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  1. This paper proposes a theoretical framework which applies concepts of “will expectation” and “should expectation” to exploring the effects of service recovery on customers’ post-recovery satisfaction. The rela...

    Authors: Rungting Tu, Ke Chen and Cheryl C. J. Lin

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:583

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  2. Using the theory of indigenous interpersonal relationship and the metaphor of the brand-as-relationship-partner (BARP), this paper develops a theoretical construct of consumer-brand relationship in the Chinese...

    Authors: Jiaxun He and Taihong Lu

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:493

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  3. This study focuses on the issue of gender discrimination manifested in the process of human resources development (HRD). A theoretical model is developed based on prior literature. Scenarios of gender discrimi...

    Authors: Shimei Yan, Shizhi Yan and Man Zhang

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:23

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  5. Considering the cost of capital, systematic risk and the probability of being monitored and punished, informed traders are most likely to conduct informed trading at the small time gap between the disclosure o...

    Authors: Shuang Xue and Yihong Jiang

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:21

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  6. The relationship between investment and financing, the two basic components of corporate finance, is of significant interest to researchers and practitioners alike. The free cash flow hypothesis and asymmetric...

    Authors: Xiaoqiang Zhi and Pan Tong

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:20

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  7. This paper analyzes the real motivations behind independent directors’ (IDs) job-hopping behavior based on 75 cases from 2001 to 2005. Relevant extant literature is reviewed and an analytical framework based o...

    Authors: Fan Zhou, Jinsong Tan and Yuyin Jian

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:19

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  8. This study examines the roles of organizational learning, social network and corporate entrepreneurship (CE) in Chinese new ventures at different developmental stages. Several conclusions are drawn from struct...

    Authors: Chunyan Jiang and Shuming Zhao

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:18

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  9. This paper explores the information perception channels of organizational identification (OID) in the context of Chinese traditional culture. Drawing on the grounded theory, the authors conducted a survey on e...

    Authors: Jun Wei, Mian Zhang and Baiyin Yang

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:17

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  12. While knowledge exploration and exploitation represent two distinct activities requiring corresponding organizational arrangements, new product development calls for a dynamic combination of the two. Based on ...

    Authors: Fengbin Wang and Hong Jiang

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:14

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  14. This paper studies 148 related and 169 unrelated acquisition cases conducted by Chinese listed firms from 2001 to 2004 and explores firm and industry characteristics of these firms prior to their acquisition. ...

    Authors: Shanmin Li and Xiaochun Zhou

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:12

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  15. This paper argues that the political resources owned by Chinese private enterprises affect their diversification strategy under the context of China’s transitional economy. Based on the sample of top 500 priva...

    Authors: Xuyang Hu and Jinchuan Shi

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:11

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  16. This study attempts to shed light on the relationship between related-party (RP) transactions and internal governance factors of China’s listed companies. An analysis of a sample of 69 049 RP transactions duri...

    Authors: Songhua Hu, Yanqin Shen and Yuehua Xu

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:10

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  20. Based on empirical evidence from enterprises in Jiangsu Province, this paper studies key influencing factors of their innovation activities at the micro level. Results show that a “threshold effect” and a reve...

    Authors: Jie Zhang, Zhibiao Liu and Jianghuai Zheng

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:8

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  23. Based on an analysis of the dynamic trend of the environment in which Chinese enterprises operate and the theory of dynamic competition, this paper seeks to propose a new strategic management pattern—the “dyna...

    Authors: Hailin Lan

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:3

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  24. This paper explores the mechanism by which trust climate influences individual performance. From the perspective of psychological dynamics, we investigate the relationship among perceptions of organizational c...

    Authors: Ning Li and Jin Yan

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:2

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  25. Organizational capital is an institutional arrangement in a firm’s production and management activities, which helps integrate all resources in the firm and affect the firm’s strategic choice and performance. ...

    Authors: Haijian Liu and Chuanming Chen

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2009 3:1

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  26. Virtual marketing teams have emerged in T Company, a regional branch of China Telecom, and led to tremendous success in recent years. It is beneficial to explore the reasons behind such a phenomenon and to ide...

