Despite the considerable amount of research regarding trust as one of the most important characters and competitive advantages for an industrial cluster, few empirical studies have examined whether geographic proximity still leads to higher levels of trust in the current Internet era. This article explores this issue of trust from a network embeddedness perspective. Based on the data from Zhongshan gas appliance cluster, we employ structural equation modeling to examine the extent to which relational embeddedness, structural embeddedness, and positional embeddedness have any impact on trust-building in the cluster. Our findings reveal that high clique trust and low aggregate trust coexist in the cluster, showing that the effect of geographical proximity on trust has been weakened and is no longer a sufficient condition for trust-building. This study also gives some suggestions on how to improve the trust within a cluster through network governance.Lez Rayman-Bacchus is a research follow in the Business School, University of Winchester, United Kingdom. He also founded the Centre for Corporate Responsibility at London Metropolitan University, and the international symposium on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development. His research interests include the practice of strategy and international management, currently focused on Chinese SME attitudes and behavior in industrial network clusters, and that of Middle Eastern businesses. He has a background in both industry and academia. He spent more than 15 years with high technology multinational companies working in business development and marketing, before moving into research and teaching on strategy, corporate responsibility and sustainability, corporate ethics, and corporate governance. He has published more than about 30 papers as well as one academic book.GuangMing Xiang is pursuing master's degree in finance at the School of Management and Economics in UESTC.

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Even though urban renewal has attracted much attention in recent years, relatively few studies focus on the sustainability of urban renewal projects, which is surprising given the associated economic benefits. To fill this gap, we review 31 typical cases of urban renewal in China that have existed for over 10 years and utilize fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to identify causal configurations that lead to a high level of stakeholder satisfaction. Our findings show that: (1) there are four antecedent configurations that lead to the sustainability of urban renewal of urban renewal (these are: ~ preservation of history and culture * differentiation * project reformation * ~ incremental innovation; ~ preservation of history and culture * differentiation * commercial publicity * incremental innovation; preservation of history and culture * commercial publicity * ~ project reformation * incremental innovation; and preservation of history and culture * differentiation * ~ commercial publicity * project reformation * incremental innovation); (2) compared with other conditions, differentiation and incremental innovation play more important roles in the sustainability of urban renewal; and (3) not only the improvement of the environment but also the operation and management of projects should be considered carefully. This paper contributes to urban renewal literature and offers practical suggestions for sustainable urban development.

Abstract. In recent years, e-commerce develops rapidly in China, which has established convenient platform to overseas purchasing business. Generally speaking, overseas purchasing contains two ways: one is the traditional overseas purchasing, referring to Chinese consumers buy foreign commodities through individuals who provide overseas purchasing service and internet website; another emerging way is that foreign customers buy Chinese commodities through internet website, which can be termed as reverse overseas purchasing compared to the first way. In this paper, we analyze several reverse overseas purchasing models in China. Taking garment industry as an example, this study shows how to explore global market through e-commerce platform like Taobao especially for Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) which are very difficult to implement international strategy by themselves.

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