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This book explains the relationships between equality and efficiency, as well as between government and market, in urban-rural and regional development by providing theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence. Urban-rural development in China is understood from a regional perspective, while the core issue of urban-rural and regional development is cross-regional resource reallocation driven by the trends of globalization, marketization and urbanization and their influence on growth and inequality. The book puts forward the following arguments: An urban-rural and regional balance should not be achieved by limiting agglomeration effects in eastern regions. For some time now, China has lacked a suitable mechanism to enable residents in underdeveloped and rural areas to share in the achievements of economic agglomeration. As a result, China should not slow down economic agglomeration and development in eastern regions simply by depending on administrative means to balance urban-rural and regional development. In the final analysis, arriving at a regional balance depends on growth in the eastern regions, provided a reasonable mechanism is implemented to enable inland areas to share in the development achievements of eastern regions. In turn, finding an urban-regional balance rests on urban development, as long as more rural workers can move to and prosper in cities.

Global befindet sich die Automobilindustrie heute in einer Phase enormer technischer Evolution und Transformation. Die Zulieferindustrie ist gezwungen, ihre Entwicklungsstrategien und -modelle diesen Veränderungen anzupassen. Die wichtigen Entwicklungsansätze wie Diversifizierung der Produktsegmentierung, strengere Qualitätssicherung in der Produktion, Erweiterung der Wertschöpfungskette und Umsetzung der unabhängigen Forschung und Entwicklung sind der Schlüssel für ein gesundes Wachstum der zukünftigen Zulieferindustrie in China. Die Suche nach geeigneten Optionen gilt in diesem Zusammenhang als notwendig zur Weiterentwicklung. Für die Erarbeitung der Entwicklungsmodelle werden im Rahmen dieser Dissertation verschiedene Ansätze zur Transformation, Modernisierung, Globalisierung, Forschung und Entwicklung, Innovation sowie allgemein zur Unternehmensführung dargestellt. Der heute unterschiedliche Entwicklungsstand zwischen verschiedenen multinationalen und chinesischen Zulieferunternehmen spiegelt das Ergebnis der dialektischen Beziehung zwischen technologischer Innovation und Unternehmensentwicklung. Die Beherrschung der Schlüsseltechnologien und eigenständige Innovationen ergeben gemeinsam die komplexe Wechselwirkung zwischen industrieller Entwicklung, Gesellschaft, Politik und Wirtschaft, in die die chinesische Zulieferindustrie tief eingebettet ist. Angesichts der hohen Komplexität der sozialtechnischen Entwicklung musste eine Strategie zur innovativen Weiterentwicklung der chinesischen Zulieferunternehmen systematisch erarbeitet werden. Ein zusätzlicher Forschungsschwerpunkt richtet sich daher hauptsächlich auf die Untersuchung der Anwendbarkeit und Modellgrenzen der Entwicklung in den Industrieländern USA, Deutschland und Japan einschließlich ihrer Erfolgsfaktoren zum Aufbau der Lieferantensysteme. Das Resultat sollte ferner den Besonderheiten der chinesischen industriellen Entwicklung für die Weiterentwicklung der Zulieferindustrie Rechnung tragen und durch den Einsatz geeigneter Entwicklungsmodelle überwunden werden. Insofern bildet das Resultat der vorliegenden Dissertation aus allgemeingültigen Entwicklungskonzepten und spezifischen Strategien einen Ansatz für zukünftige wissenschaftliche Forschungen. ; The automotive industry is now globally in a phase of enormous technical evolution and transformation. The automotive supplier industry is also developing its latest product and growing strategic cooperation with the OEMs in order to prove its unprecedented transformation capabilities. The developmental approaches, such as product segmentation diversification, higher quality assurance in production, expansion of the value chain and implementation of independent research and development, are the key to a healthy growth for the future automotive supplier industry in China. The search for feasible and suitable options in this context is considered necessary for further development. In the course of this dissertation, various approaches to the theory of transformation, modernization, globalization, research and development, innovation and general management are presented for the exploration of future development models. The different levels of development between different multinational and Chinese supplier companies today reflect the result of a dialectical relationship between technological innovation and company development. The mastery of both key technology and independent innovations will result in a complex interaction among industrial development, society, politics and the economy, in which the Chinese automotive supplier industry is deeply embedded. In view of the high complexity of the socio-technological development, strategies for the innovative development of the Chinese supplier companies have to be systematically elaborated. Hence, an additional research focus on the case-study of the applicability and model limitation in the industrial development of various industrialized countries including USA, Germany and Japan, along with their success factors for their construction of the supplier systems. The result should also provide suggestions for further development of the supplier industry in China and which should be successfully overcome by the use of appropriate specific features of development models. Insofar the results of the present dissertation from general development concepts and specific strategies form an approach for future scientific research too.

