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Differences in State Level Impacts of COVID-19 Policies
This paper compares COVID-19 infections between selected pairs of neighboring states where the policies of the non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) such as lockdown/stay-at-home differ. This analysis uses a ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Research on Factors Affecting the Imported Online Games in China
In recent years, although China’s domestic online games have occupied a significant market share, foreign online games still play an essential role in China’s online game market today. On the one hand, this ch...
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Potential Spillover Effects of China’s Belt and Road Initiative on Chinese Tourism to Australia: A Marketing Perspective
China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has recently attracted global attention. The aim of BRI is to enhance bonding relations between China and the Belt and Road (BR) countries in terms of socioeconomic coope...
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A Musical Journey Along the Silk Road—Encounter, Discovery and Change
Music and “music making” as a means of communication have always played an important role on the Silk Road. It reflects intercultural and transcultural encounters as well as the discovery and change of humanit...
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Travel Along the New Silk Road: Understanding New Trends in Chinese Outbound Tourism
Amid deepened cooperation among countries along the New Silk Road, increasingly more Chinese people have become enthusiastic about travelling to destinations along the route. To clarify aspects of the growth o...
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A Measure of the Spillover Effects Among Companies of Same Nationality in the Location Choice of FDIs
Foreign direct investments (FDIs) have grown rapidly with globalization. Despite the recent emergence of protectionism, this increase in FDIs will not reverse. Nonetheless, a recent article in The Economist predi...
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Adjustment of Japan’s Policy Toward Myanmar Since Myanmar’s Political Transition
With the realization of the milestone-like transition of the democratization process in Myanmar in 2011, the US-led western countries started to foster their relationships with Myanmar in succession, and Japan...
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Myanmar’s Foreign Policy and Multilateral Relations in the Democracy Process
On March 30, 2011, Thein Sein was officially announced to become Myanmar’s President, thus predicting that the national state system of Myanmar started to transform from military regime to democracy. In this t...
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India and TPP: Opportunities and Challenges
Actively promoted by the United States, “Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement” (TPP) is likely to be an economic and trade integration agreement with the highest standards and the most extensive scope in the As...
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Human Capital and Technological Spillovers from FDI in the Chinese Regions: A Threshold Approach
Openness is a well-known factor that facilitates the development of a country. Investment from developed to less developed countries are the major channel for realizing this process. Besides the direct effects...
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Component Trade and China’s Global Economic Integration
A symbol of China’s economic integration into the global economy is its progressive engagement in international commodity trade, with an increasing scale and intensity. From 1992 to 2005, the average growth ra...
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The Changing Geography of Innovation Activities: What do Patents Indicators Imply?
Innovation in the global marketplace is at the core of the twenty-first century knowledge-based economy (Schumpeter, 1980: 66). Innovation is in itself a fuzzy concept and measuring it is more difficult (Godin...
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Is the Time-Varying Parameter Model the Preferred Approach to Tourism Demand Forecasting? Statistical Evidence
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Regional Competition, Fiscal Federalism, and Economic Structure: Evidence from China
Fiscal decentralization is an important element that fostered the success of China’s reforms towards a market economy. If economics is all about incentives, then understanding how fiscal reforms provided incen...
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Reforming State-Owned Enterprises: Diversifying Ownership Versus Improving Management
One line of thought on reforming state-owned enterprises (SOEs), the ownership school, stresses diversifying ownership to eliminate government control. A second line of thought, the management school, emphasiz...
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Characteristics and Processes of Top Management Teams in High-Tech Firms
This chapter reports the results of two exploratory, interview-based studies of the top management teams (TMTs) of entrepreneurial firms in Chinese high-tech industries. Results indicated that the formal team ...
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From Politics to Markets: A Case Study of Chinese Firms’ Strategic Adaptation
With this study, we contribute to the literature by investigating how institutional, market, and firm factors affect an incumbent firm’s strategic adaptation in China’s transitional economy. Drawing on results...
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Distribution, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in China
For many foreign investors, one of the main attractions of China is its enormous market size and the even greater potential for future growth (See Chapter 2). With the Chinese economy growing at about 10 per c...
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Conclusions: Foreign Investment Environment in China Under the Open Door Policy
For many foreign investors, develo** a comprehensive understanding of China poses a major challenge. China is a complex society, by virtue of its deeply embedded and multi-layered cultural heritage, its long...
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China’s Main Attractions to Foreign Investors
This chapter examines the main attractions of China to foreign investors in the context of the contemporary world economy. Three key issues are addressed here. First, the process of globalization in the evolvi...