Have government environmental auditing contributed to the green transformation of Chinese cities?

Faced with growing ecological problems, governments around the world are increasingly focusing on improving ecology and the environment. The topic of urban green transformation has attracted a great deal of research. However, not much of it has focused on the effectiveness of government environmental auditing, especially from the perspective of its role in sustainable governance. This article takes 285 cities in China from 2009 to 2020 as the research scale. It innovatively measures government environmental audits with dual indicators and uses System Gaussian Mixture Model (SGMM) to estimate that government environmental audits significantly promote urban green transformation, and the impact of "whether to implement government environmental auditing" is greater than the "intensity of government environmental auditing". The results show that government environmental audit intensity has a stronger impact on urban green transformation in eastern cities. In contrast, environmental audit coverage has a stronger impact in western cities. Moreover, the effect of government environmental auditing on green transformation is more significant in small and medium-sized cities and key environmental protection cities than in large cities and non-key environmental protection cities, respectively. Government environmental auditing could facilitate urban green transformation by restraining local government behavior, forcing green technology innovation, and promoting industrial structural upgrading. In addition, the intensity of government environmental auditing can better act on green transformation through the fore-mentioned mechanisms. It can play a crucial role in green technology innovation.

New Quality Cost Framework (QCF) Based on the Hybrid Fuzzy MCDM Approach.

Quality cost framework (QCF), as a measurement tool and research method, has played a significant role on quality improvement procedure (QIP) and recognition on economics of quality. The four general QCFs are usually conceptually employed assist quality managers to measure the quality cost (QC/COQ) including PAF, intangible loss, process cost, and ABC framework. The question of how to select an appropriate quality cost framework for individual organization is of great significance for implementing quality improvement activities. Considering the effectiveness and feasibility of the alternative solution, a novel hybrid fuzzy MCDM approach integrating fuzzy DMEATEL, an antientropy weighting technique and FVIKOR method are employed to study the quality cost models and assist managers to select a best QCF for an auto factory. The combined weight from subjectivity and objectivity is embedded into fuzzy VIKOR procedure to obtain alternatives' ranking order. The case study in a Chinese automaker enterprise shows high robustness of the hybrid MCDM approach, and it assists quality mangers to perform quality cost practice. Different from the previous study, the preferred solution is the ABC quality cost framework when feasibility dimension dominates, while the intangible loss framework shows first priority when the organization focuses on effectiveness principle.

The Effect of Grit on Career Adaptability of Chinese College Students Based on the Self-Regulatory Processes.

Intelligence is innate, but grit is something everyone can develop. Grit not only enables students to stick to their goals, but also to persevere even when they fail. Career adaptability is an important concept in vocational education of college students, which is a person engaged in some work, must have a certain physical and psychological quality. Base on the self-regulation theory, this study investigated the relationship between grit and career adaptability of Chinese college student based on the self-regulatory processes. We surveyed 839 Chinese college students and tested a self-regulation model. As expected, grit was related to greater career adaptability via greater career exploration and decision self-efficacy, positive affect, and goal commitment. These findings not only broaden the theoretical framework for the effect of grit on career adaptability, but also open up a new horizon for improving college students' career adaptability in practice.

Effect of Proactive Personality on Career Decidedness: The Mediating Role of Career Exploration and the Moderating Role of Anticipated Regret.

In order to deepen the understanding of the personality antecedents of students' career decidedness, this study, based on social cognitive career theory and career development theory, examined the effect of proactive personality on career decidedness as well as the mediating mechanism and moderating factors in this process. The results of the survey of 783 Chinese college students showed that proactive personality was positively related to career decidedness via career exploration, and anticipated regret moderated the relationship between proactive personality and career exploration significantly. Both theoretical and practical implications are discussed at the end of this research.