Research background: The actual position of a country in the international division of labour is determined by the competitiveness of its trade, the structure of which may both reveal and perpetuate the comparative advantages possessed. This is particularly true for Dutch disease economies such...

Design-builders play a vital role in the success of DB projects. In the construction market of the People's Republic of China, most of the design-builders, however, lack adequate competences to conduct the DB projects successfully. The objective of this study is, therefore, to identify the key...

China’s economic pathway subsequent to 1978 is the greatest and most spectacular catching-up process ever succeded in the hystory of development. This country’s unprecedented race to regain the statute of a great economic power - lost in the 19th century, against the backdrop of the western...