Purpose – China is a leading country in the production, consumption and exports of value-added wood products. Despite … empirical part, data from qualitative semi-structured interviews made with 28 managers of seven companies in China based on the … background for assessing the impact of China’s increasing competitiveness on the future international wood products market …

national defense. China, the world's dominant supplier of rare earths, has recently been imposing stricter controls over its … production and export. The purpose of this paper is to examine the domestic roots of the changes in China's rare earth industry … trade development in China. Originality/value – This paper builds on existing findings about Chinese state regulations to …

policies and to Europe-China cooperation dialogue. With reference to attraction policies, as Chinese green firms are … technology-oriented measures. With reference to Europe-China cooperation, the paper findings support suggestions for a more …

Purpose – Multinational companies are increasingly locating R&D activities in emerging markets, particularly China …. This paper aims to focus on why China is moving from imitation to innovation, how MNCs are evolving their R&D activities in … China, the challenges they face, and how they deal with these challenges. Design/methodology/approach – As this is a …

study within a large emerging market (China). The author shows how regulatory and structural weaknesses in the Chinese dairy …

to the situation in Eastern Europe, this type of ownership was quite widespread in China, particularly during the 1990s … barriers to, the development of employee ownership in China. Design/methodology/approach The scattered evidence from the … ownership in China both based on a comprehensive literature review and by utilising existing statistical sources.  …

Computer‐integrated manufacturing (CIM) technology has been used in China for over ten years. Some striking … problems experienced by a number of CIM enterprises in China based on the results of a series of industrial field surveys. The …