Rapid and far-reaching development transition has triggered corresponding restructuring in rural China especially since the turn of the new millennium. Recently, there has been an increasing trend ...emphasizing regional resources in formulating rural development policy and restructuring rural areas. This paper analyzes the rural restructuring in China affected by the allocation and management of critical resources including human resource, land resource and capital, by establishing a theoretical framework of “elements-structure-function” of rural territorial system. It is argued that rural restructuring is a process of optimizing the allocation and management of the material and non-material elements affecting the development of rural areas and accomplishing the structure optimization and the function maximum of rural development system. Due to the constraints from the maintained urban–rural dualism of land ownership and household registration, the rapid rural restructuring under both globalization and the implementation of the national strategies on industrialization, urbanization, informatization and agricultural modernization, the changes of the allocation of critical resources have brought about many problems and challenges for the future development of rural China, such as the nonagriculturalization, non-grain preference and abandonment of farmland use together with the derelict and idle rural housing land, the weakening mainbody of rural development, the unfair urban–rural allocation of capital and its structural imbalance, and so on. Aiming at how to resolve the problems and adapt to the challenges, it is pivotal to restructure the rural development space, rural industry, and rural social organization and management mainbody. Furthermore, it is necessary to restructure the contours of state intervention in rural societies and economies and allocate and manage the critical resources affecting rural development, from the perspectives of integrating urban and rural resources, improving the efficiency of resources utilization, and fully understanding the influences of globalization on rural restructuring in China.
•Rapid development transition has triggered corresponding restructuring in rural China.•Analyzes rural restructuring in China affected by allocation and management of critical resources.•Emphasizes role of regional resources in formulating development policy and restructuring rural areas.•Restructures rural development space, rural industry, and rural social organization and management mainbody.•Fully understanding the influences of globalization on rural restructuring in China.
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak expanded rapidly throughout China. Major behavioral, clinical, and state interventions were undertaken to mitigate the epidemic and prevent ...the persistence of the virus in human populations in China and worldwide. It remains unclear how these unprecedented interventions, including travel restrictions, affected COVID-19 spread in China. We used real-time mobility data from Wuhan and detailed case data including travel history to elucidate the role of case importation in transmission in cities across China and to ascertain the impact of control measures. Early on, the spatial distribution of COVID-19 cases in China was explained well by human mobility data. After the implementation of control measures, this correlation dropped and growth rates became negative in most locations, although shifts in the demographics of reported cases were still indicative of local chains of transmission outside of Wuhan. This study shows that the drastic control measures implemented in China substantially mitigated the spread of COVID-19.
China’s Ideological Spectrum Pan, Jennifer; Xu, Yiqing
The Journal of politics,
01/2018, Letnik:
80, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The study of ideology in authoritarian regimes—of how public preferences are configured and constrained—has received relatively little scholarly attention. Using data from a large-scale online ...survey, we study ideology in China. We find that public preferences are weakly constrained, and the configuration of preferences is multidimensional, but the latent traits of these dimensions are highly correlated. Those who prefer authoritarian rule are more likely to support nationalism, state intervention in the economy, and traditional social values; those who prefer democratic institutions and values are more likely to support market reforms but less likely to be nationalistic and less likely to support traditional social values. This latter set of preferences appears more in provinces with higher levels of development and among wealthier and better-educated respondents. These findings suggest that preferences are not simply split along a proregime or antiregime cleavage and indicate a possible link between China’s economic reform and ideology.
This paper applies the fixed effects and the difference-in-differences models to explore the impact of government subsidies on the innovation investment of new energy firms by the financial ...information of China's listed companies from 2007 to 2017. The empirical results demonstrate that the subsidy scale of new energy enterprises has an inverted U-shaped relationship with enterprise innovation investment. The higher subsidy level has a crowding out effect on the research and development (R&D) investment of enterprises, which is largely attributable to the managerial myopia of enterprises. We further confirm the existence of the crowding out effect by exploring the quasi-natural experiment of China's new energy vehicle subsidy adjustment policy in 2016. We find that reducing subsidies is associated with a significant increase in R&D investment. This study reveals the optimal choice of government intervention.
