Influence of organization environment on contractor’s inter-regional market entry practice in China: an industry-level approach based on Bayesian logistic regression model

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Figure 1. Theoretical model of contractor’s inter-regional market entry practice.

Table 1. Definition and measurement of variables.

Variables	Definition	Measurement	Data source
Organization scale	The degree to which factors of production and products are concentrated in an organization	The number of employees	Organization’s official website
Operation experience	The length of time an organization has existed	2020–established year
Ownership structure	Reflection of organization’s property rights	Whether the organization’s property rights belong to the state	National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System in China
Economic development	The degree of economic prosperity in a specific region	Per capita GDP	National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) 2019
Industry scale	The output scale or operational scale of the industry.	The gross output value
Local protection	The tendency of local authorities to negatively exercise their power to safeguard local interests	The Local Protection Index (LP).
Local competition	The competition tensity in the local market	The number of contractors

Table 2. Demographic information of examined organizations.

Variable	Category	Number	Percentage
Inter-regional organizations	Yes	114	26.76
	No	312	73.24
Organization size	Below 600	88	20.66
	600–3000	201	47.18
	Above 3000	137	32.16
Organization history	Below 20	36	8.45
	20–50	232	54.46
	Above 50	158	37.09
Ownership structure	State-owned	232	54.46
	Not state-owned	194	45.54

Table 3. Logistic regression model results.

Independent variables	Model 1			Model 2
	Coefficient	Conf. low	Conf. high	Coefficient	Z value	Sig
Ownership structure	0.499	−0.041	1.058	0.422	1.210	0.226
Operation experience	−0.05	−1.985	1.892	−79.36	−2.261	0.023
Organization size	1.514	0.978	2.099	1.631	4.851	0.010
Local economic development	1.643	0.326	2.991	2.910	2.577	0.000
Local construction market	0.555	−0.335	1.476	−0.226	−0.392	0.695
Local protection	−0.095	−0.697	0.498	0.078	0.218	0.827
Local competition	−0.380	−2.259	1.526	−1.228	−0.265	0.791

Figure 2. Distribution of regional economic development, construction market scale and local protection in China.

Figure 3. Diagnose result of Bayesian regression model-(a) the trace, (b) dens-overlay, (c) mcmc_acf (d) and pp_check.

National Bureau of Statistics of China. (2019). China Statistics Press. Beijing. Retrieved from https://data.stats.gov.cn/easyquery.htm?cn=C01

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Some or all data, models, or codes that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.