Port and terminal efficiency are of utmost importance to the container shipping industry due to their significance in enhancing the competitive advantage of ports within a region. Consequently, there have always been ...
Purpose:The relationship between private tutoring(PT)and mainstream education is among the complex themes characterizing PT discourses in the literature.This study examined the complications of practices and processes...
Based on the keynote report by Professor Martin Thrupp,this paper discusses the hollowing out of education provision by the state and the permeation of managerialism.It was pointed out that principals and boards of tr...
In this paper, we construct a company value model based on the tax shield effect for overseas listing and privatization scenarios. The trade-off process of privatization decisions is simulated in the context of China ...
support from the Research Grants Council(RGC)of Hong Kong Project No 15502521 is gratefully acknowledged.
More than in almost any other transport industry,air transport is globally connected.This paper provides an overview over theoretical studies considering network structures involving two or more airports.Beyond convey...
Purpose:Private supplementary tutoring,widely known as shadow education,has long been visible in East Asia,and now has spread to other parts of the world including Europe.This article maps the phenomenon,showing varia...
While public-private partnerships(PPPs)have surged worldwide since the 1990s,they have been met with growing skepticism during the last years.A recent revision of Germany's constitutional rules on motorway constructio...
the Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.71874155 and 71373231);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.2-2050205-17-182).
Balancing urban and rural development is an important political goal in China.The failure of rural land privatization has led to a low level of rural economic development and a vast property income gap between citizen...
This paper examines the privatization, implemented by the effects of state-owned enterprises (SOE) Chinese government in the 1990s, on enterprise efficiency for a sample of non-privatized SOEs and privatized ex-SOEs...