This article contributes to the legal geography literature through exploration of the contested concepts of power and law and their interconnected processes. Research findings from studies of urban gated enclaves in China and in England are used as a starting point to analyse the spatialisation...

Since China's marketization-featured housing reform, homeowner associations have played a greater role in neighbourhood governance. Using the theory of social movements and organizations, this article investigates how homeowner associations strategically reorganize themselves to achieve their...

The purpose, structure, and outcomes of cross-sector collaborations are subject to the institutional environment from which they emerge. This article examines how institutional background could determine the nature of cross-sector collaborations through a case study of the collaborative natural...

Many studies have examined corruption’s effect upon economic growth. This study takes a different approach and investigates whether anticorruption campaigns might also lower economic growth, at least in the short run. We focus upon the anticorruption campaigns run by the Communist Party of...

With the continuous increase of marketization and normalization in the Chinese real estate market, the market mechanism now plays an important role in market regulation. The existing macro-control system for the real estate market, however, appears to lack the ability to regulate it. Thus, an...

Dogs have become an essential part of many consumers’ everyday lives as well as their purchase and consumption considerations. This research investigates dog owners’ affective reactions to dogs wearing clothes and their purchase of dog apparel influenced by owners’ political identities. We...

The asymmetry of Chinese coal and electricity pricing reforms leads to serious conflict between coal suppliers and electricity utilities. Electricity utilities experience significant losses as a result of conflict: severe coal price fluctuations, and uncertainty in the quantity and quality of...

Organization and management scholars have long been interested in the question of how to get individual employees to contribute high levels of effort and performance to their organization's collective interests. In addressing this issue, a primary assumption held by many scholars is that...

Smart networks, e.g., smart grids (SGs) as complex interconnected systems have become more complex and require greater processing and communication capabilities due to the growing use of renewable energy (RE). In addition to being a reliable method for collecting and managing information,...

Economic complexity reflects an economy’s ability to allocate resources, use factors of production and knowledge, and expand industrial chain. It may affect green development efficiency (GDE) in the economy through specific mechanisms. In the context of China’s continuous promotion of green...