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AbstractThe twenty-first century has seen an increase in stakeholders, highlighting the need to discuss the role of corporate social responsibility in technological innovation. The objective of the current research is to examine the role that corporate social responsibility in technological innovation plays in enhancing the sustainable competitive performance of firms. The idea that digital transformation mediates the relationship between corporate social responsibility in technological innovation and sustainable competitive performance is proposed in this study. Additionally, the mastery climate may act as a boundary condition that strengthens the positive relationship between CSR and digital transformation. The data were collected in Chinese firms through a questionnaire. The results supported the mediation and moderation hypotheses, confirming that digital transformation mediates the relationship between corporate social responsibility in technological innovation and sustainable competitive performance. The mastery climate moderates the relationship between corporate social responsibility in technological innovation and digital transformation. The results have implications for theory and practice. Limitations and future research directions are also discussed.

AbstractBased on stakeholder theory, this research aims to examine the effects of the two dimensions of corporate environmental responsibility (CER), which are CER strength and CER concern, on firm innovation performance, and the moderating effect of firm visibility on these relationships. Using data on Chinese firms listed on Shenzhen stock exchange from 2006 to 2015, this research finds that CER strength positively affects firm innovation performance while CER concern negatively affects innovation performance. These relationships are stronger for firms with greater visibility. This research provides insights for understanding the relationship between CER and innovation performance and has important managerial implications for firms to manage their environmental behaviors and improve innovation performance to achieve sustainable development.

We are delighted to bring you a selection of papers for this ebook of Chinese Management Studies. Together, these studies provide a topical insight into the development of Technology Management in China. The first paper in this issue [Wu et al. ], regarding the order parameter of technology capability and technology management within the telecommunications industry, provides a compelling and influential understanding the significance of technology management, and government support, for industrial development within China

PurposeCorporate social responsibility (CSR) is regarded as the driving factor of innovation. However, corporate technological innovation social responsibility's (CTISR) role and effect mechanism in leveraging radical technological innovation (RTI) has been limited. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between CTISR and RTI and the moderating effect of intellectual capital and institutional support on CTISR and RTI.Design/methodology/approachGrounded in resource-based view, a research model including CTISR, intellectual capital, institutional support and RTI is proposed Content analysis is performed on the CSR reports of Chinese companies that have been publicly listed published from 2008 to 2022, to measure each company's CTISR. A regression analysis was then applied to relate CTISR, intellectual capital and institutional support to firm-specific variables to determine their relevance and influence on RTI.FindingsResults indicate that CTISR is positively related to RTI. The results also indicate that human capital, structural capital and institutional support strengthen this positive relationship. Furthermore, institutional support strengthens the positive interaction effect of human capital with CTISR and structural capital with CTISR, respectively.Originality/valueThis research explores the relationships among CTISR, intellectual capital, institutional support and RTI in a comprehensive model, which is the first known study to highlight that CTISR can enhance RTI and gives managers implications on how to align corporate technological innovation while pursuing RTI.

AbstractThe research constructs a theoretical framework including the relationship between the interaction of corporate environmental responsibility and technological base and firm performance and the mediating role of knowledge recombination. The research empirically studies the proposed framework by using the data of 258 firms listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges from 2008 to 2019. The results show that the interaction between corporate environmental responsibility and technological base has a positive effect on firm performance and both the two dimensions of knowledge recombination that are knowledge recombination reuse and knowledge recombination creation could mediate this relationship. These results not only figure out the interaction between corporate environmental responsibility and technological base and its influencing mechanisms on firm performance, which is knowledge recombination and further broaden the application of the knowledge‐based view, but also provide important managerial implications for firms to acquire superior performance through corporate environmental responsibility and technological base.

PurposeThis study aims to offer insights regarding the impact of emotional conflict on innovation behavior. This study also explores the boundary conditions by examining the moderating effects of leader-member exchange (LMX) and team-member exchange (TMX) on the relationship between emotional conflict and innovation behavior.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a questionnaire survey to collect data in China. Hypotheses were tested using hierarchical regression analysis. To test for inverted U-shaped relationship between emotional conflict and innovation behavior, the authors computed the squared term for emotional conflict. To investigate moderating roles of LMX and TMX, the authors carried out an interaction term between the main effect variables (emotional conflict and emotional conflict2) and the moderating variables (LMX and TMX).FindingsThe empirical findings indicated that emotional conflict had an inverted U-shaped relationship with innovation behavior. Furthermore, LMX and TMX moderated the inverted U-shaped relationship between the emotional conflict and innovation behavior in such a way that the inverted U-shaped relationship was flatter in high-quality LMX and TMX than in low-quality LMX and TMX. That is to say, LMX and TMX may dampen the positive effects of lower levels of emotional conflict on innovation behavior; yet, it may also weaken the negative effects of higher levels of emotional conflict on innovation behavior.Research limitations/implicationsThis research can be extended in several ways. First, future research can investigate the impact mechanism of emotional conflict on innovation behavior. Second, future research can analyze other types of moderators at different levels. The last but not the least, future research can test the results using heterogeneous samples. Despite these potential limitations, this study provides an elaborate understanding of the conflict–creativity relationship by outlining the inverted U-shaped relationship between emotional conflict and innovation behavior under the LMX and TMX contexts, which can make important contributions to the conflict management literature.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study offer some guidance on how to stimulate innovation behavior through emotional conflict. It suggests that managers should maintain the emotional conflict at the moderate level. Furthermore, managers can strengthen the LMX and TMX to avoid the negative effects of high levels of emotional conflict, and several practices are provided as well.Originality/valueThis study develops an exhaustive understanding of the conflict–creativity relationship by figuring the curvilinear relationship between emotional conflict and innovation behavior, which is the response to the call of Posthuma to focus on the outcomes of conflict management. The findings further provide an empirical evidence of the conceptual argument that the consequences of conflict depend on the situational context by pointing out the important contingency factors of LMX and TMX.

The surface of nanowires is a source of interest mainly for electrical prospects. Thus, different surface chemical treatments were carried out to develop recipes to control the surface effect. In this work, we succeed in shifting and tuning the semiconductivity of a Si nanowire-based device from n- to p-type. This was accomplished by generating a hole transport layer at the surface by using an electrochemical reaction-based nonequilibrium position to enhance the impact of the surface charge transfer. This was completed by applying different annealing pulses at low temperature (below 400 °C) to reserve the hydrogen bonds at the surface. After each annealing pulse, the surface was characterized by XPS, Kelvin probe measurements, and conductivity measured by FET based on a single Si NW. The mechanism and conclusion were supported experimentally and theoretically. To this end, this strategy has been demonstrated as an essential tool which could pave a new road for regulating semiconductivity and for other low-dimensional nanomaterials. ; M.B. is thankful for the MAOF Grant from the Council for Higher Education in Israel for new faculty members. A.S. is appreciative of the institutional scholarships for Ph.D. students that they received from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. W.W. is thankful for the fundamental research funds from the Central Universities (JC2002). L.Z. is thankful for the support of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Jacob Blaustein Center for Scientific Cooperation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61904134), and the National Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (2019JQ-291). The computing resources and the related technical support used for this work have been provided by CRESCO/ENEAGRID High Performance Computing infrastructure and its staff, along with additional support from S. Migliori and S. Giusepponi. E.N.E.A. acknowledges funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 824158 (EoCoE-II). J.A. acknowledges funding from Generalitat de Catalunya 2017 SGR 327 and the Spanish MINECO coordinated project ENE2017-85087-C3. ICN2 is supported by the Severo Ochoa program from Spanish MINECO (SEV-2017-0706) and is funded by the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. ; Peer reviewed