Stakeholder power relations in Land Value Capture: comparing public (China) and private (U.S.) dominant regimes

Comparing public and private hospitals in China: Evidence from Guangdong

BACKGROUND The literature comparing private not-for-profit, for-profit, and government providers mostly relies on empirical evidence from high-income and established market economies. Studies from developing and transitional economies remain scarce, especially regarding patient case-mix and quality of care in public and private hospitals, even though countries such as China have expanded a mixe...

Video games production networks: value capture, power relations and embeddedness

This paper has two main aims. Firstly to conceptualize the production networks of the video games industry through an examination of its evolution intoamulti-milliondollar industry.Secondly, touse thevideogames industry to demonstrate the utility of Global Production Network approaches to understanding the geographically uneven impacts of globalization processes. In particular, three key notion...

Comparing the Active Centers in the Area of Ethics in Science and Technology in the US, UK, China and India

Background: Nowadays, life increasingly relies on inclusive scientific and technological infrastructures. Today, the use of technology has been manifested in all aspects of people's lives, so that decision-making processes in all aspects are based on the indicators of science and technology. Science has even come up with issues such as ethics and tradition, so traditional issues of ethics in th...

Comparing the services and quality of private and public clinics in rural China.

After 15 years eradication of the private health sector in Socialist China, private practice was restored in 1980 along with the market oriented economic reform. In recent years, however, debates on its pros and cons are increasing. Arguments against private practice have led to a ban on private practice in some rural counties. The arguments against private practice state that the service quali...

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