a r t i c l e i n f o As China experience unprecedented changes in its social, legal, and economic institutions, on what should foreign firms focus more to overcome this challenge, managerial ties or market orientation? This study investigates how managerial ties and market orientation affect competitive advantage and, consequently, firm performance in China. On the basis of a survey of 179 for...

T his paper aims to understand the structure and determinants of international bank l ending among APEC economies. Specifically, this paper first aims to analyze whether Australia Canada Japan Chinese Taipei and the United States, which are the only APEC members for which international borrowing data are available, tend to lend more intensively to other APEC members than to non-APEC countries ....

In Asian nations, family ties are considered important. However, it is not clear what happens among older people with no such ties. To investigate the association, we used longitudinal data from the Aichi Gerontological Evaluation Study (AGES) project. Functionally independent older people at baseline (N = 14,088) in 10 municipalities were followed from 2003 to 2013. Social ties were assessed b...

The author of the article examines evolution ideas about marriage and matrimonial duties in 17th century England. study is based on sermons to newlyweds published 1620s by famous moderate Puritan Thomas Gataker: “A Summary Marital Responsibilities” (1620), Good Wife a Gift God” (1620/23), Perfect Wife” (1623). It emphasized that these are rich source early modern marriage. Addressing them allow...

We use a sample of publicly available data on Twitter to study networks of mostly weak asymmetric ties. We show that a substantial share of ties lie within the same metropolitan region. As we examine ties between regional clusters, we find that distance, national borders and the difference in languages all affect the pattern of ties. However, Twitter connections show the more substantial correl...