Fuzzy front-end (FFE) is the research frontier of management studies in both domestic and international academia. On the other hand, in the industrial ciecles, the CCP's 20th report also addresses the importance of manufacturing startups in determining China's future development. Therefore, how to utilize FFE innovation to increase manufacturing startups' performance becomes a crucial goal of both academic researches and industrial practices. The relationships between FFE entrepreneurial bricolage activities, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and NPD performance by adopting a resource based view was studied. It surveyed 357 manufacturing startups and the empirical results from the data sample of manufacturing startups show that FFE entrepreneurial bricolage activities have positive and significant impacts on NPD Performance. FFE entrepreneurial bricolage activities also have positive and significant impacts on startups' CSR engagement. CSR engagement has positive and significant impacts on startups' NPD performance. CSR also plays a mediating role between FFE entrepreneurial bricolage activities and NPD performance. The research results triggered the future direction of FFE innovation research and practice.

Due to the increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment, the development and implementation of discontinuous innovation is becoming more critical for firms' survival and development. However, previous studies on discontinuous innovation have mainly focused on theoretical research, and little is known about how to systematically cultivate and implement discontinuous innovation. Based on upper echelons theory and social cognitive theory, it has been probed that CEO advice seeking may be an important driver of discontinuous innovation, with relational learning playing a mediating role, and corporate entrepreneurial orientation playing a moderating role. Data collected from 289 CEOs have shown that both external and internal advice seeking are important determinants of a firm's discontinuous innovation; relational learning has played a partial mediating role in these relationships. Additionally, corporate entrepreneurial orientation has been found to positively moderate the mediating role of relational learning in the relationship between CEO internal advice seeking and discontinuous innovation. Surprisingly, the interaction of CEO external advice seeking and corporate entrepreneurial orientation on subsequent discontinuous innovation is indistinctive. The findings of this study have important theoretical and practical implications for cultivating discontinuous innovation, utilizing CEO advice seeking, optimizing relational learning capability, and promoting corporate entrepreneurial orientation.

The standardization capability of enterprise Industrial Internet is of great significance for improving R&D intensity and optimizing resource allocation. From the perspective of standard resource arrangement, based on the standard text data of Industrial Internet, 310 A-share listed companies in the field of Industrial Internet were selected as the research subjects to investigate the impact of standardization capability on corporate digital innovation performance from the perspective of standard resource orchestration. As is found in the research, the different features in standard texts reflect the different characteristics of the structuring, enabling, and leveraging stages of enterprise standardization resources. From the perspective of resource orchestration, the positive impact of enterprise standardization ability on digital innovation level has been discovered. In terms of mechanism, the standardization of enterprise Industrial Internet has improved the R&D intensity and resource allocation efficiency of enterprises, thus promoting the improvement of digital innovation performance. The development of the standardization capability of enterprise Industrial Internet is found to promote the quality, efficiency and innovation of an enterprise. The discovery of the correlation is supposed to enhance enterprise productivity and boost industrial transformation and upgrading of China.

In the context of the digital economy, the full-link digital transformation, which encompasses the entire field, frequently encounters a broader range of historical constraints. It often results traditional enterprises being significantly constrained by historical inertia. Overcoming organizational inertia has become a primary objective for traditional enterprises digital transformation. This exploratory case study examines Feihe Dairy's digital transformation practice process to analyze the organizational inertia and its overcoming mechanisms within traditional enterprises undergoing full-link digital transformation. The results demonstrate that during the process of full-link digital transformation. The manifestation scope of organizational inertia has been expanded, and enterprises are confronted with the resistance to change of cross-functional cognitive inertia and cross-functional structural inertia. Traditional enterprises overcome cross-functional organizational inertia by orchestrating resources from the outside-in, and there is heterogeneity in the mechanisms by which different cross-functional inertia is overcome. To overcome cross-functional cognitive inertia, enterprises adopt a resource orchestration strategy of "exogenous structuring-inherited capability-replacement leverage". To overcome cross-functional structural inertia, enterprises adopt a resource orchestration strategy of "exogenous structuring-pioneering capabilities-combinational leverage". It not only extends the theory of organizational inertia in the context of digital transformation, but also provides practical guidelines for traditional enterprises to successfully promote digital transformation.

The way companies create value is shifting, with more companies achieving value co-creation through participation in the innovation ecosystem. Based on the open innovation theory, 332 high-tech firms participating in the innovation ecosystem were taken as samples, the impact of coupled knowledge flows on value co-creation of innovation ecosystem and the moderating role of knowledge stocks and innovation ecosystem normativity were explored by using hierarchical regression analysis method. The results of the empirical study show that coupled knowledge flows has a significant positive impact on value co-creation of innovation ecosystem. Both knowledge breadth and knowledge depth have a significant positive moderating role on the relationship between coupled knowledge flows and value co-creation. Innovation ecosystem normativity has a significant positive moderating role on the relationship between coupled knowledge flows and value co-creation. It analyzes the value co-creation influence mechanism from the perspectives of external environments and internal environments of firms, which not only enriches the theoretical research related to knowledge flows, but also provides certain reference for innovation ecosystem to realize value co-creation.

