Purpose – The purposes are as follows. First, this paper aims to explore the reliability and validity of the Chinese Entrepreneur Aptitude Scale (CEAS) and to establish a normative score among surveyed students. Second, this paper seeks to compare the scaling scores differences between the...

Purpose – Previous studies of manufacturing management have ignored a critical theme: the relationship between supervisory support and work‐family conflict. This paper aims to explore the link between interpersonal relationships, guanxi , leader‐member exchange (LMX) theory, emotional...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between job attributes, job position, and workplace friendship. This paper also attempts to expand the ontology of workplace friendship. Design/methodology/approach – The independent variables consisted of five job attributes...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose an approach to achieve better accuracy in technology forecasting (TF) by providing the concepts of the service components and service composition based on the theory of the combining forecasts. Next, it adopts three quantitative analyses as...

Purpose – Establishing a performance‐oriented evaluation in public sectors is the key to successful administrations. However, because of lacking relative comparable measuring standards, it is difficult to measure the relative performance of one unit while comparing to other units with regard...

Purpose – Through examining the development of the video compact disc player industry in China, this article aims to explore the main characteristics of world‐first innovation and identify four success factors for innovation followers to launch world‐first products in catching‐up...

Purpose – Increased globalization of the world's economies, along with accelerated technological changes are transforming research and development (R&D) activities around the world. The purpose of this paper is to study the technology development in China, particularly in the light of the...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to identify the reasons behind the recent issues of Chinese manufacturing quality. This paper aims to discuss the influence of American managers as well as Chinese business cultural effects on Chinese manufacturing quality. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the development of knowledge management (KM) in China and its Western origins. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is developed by exploring the existing KM survey results in China. Discussions from KM surveys into Chinese KM practices...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is research the relationship between size of government and FDI inflows of the host country, and provide a strategies. Design/methodology/approach – Adopting the fixed effect model of panel data, this paper uses related observations from 81 countries...