: Opinion leaders often play key roles in online knowledge-sharing communities, which has intrigued a lot of researchers and practitioners worldwide. However, it is not clear how various characteristics of opinion leaders may affect different online groups’ knowledge-sharing engagement. This paper aims to answer this question by building upon social capital theory to examine the differential influences of opinion leaders’ characteristics (interactivity, authority, and activity) on online groups. In-groups and out-groups were distinguished, and the study used the context of an investment-oriented online knowledge-sharing community. By leveraging a unique aggregated group-level secondhand dataset collected from Snowball.com, we conducted log-linear and Poisson regression models. The results revealed that the intensity of online group knowledge-sharing engagement was heavily contingent upon the types of characteristics of opinion leaders. We found that in-group knowledge-sharing engagement (generating new knowledge) was driven by an opinion leader’s interactivity and authority, whereas out-group knowledge-sharing engagement (developing new members) could not be facilitated by these types of characteristics. Instead, the opinion leader’s activity hindered out-group users from joining in-groups. The study also identified a “mutual promotion” issue, which was generated from the association between in-group and out-group knowledge-sharing engagement.