Building on Rahim and Bonoma’s conflict management model, this study examines conflict management styles in Sino-American, Sino-French, and state-owned enterprises in Mainland China. Through a probability survey of 374 subjects from Sino-American and Sino-French enterprises, and 150 employees from state-owned enterprises in Guangdong Province, China, this study found that Chinese in foreign-inv...

This research aims to explore factors responsible for successful implementation of ERP systems in Indian organizations. The paper also aims to explore the similarities and differences in ERP system adoption between locally-owned and multinational companies in India. The data was collected from 56 project managers and business analysts with ERP expertise from both locally-owned Indian and multin...

This paper studies the telecommunication policies of four Latin American countries (Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico) to evaluate the impact of these policies on telecommunications industry growth. Each country’s telecommunications industry is characterized by consumer welfare (teledensity and the waiting list for a new telephone line), industry outputs (fixed lines, cellular subscribers),...

*The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia or the Federal Reserve System. or most homeowners, housing is the single most important component of their nonpension wealth. Therefore, a change in house prices greatly affects the total wealth of many households. Furthermore, movements in house prices can af...

This paper provides historical context for contemporary discourses on landownership, notably the changing scale of absentee landownership and foreign ownership since 1849. Trends in landownership since European occupation of one of the most agriculturally productive regions in south east Australia, the Lachlan River catchment, are examined at regional, shire and district scales. Evolution of te...

Based on institutional theory, I extend research on the regulative role of national government in society, and suggest that government exerts important influences on firms‘ actions through the diffusion of norms. I suggest that by instituting the Council on Ethics which publicly ―censors‖ and ―certifies‖ the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund‘s cross-border investments, the Norwegian government co...

This article analyses the way in which il caffè sospeso, an old Italian tradition giving needy people a free coffee, has become 'suspended coffee', a current trend in the United States. Theoretically, firstly, this study explains the Italian phenomenon through Bourdieu's 'classic' theory linked to food as provider of social distinction, distance from reality and culinary capital; secondly, to e...

Urban economists understand housing prices with a spatial equilibrium approach that assumes people must be indifferent across locations. Since the spatial no arbitrage condition is inherently imprecise, other economists have turned to other no arbitrage conditions, such as the prediction that individuals must be indifferent between owning and renting. This paper argues these non-spatial, no arb...

Article history: Received 14 April 2014 Received in revised form 5 June 2015 Accepted 15 June 2015 Available online 20 June 2015 This paper investigates the impact of CEO career concerns on a firm's investment efficiency for publicly listed Chinese companies from 2002 to 2009. We use CEO age and appointment of new CEO as proxies for CEO career concerns. For thewhole sample, we demonstrate that ...