Latest ArticlesCurrently, 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.
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.
In the wave of global digital economy, AI, cloud computing, big data and other technologies were revolutionizing the economy and livelihoods, driving agriculture into a data-oriented digital era. Agriculture has experienced manual work, mechanization to initial automation, and is now rapidly stepping into the era of smart agriculture led by the new generation of information technology. The construction of smart agriculture driven by edge computing was focused on, a technological paradigm that is essential to overcome the challenges of agricultural data management and decision making. By virtue of near-source processing of data, edge computing enables real-time analysis and low-latency response of data, demonstrating high adaptability and stability to the limitations of agricultural infrastructure. Empirical research data show that integrated edge intelligence solutions greatly enhance data processing capabilities and reduce costs, validating their potential for significant efficiency gains under synergistic effects. It not only focuses on the improvement of production efficiency, but also deeply analyzes the multiple benefits of edge computing in agricultural data processing and decision making, covering economic benefits, social and ecological dimensions. It not only strengthens the foundation of agricultural market stability and sustainable development, but also provides a solid theoretical framework and strategic guidance for the innovative practice and future development of smart agriculture.
Disruptive technology possesses the potential to revolutionize mainstream technology trajectories, reshape industry market structures, and redefine the rules of international competition. How it evolves from a marginal force into a mainstream power in the future is of practical significance for technological self-reliance and self-improvement. Based on the innovation theory, the technology-application-ecology (TAE) framework was constructed to analyze the evolutionary paths of disruptive technologies and their mechanisms of action. A process of systemic change was observed through research during the transition of disruptive technologies from marginal forces to future mainstream power. This process is characterized by a dynamic technological evolution trajectory of germination-proliferation-recursion, an application leap path progressing from initial, to intermediate and target, and ultimately to future scenarios, as well as a process of innovation ecosystem transformation that evolves through arboreal, circular, and network-like structures. The systemic revolution of disruptive technologies is intricately shaped by a range of factors: the integrative development of converging technologies, the intensive interplay between technology and its applications, and the dynamic transformation of competitive advantages and disadvantages in latecomer scenarios. It encompasses three critical conditions for the conversion of latecomer advantages: technological bifurcation, application leaps, and ecological collaboration. Finally, policy insights are achieved from various aspects, including emphasizing technology science, strengthening demand-side management, optimizing the innovation ecosystem, and seizing policy opportunities.
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.
Firms innovation serves as the microfoundation driving industrial transformation, thereby fostering high-quality economic development. Drawing on institutional theory and firm innovation management literatures, a framework was developed to investigate how institutional trust impacts firms' radical innovation, incremental innovation, as well as new product performance. Data from 165 pharmaceutical firms reveal that institutional trust more significantly boosts radical innovation than incremental innovation. The findings also indicate that radical innovation positively affects new product performance. However, incremental innovation shows a U-shaped relationship with new product performance. Institutional trust significantly moderates the link between incremental innovation and new product performance, but not between radical innovation and new product performance. By unpacking the important role of institutional trust in firms' innovation strategy the current study contributes to the understanding of the mechanisms of how external formal institutions influence firm innovation from a cognitive perspective. The research findings provide important insights for firms formulating innovation strategies, and also guide governments in refining formal institutional arrangements related to pharmaceutical innovation, thereby enhancing enthusiasm of firms for innovation.
In order to effectively answer the scientific question of "how to empower the three-dimensional value creation of short videos". Taking Kuaishou short video as an example, starting from the three-dimensional value creation of "product function-service utility-scene experience", the method of combining case study and programmatic grounded analysis was used to explore and refine the mechanism and path of scene-enabled three-dimensional value creation of short video. The results show that the short video uses the logic of "time three-dimensional product function value → supply chain", the short video realizes the three-dimensional value creation of "the previous time-this time-the next time" based on the standardized configuration of scenario-based scenarios at each node of the supply chain. The short video uses the logic of "spatial three-dimensionality service utility value value chain", and the personalized configuration of the scenario-based situation of each node of the value chain to realize the three-dimensional value creation of "the previous space-this space-the next space". The short video uses the logic of "user three-dimensional scene experience value scene chain", and realizes the three-dimensional value creation of users of "previous scenes-current scenes-future scenes" through the dual-path configuration of scenario-based scenarios at each node of the scene chain. Finally, the strategies and methods of scene empowerment for three-dimensional value creation of short videos are proposed to realize the effect of "timely-appropriate place-suitable people-appropriate feeling".
Innovation is recognized as a crucial driver of high-quality economic development and a key factor for enterprises to gain long-term competitive advantage. The board of directors, as the core entity responsible for formulating corporate strategy, influences the level of innovation in a company through the acquisition and utilization of innovative resources. Drawing on social network theory, the impact of informal internal board networks on corporate innovation and the moderating effect of external board networks were examined. Data from listed companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2013 to 2021 were utilized, and the research findings indicate that the informal internal board network, formed based on the "seven similarities" relationship attributes, significantly promotes corporate innovation. Additionally, the relationship between the informal internal board network and corporate innovation is positively moderated by the structural holes and centrality of the external board network. The study's conclusions not only respond to the academic call for the integration of demographic characteristics with the local context in China, but also reveal the interaction between internal and external board networks, deepening the understanding of the social network governance mechanisms in Chinese enterprises.
With the rapid development of information and communication technology, it has been widely used in employees' work and life, and its influence on employees' physical and mental health has been paid more and more attention by researchers. Based on the boundary theory, this the influence mechanism of the leisure use of information and communication technology on employees' work and family conflicts was explored, with the leisure crafting and leisure spillover as the intermediary mechanism. By analyzing the survey data of 300 employees, the results show that the leisure use of information and communication technology has a positive impact on employees' leisure crafting, leisure crafting has a positive impact on employees' leisure spillover, and leisure spillover has a negative impact on employees' work-family conflict, task conflict and relationship conflict. Leisure crafting plays an intermediary role between the leisure use of information and communication technology and leisure spillover. Leisure spillover plays an intermediary role between leisure crafting and work-family conflict, task conflict and relationship conflict. In addition, leisure crafting and leisure spillover play a chain intermediary effect between the leisure use of information and communication technology and work-family conflict. It provides some theoretical guidance for employees to deal with conflicts at home and at work.