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Purpose The Li & Fung Group, a century-old, family-controlled multinational group of companies based in Hong Kong, seems to be an exception to the traditional perception of Chinese family business. The aim of this paper is to explore why this company can overcome the fatalism that “family...
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in China provide firm ground for human resources management thoughts and practices development; CAMPs' emphasis on people …
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. The author points to the world history of the continuing revolution of socialism, which is determined by the world history …‐thread development of history in the background of extending genealogy by clan societies of different regions and ationalities, which … of capitalism. In China, this problem was solved with the theories of a continuing new democratic revolution and …
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annual meetings, are welcome developments for accounting scholarship. Fortunately, interest in exploring the history of … accounting remains strong in many parts of the world. Garcia’s analysis of Mattessich and Ijiri’s thought is a unique and deep … intellectual contribution to accounting. I hope that it will help bring more scholarly attention to the history of accounting …
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lower cost. This is the case for China’s reforms, especially in agriculture: the land ownership in rural areas— collective … human history when property institutions—judicial institutions—cannot be changed due to political or other reasons, or due …
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Abstract The study of institutions and economic history was much influenced by Ronald Coase and Douglass North, in …
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Abstract Conflicting cultural and religious values pose challenges – challenges that are too often ignored – to efforts to comprehend and to solve tough social problems. Value-conflict challenges call for much more thoughtful attention both by analysts seeking to understand the sources of...
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The thesis of this paper is that transactions costs related to formation of nonprofit corporations are restraining the size of the nonprofit sector in Europe. An unfettered ability to incorporate is an important determinant of nonprofit formation. The point is illustrated with historical data...
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decades following World War II. Many contributions were initiated and sponsored by the defense community. For the resolution …
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Abstract The paper advocates a regional perspective for a better understanding of tourism history and discusses … historiographical concepts and tools of relevance for this understanding. It links the development of the tourism sector in history with … discusses conceptual approaches to tourism and regional transformation based in economics and economic history, hereby dealing …
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