This paper investigates international technology diffusion through FDI by explicitly considering the ownership structure of FDI projects with detailed Chinese data. We find that international joint ventures (JVs) generate significantly positive technology diffusion effects, while wholly foreign‐owned firms (WFOs) generate significantly negative competition effects. The differentiated impacts of JVs and WFOs are robust, heterogeneous and causal as shown by our instrumental variable estimation. As for the mechanisms, evidence suggests that JVs bring better technology to the host country, invest more in R&D and employee training, and also provide easier technology access to local firms than WFOs.

Modern apprenticeship enterprise curriculum is a new curriculum form that promotes school-enterprise cooperation and integration of production and education. Before there are relatively mature strategies in all aspects of enterprise curriculum construction, it is very necessary to actively strengthen the system construction and promote development through system. On this basis, this paper summarizes and analyzes the significance and practice of cultivating modern apprenticeship in geology major of higher vocational colleges, so as to better promote the all-round development of talents.

This paper analyzes productivity growth and its sources in the Indonesian manufacturing sector during the post‐Asian financial crisis period. Based on a plant‐level panel dataset over the period 2001–9, we find meager total factor productivity (TFP) growth in this country's manufacturing industries, merely achieving average annual growth of 0.03%, while TFP growth varies significantly across industries. Further decomposition suggests the need to effectively allocate resources across industries in order to promote aggregate productivity. Moreover, aggregate productivity growth coming from the total reallocation effect remains quite low, lending no support to the structural‐bonus hypothesis. Overall, TFP growth is mainly contributed by incumbents firms, whereas the contribution by firm mobility was larger in some years.

With increasing competition and globalization, it is supply chain to compete rather than single firm. Integration in supply chain has been conceptualized and documented in literature from multiple perspectives. In this study, we conceptualize logistics integration with third party logistics providers (3PLs) from supply chin integration perspective, and then empirically explore its relational antecedents and its impact on performance. Structural equation model analyses of data collected from 134 logistics users in mainland China support that trust, commitment, and dependence are positively related to logistics integration with 3PLs. The study also provides evidence supporting the contributive effect of logistics integration on performance, especially, the contributive effect is moderated by legal contract.

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