The asymmetry of Chinese coal and electricity pricing reforms leads to serious conflict between coal suppliers and electricity utilities. Electricity utilities experience significant losses as a result of conflict: severe coal price fluctuations, and uncertainty in the quantity and quality of...

The purpose, structure, and outcomes of cross-sector collaborations are subject to the institutional environment from which they emerge. This article examines how institutional background could determine the nature of cross-sector collaborations through a case study of the collaborative natural...

Organization and management scholars have long been interested in the question of how to get individual employees to contribute high levels of effort and performance to their organization's collective interests. In addressing this issue, a primary assumption held by many scholars is that...

The passing of the Renewable Energy Law (REL) in 2005 demonstrated China's commitment to renewable energy development. In the 3 years after the REL, China's renewable electricity capacity grew rapidly. From 2006 to 2008, China's wind capacity installation more than doubled every year for 3 years...

High speed railway (HSR) services sharply improve the accessibility among cities and induce the reformation of intracity economic activities. Using Social Network Analysis (SNA) approach to obtain the HSR network accessibility measures for Chinese cities, including point degree, closeness...

Chinese homeowner associations (HOAs) are citizen-initiated, self governing neighborhood organizations that emerged very recently in urban China. HOAs take various legal, political, and social actions to deal with neighborhood issues. However, there are large discrepancies in the effectiveness...

China's one-child policy is one of the largest and most controversial social engineering projects in human history. With the extreme restrictions it imposed on reproduction, the policy has altered China's demographic and social fabric in numerous fundamental ways in its nearly four decades...