The impact of ESG performance on OFDI mode choice: the role of total factor productivity
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsWe construct a theoretical model of ESG performance affecting enterprises’ Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) mode choice from the perspective of total factor productivity and empirically tests the model using data from Chinese listed companies. We
Wenhua Yuan +3 more
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Patent Protection, Market Uncertainty, and R&D Investment [PDF]
Real options investment theory predicts current investment falls as uncertainty about market returns increases. In the case of R&D investment, which is usually considered an irreversible form of investment, this effect should be quite pronounced.
Czarnitzki, Dirk, Toole, Andrew A.
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Ice Lithography: Recent Progress Opens a New Frontier of Opportunities
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This review focuses on recent advancements in ice lithography, including breakthroughs in compatible precursors and substrates, processes and applications, hardware, and digital methods. Moreover, it offers a roadmap to uncover innovation opportunities for ice lithography in fields such as biological, nanoengineering and microsystems, biophysics and ...
Bingdong Chang +9 more
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A real explanation for heterogeneous investment dynamics [PDF]
Household investment, that is investment in consumer durables and housing, leads non-residential fixed investment over the U.S. business cycle. This observation represents a potent challenge to real business cycle (RBC) theory.
Jonas D.M. Fisher
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Network Triads: Transitivity, Referral and Venture Capital Decisions in China and Russia [PDF]
, 2005 This article examines effects of dyadic ties and interpersonal trust on referrals and investment decisions of venture capitalists in the Chinese and Russian contexts.
Batjargal, Bat
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Strain‐Activated Photo‐Dehalogenation Unlocks Low‐Energy One and Two‐Photon 3D Microfabrication
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.5,14‐NMI‐Cz acts, conversely to its 7,10‐NMI‐Cz(7,10‐'dibromo‐2‐(2,6‐diisopropylphenyl)‐1H‐benzo[lmn]carbazolo[9,1‐bc][2,8]phenanthroline‐1,3(2H)‐dione) counterpart, as modular photoinitiator with panchromatic photoactivity, featuring a weak C–Br bond from geometric strain for efficient Type I & II initiation. These studies demonstrate applicability of
Kacper Piskorz +10 more
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Information, Investment, and the Stock Market: A Study of Investment Revision Data of Japanese Manufacturing Industries, [PDF]
We examined investment behavior in the Japanese manufacturing industry using investment revision data to analyze investment behavior from a fresh angle. We tested the martingale investment hypothesis and then the q-theory of investment by looking at the ...
Kazuo Ogawa, Kazuyuki Suzuki
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Electrochemical Formation of BiVO4/BiPO4 Photoanodes for Enhanced Selectivity toward H2O2 Generation
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.In acidic KPi, V dissolves from the BiVO4 lattice, while adsorbed phosphate reacts with the electrode under an external bias, forming a BiPO4 surface layer. This BiPO4 layer exhibits stronger bicarbonate adsorption, redirecting the water oxidation pathway toward two‐electron H2O2 production.
Kaijian Zhu +12 more
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Analysing investment product choice in South Africa under the investor lifecycle
Cogent Economics & Finance, 2020 Individual investment decision-making theory revolves around the logical choices an investor is expected to make to achieve the maximum return on investments.
D. Kellerman +2 more
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The relation between fluid intelligence and the general factor as a function of cultural background: a test of Cattell's investment theory [PDF]
According to Cattell’s (1987) Investment theory individual differences in acquisition of knowledge and skills are partly the result of investment of Fluid Intelligence (Gf) in learning situations demanding insights in complex relations.
Gustafsson, Jan-Eric +1 more
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