Purpose – Food products' ultimate destination is intended for the general public, but those who supply the international markets are usually composed of a relatively small group of businessmen including international buyers, purchasing agents and importers. Understanding the motivation behind...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to integrate the corporate market and non-market behaviors (such as social, legal, and political activities) into the research of competitive interaction. Design/methodology/approach – “Structured content analysis” is used in analyzing the...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the factors of growth of a developing country such as China. Because of the existence of domestic distortions, the traditional approach of using the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) to represent economic growth of the economy is not appropriate. This...

Purpose – The economic linkages between China and Japan have been strengthened through both trade and Japanese direct investment in China for past decades. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of Japanese direct investment in China on the Sino-Japanese bilateral trade....

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to empirically examine the interdependence of income between China and ASEAN-5 countries by using the real gross domestic product (GDP). Besides answering this important policy question, the paper is also concerned with ascertaining the causal direction...

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to evaluate the impact of China's current coal-to-liquids (CTL) activities on its coal and oil markets from 2005 to 2025. Design/methodology/approach – A partial equilibrium multi-equation model of China's oil and coal markets is developed based on data...