Focus on China
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— Optimizing Timetable Synchronization for Rail Mass Transit (Rachel C. W. Wong, Tony W. Y. Yuen, Kwok Wah Fung, Janny M. Y. Leung), Transportation Science 42 (1) (2008), pp. 57–69
Design of coordinated timetables tested on the Mass Transit Railway system in Hong Kong
— Tracking a Financial Benchmark Using a Few Assets (David D. Yao, Shuzhong Zhang, Xun Yu Zhou), Operations Research 54 (2) (2006), pp. 232–246
Examples involving stocks traded at the Hong Kong and New York Stock Exchanges illustrate various features of the model developed
— Price Competition with Reduced Consumer Switching Costs: The Case of “Wireless Number Portability” in the Cellular Phone Industry (Mengze Shi, Jeongwen Chiang, Byong-Duk Rhee), Management Science 52 (1) (2006), pp. 27–38
Wireless number portability as a market condition to gain market share analyzed with the empirical evidence from Hong Kong
— Entrepreneurs’ Access to Private Equity in China: The Role of Social Capital (Bat Batjargal, Mannie (Manhong) Liu), Organization Science 15 (2) (2004), pp. 159–172
Entrepreneurs’ social capital has a significant effect on investment decisions of venture capitalists as shown by data from 158 venture capital decisions in the People’s Republic of China
— Controllable Factors of New Product Success: A Cross-National Comparison (Roger J. Calantone, Jeffrey B. Schmidt, X. Michael Song), Marketing Science 15 (4) (1996), pp. 341–358
Develop a model of managerially controllable factors associated with new products success and compare them between the United States and China
— An Integrated Decision Support System in a Chinese Chemical Plant (De-Li Yang, Weiqin Mou), Interfaces 23 (6) (1993), pp. 93–100
Decision support system developed at Dalian University of Technology and the Dalian Dyestuff Plant
