Over the last four decades, China has sustained extraordinary economic development despite Western assertions of under-constructed economic markets and the lack of an independent adjudicative process. The purpose of this paper is to set out the context of China's judicial independence and high...

The coastal intermodal cargo-container joint supply chain is a complicated system with several stakeholders and a few challenging decision-making concerns, such as the laden container acceptance and routing problem, the empty container relocation problem, and the water transportation services...

Economic Citizenship Programs (ECPs) have recently been proliferating, with large and potentially volatile inflows of investment and fiscal revenues generating significant benefits for small economies, but also posing substantial challenges. This paper discusses recent developments and...

In this paper, we describe how Shenzhen A-share listed companies used funds raised in over-financed IPOs during the 2006-2010 period. In exploring the relationship between internal corporate governance and the use of funds raised in over-financed IPOs, we find that the use of such funds to...

Within the special environment of the ChiNext market, we study how an internationalization strategy affects the independent innovation of Chinese entrepreneurial companies from two dimensions: R&D input and patent output. An internationalization strategy has a significant incentive effect on R&D...

Purpose: At the dynamic innovation market, it is very difficult for an enterprise to accomplish innovation individually; technology innovation is shifting towards collaborative R&D chain mode. Thus, supplier selection based on individually innovation efficiency of enterprise is inapplicable to...

The main purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the effects of the cigarette excise tax structure on three outcomes: cigarette prices, government revenues, and cigarette consumption. We composed cross-sectional time-series data for 21 EU countries from year 1998 to 2007 from...

We identify decompositions of multi-period optimal portfolios, in which each subportfolio is dedicated to achieving a single investment target, in dynamic models with Von Neumann-Morgenstern preferences and diffusion asset returns (“Merton's problem”). These decompositions rest on...

1. Problem Definition: This article explores the incentive issues and gaming behaviors of firms under risk sharing partnerships in a project management setting, motivated by real-life examples. 2. Academic/Practical relevance: Collaboration prevails in projects within diverse industries. The...