About the Authors

Xiaofei Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaofei Shi, Xuefen Cao

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

shixiaofei01@hotmail.com

Affiliations School of Business Administration, Hebei University of Economics and Business, Shijiazhuang, China, Research Center for Corporate Governance and Enterprise Growth, Hebei University of Economics and Business, Shijiazhuang, China

Xuefen Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaofei Shi, Xuefen Cao

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Business Administration, Hebei University of Economics and Business, Shijiazhuang, China

Wenxin Xu

Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation School of Business Administration, Hebei University of Economics and Business, Shijiazhuang, China

Yangshi Hou

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation School of Business Administration, Hebei University of Economics and Business, Shijiazhuang, China

Liwei Shang

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation International Exchange Center, Hebei University of Economics and Business, Shijiazhuang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.