Choosing the financial supply is one of the most important decisions for providing optimal structure that can be effective for firm value and stocks market of companies. Therefore, marketing as one of the abilities of the firm can be effective on firm function. The purpose of this research is studying the role of marketing intensity on the relation of financial leverage and firm function in Com...

The ultimate aim of supply chain integration is to achieve effective external between firms in a chain, and the starting point for this broad intra-firm integration. However, extent which functional units/departments integrate within amongst them effectiveness not fully understood. This paper reports results study carried out three purposively selected large construction organisations that oper...

The government of China has launched an environmental campaign called “Ecological Civilization Construction” and successively set up demonstration zones for ecological civilization construction in some regions since 2012. This paper studies how influence technology investment local enterprises. In order to eliminate potential endogeneity issues differences time trends industries outside policy ...

I want to begin the first of my three annual progress reports on industrial geography by claiming that industrial geography, at least as I know it, has done very well within the geographical and, perhaps even, the wider social-scientific discourses. I am pleased the subdiscipline has lived up to the concluding remark by Taylor (1986: 412) in his progress report some 14 years ago that industrial...

This paper offers an organizational perspective on the firm in new economic geographies. It starts with the premise of the firm as a production function in neoclassical economics and a cost minimisation device in transaction cost economics. By pointing out the inadequacy in these mainstream economic perspectives on the firm, I draw upon recent behavioral and managerial theories to develop a rel...

Optimal working capital management can positively effect on the Firm performance, but this relationship can be affected by major characteristics of the firm, making an important subject for research. This research investigates the moderating role of firm characteristics on the relation between working capital management and financial performance of the firms listed in TSE during 2008 – 2017 per...