Article history: Received 11 February 2014 Received in revised form 17 July 2014 Accepted 7 October 2014 Available online 28 October 2014 Innovation efficiency is an effectivemeasure of an enterprise's innovation level. This study focuses on those factors that decide the innovation efficiency of Chinese private enterprises, and on the impacts that political relations and financing constraints h...

Trust is important to enable interactions on the web, in particular with enterprises. The trust that people have in enterprises can be built, reinforced or modified via a variety of means and tools, including personal experience, analysis of prior history, recommendations, certification and auditing by known authorities. The behaviour of an enterprise and the fact that it performs as predicted ...

As a new means of management, empowerment has received the attention of small and mediumsized enterprises. Managers in small and medium-sized enterprises empower front-line salespeople, which will make front-line salespeople grasp the moment of truth, improve the on-site contact quality between salespeople and customers, increase customer satisfaction, bring the improvement of sales performance...

Taking Chinese listed companies in 2008–2015 as the sample, in this paper we test in detail the impact of female directors on corporate environmental investments. Furthermore, we study the impact of female directors on environmental investment in enterprises with different types of ownership and industry attributes. Empirical studies show that when there are only 1 or 2 female directors on the ...

As an important source for discovering new competitive technological intelligence involved in enterprises, patents can be analyzed to identify the technological strategy and the potential competitors. Based on the patent citation information, the weighted and directed enterprise citation network is established. Based on the modified PageRank algorithm, a novel method is provided to evaluate the...

In countries with a long history of entrepreneurship and market economy, significant research efforts have been devoted to family business succession. Such studies are rare in former communist countries, mainly because private enterprises were outlawed during the socialist economy era. Considering reports on the importance and complexity of succession issues, and taking into account the ageing ...

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) by Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) have the potential to enable these businesses to grow through access to new markets and administrative efficiencies. However, the growth of the smallest of these SMEs which are micro-enterprises is hindered by their inability to adopt ICTs. This paper investigates how micro-enterprises can ...

modern manufacturing is under ever increasing pressure to develop solutions for highly complextasks. in order to maintain the business survival in a highly competitive environment, it is vital toobtain customer satisfaction, which requires developing products with shorter lifecycles and higherquality meanwhile to reduce the production costs. in order to achieve such objectives a paradigmhas bee...

We are grateful to James Tybout for access to the data, and to Tilahun Temesgen for excellent research assistance. Correspondence related to the paper should be addressed to [email protected] or [email protected]. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executi...

Tourism businesses are operating in an increasingly turbulent environment and are being forced to react to extreme circumstances that are outside of their control. This paper examines the affects of SARS on tourism enterprises in China through a national survey of hotels, travel agencies and other tourism-related businesses. While all types of enterprises were adversely affected, it is shown th...