The paper discusses the new concept of ‘Multinational Investment Projects' (MIPs) and its application in the context of international business operations in China. The petrochemical industry in China is used as the industrial context in which we investigate the interplay between the Chinese...

In online labor markets (OLMs), it is well known that platforms often enable bidders to list their skills to help employers assess their capability of completing a certain task. Given the wide range of projects in OLMs platforms, should bidders list more skills to match as many projects as...

Freelancers in online labor markets often display many skills in their profiles to increase their chances of participating in multiple jobs. However, such behavior may lead their displayed skills to straddle multiple categories, that is, skill spanning. In this paper, we extend the concept of...