China's growing consumption is a policy objective (CCCPC, 2016), and commercial success for online retailers, such as Alibaba (Lucas, 2017) that serve China's large number of netizens. Within China's thriving social media, WeChat is a world leading innovator (Yu, 2017). With innovation of its...

Environmental pollution has become a serious challenge in emerging markets. Using a unique survey of privately-owned enterprises in China, this paper investigates how polluting firms respond to institutional pressures. We find that polluting firms conform to external pressures by combining...

In March 2005, riots erupted in South Korea against Japan for claiming sovereignty over some rocky uninhabited islets (0.23 km2). Five weeks earlier, riots did not erupt in South Korea when North Korea proved that it has nuclear weapons. How can we explain moral outrage in one case, when the...

As a disruptive technology, electric vehicles (EV) help tackle smoggy weather and to reduce the dependence on unsustainable oil imports, attracting great attention of China' government. Using China as a backdrop, this study examines how government incentive policies influence the adoption of...

This paper aims to propose an alternative solution for improvement of levels of FDI of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH), proposing the method of nation branding as a possible tool of country promotion. It has been analysed the existing literature sources on nation branding, Export Growth Strategy of...

From 2015 to 2017, under the same nationally available subsidy, license plate-controlled big cities accounted for 49.3% ~ 65.0% of electric vehicle (EV) adoption in China. This phenomenon cannot be solely explained by subsidy policy. In this paper, we assess the influences of license plate...

Italian Abstract: In poco più di venti anni dall’inizio dei processi di riforma del sistema distributivo, la struttura della distribuzione commerciale in Cina è cambiata radicalmente. Questo articolo descrive le principali caratteristiche del sistema della distribuzione al dettaglio e...