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AbstractThe need for organizations to safeguard and advance environmental sustainability has recently become imperative due to mounting pressures from various stakeholder groups. However, a significant research gap remains regarding how these pressures influence enterprises' green practices and performance. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of green market pressure exerted by customers and competitors on firm performance, taking into account the multiple mediating effects of green value co‐creation and green dynamic capability. Questionnaire survey data collected from 274 high‐tech manufacturing companies in the Yangtze River Delta of China were used to test the proposed relationships. By testing the mediation effects based on stakeholder theory and dynamic capability view, the results show that green market pressure positively affects firm performance, while both green value co‐creation and green dynamic capability play as an individual mediator between green market pressure and firm performance. Moreover, green value co‐creation and green dynamic capability sequentially mediate the link between green market pressure and firm performance. These findings provide valuable suggestions for improving firm performance under the background of environmental protection.

As a new business model, e-commerce live broadcasting has great value in the commercial field. Based on value co-creation theory and the stimulus-organic-response model, this study explores the influence of physical cues in e-commerce live broadcast scenes on customer loyalty. Using the audience of China's e-commerce live broadcasting platform as the research object, 404 valid data points were collected through a questionnaire survey, and a structural equation analysis model was adopted to explore the relationship among the physical clues of the e-commerce live broadcasting scene, customer engagement, value co-creation, and customer loyalty and to verify the mediating effect of customer engagement and value co-creation. The research shows that aesthetic appeal, layout, and function have a positive impact on customer engagement, but financial security has no positive impact on customer engagement. In addition, value co-creation has an intermediary effect, and customer engagement and value co-creation have a double intermediary effect on physical cues and customer loyalty in e-commerce live broadcast scenes. The research not only expands the theory of value co-creation and scene but also provides practical reference value for e-commerce live broadcasting platforms and enterprises and promotes the design of physical cues in e-commerce live broadcasting scenes to improve customer loyalty. Doi: 10.28991/ESJ-2023-07-04-020 Full Text: PDF

This paper explores the relationship of real GDP per capita with cancer incidence applying panel threshold regression model in BRICS and ASEAN countries. The empirical results highlight that the business cycle has an inverted-U correlation with population health indicators and a non-linear single threshold effect. In BRICS countries, the health-promoting effect of economic growth is significantly weaker when exceeding the threshold. Similarly, economic growth in ASEAN countries, even worsens population health, after the turning point. These asymmetric effects are strongly related to the response of regional economic globalization health policies. Changes in economic expansion and overheating may have serious adverse effects on health care systems in emerging economies. Governments should adopt more aggressive health care policies during economic overheating, to avoid wasting health care resources.

Ecological innovation is an inevitable trend for firms to enhance competitiveness and sustainably operate in the context of green economy. The previous literature has rarely discussed the influence of ambidextrous learning on the eco-innovation performance of startups and ignored the moderating effect of top management's environmental awareness from the perspective of microscopic psychology. We have conducted a questionnaire survey on 212 firms established within 4 years in the Pearl River Delta of China, using the structure mode and the PROCESS by Hayes (2013) to analyze the influence of ambidextrous learning, such as exploratory learning and exploitative learning, by startups on eco-innovation performance and verify the moderating effect of top management's environmental awareness. The results show that exploratory learning and exploitative learning have a positive and significant influence on eco-innovation performance, indicating that the organizational learning of startups is conducive to improving eco-innovation performance; under the moderating effect of top management's environmental awareness, the influence of exploratory learning and exploitative learning on eco-innovation performance may differ. The results also show that in the process of organizing ambidextrous learning, startups should help raise the environmental awareness of top management to improve the eco-innovation performance, thus providing guidance for startups to carry out eco-innovation activities and for local governments to make decisions on green economy.

With the popular adoption of information technology (IT), business models and types of services in industries are strongly influenced. Consider the professional service industries such as accounting firms, services are the main business activities in their daily job. These firms are now facing the critical issue on how to apply IT effectively and improve their service quality. The purpose of this paper is to provide a demonstrative analysis for the evaluation of valuable activities in professional service firms via "Value Shop" model. And then find the strategic benefits of IT invested with corresponding value activities by the case study of accounting firms in Taiwan. The findings indicate that IT investment is indeed helpful for activities in daily business activities in such firms, whether it is strategy-centric, managerial, or operational activities.

Is income still an obstacle that influences health in Taiwan, the National Health Insurance system was instituted in 1995? After collecting injured inpatient data from the health insurance information of nearly the whole population, we categorized the cases as either low-income or nonlow-income and tried to determine the correlation between poverty and injury. Chi-square tests, Fisher's exact tests, an independent-samples t-test, and percentages were used to identify differences in demographics, causes for hospitalization, and other hospital care variables. Between 1998 and 2015, there were 74,337 inpatients with low-income injuries, which represented 1.6% of all inpatients with injury events. The hospitalization mortality rate for the low-income group was 1.9 times higher than that of the nonlow-income group. Furthermore, the average length of hospital stay (9.9 days), average medical expenses (1681 USD), and mortality rate (3.6%) values for the low-income inpatients were higher than those of the nonlow-income group (7.6 days, 1573 USD, and 2.1%, respectively). Among the injury causes, the percentages of "fall," "suicide," and "homicide" incidences were higher for the low-income group than for the nonlow-income group. These findings support our hypothesis that there is a correlation between poverty and injury level, which results in health inequality. Achieving healthcare equality may require collaboration between the government and private and nonprofit organizations to increase the awareness of this phenomenon.

This 2½‐year, 5‐wave longitudinal study tests the hypothesis that acculturation discrepancies between Hispanic immigrant parents and adolescents would lead to compromised family functioning, which would then lead to problematic adolescent outcomes. Recent‐immigrant Hispanic parent–adolescent dyads (N = 302) completed measures of acculturation and family functioning. Adolescents completed measures of positive youth development, depressive symptoms, problem behavior, and substance use. Results indicated that Time 1 discrepancies in Hispanic culture retention, and linear trajectories in some of these discrepancies, negatively predicted adolescent positive youth development, and positively predicted adolescent depressive symptoms and binge drinking, indirectly through adolescent‐reported family functioning. The vast majority of effects were mediated rather than direct, supporting the acculturation discrepancy hypothesis. Implications for further research and intervention are discussed.