In an era of great skepticism and distrust, companies’ ESG performances are under ever-increasing scrutiny. Stakeholders are urging companies to integrate ESG goals into their business strategic plans, practices, and value chains. Drawing upon a sample of publicly listed manufacturing companies in China from 2009 to 2021, this study aims to investigate the relationships between ESG performance and corporate values, especially the mediating role of financing constraints and the moderating effect of R&D investment intensity. Findings show that the ESG performance of manufacturing companies has a significant positive effect on corporate value. Financing constraints play a partial intermediary role between ESG performance and enterprise values. R&D investment intensity negatively moderates the relationship between ESG performance and manufacturing companies’ enterprise values. The heterogeneity study indicates that the beneficial impact of ESG performance on company value is particularly pronounced in the eastern region of China, non-state-owned companies, and heavily polluting industrial enterprises. Our findings provide important practical implications for a range of stakeholders, such as enterprises and investors, and enrich our current understanding of ESG research.

In this paper, a compact all-solid-state pulsed power modulator was designed based on Marx generator and pulse transformer. It is consisted of a six-stage Marx generator using power MOSFETs as switches to generate primary voltage pulses and a pulse transformer through a closed magnetic core to boost and convert the polarity of the output high-voltage (HV) pulse. A MOSFET driver circuit based on optical-electrical isolation was designed for controlling the Marx generator. It shows that the output pulse shapes, especially the rising and falling phases, are determined by the design of the pulse transformer such as its leakage inductance, distributed capacitance, magnetization inductance, and step-up ratio. The designed modulator is able to generate HV pulses with amplitude ranging from -35 to 35 kV, repetition frequency up to 10 kHz, minimum pulsewidth 250 ns. Various types of plasma discharges, including air microdischarge for local treatments, plate-to-plate air dielectric-barrier discharge, underwater discharge, are able to be driven with good reproducibility by this compact pulse modulator.

Purpose: This study clarifies how intra-organizational social capital (IOSC) and unit-organizational ambidexterity (UOA), using resource-based view and dynamic capability theory, together support organizational value creation. While there is research in strategic human resource management (SHRM) exploring the role of resources and its uses, there remains limited understanding of how resources are linked and their effective utilization in the service sector. This study aims to examine the mediating process linking employee-experienced service-oriented high-performance work systems (SHPWS) experienced by employees and service performance by integrating IOSC and UOA.Design/methodology/approach: This study uses time lagged data from managers and employees of different branches of Chinese state-owned banks. To test the proposed hypotheses, path analysis was applied.Findings: The path analysis results reveal that employee-experienced SHPWS is an important antecedent of service performance. Moreover, IOSC (as resources) and UOA (uses) strongly mediate the theorized relationship.Originality/value: This study attempts to refine theory and practice with clearer, more insightful and coherent means to better understand and help unpack the ‘black box’ between SHPWS-performance relationships through a new linkage model.

Objectives: Education institutions routinely instruct students on how to remain safe from crime. We hold that this instruction and much of the associated practice might be problematic, because none of the researchers who have contrasted the fears and the victimization avoidance strategies of domestic and international students have tested for cultural measurement equivalence. This study aims to examine, whether cultural measurement equivalence exists when domestic and international tertiary students respond to fear of crime-related measures. Methods: This cross-sectional study involved 1170 tertiary students across four Melbourne-based universities, Australia. Multiple group confirmatory factor analyses with covariance and mean structures, using structural equation modeling, were used to test whether the same constructs were measured across international and local tertiary students. Results: The two cohorts hold the same conceptual frame of reference when responding to the measurement items. However, the cohorts display different true score values in relation to a number of questionnaire items associated with fear of crime, perceptions of safety, and avoidance behavior. Conclusions: This study suggests that researchers need to render testing for cultural measurement equivalence standard practice, when undertaking cross-cultural studies of student safety and that such practice should also be incorporated into student safety programs.

Nurses work in a high-risk and uncertain environment, which may lead to harmful social interactions resulting in self-regulation impairment. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of perceived social undermining and how and when this perception affects nurses’ knowledge-sharing behavior. We developed a conceptual framework of self-regulation impairment in which nurses’ perceived social undermining (from supervisors and coworkers) depletes self-control resources, dampening their knowledge-sharing behavior. We hypothesized social adaptability and resource management ability as self-regulating capacities that mitigate the impairment process. Results from a multisource and multiwave in the public hospitals provided support to our hypotheses. This study yielded significant findings with theoretical and practical implications that provide leads for future investigations in the field of healthcare research.