The role of higher education institutions as active agents globalization and marketization remains relatively little explored. Economic geographic perspectives are particularly well placed to investigate globalizing an important economic sector, in addition its supportive the knowledge economy. Drawing on political cultural fixes, study analyzes motivations spatial strategies for expansion univ...

Refuse collection has been the main public service to be outsourced in Denmark since the E.U. guidelines on public procurement came into force in 1993. The contracting activities of the municipalities are framed by a complex set of ideologies and objectives, in addition to regulations. At both EU level and at national level, the demands for marketization of the public sector are counterbalanced...

The problem of corporate debt is a hidden danger to China’s economic growth and financial stability. This paper studies the effect regional marketization on burden local enterprises based fixed effects model. result demonstrates that higher market-oriented degree, lower in region. Further analysis improvement not only directly reduces enterprise debt, but also by increasing productivity promoti...

The government affects the sewage discharge behavior of enterprises through intervention behavior, which reflects viewpoint institutional theory. However, at same time, whether regional marketization can also motivate enterprises’ treatment poses a challenge to this view. Therefore, theoretical models are established, objective data collected, and empirical studies conducted explore relationshi...

Australia is in the forefront of internationalization higher education world, after years development, its strategic direction, policy guidance, institutional protection and other aspects have taken a series powerful measures, level also forefront, becoming one countries with degree world. By studying Australia, this paper analyzes characteristics experiences provides some suggestions for our c...

This paper delves the impact of economic marketization on social inequality in urban China. We propose a contingent version of the market transition theory and examine how markets substantively re-shape individual’s employment choices and their associated payoffs. We identify new stratification mechanisms related to 1) the expanding private/hybrid sector, 2) the emergence of labor markets, and ...