Currently, Chinese sustainable agricultural development is facing some big challenges that how to promote the present developing pattern, lengthen material transformation chain, increase the utilization rate of material and energy in agricultural system and form a healthy agriculture ecological...

By using factor analysis method and establishing analysis indicator system from four aspects including crop production, poultry farming, rural life and township enterprises, the difference, features, and types of factors influencing the rural environmental pollution in the hilly area in Sichuan...

Method of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation is used to carry out suitability evaluation on the information service system of “Agricultural Science and Technology 110†in Sichuan Province, China. Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and expert consultation method are used to determine the...

Previous research on the effect of board characteristics mostly examines established firms. This raises the question of whether the findings from the board characteristics literature are applicable to rapidly growing enterprises, as their corporate governance landscape can be very different from...

Hazmat transportation in cities faces significant risks that may cause catastrophic losses to humans. From the perspective of the regulator, the main responsibility is to mitigate hazmat transport risk by determining the availability of road networks to hazmat carriers. Based on the time-variant...

Over the last decades, income inequality has increased globally. How do social policies affect this increasing trend? How do international trade and technological progress affect inequality? What is the profile of income inequality in China? Based on quantitative analyses of determinants of...

Most welfare states design their tax/benefit system to combat income poverty. Some countries are more effective in poverty alleviation than others. What can explain these variations in outcomes and effectiveness? And has the redistributive power of different social programs changed over time and...

In most OECD countries the gap between rich and poor has widened over the past decades. This paper analyzes whether and to what extent taxes and social transfers have contributed to this trend. Has the redistributive power of different social programs changed over time? The paper contributes to...

Purpose: To examine how network competence, knowledge sharing and relationship quality affect service innovation performance Design/methodology/approach: Empirical Research Findings: 1) Both enterprise’s network competence and knowledge sharing have distinct positive impact on SIP; (2)...

In most OECD countries the gap between rich and poor has widened over the past decades. This paper analyzes whether and to what extent taxes and social transfers have contributed to this trend. Has the redistributive power of different social programs changed over time? The paper contributes to...