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    • Can Western interorganizational governance mechanisms be applied to a guanxi-based market? 

      Lu, Ren; Ma, Jing (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Purpose — The emergence of “interorganizational marketing” as a hot topic leads to one key question: can interorganizational governance mechanisms (socialization, incentives, and monitoring) offered by marketing theory be ...

    • Changes in unrelated variety and climbing the poverty ladder: a U-shaped relationship 

      Lu, Ren; Zhao, Xiangying; Peng, Xiangcai; Liu, Yinglin; Reve, Torger; Lv, Daguo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The purpose of this paper is to study how changes in unrelated variety influence individuals’ poverty alleviation. Drawing on the LiTS III database, we employed the Oprobit model to test 5007 individual-level observations ...

    • Cluster and co-located cluster effects: An empirical study of six Chinese city regions 

      Lu, Ren; Ruan, Min; Reve, Torger (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      We study how industrial clusters in three different life phases both influence and moderate total factor productivity (TFP) of other co-located industries or clusters. A multilevel regression model is applied to panel ...

    • Guanxi, structural hole and closure 

      Reve, Torger; Lu, Ren (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Purpose — Understanding China’s economic success requires insights into its peculiar guanxi-based market. Many scholars are confused how to apply western network theories to the Chinese guanxi-based market. This paper ...

    • The mediating role of cash slack in the related variety and sales growth relationship: Evidence from Norway 

      Lu, Ren; Zong, Zhe; Reve, Torger; Song, Qing (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The purpose of the paper is to uncover how related industrial variety influences firms’ sales growth through firms’ cash slack. The authors applied a causal steps approach and causal mediation analysis to a very large ...

    • Relations among clusters 

      Lu, Ren; Reve, Torger (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Many papers on economic geography have analysed industrial clusters, but few have addressed the relations among clusters. This paper discusses three types of relations among clusters to better understand why they occur and ...

    • Relations among clusters in six Chinese city regions 

      Lu, Ren; Zhang, Ruikan; Reve, Torger (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Despite the considerable number of papers that have discussed industrial clusters, it is surprising that there is little research evidence on relations among clusters. This article collects longitudinal data on three ...

    • Relationships among homogeneous clusters in adjoining cities 

      Lu, Ren; Cao, Jiang (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      This paper discusses relations between industrial clusters of the same type in six cities in China’s Pearl River Delta. The homogenous clusters in metropolitan areas are negatively related to one another. In other words, ...

    • Sales growth or employment growth? Exporting conundrum for new ventures 

      Chen, Mei; Ni, Peijie; Reve, Torger; Huang, Jing; Lu, Ren (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Purpose Previous studies primarily focus on how to achieve better performance in the international markets, but few centers on whether internationalization is a promising strategy for new ventures’ growth and development. ...

    • Unpacking the U-shaped relationship between related variety and firm sales: Evidence from Japan 

      Lu, Ren; Song, Qing; Xia, Tingting; Lv, Daguo; Reve, Torger; Jian, Ze (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The purpose of this paper is to study how related variety influences firm sales. We apply an instrumental variable method (as well as the most recent plausible instrumental variable method in robustness tests) to analyze ...