The Chinese automotive industry is the largest in the world. Although after-sales services are known to be associated with profitability, it has not obtained its rightful prominence in the Chinese industry. To investigate how the quality of leader-member exchange can influence after-sales services in the Chinese automobile industry, we collected data from individual employees and customers and ...

The ubiquitous payment problems within construction industry of China are notoriously hard to be resolved, thus lead to a series of impacts to the industry chain. Among of them, the most direct result is affecting the normal operation of contractors negatively. A wealth of research has already discussed reasons of the payment problems by introducing a number of possible improvement strategies. ...

Due to the fact that the development of Chinese aviation industry has slowed down since the world financial crisis in 2008, how to evaluate the airline profitability improvements has become a key issue. Many mathematical methods can be applied in comprehensive evaluations,but the different focal points of these methods and the choice of methods may lead to different evaluation results, even if ...

Effective tobacco tax increases reduce tobacco consumption, threatening the profitability of the tobacco industry. In response, the tobacco industry employs strategies to negate or minimize the full effects of tobacco tax increases. By interacting with various government agencies and non-governmental organizations we identified seven such strategies: stockpiling, changing product attributes or ...

ABSTRACT In the past few years, dairy industry has become one of the fastest growing sectors in the packaged food industry of Vietnam. However, the value-added creation among different activities in the value chain of Vietnam dairy sector is distributed unequally. In the production activities, the dairy farmers gain low value-added rate due to high input cost. Whereas the processing activities,...

Environmental management at nature-based tourism destinations includes a private and a public component. The former refers to voluntary environmental protection activities carried out by individual (and groups of) tourism operators. These activities are motivated by the dependence of the product provided by the tourism industry on the quality of the natural environment. Public sector management...

The passing of the Transport Act 1985 deregulated and privatised bus industry in Great Britain outside London, however failed to address prime specified aim reversing long run decline patronage. Review literature suggests one main reasons for this was due subsequent consolidation that resulted anti-competitive market structures outcomes, i.e. inefficient production fare levels monopoly profits....