Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to deal with two major issues: what alternatives does a manufacturing company have when current office space use is not sufficient, or it exceeds its needs, following changes and business transformation; and second, what principal factors (in particular...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers accruing to Chinese local industry at both intra‐ and inter‐industry levels and how such effects vary with the nationality of the investor. Design/methodology/approach – A panel dataset for...

Purpose – The paper aims to examine the effects of outward foreign direct investment (O‐FDI) on home‐country productivity. Design/methodology/approach – A panel data set for 15 Taiwanese manufacturing industries over the period between 1991 and 2007 is employed for a model in which...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of outward foreign direct investment (O‐FDI) on the competitiveness of home‐country export. Design/methodology/approach – This paper employs a six‐year data set from Taiwanese manufacturing data for 15 industries over the...

Purpose – Considerable research has been conducted on the comparative advantage of Chinese manufactured exports before 2000, but too little attention has been focused on the twenty‐first century. With this rapid growth of China's export volume since 2001, what is the change in comparative...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between training and education and associated workforce productivity and competitiveness also, to identify new effective strategies for China to maintain and enhance workforce productivity given the depleting abundant workforce...

Purpose – Despite the critical role of the industrial buying situation in shaping buyer behavior and seller response, little research has been conducted to augment extant knowledge on the subject. To fill this gap, this article focuses on influence strategies that industrial buyers exert on...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to provide a better understanding on the use of web sites for creating value in industrial buyer‐seller relationships. Design/methodology/approach – Through an extensive yet not exhaustive review of previous studies on business‐to‐business (B2B)...

Purpose – This study seeks to examine how Chinese culture affects business‐to‐business marketing strategies and service revenue in manufacturing companies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper used a combination of qualitative research approaches, namely interviews, longitudinal study...

Purpose – The paper aims to provide a better understanding of the interrelatedness of customer and service orientations in the organizational structures of capital goods manufacturing companies. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative, multi‐case research design was employed using 36...