Purpose: To find out ships' optimum operating speed under low-carbon economy. Approach: First, it analyzes the relations between ship's carbon emission and the operating speed, gets the optimum speed under which the entire fleet emit minimum carbon, then establishes the relations between the...

With 175 family businesses on the Fortune 500 list, from DuPont and Motorola to IBM, there is no doubt that family-run enterprises play an important role in global economic development. Their role is no less significant in China where, in keeping with the country's rapid economic growth, family...

Regional economic disparities are often regarded as signs of a country's uneven or backward development. After analyzing China's regional economic performances from 2003 to 2007, this paper concludes that the emergence of interior regions provides new momentum for China's economic growth, and...