China's enterprise reform has resulted in large-scale layoff of workers from state and collective owned enterprises. Mainstream Chinese economists argue that many of the workers in these enterprises are " disguisedly unemployed " and have to be laid off to achieve better economic performance. In this paper, I argue that the productivity of state and collective owned enterprises to a large exten...

This paper investigates the determinants and competitive effects of legacy carriers’ vertical integration decision with independent regional airlines. Legacy carriers allocate a larger share of their operations to an independent regional airline partner compared to their own fleet or a wholly owned regional airline on routes experiencing stronger competition. Moreover, legacy carriers’ airfares...

Extensive livestock production has been Mongolia’s major industry for centuries and traditional nomadic herding lifestyle and Mongolia’s expansive rangelands sustain this industry. After the democratic election and economic liberalization in 1992, formerly state-owned collectives were disbanded and Mongolia’s livestock population was privatized. There was no longer a state institution to formal...

A key question for organizational learning research is to determine the conditions under which firms are able to gain information from the activities and performance of other firms and then use what they learn to guide their own strategy. In this paper, we study the business outlet location choices of locally and distantly owned firms. We ask whether locally and distantly owned firms will react...

Parental Education and Wages: Evidence from China Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents’ education with one’s wage. In addition, returns to father’s education are higher in more monopsonistic and less meritocratic labor markets, including non-coastal regions, the state-owned sector, and the early periods of the reform er...

This paper examines how ownership structure and institutional development influence the liquidity management and investment policies of firms, in response to the threat of political extraction in China. First, we document evidence that firms controlled by private entrepreneurs hold less cash reserves than their state-owned counterparts. In addition, cash holdings (investments) is positively (ne...

This article investigates the use of technology upgrades by incumbent firms in response to potential entry by government firms. Using a dataset of over 3000 US cable TV systems, the article presents evidence consistent with entry deterrence theory. Incumbent cable systems are more likely to upgrade when located in a market with a government-owned potential entrant. However, the same systems are...

Australia’s publicly owned and managed National Parks estate has been largely quarantined from the micro-economic reforms that have been instituted across most other sectors of the economy. The public good, natural monopoly and equity arguments that are used to justify a continued dominance by the public sector in the production and provision of Park benefits are not watertight. Opening up the ...

In a global and knowledge-rich economy, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become critical for organisations. Smartphones have impacted society and organisations alike with varying adoption and use across age groups. Due to recent legislation in many countries, older adults are now working to a higher age, but appear to lag behind younger users in terms of adoption and use o...

In this reflexive methodological and epistemological review, the author discusses the research in which the researcher almost entirely – practically, contextually and cognitively – participates in the field. It is a situation that mobilises the circumstances of the researcher's life into a scholarly-research enquiry. The author's field experience in studying an urban community is reconsidered w...