Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview -- Chapter 2. Sustainable development of multinational companies in Asia Reverse transfer of diversity management knowledge to headquarters -- Chapter 3. Employment and Human Resource Development of Disabled People in Japan and Finland: A Comparative Study...

Consumers have been using widespread negative feedback to make firms change their online standard form contracts. In 2009, for example, backlash against an update to Facebook's terms of service caused the company to rewrite its entire agreement. Such consumer action challenges the view that...

Urban heat island (UHI) manifests as the temperature rise in built-up urban areas relative to the surrounding rural countryside, largely because of the relatively greater proportion of incident solar energy that is absorbed and stored by man-made materials. The direct impact of UHI can be...

Standard-form contracting is the engine of the mass-market economy, yet we know little about what drives it and what factors are associated with its evolution. Understanding change and innovation of the substance, length, and complexity of fine print in the consumer context can help regulators...

This paper builds on the existing literature on tests of the null hypothesis of deterministic seasonality in a univariate time-series process. Under the assumption of independent Gaussian errors, we derive the class of locally weighted mean most powerful invariant tests against unit roots at the...

1. Management training and development in China revisited / Malcolm Warner -- 2. International business in China vis a vis the global economic crisis : introduction / Robert Taylor -- 3. Control of French and Japanese subsidiaries in China : implementing control mechanisms before and after the...

China has developed one of the most comprehensive and effective sets of energy efficiency policies and programs in the world. This has been an arduous task over decades, involving the government, businesses, and civil society. Although success has abounded in many areas, China's programs are not...