This paper studies how labor flexibility and mobility induced by the gig economy, affects corporate investment, by exploiting the staggered entry of the leading online delivery platforms into different cities in China and across the globe. The results show that, following the entry of delivery...

Whether and how firm financialization could crowd out real investment and the resulting “from real to virtual” phenomenon has great economic and policy implications, especially in emerging economies. This study examines the influence of firm-level financialization on corporate investment...

Purpose - A flexible decision technology called the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR) is applied to a generic aquaculture conflict to illustrate how GMCR can be used to systematically investigate a wide range of conflicts arising in aquaculture in order to obtain meaningful strategic...

Since the 1990s, China has exhibited growth in both foreign trade and the economy. Promoting environmental protection and sustainable economic growth are main concerns in the academic profession in the country. This paper makes an empirical analysis of trade and environmental pollution, and...

This paper created a framework for a dynamic institutional analysis. (1) Reduction of the conviction and motivation inside economic factors (We think that this is the inducing factors of system changes ), (2) system changes will be ultimately beneficial to the efficiently allocation of...

Soft system methodology was 'rationally reconstrusted'(as Marcuzzo (2008) recommended) to suit the research of history of economic thought.The paper constitutes a ‘meaningful narrative' and 'coherent colligation' as Walsh(1970) guilded.According to the soft system analysis map of China's QE...

Applying comparative institutional analysis method, based on the the analysis of typical cases , in the framework of Marxist historical materialism, this article discuss the path and direction of Chinese System Change , we get a new form of government which has a kind of indirect elections and...

This paper created a framework for a dynamic institutional analysis. (1) Reduction of the conviction and motivation inside economic factors (We think that this is the inducing factors of system changes ), (2) system changes will be ultimately beneficial to the efficiently allocation of...

Applying comparative institutional analysis method, based on the the analysis of typical cases , in the framework of Marxist historical materialism, this article discuss the path and direction of Chinese System Change , we get a new form of government which has a kind of indirect elections and...