This study examines the extent to which subnational regions can explain foreign affiliate
performance in two host country settings, the United States and China, the world's two …

The only comprehensive text available for advanced study and professional reference, this
book brings much needed clarity to both the theoretical and practical aspects of EU …

Purpose For decades, financing constraints have been a major obstacle to corporate
performance. Volumes have been written about the probable factors that can help firms …

This paper investigates the fundamental causes of the widening inland–coastal inequality in
China during the post-reform period 1978–2004 within a systematic framework of economic …

Using autobiographical accounts acquired from her extensive career in education, the
author has explored the multi-faceted influences on teacher career motivation and …

The paper outlines the theory and database preparation of SinoTERM, a “bottom-up”
computable general equilibrium model of the Chinese economy. The methodology by which …

This paper examines the roles of physical capital, human capital, and social capital in C
hina's economic growth during the reform period 1981–2010. Empirical estimation confirms …

This study combines the resource-based view of the firms and region-based view of the
strategy (ie, a 2R-based view) to shed light on the crucial roles of firm-specific resources and …

This paper studies the role of human capital in China's provincial total factor productivity
(TFP) growth over 1985–2004. The stochastic frontier approach is employed to measure the …

This study used the Night Light Development Index (NLDI) to measure the regional
inequality of public services in Mainland China at multiple scales. The NLDI was extracted …