Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of changing business control patterns that may be critical for firms, in order to manage effective enterprise information infrastructures in and through the Chinese market. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents a...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to address critical issues on how a global enterprise establishes an effective supply network. The example of a Japanese firm operating in China illustrates a supplier portfolio entry model that has not previously been examined in the literature....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a case study of a successful corporate group, Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings Limited (abbreviated “Yue Yuen” below), which acquired its competitive advantage through supply chain management (SCM) and supply chain integration (SCI). Focusing...

We explore the importance attached to the family name when couples can decide whether children will have the surname of the mother, uxorilocal marriages, or of the father, virilocal marriages. Using the 2005 China Inter-census Population Survey, we match the surnames of parents with those of...