Performance Evaluation of the Regional Knowledge Innovation System in China

Sheng-Hsiung CHIU,Tzu-Yu LIN,Hong CHEN,Weihua HUANG 한국유통과학회 2018 KODISA ICBE (International Conference on Business Vol.2018 No.-

This paper investigates the effect of gender leadership with political connection on CSR performance using annual data of Chinese firms who listed in China A-share stock market and had CSR rating assessed by Rankins from 2009 to 2015. In addition, we also examine whether the foregoing question is under the influence of particular ownership structure in China. Our empirical results suggest that female chairman or CEO would not perform well in CSR activities, while leader’s political capital acts an exacerbating force. Specifically, the negative and statistically significant of interaction term female leadership with political capital is obviously identified for the Non-SOEs. The mandatory CSR reporting would not encourage firms to make more effort on CSR activities to the purpose on generating positive social externalities, while the advantages of CSR rating in firms are not obviously experience to coordinate the conflict of interest between stakeholders.

Measuring the CO₂ Reduction Performance on Industry Level in Taiwan : Evidence from a Meta-Frontier SBM Model with Undesirable Output

Sheng Hsiung Chiu,Shi Li Xiao,Xin Miao Tan,Tzu Yu Lin,Helen Yang 한국유통과학회 2017 KODISA ICBE (International Conference on Business Vol.2017 No.-

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the CO₂ reduction performance on industry level in Taiwan after the renewable development act that enacted in 2009. We observe that CO₂ reduction performance has risen slightly due to the effectiveness of energy-saving technologies and low-carbon energy structures under the growth scale of Taiwan’s economy in the meanwhile. It is noticed that the target of GHG reduction in Taiwan for 2030 will be controlled at 20% off compared to their 2005 levels, in accordance of the COP21 that made an appeal to their member nation to submit a reduction target about GHG (CO₂) emission. Therefore, to realize the historical situation of CO₂ emission with the consideration of economic growth has been brought to the attention of Taiwanese government for policy planning on mitigating CO₂ emission on either national level or industry level. We can draw several policy implications from the evaluation results. First, we suggest that the government should pay more attention on industrial sectors because they relative underperformed in terms of their CO₂ reduction behavior in the viewpoint of meta-frontier. Second, it is noted that electricity will be the main part of the energy consumption structure. A low-carbon electricity supply portfolio is necessary for decreasing CO₂ emissions. It may not practical, only that expanding the capacity of renewable energies becomes antidote.

Evaluation of Regional Knowledge Innovation System in China: An Economic Framework Based on Dynamic Slacks-based Approach

Sheng-Hsiung CHIU,Tzu-Yu LIN 한국유통과학회 2019 The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Busine Vol.6 No.3

The paper proposes a knowledge innovation performance model by the dynamic data envelopment analysis with slacks-based measure approach for evaluating the effectiveness of 30 regional knowledge innovation activities in China from 2010 to 2016. In recent years, China has paid more attention to knowledge innovation activities, as central and local governments have pushed on with their innovation projects by lots of investment whatever the difficulties may be. Decision-maker is usually interested in judge its knowledge innovation performance relative to target benchmark by exploring whether one provincial administration region performs better among others and/or if the growth of economy will be benefited greatly by the knowledge innovation activities. To acquire the managerial insight about this issue from a comprehensively designed performance evaluation model, knowledge innovation activity is conceptualized as an intertemporal production process. Invention patent and regional gross product are imposed on desirable outputs, highlighting the need for knowledge economy. The empirical result shows that knowledge innovation has a positive effect on economic development. At the same time, decision-maker should be interest in the economic effect of patents’ type and quality. The government should then encourage new technical applications with greater commercial value from a market-oriented perspective, in order to benefit the most from the innovation process in the short-run.

Economic Impact of Modern Energy Infrastructures Investments on the Regional Economic Growth of Guangdong Province in China

Tzu Yu Lin,Sheng Hsiung Chiu,Zi Le Li 한국유통과학회 2017 KODISA ICBE (International Conference on Business Vol.2017 No.-

In this paper, we built the Guangdong’s regional input-output model, with an inter-industry linkage to evaluate the impact of modern energy infrastructure on regional economic growth during the 13th Five-Year Plan period. We analyzed the economic impact of increased governmental and industrial spending on infrastructure projects. An overview of the Leontief I-O model employed in this paper was presented in Section 2. In Section 3 we demonstrated the economic effect of static I-O analysis of renewable energy infrastructures investment from the policy-planning perspective. The policy simulation result of the input-output model in this paper could be seen as the maximal possible economic outcome in the period from 2016 to 2020, in which low-carbon power plants construction will add roughly 4% of gross domestic products of Guangdong annually. One of the advantages of Leontief input-output model is its ability to assess the possible maximum economic benefits in the short-run. As we have seen, the energy engineering infrastructure investment has increased the final demand of other related manufacturing sectors whose obligation is to accomplish infrastructure construction.

The Effect of Gender Leadership with Political Capital in the CSR Performance of China Listed Firms

Tzu-Yu LIN,Sheng-Hsiung CHIU,Ruijun WU,Ziyu XIAO 한국유통과학회 2018 KODISA ICBE (International Conference on Business Vol.2018 No.-

This paper investigates the effect of gender leadership with political connection on CSR performance using annual data of Chinese firms who listed in China A-share stock market and had CSR rating assessed by Rankins from 2009 to 2015. In addition, we also examine whether the foregoing question is under the influence of particular ownership structure in China. Our empirical results suggest that female chairman or CEO would not perform well in CSR activities, while leader’s political capital acts an exacerbating force. Specifically, the negative and statistically significant of interaction term female leadership with political capital is obviously identified for the Non-SOEs. The mandatory CSR reporting would not encourage firms to make more effort on CSR activities to the purpose on generating positive social externalities, while the advantages of CSR rating in firms are not obviously experience to coordinate the conflict of interest between stakeholders.

A Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach for Identifying Critical Factors of Chinese Students’ Learning in Study Abroad

Hsin-I LEE,Tzu-Yu LIN,Silin WU,Sheng-Hsiung CHIU 한국유통과학회 2018 KODISA ICBE (International Conference on Business Vol.2018 No.-

China is the largest international students exporting country in the world. Base on the economic globalization and trade liberalization, the international talents cultivation, and how to assure their quality of higher education are important to China. This paper aims at finding out the dimensions influencing the quality of studying abroad. To obtain the weight and influential degree of the dimensions, we identify four criteria and sub-criteria mainly from the literatures related to learning quality in higher education and cross-cultural communication. To handle the inter-relations among the identified criteria and sub-criteria, we proposed a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach based on Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory based Analytic Network Process (DANP). This paper established how the obtained results will help the teachers in higher education system and Ministry of Education to optimize their improvement plans.