Research on Pathways of How Digital Transformation Affects the Business Performance of MEEC Enterprises in Chengdu

This paper aims to examine the impact of digital transformations on the business performance of the meetings,expositions,events,and conventions(MEEC)industry in Chengdu by conducting an empirical analysis of 68 MEEC enterprises in the city.The study employed the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis(fsQCA)method to explore the pathways and factors involved.Drawing on the theory of synergetics,nine condition variables were carefully selected from four dimensions:digital technologies,digital strategy,digital infrastructure,and digital innovation.The findings revealed that digital transformations were an intricate systematic process,whereby a single factor alone did not serve as a necessary condition for MEEC enterprises to achieve high business performance.The analysis identified five distinct pathways that would lead to high performance,which can be categorized into three distinct models:the“organization-human resources”dominated model,the“human resources-infrastructure”driven model,and the multi-factor coordination model.The analysis also identified two pathways that would result in low performance,categorized as the“basic condition absent”model.Notably,there was substantial heterogeneity observed in the configurational pathways in terms of the magnitude of the impact of digital transformation on business performance across MEEC enterprises of different sizes.This paper suggests that the government should assume the role of a platform,providing policy and financial support to MEEC enterprises to help guide them through the process of digital transformation and that MEEC enterprises themselves should seize the opportunities arising from digital transformation to strengthen their digital infrastructure construction,human resources development,and innovation in brand building.This study presents empirical evidence that contributes to the understanding of the transformation process of MEEC enterprises within the digital economy era,as well as valuable insights into understanding the channels and internal conditions involved in digital transformations.

Visualization Analysis for Business Performance of Chinese Listed Companies Based on Gephi

When conducting company performance evaluations,the traditional method cannot reflect the distribution characteristics of the company’s operating conditions in the entire securities market.Gephi is an efficient tool for data analysis and visualization in the era of big data.It can convert the evaluation results of all listed companies into nodes and edges,and directly display them in the form of graphs,thus making up for the defects of traditional methods.This paper will take all the listed companies in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange as the analysis object.First uses tushare and web crawlers to collect the financial statement data of these companies.And then,uses the Economic Value Added model to calculate the EVA of each listed company and build graph data.Next,import the graph data into gephi to generate the distribution graph of all listed companies’performance,and summarize the distribution characteristics of business performance.Finally,select a listed company that you want to analyze in detail,using the traditional DuPont analysis method to conduct micro level visualization analysis of the business performance to find the main factors affecting the company’s operating performance.Incorporating gephi into traditional performance analysis methods will make the results of traditional analytical methods more effective and complete.

Relationship between R&D investment and business performance from the perspective of environmental regulation: Takeing the heavy-polluting industries from 2011 to 2016 as an example

In recent years, China has promulgated many laws and regulations of environmental protection, gradually forming an environmental regulation system, and most enterprises are under the dual pressure of environmental protection and business performance. It would be a significant way that enterprises undertake R&D activities for a change. This paper is based on the Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listed heavy pollution enterprises in 2011-2016, which is based on the review and summary of research results of former researchers, combining with current environmental regulation situation of our country, raising the relevant hypothesis between environmental regulations, R&D investment and business performance against heavy pollution industry. Adopting the method of empirical research, it also built the linear regression model which employs the relevant financial data of heavy-polluting enterprises in China as the statistical research sample. The relationship for heavy-polluting enterprises affected by environmental regulations between environmental protection R&D investment and enterprise business performance was tested. The results show that there is a positive influence on the environmental R&D investment and business performance, and a lag effect upon the R&D investment of enterprises to business performance. Finally, the research results were used to evaluates problems existing in the R&D investment on pollution industry in China as well as business performance and we put forward some suggestions on improving environmental regulation standards and technology innovation consciousness as well as optimizing the structure of R&D investment.

