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This research develops a difference-in-differences (DID) model to explore the relationship between environmental policy (The Measures for the Administration of Permits for the Discharge of Key Water Pollutants in the Huaihe and Taihu River Basins, MAPD) and the performance of firms involved in the paper and paper products industry (MPP) in China. Cost and innovation are introduced as mediators to explore the mediating effects. A firm-level dataset from 1998 to 2007 is adopted for empirical study. The findings support the positive role of the MAPD, and the average treatment effect is 0.016.The heterogeneity analysis shows that the MAPD exerts a positive impact on non-state-owned and small-scale enterprises, with coefficients of 0.018 and 0.021, respectively. Moreover, MAPD increases enterprise costs harming firm performance. On the other hand, it can promote firm performance by improving innovation ability.

To investigate the impact of natural disasters on energy poverty, this study employs a panel dataset of 113 countries covering the period 2000–2014. We also conduct an asymmetric analysis on the natural disaster–energy poverty nexus. In addition, we analyze the impact mechanism between natural disasters and energy poverty. The main findings indicate that natural disasters deteriorate the energy poverty status, and this impact is asymmetric. Furthermore, technological innovation can reduce the positive impact of natural disasters on energy poverty. Also, renewable energy infrastructure is an important pathway through which natural disasters affect energy poverty.

The online practicum teaching is necessary to provide practical experience for college students and to cultivate their employability. Students’ career decision-making self-efficacy makes students more likely to engage in the online practicum to acquire more practical skills in consideration of career selection, and predicts students’ satisfaction with the online practicum teaching. This study aims to find out influencing mechanism of college students’ career decision-making self-efficacy on their satisfaction with the online practicum teaching. The sample of 291 engineering undergraduates filled in the self-reporting questionnaires of career decision-making self-efficacy and the perception and satisfaction of the online practicum teaching quality. Correlation analysis revealed that there were significant positive correlations among students’ career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE), students’ perception of the online practicum teaching quality (SPOPTQ), and students’ satisfaction with the online practicum teaching (SSOPT). Mediation model analysis showed that CDMSE directly had a significant positive prediction effect on SPOPTQ and SSOPT respectively, and SPOPTQ presents partly mediating effect between CDMSE and SSOPT. College students have a higher degree of confidence in completing job-related tasks in the future career decision-making process. Such confidence can be positively transferred to the online practicum learning, stimulate the emotion and grit of students, and positively affect their perception quality and their satisfaction in the practical experience of the online practicum activities.

This paper aims to develop a complete model of competitive intelligence (CI) in the case of North African SMEs. Specifically, the objective of this paper is to analyse the mediating and moderating effects of innovation and the protection of information assets in the relationship between business intelligence (BI) and international competitiveness of SMEs based on export intensity. To do this, we rely on the approach of Baron and Kenny (1986). The Moderator–Mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51(6), 1173–1182 and Ping (1995). A parsimonious estimating techinque for interaction and quadratic latent variables. The Journal of Marketing Research, 32, 336–347 to identify respectively, the mediating and moderating roles of innovation and protection of information assets, and we focus on a sample of 180 North African companies. The results of this paper show that the relationship between BI and international competitiveness is both mediated by innovation and moderated by the protection of information assets. The originality of this research lies in the design of a CI model that integrates BI, mediation of innovation, moderation of the protection of information assets and the international competitiveness.

Opportunity recognition plays a central role in the emergence of nascent ventures in entrepreneurship research. The main purpose of this study was to present the mediating effects of opportunity recognition on incubation resources and human capital. Moreover, the study scrutinises the complex inter-relations between opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial product innovation. The data were collected from 389 incubated software start-ups in Thailand and statistically performed by Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). The analysis revealed a persistent impact of the opportunity recognition on the incubation resources and human capital. Opportunity recognition also serves as a significant driver in enhancing entrepreneurial potential to boost new products/services. Interestingly, the study found that the human capital of incubated software entrepreneurs has no significant effect, statistically, on product innovation, against the better judgement of business empires worldwide.

With the development of digital technology, digital platforms have become important channels for audiences to watch movies. When studying the performance of movies on digital platforms, scholars often only focus on one of the temporal factors or non-temporal factors, but the performance of movies is affected by both factors. Based on relevant data from 128 movies collected by big data technology, this paper uses the OLS and mediating effect models to analyze the influence of the release time interval and other non-time factors on movie performance. The key findings are as follows: (1) box office plays a decisive role in the performance of movies on digital platforms, and quite a few other non-time factors have an impact on the performance of movies through the box office as a mediating variable; (2) the release time interval of the DVD&Blu-ray channel has no effect on the performance of movies in this channel; (3) there is a U-shaped relationship between the release time interval of digital platforms and the performance of digital platforms; (4) movie ratings have an additional impact on the performance of movies in network platform. This paper explains the interaction mechanism between movie release channels in a more realistic way, which has a certain reference value for relevant practitioners and scholars.

Technology innovation encompasses the core competencies of research and development (R&D). The significance of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) innovation during low-carbon transition is self-evident. We investigate the impact of CCUS technology innovation on green total factor productivity (GTFP) based on the 2007–2019 panel dataset. We also examine their nonlinear nexus and identify potential impact channels. Our findings show that CCUS innovation significantly improves GTFP by promoting industrial infrastructure and carbon emissions efficiency, environmental regulation positively moderates the nexus between CCUS technology innovation and GTFP, and CCUS technology innovation is more effective in promoting GTFP in regions that already have high GTFP. We conclude with specific policy implications for better CCUS technology innovation and GTFP development based on these findings.