Financial and industrial economists have increasingly recognized the interaction between product market competition and financing decisions of firms. This paper analyzes the relationship between product market competition (measured by Tobin's Q) and the capital structure of Chinese listed firms...

Is total quality management (TQM) a predecessor of enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) implementation? This question draws a lot of interest from business managers. Many firms intend to implement both TQM and ERP systems to match the market competition. The question is: Which system...

Marriage and marriage migration are often downplayed in the migration literature. The role of location in the decisionmaking underlying marriage migration, and the relations between marriage and labor migration, are little understood. Research that focuses on international marriages and on...

To make inference on in a linear regression model with missing responses, Wang and Rao [Wang, Q., Rao, J.N.K., 2001. Empirical likelihood for linear regression models under imputation for missing responses. Canad. J. Statist. 29, 597-608.] constructed an empirical likelihood (EL) statistic based...

The approaches the Asian countries have undertaken to manage their economic crisis prevail in three different patterns: the Malaysian style, the Indonesian style, and the Thai-South Korean style. They present similarities in terms of restructuring their economy and adopting new economic...

With the increase of globalization in trading and online shopping, phony products are on the rise in the market. This article introduces a range of technologies that have been implemented in the supply chain to deter counterfeiters. Technology for both product authentication and tracing and...

Over the past decade, there has been increasing interest in manufacturing practices in China. By the end of 2012, China was the world's leader in manufacturing operations and the second largest economic power on the globe. This paper offers three essential insights. First, the study provides a...