Digital transformation provides companies with a productive approach to transforming and upgrading enterprise resources and capabilities and to exploiting external subject forces to unleash and magnify their potential, thus advancing high-quality enterprise development. Therefore, using regression analysis of the data of China's non-financial listed firms from 2007‒2019 obtained by Python, this paper finds that digital transformation has enormously improved enterprise performance. Furthermore, digital transformation has powerfully boosted supply chain integration, which has played a mediation role in the impact of digital transformation on enterprise performance. Finally, entrepreneurship plays a positive moderating effect on enterprise performance through supply chain integration during digital transformation. The further heterogeneity analysis finds that digital transformation performs better in large, public, state-owned, mature, and non-manufacturing (service industry) enterprises. However, the positive effect of digital transformation on enterprise performance and supply chain integration is not significant in small and medium-sized enterprises. Therefore, supply chain integration cannot play a mediating role in the impact of digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises upon their performance. This paper probes the realization mechanism and micro-foundation of digital transformation, and its conclusion contributes to high-quality digital transformation．

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and common prosperity have the consistency of philosophy and goal. In the process of delivering CSR, enterprises can merge 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 developmentwith 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.

From the perspective of sustainable development, this paper analyzes the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the corporate continuous innovation based on the theory of innovation economics and the demand for innovationdriven development, and then conducts a series of empirical tests based on a sample of Chinese A-shared listed companies from 2008 to 2016. The results show that better CSR performance is conducive to the continuous innovation, and this positive relationship is more pronounced for firms with voluntary accounting information disclosure, for firms of non-high-technology industries, and when policy uncertainty is high. This paper not only enriches the literature on CSR but also provides theoretical references for the innovation practice of enterprises under the innovation-driven strategy.

The relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics (BE) is both a practical and theoretical issue. Unlike the traditional way of clarifying the relationship through identifying and comparing the extant definitions of the two terms, this study addresses and compares CSR and BE from three perspectives (basic concepts, academic fields, and social movements) in two analytical dimensions (in practice and in theory). This study indicates that: The relationship between the concept of CSR and BE is different from either the relationship between CSR as an academic field and BE as another academic field or the relationship between CSR as a movement and BE as another movement; within the relationships of the two concepts, fields and movements, the relationship between them in practice is different from that in theory; and CSR and BE are neither totally independent nor one of mutual inclusion, rather, they have similarities and differences.

High-quality economic development can be achieved if a major strategic direction for China are delivered from the macro level to the micro level. Taking A-listed enterprises in China from 2005 to 2018 as samples, this paper studies the impact of directors and officers liability insurance (D&O insurance) on the highquality enterprise development. The research results show that D＆O insurance can promote high-quality development. In addition, the mechanism test shows that D＆O insurance can reduce agency costs and improve innovations and high-quality enterprise development. Further analysis shows that when stateowned enterprises including their internal controls has no major defects, D＆O insurance has more significant positive impact. Thus, this paper suggests that the insurance should be promoted for realizing high-quality enterprise development.

Based on the theory of planned behavior, this study considers entrepreneurial traits and divides the entrepreneurial environment into policy environment, economic environment, and educational and cultural environment. Using SPSS 23.0 and Amos 24.0 softwares, a structural equation model of entrepreneurial intentions for university students originating from Hong Kong and Macao is constructed. A questionnaire survey method is used to collect data from 689 Hong Kong and Macao students in Chinese mainland universities to explore the factors influencing their entrepreneurial intentions and the ranges of their entrepreneurial intentions based on demographic variables. The results show that entrepreneurial attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, entrepreneurial traits, and entrepreneurial environment have a significant positive impact on the entrepreneurial intentions of Hong Kong and Macao students in the mainland universities. Male students have a higher level of entrepreneurial intentions than female students. Hong Kong students are more likely to have entrepreneurial intentions than Macao students, and students in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (briefly, Greater Bay Area) universities are more likely to have such intentions than those from non-Greater Bay Area universities. Students majoring in science, engineering and medicine show a lower likelihood of intension than those majoring in humanities and social sciences. To comprehensively improve the entrepreneurial intentions of Hong Kong and Macao students and enable them to better shoulder their responsibilities in sharing the development dividends of the Greater Bay Area, it is necessary to start from the entrepreneurial environment and from the perspective of cultivating innovative talents. A support framework that integrates a training system, an ecological system, and a resource system is proposed to support students from Hong Kong and Macao in entrepreneurial development in the mainland.

