Chapter 1: Why Is the Sex Ratio Unbalanced in China? The Roles of the One-Child Policy, Underdeveloped Social Insurance, and Parental ExpectationsThe sex ratio imbalance in China has reached such an alarming level that, by 2020, men of marriageable age are estimated to outnumber women by 24...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate cultural and individual differences in newsvendor decision making. Design/methodology/approach: The online experiment, programmed in the PHP scripting language, had 107 participants: local managers of four large, well-known and supply...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how does key accounts managers’ (KAMs’) customer orientation affect customers’ repurchase intention and how do tie strength and structural holes in KAMs’ client networks moderate these linkages. Design/methodology/approach: Paired...

Purpose: This study investigates the effect of psychic distance (PD) on outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) by multinational firms originating in emerging economies and the moderating effect of firm heterogeneity on this relationship. Design/methodology/approach: An empirical analysis...

Annual reports are the main sources of information for outside investors' investment decisions and enable shareholders to supervise the management. Difficulties with the readability of these reports may therefore have serious consequences. Using 19,221 firm-year observations of Chinese A-share...

From an information systems perspective, the assessment of commercial websites can be assessed objectively or subjectively. From a business point of view, they can be assessed quantitatively or qualitatively. This paper describes taxonomy of website assessment approaches and proposes a...

Purpose: Private labels (PLs) have flowed into a wide range of categories and continue to expand especially in the mass channel. This paper aims to investigate the optimal PL sourcing strategy for a retailer and the impact of different sourcing strategies on the interaction between the upstream...