This article addresses commercial hostage situations, also sometimes referred to as debt hostages, arising from business disputes in China. We define a “commercial hostage situation” as a dispute between a foreign company and its local partner over such matters as payment, the closing of a...

Much of the value of an Internet-of-Things (“IoT”) startup resides in its intellectual property. Many IoT startups use China, mainly Shenzhen, to develop, manufacture, and ship their product. Though this strategy provides many benefits, it also presents substantial challenges. IoT...

This articles analyzes the growth and practice of intellectual capital and competitive intelligence, two industry practices that have received increasing attention over the last decade. Related in their conceptual structure, the two fields also interact in terms of the benefits and costs of...

Three major trends have come together raising the stakes for firms seeing to compete in the new economy. First, knowledge management poses the idea that every organization holds knowledge in the minds of its personnel that can be identified, collected and managed for competitive advantage....

A well crafted and reasonable liquidated damages provision is one of the best leverage tools available for preventing the counterpart and supplier in a supply chain contract from breaching their agreements. This is also the primary reason for having a written contract in the first place. In this...

Supply chain contracts in developing markets such as China were once not worth the paper they were written on. As the market and legal systems matured, however, savvy organizations started to use supply contracts to protect the integrity of their global supply chains. In this article we address...