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The Influence of SARS-CoV-2 Variants B.1.1.7 and B.1.617.2 on a Different Clinical Course and Severity of COVID-19 in Children Hospitalized in 2021 Compared With 2020
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Attitudes toward Receiving COVID-19 Booster Dose in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region: A Cross-Sectional Study of 3041 Fully Vaccinated Participants
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Attitudes toward Receiving COVID-19 Booster Dose in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region: A Cross-Sectional Study of 3041 Fully Vaccinated Participants
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Networking and Familiness as Factors Stimulating the Early Internationalization of High-Tech Firms
PublicationThe problem of the role and importance of time in the process of firm’s internationalization belongs to the mainstream of international business research, as is the problem of the key role of high-tech firms operating across borders. The main goal of the paper is to understand how selected factors determine early internationalization of high-tech firms in Poland as an emerging market. The theoretical framework of the article is...
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Indicator of coverage of expenses with income from contributions in the Social Insurance Fund
Open Research DataThe consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected the picture of the financial situation of the Social Insurance Fund. In the period from January to June this year. the fund's expenditure amounted to PLN 130.0 billion, while revenues from premiums and their derivatives amounted to PLN 92.2 billion. As a result, in the first half of this...
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Cities that will obtain the highest revenues from PIT in 2021 per capita in thous. PLN
Open Research DataAn example of a tax that is proportionally divided between the state (government administration) and local governments is the personal income tax. The following dataset presents the income tax revenues to the central budget, as well as the cities that obtain the highest income from the above tribute. The COVID-19 pandemic has an impact on the financial...
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What is important for you makes you think about the pandemic differently: moral foundations, pandemic-related fears and convictions (Lo que cada uno consideramos importante nos hace reflexionar sobre la pandemia de forma distinta: fundamentos morales, temores y convicciones sobre la pandemia)
PublicationBuilding on the Moral Foundations Theory and findings regarding the linkage of values, convictions and beliefs, the aim of the study was to compare people displaying various constellations of moral foundations regarding their tolerance of ambiguity, fear of COVID-19 (FCV), endorsement of COVID-19 conspiracy theories and the extent to which they believed in the effectiveness of five COVID-19 preventive measures. This study was...
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The Fear of SARS-CoV-2 Infection versus the Perception of COVID-19 Vaccination amongst Older Adults in Urban Areas (CoV-VAC-PL Study): A Polish Community-Based Study
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Cities that obtain the highest revenues from PIT in 2021 in PLN billion
Open Research DataTax issues play an important role in the economy of each country, its citizens and economic entities that operate on the market. Taxes are the main instrument of the state's influence on the economy, as they cover almost all natural and legal persons that operate on the market.
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Modeling process of planning finished product sales volumes at industrial enterprises in modern economic conditions
PublicationThis article presents improving the existing system of planning finished products sales volumes. The influencing factors of the sales volumes in modern economic conditions have been determined: falling world oil prices, the reduction of pipe consumption in the domestic market, the global pandemic. The algorithm of planning finished products sales volumes has been constructed. Calculations based on the Holt forecasting method has...
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Aneta Sobiechowska-Ziegert dr
PeopleShe works at the Department of Statistics and Econometrics at the Faculty of Management and Economics. She is passionate about using modern teaching methods in quantitative subjects. She is a certified coach and tutor. She teaches courses in economic forecasting and spatial econometrics. She is also the chair of the Faculty's Quality of Education Committee and oversees the EMOS education track, certified by Eurostat. Currently,...
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The mechanisms of technological innovation in SMEs: a Bayesian Network Analysis of EU regional policy impact on Polish firms.
PublicationWe study the underlying mechanisms of technological innovation in SMEs in the context of ex-post evaluation of European Union’s regional policy. Our aim is to explain the observed change in firms’ innovativeness after receiving EU support for technological investment. To do so, we take an approach that is novel in innovation studies: a Bayesian Network Analysis to assess the effectiveness of EU policy instrument for technological...
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A CNN based coronavirus disease prediction system for chest X-rays
PublicationCoronavirus disease (COVID-19) proliferated globally in early 2020, causing existential dread in the whole world. Radiography is crucial in the clinical staging and diagnosis of COVID-19 and offers high potential to improve healthcare plans for tackling the pandemic. However high variations in infection characteristics and low contrast between normal and infected regions pose great challenges in preparing radiological reports....
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Changes in the structure of Armenia’s labour resources between 1993 and 2020
PublicationThe article characterises the structure of Armenia’s labour resources in the period between1993 and 2020. It aims to assess the changes on the Armenian labour market by means of a deductive analysis of historical data and observation of changes in the structure of resources based on generally available macroeconomic data. The authors evaluate these processes against the background of demographic and economic changes, by presenting...
