Business-to-Business Markets – Status Quo and Future Trends

As a phenomenon of modified value-chain structures the economic importance of business-to-business markets has been growing immensely during the past decades. This paper delivers a quantified overview of the market dimensions in terms of transactional volume. In addition, it explains the causes for this market development such as an increased service orientation in business transactions, higher degrees of customization, and influential factors on a macro level. In this context, future trends in this sector will be outlined as well.

Status Quo and Prospects of Hotels in Beijing

As China expands its opening to the outside world, hotels in Beijing are developing rapidly. At the end of 1997, there were 259 hotels in Beijing, including 15 fivestar ones, 25 four-star ones and 46 three-star ones and having more than 60,000 rooms.If hotels not appraised for star grade are taken into account, the hotel market in Beijing will be much larger.     

Status Quo and Development Trend of China's Brewing Industry

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Status Quo of Drug Supervision in China(PatrⅡ)

Ⅲ. Policies and Measures Concerning Drug Safety Supervision Based on its national conditions and learning from international advanced ex- perience, China has formulated policies and measures concerning the improve- ment of drug safety, effectiveness and quality control, and established a regula- tory system covering research.nroduc-     

Status Quo of Drug Supervision in China（Part Ⅱ）

Based on its national conditions and learning from international advanced experience, China has formulated policies and measures concerning the improvement of drug safety, effectiveness and quality control, and established a regulatory system covering research, production, distribution and use of drugs.     

The Profile of Research on Exporter–Importer Relationships: A Chronological Analysis

This article presents a chronological analysis of bibliographic and thematic aspects of exporter–importer business relationships research based on a systematic review of 211 articles published between the years 1975 and 2017 in business journals. The study findings indicate that, in terms of bibliographic aspects, this literature is characterized by (a) an increasing collaboration among different institutions and countries, despite a heavy concentration of authors from Europe and North America; (b) a predominance of a small number of scholars producing a substantial part of the literature; and (c) dominance of empirical articles with relatively moderate average impact. In terms of thematic aspects, behavioral dimensions and relationship characteristics constitute the nucleus of the literature, with research efforts focusing on their environmental and internal drivers and performance outcomes. These study findings carry significant implications for major stakeholders of the exporter–importer relationships research, including authors, editors, and conference organizers.     

Never Say Never—Status Quo and Research Agenda for Relationship Termination in B2B Markets

Section I: In this conceptual paper we will present the current research findings on relationship termination in B2B context and, we will derive a framework of customer defection and customer recovery management.     

Dalian： Construction of International Shipping Center Continues Day and Night

CPC Central Committee and State Council and clearly stated that, we shall turn Dalian into an important international shipping center in Northeast Asia.     

Green Financial Products in the EU — A Critical Review of the Status Quo

Intereconomics - The financial sector plays an important role in supporting the green transformation of the European economy. A critical assessment of the current regulatory framework for...     

The Trends of the International Arbitration Development

The international arbitration, as a kind of the methods to resolve the disputes in the international society, is flourished in recent years. On the basis of the international arbitration's features, the jurisdiction to relevant to the political issues is omission in the session of the disputes. Increasing of the disputes express to the globalization of the economy in the world. Not only do the position of the arbitration and the parties of the cases come from the region, but also the Europe as the traditional arbitration center, replaced by the Pacific/Asia region. The reason of the trend developing for the international arbitration results from the international arbitration's feature- the forum is neutral, treaty ensures enforcement abroad and no appeal, limited discover. Less time consuming, greater degree of the voluntary compliance, procedure is less costly and the result are more predictable.     

What's Behind CRM Research? A Bibliometric Analysis of Publications in the CRM Research Field

The diversity of approaches to customer relationship management (CRM) brings about the need for systematic reviews. The objective of this article is to identify and categorize the most used publications in the CRM field. We conducted a bibliometric analysis using the Web of Science database. To identify and categorize the subfields, we conducted an exploratory factor analysis. The most used publications were categorized into: (1) methodology in the CRM research field; (2) relationship marketing; (3) service quality and customer loyalty; (4) implications of market-oriented strategy; (5) CRM theory and its practical implications; (6) strategic management; and (7) customer value.     

