Purpose: The cluster supply chain is widely used in the professional towns in China, and improves the competitiveness of small and medium enterprises through integrating the supply chain with the industrial cluster. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach: This paper...

Purpose – Third-party purchase (3PP) is a new value-added service offered by third-party logistics (3PL) providers. The purpose of this paper is to examine the perception of 3PP service from the perspective of 3PL users. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted a survey of Chinese...

The purpose of rural informationization is to provide effective information for farmers, increase production efficiency and income level of farmers in agricultural production. In recent years, under the guidance of No. 1 document of central government, China’s rural informationization has...

We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001-2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of...

Theoretical and empirical work on export dynamics has generally assumed constant marginal production cost and therefore ignored domestic product market conditions. However, recent studies have documented a negative contemporaneous correlation between firms'domestic and export sales growth,...

Theoretical and empirical work on export dynamics has generally assumed constant marginal production cost and therefore ignored domestic product market conditions. However, recent studies have documented a negative correlation between firms' domestic and export sales growth, suggesting that...

We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001-2010. We uncover the following stylized facts about regional variation of manufacturing firms' integration into global value...

Purpose – Food waste (FW) reduction, of which household wastage comprises a large fraction, has an important role in promoting the circular economy (CE). This study investigates how certain consumer traits impact household FW, particularly in the face of external...

Part Ⅰ Academic Origins -- Chapter 1. 1 Human Tissue Engineering and Its Inspiration -- Chapter 2. Evolutionary Economics and Its Inspiration -- Chapter 3. Organizational Theory and Its Inspiration -- Chapter 4. Enterprise Theory and Its Inspiration -- Chapter 5. Entrepreneurial Theory and Its...