What are the implications of the rapid growth in offshored business services for transfer pricing, the pricing of products traded between affiliated firms? We explore these implications through a case study of transnational corporations in the teleservices industry. Teleservices TNCs own foreign...

The video game industry is one of the new engines of economic growth, and esports industry, as an essential subindustry, plays a pivotal role in driving economic growth. To investigate the mechanism and the quantitative relationship among them, we propose a two-stage transmission path “Esports...

The Chinese digital platform giants – Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent – have quickly risen to be amongst the most notable developers and users of artificial intelligence. One important catalyst for this development has been the so-called Platform Business Group (PBG) strategy used by Chinese...

The Chinese digital platform giants – Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent – have quickly risen to be amongst the most notable developers and users of artificial intelligence. One important catalyst for this development has been the so-called Platform Business Group (PBG) strategy used by Chinese...

This study creatively investigates the strategic and substantive innovation transformation of basic research results from the perspective of intellectual property protection. Using Chinese provincial panel data from 2001 to 2018, the relevant empirical research findings are threefold. First,...

This paper studies structural changes underlying China's remarkable and unprecedented growth in recent years. While patterns of structural transformation across China's provinces are broadly in line with international experience, one important difference is in labor productivity differentials...

With the gradual opening of the services sector which China has committed to WTO, China has paid more and more attention to the services sector in recently years. On the base of the fact that the development of services sector may be far from the same around China, this paper aimed to enhance...

With the gradual opening of the services sector which China has committed to WTO, China has paid more and more attention to the services sector in recently years. On the base of the fact that the development of services sector may be far from the same around China, this paper aimed to enhance...

This paper has three aims: 1) to use Langlois’ framework of dynamic transaction costs to illustrate the coevolution of firm capabilities and the emergence of new markets for offshored and outsourced business services in China; 2) to use Coase’s institutional structure of production framework...