Much of the literature on China's ongoing attempts to accede to the World Trade Organization (“WTO”) Agreement on Government Procurement (“GPA”) focuses on which Chinese entities will ultimately be covered by the Agreement. While coverage issues are, no doubt, important, this paper...

Against the backdrop of unprecedented economic reform, the size, complexity, and number of Chinese public construction projects has grown at an alarming rate. Regrettably, however, the Chinese construction industry remains plagued by corruption and bribery. This problem is complex, involving a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a selective and necessarily truncated history of the place and use of qualitative approaches in the study of children's consumption in order to provide some depth of understanding regarding differences between and commonalities of approaches...

Purpose – Change is a constant for all to deal with. The rise of the internet, growth of mobile and subsequent creation of ever greater volumes of data are all contributing to major societal changes that have been seen over the past two decades and is expected to continue. This paper is based...

Much of the literature on China's ongoing attempts to accede to the World Trade Organization (“WTO”) Agreement on Government Procurement (“GPA”) focuses on which Chinese entities will ultimately be covered by the Agreement. While coverage issues are, no doubt, important, this paper...

Genome-wide association studies hold the potential for discovering genetic causes for a wide range of diseases, traits, and behaviors. However, the incredible amount of data handling, advanced statistics, and visualization have made conducting these studies difficult for researchers. Here we...