Business and Public Administration Studies (E-Journal, Washington Institute of China Studies - WICS)
Not a member yet
289 research outputs found
Sort by
Editorial Note
Full text linkThis issue of Business and Public Administration Studies (BPAS) of the Washington Institute of China Studies (WICS) – overdue by more than a year – comes at the crossroads of numerous events at turbulent times. Since early 2012, when Dr. Bernard Pitsvada (1933-2014) retired as President and Editor of the Washington Institute of China Studies, the Institute and the Journal have undergone a difficult period of transition. A newly appointed editor (a professor from the American University) suddenly got sick and this interrupted a smooth transition and resulted in an unexpected delay in publishing the Journal. The subsequent search for another editor took much longer than expected. The Journal of the Washington Institute of China Studies Volume 7 was last published in 2012. No issues were published during 2013 and the first half of 2014
Statement of Purpose
Full text linkThe Washington Institute of China Studies (WICS) is a politically independent, non-profit organization dedicated to improving relations and understanding between the only two superpowers of the 21st century, the United States (US) and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It is essential that these two countries that are so different in terms of political ideology, economic systems, culture, population density, history and concepts of freedom learn to understand each other and thereby simply get along with each other
The grounds for researching the business network efficiency
Full text linkThe aim of this article is to present the grounds for researching the business network efficiency. The efficiency assessment of business network needs a multi-level approach which reflects the complexity of economic relationships formed in them. In particular the article shows: the network effects, efficiency of collaboration within networks and the theses of the proposed concept for researching the business network efficiency which may be the foundation for the diagnostic and project works
An Economic Analysis of Counterfeit Goods: the Case of China
Full text linkThe paper provides an economic analysis of two types of counterfeit goods under market equilibrium and under market failure respectively. Section one answers why consumers demand fake goods, the counterfeiters’ incentives, dynamics of short-run equilibrium and changes in the long run. Counterfeiting, as a market behavior, lasts as long as the pleasure from consuming and super profit from producing exist. Section two analyzes six non-market factors behind the large-scale production in China. There are institutional, economic and social reasons that keep this illegal industry flourishing. Measures improving these factors should be effective to prevent a crackdown on the industry
Writing from Left to Right: My Journey from Liberal to Conservative. Michael Novak. Image Books Press, 2013
Full text linkThe Institutional Scaffolding of Sustainable Development and its Approach in China
Full text linkAs a result of rapid development of the world economy since the 1960s, aggravations caused by population expansion, excessive consumption of resources and environmental pollution, have seriously hampered the development of many economies and are even threatening human existence itself. Given the pressures of these harsh realities, mankind has no choice but to re-examine its social and economic behavior and its path of development. The traditional development mode of “treating after polluting” is no longer appropriate. Since the 1980s, a new mode for development, sustainable development, has been advocated. Sustainable development is development that satisfies the current needs of society without compromising the needs of future generations. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in June 1992, made sustainable development the strategy for common development in the future, and this won wide acclaim from the governments of all countries represented at the conference
Evidence of Public Service Motivation and Job Satisfaction of Public Sector Employees in China
Full text linkThe main purpose of this paper is to investigate how generalizable the public service motivation (PSM) is to China and examine the instrumentality through which individual PSM may affect work attitudes in an administrative or public organization. Using the data from the questionnaire among the Provincial Governments in China, the structure of PSM and the effects of PSM on job satisfaction (JS) is explored. The survey is coverage of provincial government departments’ employees in China, and a total of 1027 effective samples were collected. A variety of research methods are used, such as descriptive statistics analysis, exploratory factor analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis and so on. These studies not only explore and examine the constitution and adaptability of PSM, but also produce interesting results that relate to the history and institutional background of Chinese administrative or public organizations
Policy, Space and Governance: Lessons from Beijing
Full text linkBeijing is China’s capital city with a population of over 22 million. It is known to be well on its way to be a “World City,” – one that has something to do with or concerns people from all over the world. At the same time, Beijing is known as a city that tops the world in traffic congestion and bad PM 2.5. Many plans and efforts have been over the years by the city of Beijing to improve its urban life. Nonetheless, the problems do not seem to disappear. This paper, by tracing the planning efforts made in Beijing and changing policy orientations at the national level, reveals the intricate relationship between policy, planning, and urban governance. The authors argue, in our modern time, planning needs to be more integrated with public policy, public policy needs to be more relevant to that with Number I Many authors tried to describe Beijing. Few, however, tempted to explain how it has become the way it is from a planner’s perspective. This paper is an effort filling this gap. It traces the trajectory of urban planning and urban evolution in Beijing since 1949, the founding year of the new China. This period of time, although relatively short, has greatly affected the way the city is and offers a great deal for city planners and city governors to ponder. Through a discussion of the background, planning process, and characteristics of different versions of the city’s Master plans and the relationships between the Plans and their implementation, the authors reveal an incompatibility between urban planning and China’s policy implementation protocol, which is movement based. In order China’s urban planning can have more meaningful significance, new ideas, new strategies, new implementation protocols, and even new institutional arrangements are necessary
The Process of Designing a Company’s Organizational System in Light of Empirical Research
Full text linkTraditional methods for designing a company’s organizational system do not meet contemporary requirements. It results, among others, from increased uncertainty, organizational restructuring processes as well as changes in companies’ business environment. The paper defines “an organizational system” as a complex system characterised by the following factors: its subjective structure comprises teams of employees, business entities and institutions; its objective structure is composed of material and non-material elements; it is a construct which performs structural, process, coordinating, motivating and integrating functions; its instrumental area comprises methods and techniques related to diagnosing, designing, decision-making, controlling, IT activities, etc. Organizational systems represent a special type of management systems.The author presents the results of research related to the process of designing a company’s organizational system. Also, the paper discusses a theoretical approach to the designing process and presents a framework for the concept of research studies.The conducted analysis is aimed to identify problems which occur in the practice of designing a company’s organizational systems. The collected data allow for presenting a critical review of the usefulness of designing methods offered in literatures. This general outline of research work is a basis for setting two specific and more focused objectives: (1) identification of relationships between a company’s conditions of functioning and its organization, and (2) analysis of methodological approaches adopted by people engaged in the process of designing organizational systems