Improving the resilience and security of China's integrated circuit (IC) industry chain is the basis for ensuring China's economic security and national security in the era of digital intelligence. On the basis of summarizing the new development trend of the global IC industry chain, it was found that the United States exercises "long-arm jurisdiction" over the global IC industry and strengthens its own manufacturing capabilities under the name of security, leading the IC industry into an unprecedented period of turmoil. Coupled with the U. S. "decoupling" and isolate China from its allies. China's IC industry faces unprecedented risks, and the new industrial cycle's downturn phase further intensifies the competitive risks. However, China's acceleration in technological and product breakthroughs in the IC industry has effectively mitigated the impact of external forces, and the resilience and security of China's IC industry have been effectively alleviated by enforcing technological independence and breakthroughs in cutting-edge technologies. In the future, enhancing the resilience and security of China's IC industry chain and building a national competitive advantage not only requires the active capability of the nation to strengthen policy supply, but also the advanced chips breakthroughs and mature chips capacity expansion, long-term strategic deployment, cultivation of "epoch-making products" and the construction of industrial ecology, safe operation under extreme conditions, and construction of the industrial ecosystem are necessary to drive the high-level security and high-quality development of the IC industry.

A large number of studies shown that environmental subsidies which is the main incentive policy for promoting green transformation of enterprises did not help to promote green innovation. This might be due to the structural contradiction of "biased environmental performance over innovative performance" in environmental subsidies. To prove the above point, based on the panel data of Chinese listed companies from 2011 to 2019, the environmental subsidies were decomposed into environmental R&D subsidies and environmental non R&D subsidies using text analysis methods. The results show that firstly, non-R&D subsidies with short-term "environmental orientation" characteristics squeeze out R&D investment, while environmental R&D subsidies with both "environmental genes" and "R&D genes" characteristics can improve innovation performance of enterprise by alleviating internal and external financing constraints, thereby promoting green transformation of enterprise. Secondly, the heterogeneity analysis finds that environmental R&D subsidies have the strongest incentive effect in the manufacturing and heavy polluting industries, while the political affiliation and scale of enterprises can also affect the effectiveness of environmental subsidy policies. Thirdly, the design of environmental subsidy policies should balance "environment" and "efficiency", combining short-term environmental protection with the construction of a long-term mechanism for green innovation and transformation of enterprises to achieve long-term environmentally friendly growth.

Based on the data of China's Rural Revitalization Survey (CRRS), the influence, mechanism and heterogeneity of agricultural production trusteeship on farmers' common prosperity were analyzed from the perspectives of income and happiness. The results show that the trusteeship of agricultural production has a positive effect on the common prosperity of farmers, and the conclusion is still stable after dealing with the endogenous problem. Heterogeneity analysis shows that agricultural production trusteeship has a significant effect on the common prosperity of different income groups, and there is little difference between the two. The promotion effect of the high human capital group on the common prosperity is more significant. It has a significant positive impact on the common prosperity of small households, but has no significant impact on large-scale households, and plays a distributive effect to promote "sharing". Through the mechanism test, it is found that the income level of farmers is improved by agricultural production trusteeship, which is mainly achieved by increasing crop yield, reducing production cost, expanding operation scale and promoting non-agricultural employment transfer. And by improving farmers' expectations of future income and freedom of choice and action, family happiness can be enhanced. The dual improvement of income and happiness can promote the realization of common prosperity of farmers. These findings have important theoretical and practical significance for the smooth implementation of the trusteeship policy of agricultural production and the continuous improvement of the common prosperity of farmers, also provide new evidence for the research on the relationship between the trusteeship of agricultural production and the common prosperity of farmers.

Currently, the academic research on workplace loneliness mainly focuses on its (potential) negative consequences, while the research on how to correctly treat and deal with workplace loneliness is still insufficient, lacking a comprehensive, in-depth and accurate understanding, especially at the level of its positive consequences. With the resource conservation theory as the foundation, survey data of 374 researchers from universities, research institutes and R&D departments of scientific and technological enterprises was used to explore the impact of workplace loneliness on the craftsmanship of researchers and its mechanism. It reveals that workplace loneliness has an "inverted U" impact on the craftsmanship and career resilience of researchers. Career resilience plays a mediating role in the relationship between workplace loneliness and researcher's craftsmanship. Relational psychological contract does not only positively moderates the relationship between career resilience and craftsmanship, but also positively moderates the mediating role of career resilience in the relationship between workplace loneliness and craftsmanship. The conclusion reveals the mechanism and boundary conditions of the impact of workplace loneliness on the craftsmanship of researchers, and identifies the positive incentive effect of workplace loneliness, which has a high innovative significance, and provides a useful reference for understanding how workplace loneliness positively affects craftsmanship from the perspective of resource conservation theory.

The issue of free-riding often exists in regional air pollution collaborative governance. To effectively address this issue, a quantum game model involving two heterogeneous governments was constructed using quantum game theory. The consideration of entangled states was discussed separately, and the game results were locked into a quantum version of cooperation strategies through strategy expansion. Based on the interpretation of quantum strategies and quantum entanglement, explicit provisions for the "entanglement agreement" in intergovernmental collaboration were made. The results show that entangled states and quantum strategies can effectively address the free-riding issue of governments. Quantum entanglement and quantum strategies, through interest association and index quantification, can avoid the issue of "moral hazard" and strengthen the binding force on both governments to fulfill their responsibilities. Based on the conclusions, three policy implications were proposed: promoting the digital transformation of local governments and establishing an air quality information-sharing platform, improving the performance evaluation and accountability mechanism for collaborative air pollution governance, fostering regional identity and establishing intergovernmental trust. These implications provide decision-making references for advancing regional air pollution collaborative governance in China.