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Chaoshan businessmen were widely involved in internal group cooperation. Based on historical and comparative institutional analysis, it is found that the cooperative behavior of Chaoshan businessmen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties is not simply an economic behavior. It reflects the historical evolution of the interaction between the regional cultures concerning the sea, clan and Confucianism, the governance of merchant groups with blood and geographical characteristics, and the beliefs of merchants in Mazu and Guan Yu. The evolutionary game theory is used to investigate the evolutionary process and the evolutionary stable strategy of the internal cooperative behavior of Chaoshan businessmen. It shows that due to the joint influence of regional culture, governance of merchant groups and beliefs of merchants, a multilateral collective punishment mechanism for untrustworthy merchants and a loss compensation mechanism for trustworthy merchants are established through channels such as chambers of commerce and ancestral temples. Thus, it reinforces the group cooperation institutions of integrity within Chaoshan merchant groups in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper uses evolutionary game theory to analyse regional tourism cooperation. Asymmetric evolutionary game model is established to explore the intrinsic motivation of regional tourism cooperation, and we via rigorous mathematical reasoning to prove a series of proposition. At the same time, through numerical simulation on each proposition by the MATLAB software, it vividly reflects the evolution process of the regional tourism cooperation. The results show that, first, it is necessary to cooperate, which is the inevitable trend in the development; Second, we shall specify the necessary condition to maintain cooperation, when the no-cooperative party can obtain additional benefit of freeriding from the cooperation party, and the additional benefit is greater than the benefit from bilateral cooperation, cooperation will ultimately fail; third, we must focus on the sufficient conditions to guarantee cooperation, which mainly reflected on the utilization of shared resources, cooperation cost, the benefit of "free-riding" etc. In view of the results, we propose some suggestions to promote regional tourism cooperation from the regulations of regional tourism cooperation, government and the utilization of shared resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The problem of MNCs' technology transfer is virtually the dynamic game problem between MNCs and host country enterprises. The paper introduces evolutionary game theory to the field of technology transfer. For the problem of technology transfer between MNCs and host country enterprises, Evolutionary game theory sets up the model of an evolutionary game according to host country enterprises whether they have research and development capability or not, and comparatively analyzes the equilibrium results. Finally, the paper draws a useful and enlightening conclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]