"This book intends to examine the relationship between East Asia and Southeast Asia across three themes: historical perspectives, economic flows of capital and people, and socio-cultural connections. While a substantial number of chapters in the book focus on overseas Chinese (living in...

The focus of this paper aims to comprehensively analyze the global high-level scientific output of economic corridors. In this study, bibliometric method is utilized not only to help identify core collaboration networks among authors, institutions, countries, but also to characterize research...

We examine whether political corruption impedes mergers and acquisitions (M&As) decisions. Using a comprehensive sample of Chinese firms, we find that corruption has a substantial, negative relation with the firm acquisitiveness. Further evidence suggests that the impact is more pronounced when...

Purpose – The emergence of “interorganizational marketing” as a hot topic leads to one key question: can interorganizational governance mechanisms (socialization, incentives, and monitoring) offered by marketing theory be applied to China, an emerging economy characterized by the Chinese...

Purpose: This study aims to empirically assess restaurant surfaces’ cleanliness and compare them to customers’ perceptions about the cleanliness of surfaces when dining in a restaurant. Design/methodology/approach: This study used two methods to collect data. The first was a survey method...

Purpose: This study aims to strengthen implications about hotel cleaning outcomes by comparing guests’ perception of the amount of contact they have with cleanliness of hotel surfaces. Design/methodology/approach: This study used two data-collection methods, a survey and an adenosine...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the temporal dynamics of users browsing activity on a hotel website in order to derive effective marketing strategies and constantly improve website effectiveness. Users' activities on the hotel's website on yearly, monthly, daily and hourly basis are...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to compare the relative impacts of trust and risk on individual’s transaction intention in consumer-to-consumer (C2C) e-marketplaces from both the buyers’ and the sellers’ perspectives. Design/methodology/approach: Two surveys were used to collect...