China and Africa, Fiendship, Pace,Cooperation and Dvelopment

The Forum of China-Africa Cooperation（FOCAC）.was held in Nowember, as well as the The 2nd Sino-African Entrepreneurs Conference ,marking the milestone of the China-Africa relations which have experienced the test of several thousand years,     

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ing shutter, sound insulation wall, sound insulation door and sound absorption ceilings were adopted to reduce noise from WILSON diesel generator set. The sound level can meet the criteria after taking these measures.diesel generator set; noise; noise abateme     

Clustering,MNEs, and Innovation: Who Benefits and How?

Abstract

This paper explores three under-researched questions in the literature on multinational enterprises (MNEs), clustering, and innovation. First, to what extent does multinationality lead to higher rates of innovation activity and performance? Second, what, if any, is the link between MNE cluster location and innovation inputs and outputs? Third, are there any significant differences between enterprises belonging to domestic and overseas MNEs in these regards? Evidence is based primarily on 11,775 firms derived from the UK Community Innovation Survey 2007. Diversity in the regional economy exerts the most consistent positive influence, followed by the scale of employment in the enterprise’s own industry. Enterprises belonging to domestic MNEs appear to exert higher levels of innovation effort. However, evidence regarding their superiority in innovation outputs was weaker. Contrary to Michael Porter’s work, it appears that enterprises belonging to overseas firms benefit more than domestic firms.     

Pioneering, Innovating,and Pursuing Preeminence

Over the last decade, Zhang Shaojie has viewed the quality of teaching as paramount to all of the university's functions. He has made great efforts to emphasize teaching. The university set a course to centralize its teaching systems and organized the Teaching Inspection and Steering Committee, the Teaching Evaluation Construction and Consultation Committee, and the Higher Education Academy. It also created an effective management hierarchy, and never sacrificed its reasonable yet scientific, harmonious yet powerful approach.     

Multi-functional,Combined,and Light Interchange

It is a very special interchange proposal,with great economic and social benefits,and different from the current interchange design,the new type interchange will be completed without influencing traffic.During this proposal,the interchange will be built up on unilateral road rather than on crossing road,and disperse vehicles via two-end interchanging.As the design will be completed in the factory,and only assembling taken on the road, the flexible and light interchange takes no room, lays no obstacles in processing,and fully separates motors from non-motorized ones. Moreover,this type of interchange helps to realize multi practical functions,including parking lot,urban navigation system,real-time traffic monitoring and management,as well as air pollution control     

Lotus seeds, jujubes, and kelp knots

Preparation time: 35 minutes Cooking time: 30 minutesFeatures: healthy foods, sweet, softIngredients:fresh kelp knots150gdry lotus seeds without core50gdry jujubes without core10 piecesbrine1 spoon (15 ml)rice wine(15 ml)crystal sugar(15 ml)sesame oil(15 ml)Recipe:1. soak kelp knots into vinegar water for 20 minutes and wash2. clean dry jujube, and sock into lukewarm water for 20 minutes3. boil dry lotus seeds for 15 minutes and drip to dry4. boil kelp knots, jujubes a…     

Chinalco and Rio Tinto, the Second Handshake, Actual and Powerful？

On February 12, a meaningful scene occurred in London： Xiao Yaqing, the General Manager of Chinalco, and Paul Skinner, the Chairman of Rio Tinto took a handshake at the agreement ceremony, which symbolizes the second cooperation between Rio Tinto and Chinalco, after Chinalco＇s first investing in Rio Tinto with US$14 billion last year.     

China National Import and Export Corporationof Native Produce, Animal Products,Dried Food, Fruits, Vegetables and Honey

TheChinaNationalImportandExportCorporationofNativeProduce,AnimalProducts,DriedFood,Fruits,VegetablesandHoney,asubsidiaryoftheChinaNationalNativeProduceandAnimalProuctsImportandExportCorporation.isaState-ownedforeigntradecorporation.handlingchieflytheexportofhoney.Eachyearitexports5,000tonsofhoneyofdifferentkindssuchasChinesescholarflowers,Chinesemilkvetch,whitehoney,amberandbucketwheat.leadingallotherexportdomesticcompanies.Thecorporationhasprofessionalswithrichknowledgeofinternation…     

International Regulation on Health,Safety, and the Environment – Trends and Challenges

The international regulation of health, safety, and the environment has come far. Spurred by the United States, the United Nations established in the 1980's a tight net of rules that define minimum standards for the production and marketing of hazardous goods. The rules are for the most part non-binding. The successful conclusion of the GATT Uruguay Round now makes it imperative to balance the rules of international product safety law against the liberties demanded by international free trade. This challenge offers new perspectives for the development of international product safety law.     

Marketing capabilities, stakeholders’ satisfaction, and performance

This study shows that the relationship between marketing capabilities and firm financial performance can be better understood when it is drawn using stakeholder satisfaction as an additional variable, in the context of the service industry. Results from 152 Spanish service organizations indicate that superior marketing capabilities lead to higher levels of stakeholder satisfaction, which consequently improves financial firm performance. Results complement previous research which found a strong relationship between marketing capabilities and performance when the latter includes financial and nonfinancial indicators. Marketing capabilities improve not only customer satisfaction but also employee fulfillment which, in turn, may increase financial indicators.     