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UE ETS: an in-depth descriptive analysis.
PublicationThe European Emission Trading System (EU ETS) plays a pivotal role in the EU’s strategy to address climate change, serving as a fundamental instrument for cost-effective reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Notably, it inaugurated the word’s first major carbon market and it continues to the largest one. Chapter 1 provides an in-depth examination of the EU ETS, spanning from its inception in 2005 to 2020. After providing a descriptive...
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Sugar Fee in Poland as an Example of New Fiscal Burdens and Stimulation of Consumer Behaviour
PublicationDuring the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the amount and structure of tax burdens imposed by the state on businesses continue to increase, as shown on the example of the newly introduced sugar fee. A new tax-related burden imposed on businesses and consumers producing and consuming sugar-sweetened beverages appeared at the beginning of 2021. The aim of the paper is to present the fiscal burdens that accompany...
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Photomonitoring of activities carried out as part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the "Polanki" market and its direct neighbourhood, in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district, step1; stage from July 2020 year.
Open Research DataThe data presents photomonitoring (visual documentation report in the form of photographs) of activities carried out as a part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the “Polanki” market and its immediate vicinity in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district documented in July 2020 year, during the 1st step of the monitoring. The monitoring...
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Photomonitoring of activities carried out as part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the "Polanki" market and its direct neighbourhood, in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district, step1; stage from August 2020 year.
Open Research DataThe data presents photomonitoring (visual documentation report in the form of photographs) of activities carried out as a part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the “Polanki” market and its immediate vicinity in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district documented in August 2020 year, during the 1st step of the monitoring. The monitoring...
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Monitoring of activities carried out as part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the "Polanki" market and its and its direct neighbourhood, in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district, step1; stage from October 2020 year.
Open Research DataThe data presents tabular monitoring lists (quantitative and qualitative documentation report in the form of tables) of activities carried out as part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the Polanki market and its immediate vicinity in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district in 2020 year - step 1, stage from July 2020. The monitoring...
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Monitoring of activities carried out as part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the "Polanki" market and its direct neighbourhood, in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district, step1; stage from July 2020 year.
Open Research DataThe data presents tabular monitoring lists (quantitative and qualitative documentation report in the form of tables) of activities carried out as part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the Polanki market and its immediate vicinity in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district in 2020 year - step 1, stage from July 2020. The monitoring...
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Monitoring of activities carried out as part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the "Polanki" market and its and its direct neighbourhood, in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district, step1; stage from September 2020 year.
Open Research DataThe data presents tabular monitoring lists (quantitative and qualitative documentation report in the form of tables) of activities carried out as part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the Polanki market and its immediate vicinity in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district in 2020 year - step 1, stage from September 2020. The monitoring...
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Monitoring of activities carried out as part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the "Polanki" market and its and its direct neighbourhood, in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district, step1; stage from August 2020 year.
Open Research DataThe data presents tabular monitoring lists (quantitative and qualitative documentation report in the form of tables) of activities carried out as part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the Polanki market and its immediate vicinity in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district in 2020 year - step 1, stage from August 2020. The monitoring...
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Photomonitoring of activities carried out as part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the "Polanki" market and its direct neighbourhood, in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district, step1; stage from October 2020 year.
Open Research DataThe data presents photomonitoring (visual documentation report in the form of photographs) of activities carried out as a part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the “Polanki” market and its immediate vicinity in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district documented in October 2020 year, during the 1st step of the monitoring. The monitoring...
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Photomonitoring of activities carried out as part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the "Polanki" market and its direct neighbourhood, in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district, step1; stage from September 2020 year.
Open Research DataThe data presents photomonitoring (visual documentation report in the form of photographs) of activities carried out as a part of prototyping and implementation of the pilot project in the area of the “Polanki” market and its immediate vicinity in the Gdańsk-Oliwa district documented in September 2020 year, during the 1st step of the monitoring. The...
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SUPPORT FOR OLDER ADULTS DURING COVID19 PANDEMIC – HOW DID LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN THE POMERANIAN REGION RESPOND TO THE CHALLENGE?
PublicationThe COVID-19 pandemic, apart from health threats, has shown the problem of older adults’ social isolation and loneliness in aging societies that has been progressing for several decades. Older adults’ singularisation, loosening family relations, diminishing families’ caring potential, caused that during the lockdown, many older adults – without the neighbours’ or NGOs’ support or the activities undertaken by local authorities –...
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Organizational ethics and position relationship moderators among knowledge workers: a regional study of Poland
PublicationThis research explores organizational ethics among knowledge workers using ICT4Ds in regional enterprises in Poland before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The study addresses the importance of understanding how ethics in organizations, particularly ethical optimism, corporate social responsibility, and top management action, have evolved across these periods. This topic is crucial as organizational ethics influence employee...
