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This study explores the antecedents of international student flows into UK higher education and the variations in the antecedents between home countries of origin. The results suggest that home country economic wealth and demographics, historic/linguistic link and UK government preferential policies are the important antecedents for international students from worldwide flows into the UK. However, a comparative analysis shows that a wide variety of economic, social and political factors are all important to the UK international students originally from developing economies, while home country economic wealth and population, and bilateral trade are more important than other factors in determining the students from developed countries studying in the UK. The UK government should formulate effective and flexible policies and UK HEIs should develop specific marketing strategies to attract a growing number of international students in general and from key target countries and regions in particular.

The Northern Song period (960–1127) has been recognized as one of the most important eras in China's economic and demographic history. This study investigates the key factors and mechanisms that led to economic restructuring and wealth generating to support a growing population. By revealing state‐led changes in the economy, it challenges some commonly circulated interpretations of the remarkable economic development and population growth in Northern Song China.

Intro -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Tables -- 1: Background and Research Rationale -- R& -- D Internationalisation and R& -- D FDI in the UK -- Scholarly Debate on the Motivations of R& -- D FDI? -- Conclusion -- References -- 2: Strategic Choice of R& -- D FDI -- Theories of MNE for Asset Exploitation -- Theories of MNE for Asset Augmentation -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Empirical Literature on the Specific Motivations of FDI -- Locational Factors of FDI -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: Conceptual Framework: A Model of R& -- D FDI Motivations in the UK -- Conceptual Framework and Hypotheses Development -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Dynamic Panel Data Analysis Techniques -- The Research Design -- Sample and Data Collection -- Data Analytical Techniques -- Dynamic Panel Data Analysis -- Improving Efficiency and Diagnostic Tests -- Addressing Multicollinearity and Heteroscedasticity Problems -- Endogeneity Problems -- Test of Over-Identification Restrictions -- Test for First- and Second-Order Autocorrelation -- Estimating the Study Parameters -- Conclusion -- References -- 6: Motivations of R& -- D FDI in the UK: Analysis, Discussion, and Conclusion -- The Study Model and Variables Specification -- The Dependent Variables -- The Predictive Variables -- The Control Variables -- Data Analysis -- Descriptive Statistics -- Pre-estimation Tests -- Empirical Results of System GMM Estimation -- Discussion of Findings -- Conclusion -- References -- 7: Research Conclusions and Emerging Agenda -- Introduction -- Research Conclusion on the Motivations of R& -- D FDI in the UK -- Contributions to Knowledge and Theory -- Contribution to Practice -- Recommendations for Future Research -- Final Summary -- References -- Index.

This paper explores the collaborative mechanism that motivates supply chain firms to collectively invest in environmental technology and produce environmental friendly products (EFPs) to reduce pollutant emissions and negative impacts on environment and public health. Our paper investigates how such firms can achieve the balance between economic feasibility and environmental and social sustainability under multiple sustainable constraints in terms of the triple bottom line dimensions. The work also describes the impacts of interrelated multiple sustainable constraints on optimal policy for the supply chain transfer price and profit allotment decisions. Our findings suggest that government intervention plays a dominant role in governing the supply chain firms' behaviors in the context of environmental and public health sustainability. The profit allotment is determined through the process of negotiation of the transfer price interrelated with the government subsidy sharing between the supply chain firms.

This study investigates the mechanism that motivates supply chain firms to reduce environmental ex- ternalities while balancing the economic feasibility of the supply chain system under environmentally constrained circumstances in a competitive market. Taking government policy incentives into account, a quantitative model of an integrated supply chain that incorporates sustainable constraints is formu- lated to optimize supply chain firms' operational strategies of producing environmental friendly products (EFPs). This study contributes to the literature with a better understanding the interplay and interrelation of multiple sustainable constraints and their impact on supply chain firms' collaborative decisions. Our findings suggest that the decisions of operating EFPs are subject to sustainable constraints and that the government policy incentives play a dominant role overseeing supply chain firms' environmental behav- iors toward sustainability.