The authors examine the diverse prospects of innovative sectors in Beijing and Shanghai using available indicators and data collected for this study through surveys. Beijing is the first choice for companies locating in China, but foreign employees prefer Shanghai for living convenience and...

The paper examines the diffusion of lead-free soldering in ICT manufacturers in China as response to EU's RoHS directives, in order to investigate the global–local networks linking the lead market with the producers in developing countries. The result shows rapid diffusion of the technological...

The economic and economic-statistical designs of an X¯ control chart for two-identical unit series systems with condition-based maintenance is studied in this paper. This system is described using a five-state continuous time Markov chain. We assume that the system is monitored by an X¯...