Among China’s existing state-level High-tech Industry Development Zones (HIDZ), the number of upgraded ones account for more than 65%, which are supposed to fulfill important mission leading innovation. However, while HIDZ enjoy opportunities before, they also face major challenges such as significant inter-generational differences between them and born HIDZ. Based on panel data Chinese (prefecture-level) cities from 2007 2015, paper empirically examines impact upgrade urban innovation...

A great deal of research attention has been devoted to studying the effects customer concentration on firm strategic acts. Scholars have also investigated relationship between and innovation, but concluded inconsistent findings such relationship. Furthermore, underlying mechanism remains unclear. To address these concerns, this study decouples exploratory innovation from introduce performance-reducing threats perceived by executives as mediator. Based observations China high-tech listed...

Knowledge sharing between cooperative partners is the key to success of innovation projects (CIPs). Understanding knowledge behaviour conducive development project management. From perspective partners, this study explores effects status on behaviour, as well moderating task complexity in CIPs. Based a survey 174 CIPs, research results show that has positive impact both explicit and tacit behaviours. Meanwhile, positively moderates knowledge-sharing Thus, provides partner's subjective

Succession process is a significant matter that vital to the sustainability of family firm. Families are generous in involving offspring(s) into business so as fulfill inter-generational succession. In this paper, we concentrate on issue results involvement multiple offsprings firms. By using data collected from China listed firms between 2009 and 2015, reveal there exist contingency effects risk taking different phrases. The new leads sibling rivalry happen would increase firm short-term....

Store managers in retail firms are often offered a performance-based compensation scheme accompanied with performance target by the headquarters. The headquarters adjusts based on store managers’ historical and therefore generates ratchet effect. Consequently, may downward manipulate performance, that is, deflated manipulation, so as to weasel out of growth smooth growth. However, reputation effect seeks fame can restrain manipulation. We model dynamic agency setting which both related...

Abstract Recently, consumer behavior research has been focusing on decision‐making in relationships. This considers an important context, romantic gift giving, which givers choose gifts that are perceptually consistent with both their own self‐image and the recipients' self‐image. Based interdependence theory, we investigate how relationship dependence between couples can affect image consistency. According to results, giver's level of plays a positive role consistency recipient's...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss agent risk taking and efforts in the context multiple heterogeneous references. We focus on two key references terms performance target aspiration income. And we also introduce them into principal-agent model. By method numerical simulation, our results show that gap psychological reference income have complex interaction influences efforts. In addition, profit-sharing coefficient plays moderating role these relationships. Our provide good evidence...

The contagion of interfirm behaviours along the supply chain has become a significant issue for both management and internal governance firms within chain. By means panel data 1893 mated pairs collected from Chinese listed firms, we examine effect corruption-related perk consumption by investigating whether firms’ is influenced their peers. We find unilateral corrupt chain, i.e., only suppliers to customers. suggest that exert this influencing customers’ managerial culture close business...

China’s beauty industry is in a period of rapid development, and the excessive speed development bound to generate problems. This paper sets out identify propose solutions typical problems Chinese apply individual cases. Perfect Diary occupies significant share market, local leader, it faces are very representative. Therefore, this selects as case study. uses studies survey research combines 4P STP models conduct analyzes current trends industry, Diary’s consumer behavior characteristics...