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Top Management Team Functional Diversity and Management Forecast Accuracy
In: Accounting Horizons 2022; doi: https://doi.org/10.2308/HORIZONS-19-108
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Influence of yttrium on microstructure and properties of Ni–Al alloy coatings prepared by laser cladding
In: Defence Technology, Volume 10, Issue 1, p. 22-27
ISSN: 2214-9147
Actively Targeted Nanomedicines: A New Perspective for the Treatment of Pregnancy-Related Diseases
In: Reproductive sciences: RS : the official journal of the Society for Reproductive Investigation
ISSN: 1933-7205
Chairman's government background, excess employment and government subsidies: Evidence from Chinese local state-owned enterprises
Local state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China continue to face government interference in their operations. They are influenced both by the government's "grabbing hand" and by its "helping hand." Our study examines how SOE chairmen with connections to government influence their firm's employment policies and the economic consequences of overstaffing. Using a sample of China's listed local state-owned enterprises, we find that the scale of overstaffing in these SOEs is negatively related to the firms' political connections to government. However, this relationship turns positive when the firm's chairman has a government background. Appointing chairmen who have government backgrounds is a mechanism through which the government can intervene in local SOEs and influence firms' staffing decisions. We also find that in compensation for the expenses of overstaffing, local SOEs receive more government subsidies and bank loans. However, the chairmen themselves do not get increased pay or promotion opportunities for supporting overstaffing. Further analysis indicates that whereas the "grabbing hand" of government does harm to a firm's economic performance, the "helping hand" provides only weak positive effects, and such government intervention actually reduces the efficiency of social resource allocation.
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An Exploratory Study of Pandemic-Restricted Travel—A New Form of Travel Pattern on the during- and Post-COVID-19 Era
This study introduces a new travel pattern "pandemic-restricted travel" that exists from COVID-19 based on prospect theory. The purpose of this study is to incorporate the motivation to travel and constraint to normal travel to predict tourists' intention to continue visiting other alternative destinations due to COVID-19 restrictions. This study first generated the items of motivation to travel and constraints to normal travel from a focus group interview with 15 travel industry professionals in December 2020 in Zhuhai. Then, an online survey collected data from 416 respondents in the Greater Bay Area of China from January to February 2021. The results of exploratory factor analysis using SPSS identified two factors of motivation to travel (leisure and exploration) and two factors of favourable constraints to normal travel (policy restriction and perceived risk). The results of partial least squares–structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) indicated that these four factors positively influence satisfaction but only leisure and exploration factors positively influence the intention of continuous pandemic-restricted travel. Among the four factors, leisure has the strongest impact on both satisfaction and intention of continue travelling. The results also revealed that satisfaction fully mediates the effects of two constraint factors and partially mediates the effects of two motivation factors on the intention of continuous pandemic-restricted travel. Implications for researchers and governments for pandemic-restricted travel during and in the post-COVID-19 era are then discussed.
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Six Decades of U.S. Tax Reform: Why Has the Average Couple's Tax Burden Increased?
In: Accounting historians journal: a publication of the Academy of Accounting Historians Section of the American Accounting Association, Volume 48, Issue 2, p. 67-79
ISSN: 2327-4468
ABSTRACTWe collect basic federal tax laws over a 64-year period in order to simulate the historical effective tax rates of median income wage-earning couples. We find that effective income tax rates have decreased over the sample period; however, when payroll taxes are included in our calculations, total tax burdens have increased significantly. Interestingly, this increase in middle-class wage taxation has occurred over an historical period in which total federal tax revenue relative to GDP has remained somewhat constant. This implies that the middle class has borne an increasing relative tax burden in recent years. We hope that our analyses inform both the taxpaying public and policy makers of the historical status of middle-class wage earners.
The Prevalence and Motivating Factors of Adolescent Smoking at a Rural Middle School in Taiwan
In: Substance use & misuse: an international interdisciplinary forum, Volume 31, Issue 10, p. 1447-1458
ISSN: 1532-2491
Design of Patient Visit Itineraries in Tandem Systems
In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (forthcoming)
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Managing Appointment-based Services with Electronic Visits
In: European Journal of Operational Research
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What affects China's green finance? Evidence from cryptocurrency market, oil market, and economic policy uncertainty
In: Environmental science and pollution research: ESPR, Volume 30, Issue 40, p. 93227-93241
ISSN: 1614-7499
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RL or URL: Managing Outpatient (Tele)visits with Strategic Behavior
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