Paper by Prof. Hu Haibo's Team Published in Management World

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Recently, the academic paper Escaping the "Uniformity of Thousand Villages": A Dual-Case Study on the Dual Legitimacy Paradox and Governance Mechanism of Agriculture-Culture-Tourism Enterprises, co-authored by Professor Hu Haibo from the School of Business Administration and his team members Zhou Jie, Lu Haitao and Hu Wenli, was published in Management World, Issue 10, 2026.

Focusing on the prevalent problem of "uniformity of a thousand villages" homogenization in the integration of agriculture, culture and tourism, the paper takes two enterprises, Shangloulou and Shilifangfei, as research subjects. It proposes the concepts of "performance legitimacy" and "local legitimacy", and reveals that homogenization does not merely stem from imitative convergence. Instead, enterprises fail to effectively balance operational efficiency and local responsibilities, which leads to governance failure of the dual legitimacy paradox.

Founded in 1985, Management World is supervised and sponsored by the Development Research Center of the State Council. It is widely recognized as China’s top comprehensive academic journal in the field of management. According to the Chinese Academic Journal Impact Factor Annual Report (2025), its composite impact factor stands at 37.304 and the comprehensive impact factor is 24.764, consistently ranking first among management journals in China.