With increasing concerns about environmental issues and the advancement of China’s “going global” strategy, a new issue-proactive corporate social responsibility has emerged. Proactive corporate environmental responsibility refers to business actions that go beyond regulatory requirements for supporting sustainable environmental development. This study examines the role of proactive corporate environmental responsibility on corporate financial performance in the Chinese energy industry by the multi-variables regression analysis of panel data. Using data of 264 firm-year observations from 2009–2014 in the energy industry, the results showed that Proactive corporate environmental responsibility has a positive effect on corporate financial performance passing the endogeneity test. The results also demonstrate that private ownership has stronger promotion on the relationship between proactive corporate environmental responsibility and corporate financial performance. This study helps to increase the body of knowledge about proactive corporate environmental responsibility of the emerging economy, provides insights into the corporate environmental responsibility practice, and government environmental regulation and policy.

Research on information models for the construction schedule management based on the IFC standard

Prefabricated construction is of great significance to deal with demographic dividend reduction and construction transformation. Based on synergy theory, the problems in the design and construction of the existing assembly building are summarized, besides, the development model of collaborative management about integration of design and construction is proposed. Collaborative management mode can effectively expand the design depth and fully use the advantages of various departments, which can form an integrated development effort and make it be more integrated and synergistic.

Corporate social responsibility is one of the prerequisites for sustainable development in the construction industry. The aim of this research is to analyze the social responsibility behavior of construction enterprises, especially to find whether there is a social responsibility behavior preference in construction enterprises. In this study, the framework for social responsibility assessment of construction enterprises is proposed based on the stakeholder theory. Third-parties data is used to test social responsibility behavior of construction enterprises with method of mean comparison and paired-samples T test. The results confirm the existence of social responsibility behavior preference in construction enterprises, which give priority to the social responsibility of shareholders and employees while government responsibility is easy to be neglected. Meanwhile, results can instruct construction enterprises to improve CSR performance in the future, as well as providing practitioners and the academia with better understanding of CSR issues of construction enterprises.

Social responsibility can reduce the increasingly prominent environmental pressure of major infrastructure projects (MIPs), enhance the core competitiveness of the project. Social responsibility management is crucial for MIPs’ sustainable development. This study takes Chinese major infrastructure projects as objects of study to test the relationships between social responsibility and spiritual leadership. This paper firstly identifies the driving factors of social responsibility of major infrastructure projects (MIP-SR), on this basis, the analysis of the mode of action of the three dimensions of spiritual leadership on the MIP-SR, and constructs a theoretical model of spiritual leadership-social responsibility. Finally, from the perspective of spiritual leadership, this research analyzes the implementation path of MIP-SR. Generally, spiritual leadership is favorable for realization of MIP-SR.