The top-level design of national governance plays a leading role in reforming the corporate governance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) at the micro level. Following the overall objectives of comprehensively deepening reforms,this paper argues that the objective of SOEs corporate governance reform at this stage should be to improve and develop the SOEs corporate governance system with Chinese characteristics and modernize SOEs corporate governance system and governance capacity. To achieve this ambitious objective, this paper considers the theory of SOEs corporate governance with Chinese characteristics, and then explores the concrete manifestation and implementation pathway to the modernization of SOEs corporate governance system and governance capacity. This paper thus enriches the theory of corporate governance and provides insights into the new era SOEs corporate governance reform.

Innovation is the source of power for high-quality development, and a relaxed institutional arrangement is a necessity for promoting innovation in enterprises. This paper examines the impact of fault tolerance on corporate innovation, theoretically analyzes the positive effects of fault tolerance on stimulating innovation, and estimates the influence of fault tolerance on corporate innovation by using the panel data of listed manufacturing companies from 2007 to 2019, taking the quasi-natural experiment of fault-tolerance system in various places since the new round of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform. This study finds that the fault-tolerance system has significantly improved the R&D investment and patent application of the pilot SOEs,but the incentive effect is mainly reflected in the utility model patents; fault-tolerance system mainly promotes corporate innovation by alleviating managers' career worries and improving governance ability.Furthermore, the fault-tolerance system is more effective for small and medium-sized SOEs with low market competition and can alleviate the restriction of agency cost on corporate innovation. In addition, the fault-tolerance system has not yet had a significant spillover effect on private enterprises.These results show that in the SOE reform, it is necessary to strengthen the institutional arrangement of fault-tolerance and create a relaxed environment to encourage innovation; it is necessary to organically integrate fault-tolerance-system design into executive measurement and corporate governance, promote fault-tolerant system to be implemented in a wider range of enterprises, and enhance the incentive effect on high-quality innovation.

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Innovative leadership and innovation oriented human resource management practices (HRMPs) are soft and hard measures, respectively, that promote team innovation performance (TIP). This study is based on human capital theory, integrating the leadership process model and the content-process-results framework of HRM (HRM-CPO), and using data from 259 teams and 1,278 employees in leader subordinate pairs. Results show that team human capital (THC) is an important mediator in explaining the impact of introducing innovation-oriented practices on TIP. In addition, innovative leadership can improve THC by increasing the level of implemented innovation-oriented HRMPs, thereby affecting TIP. The study extends the level at which HRMPs and leadership behaviors work together and responds to the call for integration of two major research fields of HRM and leadership behavior.

This paper analyzes the impact of talent policy on the R&D personnel recruitment and corporate innovation. The research is based on more than 5.8 million online recruitments from listed companies from 2017 to 2018. The study makes five principal findings. Firstly, companies affected by talent policy have significantly increased the number of R&D personnel recruited. Secondly, at the policy level, the incentive effect varies according to different levels of talent policy subsidies and threshold requirements, with more significant effects observed where subsidies are higher and threshold requirements are lower. Thirdly, at the enterprise level, the incentive effect is more significant for high-tech enterprises, better governance companies, and non-state owned enterprises. Fourthly, at the city level, the incentive effect is more significant in cities with better economic development, higher administrative levels, and better scientific research support environments. Finally, after the introduction of talent policy, there have been significant improvements in enterprises' R&D investment, patent output and R&D efficiency. In terms of R&D personnel recruitment, this paper provides micro-level evidence for the influence effect, and identifies specific mechanisms and boundary conditions of talent policy on corporate innovation. It expands the research on the influence effect of government and institutional factors on corporate innovation. In addition, it provides reference for accelerating the building up of a talent-strong country, deepening the implementation of innovation-driven development strategy and realizing economic transformation and upgrading.

