This paper investigates poverty alleviation efforts in China and the nature of governmententerprise partnerships there. We argue that firms partnering central and local governments can be an effective strategy to overcome resource-based obstacles in low-income markets. In China, local and...

This paper investigates poverty alleviation efforts in China and the nature of governmententerprise partnerships there. We argue that firms partnering central and local governments can be an effective strategy to overcome resource-based obstacles in low-income markets. In China, local and...

In-depth personal interviews are conducted with nine Chinese entrepreneurs. They are located in three different geographical regions from coastal to interior. Their businesses span eight sectors from clothing to industrial automation. This article focuses on their motivations to start new...

Electric vehicle (EV) has been promoted in many countries as a way of green transportation. However, the EV adoption rate remains quite low. Besides the immature technology and high cost, the low adoption rate also attributed to the nature of vehicle as a durable product, which has slow as...

Rural communities in both Korea and China have faced important negative conditions, such as a population decrease, aging, and the increasing income gap between urban and rural areas. To overcome these problems, a new change is needed in rural areas. In recent years, the 6th industrialization of...

We explore the nature of two of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) by making sense of two of their controversial investments in US financial institutions. Drawing on core Benjaminian themes, we present an alternative view to purely financial accounts of those investments in terms...

In 2006, the implementation of the new company law confirmed the executive status of the secretary of the board of directors for the first time in a legal sense, and also emphasized the responsibility of the secretary of the board of directors in "handling information disclosure affairs"....

There are few studies on whether female directors can restrain the tunneling behavior of major shareholders in the Chinese stock market. Based on the analysis of the proportion and independence of female directors, this paper uses the fixed-effect model to analyze the impact of female directors...