Can Financial Shared Services Improve Business Performance?Evidence from Chinese A-share Listed Corporations

Taking Chinese A-share listed corporations as sample,this paper studies whether the implementation of financial shared service center,an IT-based financial management practice,can significantly improve the business performance.We conduct Wilcoxon rank sum test and OLS regression model.The results show that there is a significant difference in business performance between the corporations without financial shared service center and the matching samples which have implemented financial shared service.In addition,the positive effect of financial shared services on business performance has a time-lag.As the corporations become adept on financial shared services,their business performance such as profitability,operating ability and growth could be improved steadily.Our study provides suggestions on whether corporations’might upgrade their financial system and how to evaluate the implementation results.

Attribute of Big Data Analytics Quality Affecting Business Performance

With an accelerating increase of business benefits produced from big data analytics (if used appropriately and intelligently by businesses in the private and public sectors), this study focused on empirically identifying the big data analytics (BDA) attributes. These attributes were classified into four groups (i.e., value innovation, social impact, precision, and completeness of BDA quality) and were found to influence the decision-making performance and business performance outcomes. A structural equation modeling analysis using 382 responses from a BDA related to practitioners indicated that the attributes of representativeness, predictability, interpretability, and innovativeness as related to value innovation greatly enhanced the decision-making confidence and effectiveness of decision makers who make decisions using big data. In addition, individuality, collectivity, and willfulness, which are related to social impact, also greatly improved the decision-making confidence and effectiveness of the same decision makers. This shows that the value innovation and social impact, which have received relatively less attention in previous studies, are the crucial attributes for BDA quality as they influence the decision-making performance. Comprehensiveness, factuality, and realism, which are linked to completeness, also have similar results. Furthermore, the higher the decision-making confidence of the decision makers who used big data was, the higher the financial performance of their companies. In addition, high decision-making confidence using big data was found to improve the nonfinancial performance metrics such as customer satisfaction and quality levels as well as product development capabilities. High decision-making effectiveness with big data was also shown to improve the nonfinancial performance metrics.

Business Performance, Business Strategy, and Information System Strategic Alignment: An Empirical Study on Chinese Firms

The alignment between information systems （IS） and business strategy along with its implications for perceived IS effectiveness and business performance is an important question, which is rarely studied in China. Based on an empirical study, this paper summarized the significance of IS strategic alignment and its impact on business performance. This study also measured business strategy, information system strategy, and information system strategic alignment, built a conceptual model to describe the relationship between these factors, and investigated their implications for information system performance and business performance. A structural equation model was employed to test the conceptual model. Analyses of data gathered in a survey indicate that information system strategic alignment is a better predictor of business performance than business strategy or information system strategy alone, although business strategy can significantly influence business performance.

Fintech,Bank Risks,and Business Performance:From the Perspective of Inclusive Finance

Recent years have seen an increasing integration of fintech and inclusive loans,leading to significant changes in banking business models and operations.The paper analyzes the impact of fintech on bank risks and performance.The research findings show the following results.First,fintech has made banks more willing to issue inclusive loans.Second,by leveraging fintech,banks have lowered the risks associated with inclusive loans and improved their performance,particularly manifested by inclusive loans to small and micro enterprises.Third,in regard to financial geographic heterogeneity,with the increasing distance between branches and sub-branches,and head office,fintech,as an effective regulating tool,can help to improve the inclusive loan operations and risk control capabilities of remote branches and sub-branches.This paper argues that digital financial inclusion contributes to the stable operation of banks;banks can take advantage of fintech to digitalize and intelligentize financial inclusion,thereby improving business efficiency,reducing risk exposures and expanding profitability.Therefore,banks should adhere to the“prudent and stable”risk appetite and“small and decentralized”credit granting principle to make safe,convenient and impartial inclusive finance services available to a variety of market entities.When implementing the inclusive finance development strategy,head office should consider different results among branches and sub-branches due to their varied financial geographic locations,and release differentiated assessment and incentive policies to branches and sub-branches based on economic regions in a bid to minimize policy spillovers.