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Łukasz Sienkiewicz dr hab.
PeopleGraduate of the Warsaw School of Economics, habilitated doctor in the field of social sciences in the discipline of management and quality science. University Associate professor at the Department of Entrepreneurship of the Faculty of Management and Economics of the Gdańsk University of Technology and coordinator of the Center for Economic, Social and Technological Transformation (C-TEST). Chairman of the Board of the Institute...
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The literature review on boundary conditions of use for non-residential buildings. Educational buildings.
PublicationThis paper describes the results of qualitative and quantitative literature reviews on boundary conditions within educational buildings, emphasising the users' perspective. The studies were performed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using Scopus, Taylor& Francis, and Web of Science databases. The boundary conditions are understood as special characteristics for use and or precondition, determining specific features of...
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The literature review on boundary conditions of use for non-residential buildings
PublicationThis paper describes the results of qualitative and quantitative literature reviews on boundary conditions within educational buildings, emphasising the users' perspective. The reviews were performed before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using Scopus, Taylor& Francis, Web of Science databases. The boundary conditions understood as special characteristics for use and or precondition, determining specific features of buildings...
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HISTORY OF INITIAL ENERGY AND WATER NETWORK DEVELOPMENT IN QATAR
PublicationQatar: A country which had to be associated with neighboring countries like UAE or Saudi Arabia for people to know about it, stands proud today due to the ample production and exporting of Black Gold. A country with almost no vegetation or suitable weather to harvest crops, turned from being heavily dependent on trading Pearls to exporting natural oil and gas to all over the globe. The paper outlines in details the history of the...
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Customer Engagement Consequences for Firms
PublicationPurpose: Customer engagement (CE) is a customers’ voluntary resource contribution to firms’ functions, and it goes beyond transactions during customers’ behavioral manifestations toward the brand or firm’s offerings or activities. The effective CE management requires to understand the potential CE effects, and leverage the potential benefit and threat of CE, however negative consequences or risks of CE have remained unexplored...
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A. Computational analysis by molecular docking of thirty alkaloid compounds from medicinal plants as potent inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease(2020). Focused on analysis of the Medicinal plants that have potential therapeutic ability against COVID-19.
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Dot-com and AI bubbles: Can data from the past be helpful to match the price bubble euphoria phase using dynamic time warping?
PublicationThe article investigates the existence of a price bubble in the artificial intelligence market, employing the Generalised Supremum Augmented Dickey-Fuller test and dynamic time warping methodology. It proposes a method to detect the end of the price bubble euphoria phase, generating an average profit of close to 7% over 5 days and over 10.5% over 20 days, with almost 90% effectiveness. The study found that the AI market experienced...
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Impact of Work from Home on Agile Software Project Execution – the Empirical Study
PublicationBackground: The outbreak of a Covid-19 pandemic changed the working patterns of software projects delivery. Aim: The study examines how the work from home (WFH) impacted the software project execution for emergence of differentiating patterns. Method: The data on project execution in two country locations was examined. The population is 3711 projects across 52 months (26 pre- and 26 post-pandemic) is analyzed. The paper identifies the...
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Capacity Transforming challenges into opportunities
PublicationThe Urban Initiative Laboratory (UIL) aims to upgrade the smart city concept in Gdańsk by introducing the Food-Water-Energy (FWE) nexus to the city. It was agreed in the CRUNCH international consortium that projects on different scales would be implemented in the individual countries to test the Integrated Decision Supportive system platform, which would, in principle, concern urban scale. The regular urban scale was to be researched...
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Self Portrait with a Mask
PublicationPaweł SASIN - Self Portrait with a Mask “Every work of art is the child of its time, and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. “ Wassily Kandynsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art The two years 2020 and 2021 were marked by the COVID-19 pandemic – a lengthy period of time in which everyone felt in danger of losing one’s health or life. As a result, many people were experiencing negative emotion, becoming subject to psychological...
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The evolving structure of Polish exports (1994-2010) - diversification of products and trade partners.
PublicationThis paper presents empirical evidence on the diversification process concerning Polish exports (1994–2010), compared to European and global samples of countries. It analyzes both the commodity structure of Polish trade and the geographical diversification of Poland’s trading partners. The analysis draws on highly disaggregated data on exports (HS 6 digit) and combines descriptive analysis with non-parametric, semi-parametric and...
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On the Importance of Resilience Engineering for Networked Systems in a Changing World
PublicationResilience is featured increasingly often in the media, usually applied to society when faced, for example, with disasters such as flooding and the enormous challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic posed. There are now many resilience-related discussion groups worldwide, and some standards initiatives devoted in particular to city resilience. However, there is relatively little explicit interest in resilience engineering for communication...
