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With the rapid development of modern Chinese companies, small-and-medium companies play a more and more critical role. At the same time, the competition among Chinese SMEs is also intensifying. This paper proposes the significance of lean management under current enterprise management through the introduc-tion of lean management, how it affects innovation, and the case analysis of a manufacturing SME. The case analysis includes quality process management and improvement, waste elimination, employee participation, good leadership, and supplier relationship. These measures of lean management give a general under-standing of how the company inspires innovation and further show that LM has a remarkable effect on SMEs, especially in the manufacturing sector.

This paper aims to investigate the status quo of the research in relation to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance in hospitality industry. A critical review has been conducted based on 69 good quality journal papers by using both quantitative and qualitative content analysis methods. The results show quantitative method is the main stream of methodology used and US dataset is more preferable. Besides, stakeholder perspective represents the main school of thoughts in recent years. Although majority of the studies have proved positive association between CSR and financial performance, negative relationship is still evidenced by research with samples of loss-making firms. Furthermore, many studies suggest developing conceptual framework or furthering the extant theoretical framework to cope with the rapid changes in CSR fields as well as the diversified CSR behaviour of the public companies in today's business world. The findings of this critical review bring additional insight to the CSR and hospitality academia and can stimulate scholars' further study on how to achieve balance between social and financial performance of public companies in this industry. Theoretically, this critical review enlightens the need for developing/extending the classical theoretical model for matching with the new phenomenon in the CSR field. Practically, the review results also provide valuable information and suggestions to industry operators for their improvement in CSR practice.