China's state-owned enterprises(SOEs) are facing an embedded integration of new functional mission,new classification reform and new digital development. These new tasks require SOEs to embrace digital strategic transformation and innovation for high-quality fulfillment of their national mission. Studying their digital transformation practices, this paper systematically explores the mechanism and path of embedding national mission into SOE digital transformation, and the mode selection of SOE digital transformation under different mission guidance. The findings are: (1) The SOE functional mission focusing on economic development,strategic support and public services in the new era is undertaken by for-profit, strategic and public functional SOEs; (2) the foreign circulation path based on the positioning mechanism-mapping mechanism and the internal consumption connection path for the state capital strategic positioning constitute a double two-way mechanism of embedding the national mission to the SOE digital strategic transformation, leading SOEs to build market-oriented, capacity-oriented and public-oriented digital transformation modes; (3) the three types of reform modes have respectively produced the action mechanism featuring agile strengthening,toughness strengthening and adaptability strengthening, which support the SOE classification performance. This paper attempts to make up for the research gap such as the lack of integration of the SOE digital strategic transformation mode by constructing the theoretical mode of SOE digital strategic transformation under the guidance of national mission, and reveals the intermediary mechanism of digital strategic transformation to support SOEs for fulfilling their functional missions.

China's state-owned enterprises(SOEs) have developed more than 70 years since the People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded in 1949. From 1949 to 1978,SOEs provided material guarantee for the construction of the PRC, laid a solid foundation for the industrialization process,and ensured that the people were masters of their own affairs. From 1978 to 2012, SOEs upgraded their growth quality and increased their efficiency for improving people's material and cultural life. Since 2012, SOEs have become “stronger, better and bigger”on all fronts for satisfying people's growing expectations for a better life. In essence,reforming SOEs means interpreting and exercising the people-centered development philosophy, and means addressing principal social contradiction through different stages of socialist development, as SOEs care about the main needs of the people. Such a development is a process of constant exploration and continuous growth from strength to strength, which is the inherent logic of theory and practice of SOE growth in new China for more than 70 years.

Science and technology innovation talents are at the core of technology innovation, and their mobility has become a source of competition between regions and institutes. This paper analyzes the curriculum vitaes (CVs) of young and middle-aged leading talents in technology innovation, and explores their mobility patterns during their schooling and employment, leading to the following observations: A high-quality learning environment is an essential for the development of innovation talents; the mobility intensity has increased, and the phenomenon of “inbreeding” has been alleviated; the total number of institution or location changes is positively correlated with age, and the overall trend of mobility is stable; the regional imbalance of talent mobility has intensified, and the Matthew Effect, whereby initial advantage amplifies success and initial disadvantage amplifies disadvantage, has become prominent. This paper proposes measures such as refining cross-border mobility policy, expanding the academic vision of innovation talents, encouraging talent employment mobility, optimizing the allocation of resources, improving the human resource environment, establishing a talent development ecology, enriching educational resources, and coordinating the relationship between talent cultivation and talent attraction. These measures are expected to provide insights into the development and mobility of technology innovation talents and to be beneficial for the improvement of science and technology innovation talents policies.

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This study is based on the Ability Motivation-Opportunity (AMO) model. Through two sub-studies, it explores the influence of ability-enhancing, motivation enhancing, and opportunity-enhancing strategic human resource management (SHRM) in science and technology enterprises, on product innovation performance (PIP). It also reveals the dynamic evolution that influence from the perspective of the enterprise lifecycles. Sub-study 1 analyzes 441 questionnaires from managers of science and technology enterprises, using a qualitative comparative analysis method to determine the differences in the lifecycles of different enterprises. A qualitative comparative analysis of the questionnaires identifies the configurations of AMO SHRM, organizational emotional capability (OEC), and organizational human capital (OHC) that affect PIP at different lifecycles. Sub study 2 empirically validates the dynamic capability path and resource enhancing path of the impact of AMO SHRM on PIP using 444 questionnaires from managers of science and technology enterprises. The outcomes make the following revelations. (1) There are two possible configurations for product innovation during the startup stage, and opportunity enhancing SHRM (OSHRM), OEC, and OHC are necessary conditions for impacting product innovation. There are three possible configurations for product innovation during the growth phase, and three possible configurations during the mature phase.(2) OSHRM in the startup stage affects product innovation through human capital, while ability-enhancing SHRM (ASHRM) and motivation-enhancing SHRM (MSHRM) do not significantly affect product innovation. ASHRM and OSHRM in the growth stage affect product innovation through OEC and OHC, while MSHRM has a significant impact on product innovation. AMO SHRM in the mature stage affects PIP through OEC and OHC. The study compares the impact of AMO SHRM on PIP from the perspectives of dynamic capability and resource-enhancing paths, and longitudinally analyzes the adaptability of the two paths in different stages of the enterprise life, providing reference for science and technology enterprise management practices.