Exploring the influence of farmland transfer on poverty among the mid-aged and elderly rural households is of great value in preventing them from returning to poverty and in solving the problem of rural poverty. Based on the propensity score matching with differences in differences (PSM-DID)...

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This paper provides technical details and user guidance on the Research Infrastructure of Chinese Foundations (RICF), a database of Chinese foundations, civil society, and social development in general. The structure of the RICF is deliberately designed and normalized according to the Three...

Public administration has enormous implications for government’s capacity to cope with both internal and external pressure. China’s old-fashioned ruling style has not been able to meet the nation’s development needs. Since the early 1980s, China has launched six administrative reforms in...

As the civil society and corporatism theories have been frequently challenged recently, alternative theories emerged to investigate the government-NGO relationship in China. Some new theories are largely related to resource dependence or share core ideas with it. This paper conducts a...

Purpose: Given the current lack of literature in the background of China labor force, this study aims to investigate the relationships among job satisfaction, perceived union instrumentality, and unionization from a reference-frame-based perspective and explore the referred relationships in the...

Purpose The role of marketing as a business function is rapidly changing in China. Consequently, their views on marketing orientation – whether it is accepted, rejected, modified or reframed – have been seriously impacted. This paper aims to report on the results of a survey among Chinese...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to offer empirical evidence on whether and how the work experiences of employees in China influence their union-related attitudes and behaviours. Design/methodology/approach: The authors developed a mediated moderation model to examine how job satisfaction...