Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the service perceptions of mainland Chinese passengers on three international cruise ships. Design/methodology/approach: Participant observation and casual conversations were conducted on three international cruise ships departing...

In order to evaluate the reliability of distribution system with demand response, this paper established the load peak-valley partition model and demand response model corresponding to every period based on load peak-valley characteristics. Then considering the characteristics of distribution...

This paper develops an integrated modeling approach combined with a top-down dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and a bottom-up bio-economic model (BEM) to study the economic impact of a total water use control policy in the Heihe river basin, northwestern China. The integrated...

This study examines the impact of director tenure diversity on board effectiveness. We find that tenure-diverse boards exhibit significantly higher CEO performance-turnover sensitivity and that firms with tenure-diverse audit committees are less likely to experience accounting restatements....