Envisioning the Profile of Chinese Culture——from the Perspective of the Social Value Theory

For a few decades China has undergone an enduring, drastic and complicated transformation. The structure and form of Chinese culture has been profoundly shaped and re-shaped during this process. With careful analysis of the history and the actualities, this paper presents a sketch of Chinese culture that highlights three significant traits; an elegant temperament featuring both classicality and novelty, an intrinsic value focusing on nature and freedom, and an encompassing structure marked by harmonious diversity. A new Chinese culture has already revealed her profile against the sunglow at the dawn of the new era. Beautiful and promising as it is, Chinese people believe that she deserves being heartily applauded, warmly welcomed, and boldly embraced.

A Survey of Game Theory as Applied to Social Networks

Social network services can not only help people form relationships and make new friends and partners,but also assist in processing personal information,sharing knowledge,and managing social relationships.Social networks achieve valuable communication and collaboration,bring additional business opportunities,and have great social value.Research on social network problems is effective by using assumption,definition,analysis,modeling,and optimization strategies.In this paper,we survey the existing problems of game theory applied to social networks and classify their application scenarios into four categories:information diffusion,behavior analysis,community detection,and information security.Readers can clearly master knowledge application in every category.Finally,we discuss certain limitations of game theory on the basis of research in recent years and propose future directions of social network research.

The Research on the Relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility and Common Prosperity

Corporate social responsibility(CSR)and common prosperity have the consistency of philosophy and goal.In the process of delivering CSR,enterprises can integrate their tangible and intangible assets to realize a positive cycle of sustainable development and common prosperity.Enterprises can also open up space for both commercial and social value by integrating altruism with self-interest,public welfare with utilitarianism,cost with capital,and today’s development with tomorrow’s development.Indeed,the unification of commercial value and social value can extend pathways to common prosperity and improve common prosperity.By way of the super CSR,enterprises can spread the wealth of their culture and values to society through material products,ethical products,and intergenerational inheritance based on the high compatibility of enterprise high-dimensional culture,enterprise craftsmanship,and enterprise civilizations.They can thus play a leading role in promoting the ethical wealth of the whole of society.Public and private enterprises should maximize their respective advantages in promoting common prosperity of society for realizing the common progress of the people,and should strike a balance between efficiency and fairness.

The social as the heart of social innovation and social entrepreneurship:An emerging area or an old crossroads?

This paper aims to contribute to the conceptual debate on the connection between social innovation and social entrepreneurship,considering the role of the‘social’within this connection.Supported by a systematic literature review(SLR)with an in-depth analysis of 34 articles from Scopus-indexed and Web of Science databases journals,this paper identifies,analyzes and describes the difficulties and opportunities in the social innovation and social entrepreneurship literature.Little is known about the link between both concepts and the influence of the‘social’in their development and implementation.This SLR was conducted to identify and describe definitions and patterns.Results show that the connection between social innovation and social entrepreneurship is in its take-off phase,but it still is a fragmented field with a huge lack of consensus.Thus,it will be important to see where the field will head,as this paper aims to be a first step in the understanding of social innovation and social entrepreneurship through a collective and integrated perspective,providing an elucidation of the different perspectives of the literature.

ESG-Driven Corporate Value Creation under the Paradigm of Ecological Civilization:Evidence from the Shareholder,Industrial Chain and Consumer Channels

The basis of green development is the sustainable development of enterprises,and the core of enterprises'sustainable development is the transformation of business models through the reconstruction of corporate value.Under the paradigm of ecological civilization,the concept of ESG(Environmental,Social and Corporate Governance)is becoming an important force behind corporate value reconstruction,guiding enterprises to innovate business models in the direction of sustainability.Based on the idea of the dimensions of the"shareholder channel-industrial chain channel-consumer channel,"this paper builds up a theoretical framework to interpret how ESG creates corporate value through the shareholder channel,the industrial chain channel,and the consumer channel,and provides empirical tests.We find that:first,the sustainable transformation of shareholder preferences is the center for ESG's creation of corporate value;second,ESG performance helps reduce the transaction costs between upstream and downstream enterprises in industrial chains;and third,differences in ESG products create differentiated value for consumers.This study reveals the transformation of the direction and mode of corporate value creation in the course of green transition and provides micro-evidence of enterprises'transition toward ESG goals in the Chinese context.