Ming Chen

Mar 4, 2025 | nature.com | Ming Chen |Xin Tan |Jianhua Zhu |Rebecca Kechen Dong

As societal concerns around environmental protection, and corporate governance are increasing, entities like consumers, investors, and others are raising their expectations of companies’ corporate social responsibility. Companies that pursue sustainable development goals will receive more attention and support from these stakeholders. The pilot policy for supply chain innovation and application (SCIA) is a systemic experiment launched by the Chinese government that aims to facilitate the digitalization of supply chains and encourage companies to adopt innovative technological methods to optimize traditional supply chain management practices. Based on data from 508 manufacturing companies from 2013 to 2022, this research utilizes SCIA in the framework of a quasi-natural experiment, employing research methods DID, EM, PSM-DID, and SDID to evaluate the effect of the SCIA on SDP. Through empirical evidence, it concludes that the rollout or enforcement of the SCIA pilot policy significantly promotes SDP. SCIA impacts corporate sustainable development by increasing their intention to invest in innovation, ensuring the sustainability of corporate innovation, and reducing company cost expenditures. There is significant heterogeneity in the effectiveness of establishing pilot cities for the digitization and application of supply chain innovations: the pilot policy can significantly promote the SDP of state-owned enterprises; compared to small-scale companies, the SDP of large companies has been significantly improved due to the pilot policy; SCIA pilot policies have a greater impact on SDP of low agency cost companies than high agency cost companies; and companies located in cities with a high degree of digitalization are more favorable impacts from the pilot policy. Companies with weak monopoly power have a more significant improvement in SDP. The study enriches the research on the effectiveness of SCIA pilot policies and provides insights into how local governments can facilitate the enhancement of the SDP of manufacturing companies.

Jan 15, 2025 | opg.optica.org | Rongquan Chen |Wei Qing Wang |Ming Chen |Yuqing Song

This paper presents, to our knowledge, a novel micro-ring wavelength selective switchdevice based on a contra-directional coupler (contra-DC), whichutilizes the transparent window formed by the contra-DC to select thesingle resonant wavelength of the micro-ring resonator, avoiding thelimitation of free spectral range and realizing the function ofwavelength selection/switching.

Jan 14, 2025 | mdpi.com | Song Chen |Ming Gong |Hua Sun |Ming Chen

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Jan 13, 2025 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Li Zhao |Shulai Lu |Ming Chen |Yuchao Wang

Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest. References 1, , and , “Factors Affecting the Promoted Aggregation and Coalescence of Synthetic Rubber Particles,” Journal of Applied Polymer Science 8 (1964): 2049–2065. 2, , , et al., “Synthesis and Properties of Agglomerating Agent for High-Solids NBR Latices,” Journal of Applied Polymer Science 84 (2002): 276–282.

Jan 10, 2025 | mdpi.com | Ming Chen

1. IntroductionCarl Gustav Jung (1875–1961), a Swiss psychologist, psychiatrist, and founder of analytical psychology, is often regarded as a maverick Freudian. Freud’s work on psychoanalysis was indeed a major source of inspiration during Jung’s early years, and their professional and personal relationship would also have an impact on Jung’s work throughout his life.