In 2002, CICEM Ltd. 1 , a worldwide recognized chemical producer located in Asia, initiated the development of new kind of plastic foil suitable for packaging bitumen into plastic bags. Bitumen is one of the oldest mineral oil products won during the refining of crude oil. Typical application...

Seit ihrer Gründung im Jahr 1949 weist die Volksrepublik (VR) China eine erstaunliche politische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung auf. Die wirtschaftliche und politische Lage des Landes Ende der 70er Jahre weckten innerhalb der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas (KPCh) erste Reformgedanken, das...

Since its first introduction in the Schmalenbach Business Review, Hahn et al.’s (2002) finite mixture partial least squares (FIMIX-PLS) approach to response-based segmentation in variance-based structural equation modeling has received much attention from the marketing and management...

Publishing cross-national research is often a difficult endeavour as ensuring equivalence of method and measures can be challenging. Even though the importance of sound data and valid measures has long been an acknowledged, it is often problematic to follow required quality standards in concrete...