Global governance is an ambiguous concept. Based on the generalization and summary of the definition and theory of global governance, this article identifies the lack of regional features of global governance studies in the present literature. Building a framework based on comparative politics, the author conducts a comparative study of the EU and China on the models of global governance, and summarizes three types of global governance concepts: constitutionalism based on human rights, hegemonic liberalism and egalitarianism based on sovereignty. In the end, it looks ahead to the developing trends of global governance, in the future. Read Working Paper

This book explains the relationships between equality and efficiency, as well as between government and market, in urban-rural and regional development by providing theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence. Urban-rural development in China is understood from a regional perspective, while the core issue of urban-rural and regional development is cross-regional resource reallocation driven by the trends of globalization, marketization and urbanization and their influence on growth and inequality. The book puts forward the following arguments: An urban-rural and regional balance should not b.

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games has made more people focus on skiing. How to promote the development of ski tourism is the focus of this study. This study explores the relationship between skiers' motivation and tourism intention. Based on social learning theory, the moderating effect of attractive influencers on satisfaction and travel intentions was explored. The results show that perceived ski motivation and affective engagement positively impact perceived value. The perceived value affects tourism intention through satisfaction, and perceived value directly impacts satisfaction and tourism intention. The willingness of skiers to travel will change with the attraction of ski influencers. Furthermore, the study results provide recommendations for enhancing ski destinations and offer suggestions for improving marketing strategies.

Technology acceptance and usage become obligatory for people when their work modes change as a result of an unexpected but irresistible force. This is especially true for teachers who are reluctant technology adopters compared with their students. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese government issued national policies to enforce online teaching and learning. As the success of online teaching largely depends on university faculties' readiness and intentions, how they perceive and practice technology adoption becomes an issue that warrants in-depth research. Unlike their students who grow up with technology and can be seen as digital natives, university faculties may lack competence in using technology, whether to teach or do other tasks. Previous studies on faculties' technology adoption were all conducted in situations where they made volitional decisions to use technology, but their mandatory technology use received scant attention. In addition, although studies suggested that teachers demonstrated features of digital natives, it remains unknown whether or to what extent their digital nativity correlates with technology intentions. To address these research gaps, the current study examined Chinese university faculties' intentions to use technology for online teaching by incorporating digital nativity and computer self-efficacy as key determinants into technology acceptance variables. Results suggested that digital nativity was a key factor that affected university faculties' online teaching, as evidenced by the fact that 67% of the variance could be explained by perceived usefulness, attitudes and digital nativity. In addition, it was also found that computer efficacy significantly influenced perceived ease of use.

AbstractIn this paper, we estimate the effect of status incentives on charitable giving by exploiting a natural experiment during China's political reform in 2002 that significantly improved the status of private entrepreneurs and their enterprises. We find that exogenous changes in social, political and economic status of private entrepreneurs led to a significant increase in the corporate giving of their privately owned firms. The findings are robust when we use different samples of the data and when we control for a large set of entrepreneurs and firm characteristics in the regression analysis.

The People's Republic of China (PRC) is experiencing a trend toward population concentration in its large coastal cities. However, at the same time, there is also a distortion of city size toward small cities in the country. That is to say, the urban population in the PRC should further concentrate in large cities rather than be more equally spread out. Cross-country analysis indicates that the population size of the primary city in the PRC is smaller than its predicted value. This paper suggests that the PRC government should adjust its policies on future urbanization for fewer restrictions on the further growth of megacities.