This paper discusses the effect and mechanisms of digital economy (diec) on carbon emission performance (cop). Specifically, based on the panel data of 277 cities in China from 2011 to 2019, carbon ...emission performance and digital economy at the city level were evaluated through global super efficiency Epsilon-Based Measure (EBM) with unexpected output, and the vertical and horizontal scatter degree method, respectively. The OLS, mediation effect model, threshold model and spatial Durbin model (SDM) were adopted to investigate the nexus of diec and cop. The results show that: First, digital economy improves carbon emission performance, and this conclusion holds even after a series of robustness tests and endogenous treatment. The main impact mechanisms are energy intensity (ei), energy consumption scale (ec) and urban afforestation. And the effect and its impact mechanisms show regional heterogeneity. Second, under different levels of energy consumption structure, ei, ec, government intervention and urban afforestation, the impact of diec on cop is non-linear. Third, there's a spatial effect between diec and cop. The impact of diec on cop is significantly positive in local cities, while insignificant in the neighboring cities. Based on the above conclusions, specific recommendations are proposed for diec to improve cop.
•The development level of digital economy of 277 cities in China was estimated.•Global super-efficiency EBM model was employed to measure carbon emission performance.•The nexus of digital economy and carbon emission performance (cop) was investigated.•Digital economy improves cop, but with non-linear and spatial effects.•Enhance the integration of digital economy with carbon emission reduction.
The research in this paper aims to examine the types and usefulness of the measures implemented by Bosnian companies to protect themselves from the COVID-19 crisis. All business entities, especially ...small businesses, faced hardships in performing operational activities and severe financial problems during the crisis. Their managers reacted differently to the consequences of the pandemic outbreak. A survey was conducted among Bosnian companies for research purposes, and its results indicated that defensive and innovative strategies were used equally to maintain business activity. The support of state institutions at all levels played an important role in cushioning the negative impact. Nevertheless, the innovative activities of the company, accompanied by the business digitization were even more significant
The research compares urban development models linking urban informality and State intervention in Lima between 1946 and 1975, identified through the analysis of morphology, consolidation, and ...incrementality in the cases of San Cosme, Ciudad de Dios, and Villa El Salvador. The objective is to establish urban intervention strategies from a SWOT matrix based on the urban dynamics and the informality/State response of the Peruvian cases, resulting in new strategies for application in similar informal contexts in the global south.
•Lima's informal settlements incorporate flexible spaces at the interstitial edges.•Coordinated absorption models with the population minimize the social impact of encroachment.•State-led informal growth can contribute to emerging infrastructural developments in a progressive manner.•Joint state/informal action strategies can improve urban cohesion on informal interstices.
A New Normal environment for business has emerged in the years after the 2008 financial crisis based on numerous changes in the world's economic, technological, demographic, and sociopolitical ...factors. This combination of changes has created a New Normal environment for firms with major implications for managers, strategists, and entrepreneurs alike. It has resulted in an environment with new challenges and opportunities that are considerably different from what firms had to contend with in the years previous. In this paper, we present the main changes that characterize the current New Normal business environment and highlight some key implications for strategy and management. Then, we present the nine articles in this special issue dealing with different dimensions of this new environment for firms. Subsequently, we outline some future research questions that could help to advance our knowledge of the New Normal environment and its implications for firms and management theories. In examining the New Normal, it is important to be reminded that the world is indeed round and even small actions on one side of the globe can have a major impact on organizations on the other side of the globe.
Despite the rising interest in environmental strategies, few studies have examined how managerial cognition of such strategies influences actual innovation capability development. Taking a managerial ...cognition perspective, this study investigates how managers' perceptions of institutional pressures relate to their focus on proactive environmental strategy, which in turn affects firms' realized innovation capability. The findings from a primary survey and three secondary datasets of publicly listed companies in China reveal that managers' perceived business and social pressures are positively associated with their focus on proactive environmental strategy, which consequently fosters innovation capability development. Moreover, state ownership and government administrative control weaken the impact of managerial focus on proactive environmental strategy on innovation capability. These findings have important implications for how managerial cognition supports environmental strategy and organizational capability building under the influence of institutional pressures and government intervention.
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