Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Does Green Supply Chain Partnership Governance Pay Off? An Investigation of the Impact on Corporate Financial Performance

ABSTRACT This study examines whether governance of green supply chain partnerships (GSCPs) using environmental criteria for supplier selection and termination is positively associated with corporate financial performance of focal firms. Drawing on the social capital theory, this...

Hybrid intervention: explaining the logic of US Taiwan policy amid the US–China competition

This article explains the changing logic of US Taiwan policy amid intensifying US–China competition. Moving beyond the binary debate between strategic ambiguity and strategic clarity, it argues that Washington has increasingly transformed the Taiwan question into an amplifier of...

Перевод институциональных новостей: «Входящие» и «исходящие» (Часть I) — Параметр «входящие/исходящие» как аналитическая основа

Данная статья вводит понятие «входящего» и «исходящего» перевода в исследование перевода институциональных новостей. Утверждается, что то, инициируется ли перевод целевой или исходной организацией, влияет на институциональные цели, редакционную политику и коммуникативные результа...

QCFSNet: A Quaternion-Guided Inter-Channel and Frequency-Spatial Feature Interaction Strategy for Endoscopic Image Segmentation

In the field of medical consumer electronics, particularly in cervical cancer diagnostics, endoscopic imaging is often affected by uneven illumination and the high similarity in textures and features between lesion regions and surrounding tissues, which severely hinders accurate...

Human Resource Development in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: A Common Good Approach

ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how and under what conditions employees learn, work, and develop their careers. This has strong implications for human resource development (HRD), because AI goes beyond technology itself and presents social and ethical issues...

The Use and Misuse of the Lex Specialis Principle in Hong Kong’s Fundamental Rights Adjudication

Abstract Lex specialis derogat legi generali , the principle that special law prevails over general law, is a well-established doctrine for resolving conflicts between legal norms. Yet its application in fundamental rights adjudication remains underexplored. This Article contribu...

Market- and resource-seeking motives in location choices: evidence from Chinese service firms

Purpose This study examines how market-seeking and resource-seeking motives influence the foreign location choices of service firms from an emerging economy. It further investigates how host-country digital economy development and institutional quality condition these relationshi...

Feature Extraction Algorithm for Person Re-Identification Based on Artificial Intelligence

Re-IDentification (Re-ID) of persons is significant in intelligent surveillance and security systems, where the consistency of feature extraction and prediction processes is essential to ensuring correct identity matches. Illumination, camera view, and visual quality differences...

Climate change exposure and firm value in China: evidence consistent with a discount-rate interpretation

This paper examines the relationship between firm-level climate change exposure and firm value in China. Using A-share listed firms from 2002 to 2020 and a disclosure-based measure of perceived climate change exposure, we find a significant negative association between climate ch...

Could corporate ESG performance impacts controlling shareholders tunneling: evidence from China

Using a sample of Chinese listed firms, this study investigates how corporate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance affects tunneling by controlling shareholders. We find that higher ESG performance significantly reduces tunneling, with this effect being stronge...

Alignment and Creative Extension in EFL Learners' Multimodal Composing: A Case Analysis of Audiovisual Continuation Tasks

Abstract Multimodal literacy has become essential for professional communication; however, EFL pedagogies of digital multimodal composing (DMC) have primarily emphasized independent production, paying less attention to how learners compose in response to authentic multimodal inpu...

The alliance paradox: why project collaboration increases firm-level operational risk

Purpose This study shifts attention from the prevailing assumption that project alliances serve as project-level risk-mitigation mechanisms towards a cross-level perspective examining how alliance participation may reshape the risk profile of participating firms. Integrating the...

Can the use of clean energy improve the cognitive ability of the rural elderly? Evidence from clean heating policy in northern China

Abstract The clean transformation of traditional energy sources is of great significance for the formation and development of human capital in rural areas. We use 5-wave survey from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) between 2011 and 2020, and based on th...

Saying, Doing, and Co‐Inventing: How Environmental, Social, and Governance Disclosure–Performance (In)congruence Shapes Open Innovation

ABSTRACT Although environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure–performance (in)congruence has attracted growing attention, its impact on open innovation remains underexplored. Drawing on signaling theory, we hypothesize that when ESG disclosure and ESG performance are c...

Beyond end-of-pipe treatment: how whole-process clean production shapes export product quality

This study examines the impact of clean production on export product quality by focusing on a key whole-process environmental regulation policy in China. Using a difference-in-differences approach and firm-level microdata, we find that the policy significantly improves export pro...