Institute of Quality Development Strategy

Abstract: Based on the data from Chinese quality observational survey in 2014, this paper empirically measures the subjective well-being of the middle income class in China, and furtherly investigates the influencing factors from the dimensions of weatlth possession, social welfare and individual capability. Methodologies of descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and structural equation m...

Abstract: Brand strategy is an important part of enterprise strategy, which is one of the key factors influencing firm performance. Researches have focused on large-scale enterprises, while not enough attention has been paid to small and medium-sized enterprises both in theory and practice. From the perspective of resource-based theory and brand system management, using the cross-section data f...

Abstract: Based on the data of China Employee-enterprises Survey in 2015, this paper takes advantage of three stage DEA model to evaluate and analyze the innovation efficiency of manufacturing enterprises. The results show that only the difference of quality management mode will not result in the difference of enterprise innovation efficiency, but the quality management mode will affect the ent...

​Abstract: Quality signal transmission is of great value for reducing information asymmetry and promoting product sales, and is also a cost for enterprises. Therefore, how to choose a best quality signal is what enterprises should focus on when making business decisions. Through an empirical study on quality signal selection based on a large samples of business survey, it is found that in gene...

Abstract: Based on China Employer - Employee Survey data, the paper empirically examined the casual effect between labor skill structure, i.e. the proportion of skilled labor force and unskilled labor force of an enterprise, and TFP. Empirical Results by OLS regression and instrumental variables method show that upgrading labor skills structure of enterprises will strongly promote TFP of manufa...

Abstract: Different types of financial constraints may led to different choice of enterprises on their product’s quality. The existing literatures have researched the total effects of financial constraints on quality, but haven’t considered the different structure of financial market. Based on an enterprise survey with random sampling, this paper studies the different impacts of credit constr...

Abstract:This paper explores the changes of entrepreneurs' innovative spirit from their age factor based on the data from China Employer-Employee Survey 2015. It has examined the causal relationship between the entrepreneurs' age and their spirit of innovation by using OLS and 3SLS regression and showed that a significant U-shaped relationship exists between entrepreneurs' age and their spirit ...

Abstract: As the age of the company grows, how would the labor productivity change? Based on the 2015 China Employer-Employee Survey data, this paper investigates the age effect of labor productivity in manufacturing companies. According to the results of Fixed Effect OLS regression, a reverse U-shape relation between the age and labor productivity of firms is found in the full sample and sub s...

Abstracts: Zombie firms could distort the competition, destroy the innovative destruction, and induce systematic risks of the economy. Exploring the mechanism of how zombie firms come into being from the micro prospective would contribute to clearing them away, thus promoting the economic growth quality of China in new normal. This paper conducted an empirical study on the mystery of zombies fr...

Abstract: Take the "Chinese Enterprise - Employee matching Survey" (CEES) database as the sample, using multiple linear regression method to study the correlation between China's manufacturing enterprises’ product quality signals and its cost...