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Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting as Post-pandemic Dangers to Knowledge Management
PublicationPurpose: COVID-19 pandemic aftermaths include the emergence of new tendencies, such as the Quiet Quitting, and continuation of trends such as the Great Resignation, both of which have multiple knowledge-related impacts on individual, organizational and even national level. The aim of this paper is to show the mechanisms behind the Quiet Quitting and the Great Resignation from individual and organizational perspectives. Understanding...
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Three Principles for Healthy Living with Light and Lighting
PublicationThe lockdown measures applied to cities and towns during the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic have had a widespread impact on people’s lives. Some have found themselves confined to their homes, with limited social contact and a reduced quality of life. Others have found that the lockdown improved their wellbeing, as more time was spent outside, instead of commuting and working in an office building, plus the benefits of spending increased...
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Marcin Potrykus dr inż.
PeopleA graduate of the Faculty of Management and Economics at the Gdańsk University of Technology. Since 2008, he has been employed as an Assistant at the Department of Finance at the Faculty of Management and Economics of the Gdańsk University of Technology. In 2015, he defended (in the discipline of economics) his doctoral dissertation entitled "Alternative investments - profitability and risk". Since 2016, he has been employed as...
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Merton-type default risk and financial performance: the dynamic panel moderation of firm size
PublicationPurpose – The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the probability of default and examine the relationship between default risk and financial performance, with dynamic panel moderation of firm size. Design/methodology/approach – This study utilizes a total of 1,500 firm-year observations from 2013 to 2018 using dynamic panel data approach of generalized method of moments to test the relationship between default risk and financial...
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From the pills to environment – Prediction and tracking of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug concentrations in wastewater
PublicationThe extend of environment pollution by pharmaceuticals is in a stage that required more automatic and integrated solutions. The non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are one of the most popular pharmaceutical in the world and emerging pollutants of natural waters. The aim of the paper was to check the correlation of the sales data of selected NSAIDs (ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac) and their concentration in the WWTP...
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Transforming a Traditional, Family-Run Car Dealership into a Digital-Era Modern Service Provider
PublicationThe automotive industry today faces multiple challenges. The automotive market is characterised by frequent changes and technological developments in comfort and safety of travel by all types of vehicles. The division between traditional and modern services is related to their susceptibility to technological progress. We should differentiate between two types of technology: technology used directly in vehicles and technology utilized...
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Impact of the Manufacturing Sector on the Export Competitiveness of European Countries – a Spatial Panel Analysis
PublicationThe purpose of this paper is to determine how changes in the export competitiveness of the EU economy (measured by exports and net exports) depend on changes in the competitiveness of processing industries, on the basis of manufacturing data from 19 EU countries over years 1995-2009 and using a spatial panel data model. The determinants of export competitiveness are selected in the light of predictions from international trade...
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Corporate social responsibility and forward default risk under firm and industry heterogeneity
PublicationObjective: This study aims to evaluate the impact of corporate social responsibility on forward default risk (FDR) under the setting of firm and industry heterogeneity. Research Design & Methods: This study evaluated the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on FDR using the data of 497 companies from 2007-2021 in the S&P 500 index, taking into account firm and industry heterogeneity aspects. This study utilized instrumental...
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Hybrid use of the building as a method supporting epidemic safety
PublicationThe COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in changing organisational and technical requirements in the operation of treatment facilities. This paper summarises the available knowledge on the principles of hybrid design of the architecture of treatment units to ensure that different levels of sanitary and hygienic safeguards can be implemented. The basis of this narrative overview is an analysis of the existing Polish legislation on required...
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Public Perception of Digital Contact Tracing App and Implications for Technology Acceptance and Use Models
PublicationGovernments are increasingly adopting digital contact tracing applications (DCT) as a key component of their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, governments are struggling to achieve widespread adoption of DCT necessary for obtaining the expected individual and public benefits associated with its use. Consequently, studies on DCT have focused on the barriers to DCT adoption in different contexts and possible ways of overcoming...
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Polish tax reform "Polski Ład" – consequences of introducing changes on the example of selected flat-rate tax forms for micro and small companies
PublicationThis article describes aspects related to the introduction of the latest tax reform in Poland. The changes initiated in January 2022, under the name Polski Ład, concern a wide range of tax changes in Poland. Reform, in a broad sense, is a multidimensional government development program, which is primarily aimed at getting out of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and a smooth transition to financing strategic goals in investment...
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The impact of equity pledge on inefficient investment: a perspective from family entrepreneurship
PublicationAs an efficient and convenient financing method, equity pledges may have a heterogeneous impact on the inefficient investment of family firms. In order to verify this point, this paper takes A-share listed family enterprises from 2010 to 2021 as a research sample. It conducts an empirical test on the impact of equity pledges on inefficient investment in family firms by constructing a panel regression model. The results show...