Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO …. Cost efficiency declined while profit efficiency improved after China’s accession. Security investments positively drove …

keep up with the challenges of a changing global landscape. In this paper, “financial competitiveness” is interpreted as … globalisation process and has immediate implications for the real economy. An index of international financial competitiveness is … economies from 1980 to 2006 it is shown that price competitiveness, stable inflation rates and registered patents have a …

This paper challenges the frequently held position that price, volumes and cost-competitiveness will be enough for … cost-competitiveness is important, several additional, non-price and institutional factors are key to the competitiveness … opportunities to cultivate the skills needed to sustain competitiveness are limited. The paper illustrates this with examples from …

/methodology/approach – Based on Porter's diamond model of competitiveness, the authors examine the demand for renewable energies in India and China … and China. Porter's diamond model is modified and specified for the renewable energy industry. Design … and China is significant, the study reveals remarkable differences in the fields of biomass, solar and wind energy. The …

internal financial capabilities on competitiveness and sustainability. This paper also studies the nature of their … firm’s competitiveness within a industry. Firms with the ability to offer shares to existing shareholders, issue non … study focuses on sources of financial capability of Chinese listed firm impact on competitiveness and sustainability. It is …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate recent labor unrest in China's automobile industry and the … implications for the debate on the future of the country's labor relations and cost competitiveness. Design …/methodology/approach – Using data between 1999 and 2007, the authors examine how differences in work organizations in China, Germany, Japan and the …

the Greater China Region. Against the backdrop of the ongoing trend of rapid and extensive urbanisation observed in China … empirically measure this concept and to examine its nexus to the narrower concept of competitiveness. Design …/methodology/approach – The index is based on 96 indicators across five environments, namely, economic vibrancy and competitiveness; environmental …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether multinational corporations moving into China have a negative … direct investment flows into China to proxy the impact of China on these other economies. Findings – It was found that the … multinational enterprises entering into China stimulate investment in east Asia, but have no significant effects on multinational …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the economic relation between China and Nigeria in the area of … study to generate firm‐level data that allowed the analysis of China‐Nigeria investment relations with respect to concerns … investment in Nigeria is its concentration in a few sectors that are of strategic interest to China, especially in the extractive …