Analysis of Informal Communication Networks – A Case Study

The structure and dynamics of informal communication networks are of central importance for the functionality of enterprise workflows and for performance and innovation of knowledge-centric organizations. While most executives are aware of this fact, there is a general lack of (semi-) automated, IT-supported methods and instruments to make informal communication networks measurable. Although logging of electronic communications has made considerable progress over the past few years, it is still extremely difficult to map personal interaction; manual approaches in particular are extremely error-prone. The article shows how informal communication networks can be investigated by IT-based methods. At the same time, the authors will be presenting an instrument (“Social Badges”) that collects personal communications automatically and more precisely than legacy approaches allow. The practical applicability of the approach is evaluated through a case study. This article is also available in German in print and via : Fischbach K, Gloor PA, Schoder D (2008) Analyse informeller Kommunikationsnetzwerke am Beispiel einer Fallstudie. WIRTSCHAFTSINFORMATIK. doi: . Accepted after three revisions by Prof. Dr. Buhl.     

The Cost Analysis of Anti-Dumping Measures of the Import Countries

With the permission of WTO, as a legal trade remedy, anti-dumping measure has been frequently taken by the members of WTO, which causes the rising of anti-dumping initiations.     

The Cost Analysis of Anti-Dumping Measures of the Import Countries

With the permission of WTO,as a legal trade remedy,anti-dumping measure has been frequently taken by the members of WTO,which causes the rising of anti-dumping initiations.     

The Influence of an Organisation’s Corporate Values on Employees Personal Buying Behaviour

This article explores the influence that an organisation’s corporate values have on employees’ behaviour and values both within and outside the work environment. In particular, it focuses on the impact of these values on the personal buying behaviour of employees. The empirical research was undertaken within a case study organisation that produces wine in Spain and involved interviews with senior management, an analysis of company documentation, as well as group discussions with employees supported by an employee survey. The article argues that an organisation’s corporate values influence not only its employees’ behaviour within the work environment, but also impacts on their global values system outside of the work environment. In particular, this was evident within the employees’ buying behaviour practices in relation to supplier loyalty and environmental concern. This has implications for business ethics as an organisation’s value system may go beyond the purely business context. Organisations need to be aware of their impact on employees’ behaviour outside of the work environment; this is particularly the case for multinational companies working across many cultures.     

How Does a Product Gain the Status of a Necessity? An Analysis of Necessitation Narratives

The consumer perception of how products gain the status of necessities is characterized by complexity, laden with idiosyncratic consumer experiences, and driven by personally relevant historical developments. This study pushes the theoretical boundaries of understanding consumer necessities by reaching beyond the classification of products into traditional dichotomies such as necessity–luxury and need–want. It focuses on how consumers experience and recount emotion‐laden events in their lives whereby certain products move to being perceived as necessities over time. An analysis of narratives reveals that product necessitation encompasses five stages: familiarization, transformation in the form of redemption or contamination, memorialization, (re)integration and reconstruction, and solidification. Comprehending necessitation experiences is of great interest to marketers in creating effective marketing strategies as well as to public policymakers in ensuring that their citizens have access to life necessities.     

Product Touch and Consumers’ Online and Offline Buying: The Role of Mental Representation

As offline retailers struggle to compete with online ones, the importance of a consumer’s ability to touch a product prior to purchase becomes important to study. Prior research has found inconsistent results on whether product touch facilitates consumers’ product-related decision making. Some studies report a positive effect, whereas others do not. The current research reconciles this inconsistency and draws retailing implications. Across three experiments, we show that the effect of product touch on consumers’ purchase intentions and willingness to pay for a product being evaluated is evident when consumers’ mental representation of the product is concrete, but not when abstract. We further show that perceived risk and perceived ownership simultaneously mediate this moderating effect of mental representation. Implications are drawn for both offline and online retailers.     

Empirical Analysis of International Competitiveness of China＇s Industry After A Decade of WTO Accession

本文利用最新的统计数据对中国加入WTO十年以来产业国际竞争力的现状及变化趋势进行了实证研究,得出如下结论：加入WTO十年以来,中国产业国际竞争力有较大程度提升。虽然中国传统劳动密集型产业比较优势在下降,而技术和资本密集型产业比较优势在上升,但中国目前最具有比较优势的产业仍是劳动密集型产业;中国劳动密集型、技术密集型和资本密集型产业的竞争优势都有所提高;中国制造业竞争优势的增强是推动中国产业国际竞争力提升的主要动力,中国传统劳动密集型产业仍然保持着较强的国际竞争力,同时一些技术和资本密集型产业的快速发展推动中国产业国际竞争力不断提升。虽然中国制造业产业国际竞争力的进一步提升面临着诸多挑战,但本文判断中国产业国际竞争力处于第二次快速提升的前夜,从中短期来看,2016年“市场经济地位”的自然获得,将会进一步释放中国产业国际竞争力的既有优势;而从中长期来看,随着人口素质的不断提升,中国将迎来质量型人口红利所带来的新的20年战略机遇期,这将是中国产业国际竞争力持续提升的重要源泉。