Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a selective review of literature and presents a conceptual framework in journal and institution rankings. Several streams of ranking literature are analyzed. Design/methodology/approach – The authors provide a conceptual framework to analyze...

Burgeoning research on trust has revealed an incomplete understanding of how government trust shapes the R&D behaviors of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). To study this, we use data collected on 3001 Chinese SMEs to find that for every standard deviation increase in the government trust...