Roundabout’s Impact on Nearby Businesses

The objective of this study is to determine if installation of roundabouts in a business area or on business corridors can be good for the businesses as well as improve the traffic flow in that area. This objective is achieved by emphasizing on roundabouts located in Kansas cities, particularly Topeka, Kansas. The study concentrates on conducting survey of businesses around the roundabout corridors in different places in the US including Topeka (Kansas), Junction City (Kansas), Newton (Kansas), and Carmel (Indiana). The survey results indicated a positive impact of roundabouts on businesses and traffic movement. Further, as there is no before and after corridor data available for making definite conclusions, a business corridor in Topeka, Kansas is simulated using both SIDRA and VISSIM software to evaluate the impacts of converting several traditional intersections in the corridor to roundabouts. The results from the simulation tasks have showed substantial reductions in vehicle delay and queuing for most of the traffic movements. Therefore, it was concluded that roundabouts on businesses corridor have a positive impact on traffic flows and business.

Influence of increased shares on the performance of liquor listed companies:A factor-based analysis

With the gradual deepening of the reform of the shareholding system,more and more shareholders of listed companies have taken measures to increase their shareholdings to absorb capital,while at the same time achieving the purpose of delivering good news to the market.This article uses the liquor industry as an analysis sample to build six categories of enterprise performance index evaluation systems for debt solvency,development capability,operating capability,per share capability,cash flow capability and profitability.Through factor analysis,it has been shown that the increase in shares of liquor listed companies can improve the performance of enterprises to a certain extent,but the effect of the increase in shares is also affected by other factors such as the size of the enterprise,the operation and management of the company,and the image of the product market.According to the empirical conclusion,it is proposed that on the one hand,the company should increase its shareholdings reasonably according to the company’s own situation.On the other hand,it needs to focus on the current problems of the enterprise and properly solve the current dilemma of the enterprise.Finally,according to the degree of impact of various indicators involved in the empirical test on corporate performance,it is believed that liquor listed companies need to focus on optimizing corporate asset structure and improving product sales,and on the basis of improving profitability and asset return,they should pay attention to corporate cash flow.

Digital Media as a Game-Changer in B2B Buyer-Vendor Relationships

Purpose:The article examines the role of digital and,in particular,social media in business-to-business marketing in the international software industry.The authors responded to calls for empirical research on how these media impact buyer-vendor relationships and the conjunction of the marketing and sales processes,particularly the distribution of complex software solutions.This paper develops a digital framework and discusses the managerial consequences.Design/methodology/approach:The model arises by merging themes derived from literature,experts,and job descriptions.Mixed Methods included conducting semi-structured interviews across marketing,business development,and sales executives from buyers,vendors,and third parties of various industries,supplemented by a survey of 530+executives.Findings:Multinational companies secure competitive advantage through agile business processes to improve buyer-vendor relationships in the digital era.Digital media enable vendors to interact continuously with buyers,gather intelligence,and foster mutually beneficial,trustworthy,long-term relationships.The objective is to prompt transactions and secure revenue streams.Research limitations/implications:The outcomes of this research center on North America,Western Europe(including the UK),and DACH(Germany-Austria-Switzerland),affecting the generalizability.Originality/value:The research is novel and bridges several gaps concerning industrial relationships in digitalization:it merges buyer,vendor,and third-party’s perspectives on an international scale.It provides deeper insights into existing and new relationships by identifying relevant digital/social media platforms,the underlying usage motivation,and fundamental B2B processes.Finally,it equips practitioners with metrics to improve performance.

The Multiple Effects and Mechanism Study of Digitalization on the Performance of Manufacturing Enterprises

This paper establishes indicators to measure the degree of digitalization of enterprises with the text mining method,based on the 2011‒2018 annual report of China’s listed non-high-tech manufacturing companies,and in the resource-based view to investigate how digital resources affect the performance of enterprises during the digitalization process.The empirical results show that digitalization affects enterprise performance through management and sales activities.The impact of management and sales offset each other so that the total impact of digitalization degree on performance is not significant.The study also finds that the scale can strengthen the impact between digitalization and performance,yet the digitalization subsidies will lessen the impact.Generally,China’s non-high-tech manufacturing enterprises are still in the primary stage of digitalization,and the performance of digitalization in business model innovation is canceled out by management imbalance.