China became the second-largest economy behind the USA in 2010. While there is quite some macroeconomic research documenting the technological catching-up of China as a nation, there is only little research studying how individual Chinese firms are catching up. This paper draws on the open innovation perspective to explore how Chinese firms improve their innovative performance. Our empirical an...

The development of high-tech industries encourages an increase in requirements for metal materials, a complex their main and special properties, methods one-piece connection.

Overall customer satisfaction for industrial buyers is correlated with repurchase intentions. Components of overall satisfaction include satisfaction with the product (offering), satisfaction with the vendor's performance, and interpersonal satisfaction (satisfaction with the relationship with the salesperson). Research shows that industrial buyers evaluate components of satisfaction non-unifor...