Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between board diversity measured as relation-oriented, task-oriented and board overall diversity and firm’s investment efficiency. Design/methodology/approach: This study estimates four dimensions of board diversity,...

Cheap information technology has increased the availability of historical price information to strategic consumers in many environments. This information may impact the consumer's purchasing behavior. We study how a seller should react in such a scenario. We focus on a seller of a single asset...

Sales management never received much attention in Chinese enterprises under central planning. Firms purchased inputs from suppliers and sold to customers assigned by the plan. For transactions outside the plan, personal connections were more important than selling skills or sales management,...

Based on the current situation of urbanization development in West China, this paper analyses main factors responsible for sluggish urbanization in West China as follows: impact of environment factor, impact of population quality and quantity, lagging of public product service, stagnancy of...

Recently, serval studies reported that the surface topography has a significant effect on the competitive adsorption of protein, especially when the characteristic length of topography is closed to that of protein. However, both macro experiment and micro molecular dynamics simulation are not...