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Wei Guo
By estimating trade balance equation, export equation and import equation, this paper shows empirically that China’s trade surplus is not sensitive to the fluctuations in the real effective exchange rate, but the price elasticity has become large and signific…
Jianjun Yu, Xiaofei Cai
Intergenerational succession is a critical stage that most Chinese family businesses are in or will be in. Therefore, problems like what influence of intergenerational succession will have on performance of family businesses and what their internal action mec…
Mohamed Buheji
Inspiration has been rarely studied in education and pedagogical literature. In fact it is even very hard to find good reference papers about measuring students ’ inspiration. Student inspiration has nearly been totally away from schools expected outcome. Ins…
Mohamed Buheji
Problem solving ha s always been related to discipline creativit y , breakthroughs, development, disruption, innovation, learning, knowledge, agility, resilience and most of all inspiration. In inspiration however, problem solving can take further meaning in…
Oliver Baldus, Christian Heckmann
Conventional lean production aims at organizing and structuring a firm in a way that waste is minimized and available resources are used most efficiently while keeping overall productivity. By adopting lean strategies, firms can produce more efficiently, econ…
Xin Song, Lei Tang
In Consumer to Business (C2B) mode driven by consumer demand, enterprises must not only meet the requirements of individual customers, but also take into account the trade-off between cost and profit. Customization-massing becomes the core model successfully…
Julius Bettray, Augustin Suessmair, Tim Dorn
The present study investigated perceived price fairness (PPF) and aimed to reveal determinants of PPF within the participative pricing mechanism paywhat-you-want (PWYW). Results support the hypothesis that PPF in PWYW conditions is higher than PPF in ordinary…
Geoffrey Aerts, Elvira Haezendonck
The research aim is to develop and apply the conceptual inter-organizational knowledge transfer effectiveness (IOKTE) model to the inter-organizational transfer of Public-Private Partnership (PPP) related knowledge between public sector organizations in Fland…
Yixuan Liu
With the bloom of the study of non-market strategy, the field is very complex; the theories are different from each other and there are great differences between Chinese and foreign enterprises. In view of these problems, we combed the relevant literature of…
Haoxin Dong, Hui Zhao
China’s new energy industry has been developed rapidly under the support of the government. It is of great practical significance to study the local government’s support for the development of new energy industry in the tax sharing system. The article is thro…
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