Outlines the development of the construction sector in the period 1980-2001, e.g. the employment in collective-owned vs. state-owned enterprises, the influx of rural workers, role of labour contractors, and the impact of using pre-fabricated concrete and interior fittings such as doors, flooring...

Retail shopping establishments in the West have evolved through many different stages, in close association with Western lifestyles. The growth of supermarkets has been an important part of this trend, and in the 1980s, they were introduced in China. With their distinctive business environment,...

There are many factors that affect SMEs' ability to borrow from bank. Based on facts and data about SMEs' financing in Chengdu city, capital of Southwestern China's Sichuan province, this paper is intended to investigate the factors affecting SMEs to borrow from bank by methods of empirical...

This paper investigates how accounting standards (AS) convergence influences Chinese firms' overseas mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and shows that this convergence significantly promotes Chinese firms' overseas M&As. Specifically, we find that both the probability of success and the value of...