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Gongming Qian
Researcher at Southern University of Science and Technology
Publications - 51
Citations - 2762
Gongming Qian is an academic researcher from Southern University of Science and Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Diversification (marketing strategy) & International business. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 47 publications receiving 2339 citations. Previous affiliations of Gongming Qian include Lancaster University & The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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Profitability of small- and medium-sized enterprises in high-tech industries: the case of the biotechnology industry
Gongming Qian,Lee Li +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that innovator position, market awareness, niche operation, and internationalization should have positive impacts on SMTEs' profitability, but the empirical results partially agree with, and partially dissent from, the propositions.
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Regional diversification and firm performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how regional diversification affects firm performance and found that it has linear and curvilinear effects on firm performance, and that firms of developed countries maximize their performance when they operate across a moderate number of developed regions and a strictly limited number of developing regions.
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Does Culture Affect Behavior and Performance of Firms? The Case of Joint Ventures in China
TL;DR: The authors applied a resource-based view of the firm to analyze data from a sample of 898 joint-venture firms in China, including both joint ventures established by overseas Chinese and by firms from Western cultures.
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Multinationality, product diversification, and profitability of emerging US small- and medium-sized enterprises
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined empirically individual and joint effects of multinationality and product diversification on profit performance for a sample of emerging small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
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The performance implications of intra- and inter-regional geographic diversification
TL;DR: Using data from 123 U.S. based MNEs over a seven‐year period and leveraging both sales‐based and subsidiary‐based measures for diversification, it is found that performance increases at an increasingly higher rate as firms concentrate more heavily on intra‐regional diversification.