Grassland development serves as an important part of the national sustainable development strategy in China. This paper defines the strategic objectives of grassland development in China based on the national strategy, the current status of grassland development in China and the status of...

In this paper the conceptual frameworks, which make different predictions about the effect of boardleadership structure on firm risk-taking behaviour, are examined. From a sample of 243 Australian listed firms, it is found that leadership structure does not have any significant influence on firm...

Current recommendations in Australia and some other economies identify independentdirectors as a key component of effective corporate governance. The research on theempirical link between board characteristics and firm performance, matching the trendtowards greater board independence, is...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between board composition and firm performance variance in the context of recent corporate governance reforms, based on the agency and organisational literatures.Design/methodology/approach This paper uses 384 of the top 500...

AbstractPurpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between board diversity, as represented by the percentage of female, minority or female and minority directors on the boards of directors, and firm financial performance, and to explore the potential determinants of...

We establish sufficient conditions on durations that are stationary with finite variance and memory parameter <inline-graphic>null</inline-graphic> to ensure that the corresponding counting process <italic>N</italic>(<italic>t</italic>) satisfies Var <italic>N</italic>(<italic>t</italic>) ~ <italic>Ct</italic>² (<italic>C</italic> 0) as <italic>t</italic> → ∞, with the same memory parameter <inline-graphic>null</inline-graphic> that was assumed for the durations. Thus,...

Exploitation of natural gas hydrate is expecting to be an important strategic way to solve the problem of energy depletion. Understanding the effectiveness of the well configuration plays a pivotal role in gas production from the hydrate reservoir. This study evaluates the methane hydrate...

Interactions between firms and universities are key building blocks of innovation systems. This book focuses on those interactions in developing countries, presenting studies based on fresh empirical material prepared by research teams in 12 countries from three continents. The result is a more...

To investigate into the synergistic effect of depressurization and heat stimulation on hydrate dissociation and the three-dimensional heat transfer characteristics during hydrate dissociation in the porous media, a series of the hydrate dissociation experimental runs by the depressurization in...