    Authors: Kai Zhang and Jin’ai Wang

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:591

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  27. The concept of modularity can be applied not only to complex product system design, but also to business system interpretation and design. However, the amount of literature on modular organization is much less...

    Authors: Fengbin Wang, Gonghai Chen and Donghong Li

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:34

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  29. In recent years, customer-based brand equity (CBBE) has been extensively studied in the marketing community. Central to the study of CBBE are its structure and the measurement. This paper focuses on the dimens...

    Authors: Chunling Yu, Ping Zhao and Haizhong Wang

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:31

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  30. Using an indigenous model of Chinese brand relationship quality (CBRQ), the author analyzes the transfer phenomenon of the time-honored brand equity between parents and children from the perspective of combini...

    Authors: Jiaxun He

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:30

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  31. This research collects and analyses the profitability data of Chinese listed companies from 1992 to 2004. Results show that, on average, the profitability of Chinese listed companies has declined over the peri...

    Authors: Jianjun Niu, Heng Yue and Guohua Jiang

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:29

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  33. This paper proposes a model of network innovation based on resource integration drawing upon relevant literature on technology innovation. Through a case study of China Shenhua Energy Company Limited (Shenhua)...

    Authors: Zhihong Yi, Dazhao Gu, Hua Song and Kangkang Yu

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:397

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  34. Based on the theory of cross-cultural management and organizational learning, this paper comparatively analyzes the role of culture differences between China and the Netherlands in organizational learning proc...

    Authors: Wanwen Dai and Shuming Zhao

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:356

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  35. Building on the Competing Values Framework (CVF), we investigated the relationship between organizational culture and performance. The perspective of consistency and that of balance were applied to examine the...

    Authors: Mian Zhang, Hai Li and Jun Wei

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:256

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  38. This paper constructs an integrated model of international risk perception, and then conducts a pattern match to the model through a descriptive case study of Huawei. Huawei’s internationalization process is d...

    Authors: Hui Xu, Yiqian Wan and Degui Pei

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:27

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  39. This paper analyzes the evolution of Sinopec’s corporate governance system and performance in the domestic capital market after its overseas listing. Results show that Sinopec’s governance system successfully ...

    Authors: Lianfu Ma, Deqiu Chen and Li Gao

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:26

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  40. This paper studies the relationship between dividend payout and investor protection through the case of Chihong Zinc & Germanium’s (Chihong) reform of nontradable shares. Results show that Chihong’s nontradabl...

    Authors: Xianhua Zhou and Changjiang Lü

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:25

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  41. This study explores the impact of corporate governance on financial control by studying manufacture industry. Results show that factors such as the percentage of shares held by the controlling shareholder, ind...

    Authors: Xinsheng Cheng, Yingxin Ji and Lili Wang

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:23

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  42. This article explores the relationship between management ownership and firm performance. Using the panel data of Chinese listed firms from 2000 to 2004 and the average model, we attempt to avoid some of the d...

    Authors: Lei Gao and Shunlin Song

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:22

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  43. This paper compares the cumulative abnormal returns and operating performance of Chinese listed firms which made seasoned equity offerings or right issues at different profitability thresholds. Results show th...

    Authors: Zhengwei Wang, Dongqing Zhao and Wuxiang Zhu

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:20

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  45. Drawing upon the resource dependence theory, this paper examines the determinants of nonmarket behaviors in the Chinese context. Using survey data of 175 top managers in China, we test 13 firm and environment ...

    Authors: Haitao Gao, Zhilong Tian and Cone Malcolm

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:18

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  46. The relationship among stock returns, market volatilities and individual investor sentiment is an important topic in behavioral economics and finance. This paper uses a unique data set—China’s newly opened sto...

    Authors: Xindan Li and Bing Zhang

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:16

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  49. This paper empirically studies the determinants of diversification of Chinese listed companies from the perspectives of motivation and conditions. Results show that the traditionally believed motivations of ec...

    Authors: Fuxiu Jiang

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:10

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  50. This study attempts to identify factors influencing the performance of enterprises established by academic entrepreneurs(AE) and to explore the relationship between these factors and enterprise performance. To...

    Authors: Jin Chen and Xueyan Zhu

    Citation: Frontiers of Business Research in China 2008 2:9

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