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Ding, Jieyao - 2011

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Ethnic discrimination in China's internet job board labor market

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2012

minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that …

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Digital authoritarianism: Human rights, geopolitics and commerce

Erixon, Fredrik; Lee-Makiyama, Hosuk - 2011

and commercial freedom of exchange on the Internet. Online censorship may be a recent phenomenon, but censorship is not … spread of new communication technologies. Censorship and authoritarian control of the Internet has a cascading effect … other countries get violated by actions to censor the Internet and online communications. (...) …

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Optimal Tourism Development

Campos-Soria, Juan A. (contributor) - 2020

The early days of tourism development had a näive vision of tourism's impacts on society in terms of economic, social, and environmental benefits. Time has passed, and we have learnt lessons regarding the success and failure of tourism development. Mass tourism development has pros and cons...

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Internet Entrepreneurship: Networks and Performance of Internet Ventures In China

BATJARGAL, BAT - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

This article examines the contingent value of entrepreneurs' networks to survival likelihood of Internet ventures, and … Internet ventures in Beijing, China. The study found the positive and the negative contingent effects of structural holes on …

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Challenging Party Hegemony: Identity Work in China’s Emerging Virreal Places

Giese, Karsten - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2006

The Chinese Communist Party has chosen to base the legitimacy of its rule on its performance as leading national power. Since national identity is based on shared imaginations of and directly tied to territory – hence place, this paper analyses both heterodox models for identification on the...

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The Role of Intellectual Property Rights in Information and Communication Technologies

Rao, C Niranjan - eSocialSciences - 2008

The paper starts by recapitulating the basic arguments provided by economic theory to explain the existence of the patent system. The paper then concentrates on the three important ICT industries viz., telecommunication equipment, computer hardware and semiconductor industries. The issues...

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Challenging Party Hegemony: Identity Work in China's Emerging Virreal Places

Giese, Karsten - 2006

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Mobiles Internet in China: Chancen und Hemmnisse

Schmidkonz, Christian - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 53 (2000) 26-27, pp. 31-32

Analysen zufolge etwa 800 000, bis Ende 2001 rund vier Mill. Menschen in China über Mobiltelefone in das Internet einwählen. …

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Flatter world and thicker walls? Blogs, censorship and civic discourse in China

MacKinnon, Rebecca - In: Public Choice 134 (2008) 1, pp. 31-46

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