Personality,person–brand fit,and brand community: An investigation of individuals,brands, and brand communities

Abstract

Brand communities have received considerable and warranted attention from marketing researchers and practitioners. Brand communities can be important sources of information for both the firm and other customers, and they play an important role in building and maintaining strong brands. Nevertheless, the antecedents of brand community identification, such as individual differences across consumers in the propensity to connect with brand communities, are not as well understood. We hypothesise that the enduring personality traits extraversion and agreeableness predict identification with the [brand] community, which in turn, and along with product attachment, will be related to brand trust and brand loyalty. Product attachment itself is hypothesised to be a function of person–brand congruity, the perceived fit between the person and the brand. Those relationships are tested and supported in data from a sample of 662 car enthusiasts attending a large brand community meeting or ‘brandfest’.     

Dream,Harmony and New Vision

Exciting news for those automobile fans! Auto China 2008 or the 10th Bei- jing International Automotive Exhibition heated the whole Beijing city this spring.During April 22-28,in the newly-built New China International Ex- hibition Center,this big auto feast opened its curtain in Shunyi,the suburbs of Beijing.In this hot week,Auto China 2008 welcomed over 680 thousand audience from home and abroad.     

Lianyungang,Nantong and Kunshan Economic and Technological Development Areas

Lianyungang Economic and Techno-logical Development Area Approved by the State Council,the Lianyungang Economic and Techno-logical Development Area was founded in1984, located in the east of the city of Li-anyungang, covering an area of 30 sq Kmand 22 km away from Xinpu area, and fivekm from the port of Lianyungang. Well developed air, land and sea traf-fic services provide ideal conditions for in-vestment in the place. Along its railways itcan reach every part of the country. Its inland     

Third-Party Certification,Sponsorship, and Consumers’ Ecolabel Use

While prior ecolabel research suggests that consumers’ trust of ecolabel sponsors is associated with their purchase of ecolabeled products, we know little about how third-party certification might relate to consumer purchases when trust varies. Drawing on cognitive theory and a stratified random sample of more than 1200 consumers, we assess how third-party certification relates to consumers’ use of ecolabels across different program sponsors. We find that consumers’ trust of government and environmental NGOs to provide credible environmental information encourages consumers’ use of ecolabels sponsored by these entities, and consumers do not differentiate between certified versus uncertified ecolabels in the presence of trust. By contrast, consumers’ distrust of private business to provide credible environmental information discourages their use of business association-sponsored ecolabels. However, these ecolabels may be able to overcome consumer distrust if their sponsors certify the ecolabels using third-party auditors. These findings are important to sponsors who wish develop ecolabels that are more credible to consumers, and thus encourage more widespread ecolabel use.     

Resource Acquisition,Internationalization, and the Catch-up Path of Chinese Construction Machinery Champions—The Case of Sany,XCMG, and Zoomlion

This study investigates the internationalization and resource accumulation process of the three largest Chinese construction machinery companies: Sany, XCMG and Zoomlion. It takes a longitudinal approach to analyze the internationalization process of the three companies over the last 25 years. Although the three companies’ paths in the early acquisition of technologies and firm-specific advantages (FSA) differ significantly, however, their internationalization process exhibits similar pattern. They all exploit the same home-country based FSAs in their south-south expansion into other emerging markets, and seem to mimic each other in their strategic moves. In the south-north expansion into advanced economies they skip the export stage and rely almost exclusively on foreign direct investment of both forms, greenfield and M&A, to pursue asset augmenting objectives and overcome their “liability of origin”. The study concludes by discussing several topics of interest, such as the implications of accelerated resource accumulation, the impact on competition with advanced multinationals in the home market or possible effects on the level of state support and risk taking behavior in the internationalization process by the companies’ ownership type.     

Algeria,Gateway Between African and Europe

Algeria is a gateway between Africa and Eu- rope.With active policy reforms, the nation is aiming for an economic takeoff based on its vast natural resources.     

Corporate Social Responsibility and Its Impact on Firms’ Investment Policy, Organizational Structure, and Performance

This study examines the determinants of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its implications on firms’ investment policy, organizational strategy, and performance. First, we find that firms with better performance, higher R&D intensity, better financial health, and firms in new economy industries are more likely to engage in CSR activities, while riskier firms are less likely to do so. We also find U-shaped relation between firm size and CSR, indicating that either very small or very large firms exhibit high levels of CSR strengths and concerns. Next, we find that firms’ CSR strengths relate favorably with their investments, organizational strategy, and performance, whereas CSR concerns and firm attributes are by and large negatively related. Using a 2SLS procedure, we verify that the CSR–performance relation is robust to corrections for endogeneity through reverse causation and/or biases introduced by time varying omitted variables. Finally, we find that the CSR–firm attributes relation is strengthened when the CEO’s incentives are below the sample median, suggesting that CSR participation is especially important when monetary incentives are lower than benchmark levels.     

Regional knowledge,entrepreneurial culture,and innovative start-ups over time and space―an empirical investigation

We investigate the role of entrepreneurship culture and the historical knowledge base of a region on current levels of new business formation in innovative industries. The analysis is for German regions and covers the time period 1907–2014. We find a pronounced positive relationship between high levels of historical self-employment in science-based industries and new business formation in innovative industries today. This long-term legacy effect of entrepreneurial tradition indicates the prevalence of a regional culture of entrepreneurship. Moreover, local presence and geographic proximity to a technical university founded before the year 1900 is positively related to the level of innovative start-ups more than a century later. The results show that a considerable part of the knowledge that constitutes an important source of entrepreneurial opportunities is deeply rooted in history. We draw conclusions for policy and for further research.