In this study, we examine the nature of Schumpeterian competition between entrants and incumbents. We argue that incumbents may respond to the threat of entry by either attacking the entrant or trying to learn from it, and that entrants, in turn, may react by either reciprocating the incumbent's...

The poor in most parts of the world may have electricity (especially in urban areas), but they rarely have water, sewer, and telephone services. When they gain access to local services, however, many do decide to connect.Komives, Whittington, and Wu use the World Bank's Living Standards...

While local government entrepreneurship has long been regarded as one of the main drivers of China's economic growth, it has increasingly been recognised as a potential source of a set of harmful policy consequences in recent years, such as rising government debt crises, pervasive corruption and...

While it is widely agreed that local governments played a critical role in infrastructure building and industrial development in China – as key factors in its “economic miracle” - the relationship between local government entrepreneurship and the development of specialized markets through...

Research on flat firms has many dimensions. To introduce this special issue, we start our essay with a thought experiment. In his novella Flatland (1884), Edwin A. Abbott describes life in a “flat,” two-dimensional world that is populated by geometric shapes—squares, lines, triangles, and...

Quantification of evapotranspiration (ET) is critical to sustainable management of irrigated agriculture. To date, attempts at measuring regional ET in arid and semi-arid regions with complex surface characteristics have been largely unsuccessful. In this study, we proposed a remote sensing data...

Perceived fairness may affect people’s willingness to pay (WTP). In this study, an online survey with random experiments reveals that perceived fairness has a significant positive impact on consumers’ WTP for cleaner raw water (WTP1) and their WTP for tap water meeting higher water quality...