This study attempts to understand how China's municipal governments select procurement methods in PPP projects and what … municipal level, with PPP data that are newly available from the website of China PPP Center under the Ministry of Finance, we … understand the decision-making mechanism and the managerial behavior of municipal governments in China's recent PPP development …

International trade negotiations have traditionally been viewed as a two-level political bargain between trading … trade negotiations, its focus on politics tends to obscure the economic consequences of trade agreements. Drawing upon … promise and perils of trade negotiations. It also offers a cautionary tale of using economic sanction to force other countries …

effects of auditor narcissism on auditor-client negotiations in China. We contend that narcissistic characteristics fuel … auditors' competitiveness and embolden them to stand firm in negotiations, potentially lengthening the negotiation process but … experimental results document that narcissistic auditors are more likely to be involved in negotiations that reach an impasse or …

China’s unilateral pledge to cut its carbon intensity by 40-45 percent by 2020 relative to its 2005 levels raises both … the stringency issue, and given that China’s pledge is in the form of carbon intensity, reliability issues concerning … China’s statistics on energy and GDP. Moreover, as long as China’s commitments differ in form from that of other major …

Prior research has demonstrated that intercultural negotiations tend to be significantly less successful than … intracultural negotiations (Adair, Okumura, & Brett, 2001; Gulbro & Herbig, 1996). The poor negotiating outcomes of international … negotiations have been attributed to cultural differences in communication styles and cognitive schemas (Adair et al., 2001; Brett …