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The Product-Service System (PSS) has evolved from the manufacturing servitisation, which is an extension of the service component around a product for business activities. A PSS has been described as a manufacturing transition strategy, shifting the business focus from selling physical products only, to selling PSS, which are jointly capable of fulfilling specific client demands'. The change in human...
With the synergetic development of express enterprises and air freight enterprises, the express enterprises in China are gradually extending their scope of business to air express. The express company does not have its own airplane, it cooperates with airlines to offer air express services. The company has established branches in China. The branch usually adopts direct transportation to complete express...
Successful service can satisfy customers and attract new customers, increasing the competitive of manufacture. It is important to know the service demand of customer. In this study, we required 20 participants to decide whether to buy the combination of products and services provided in the stimulus and to respond as soon as possible. According to their reports of expectations after the experiment,...
A lot of companies apply online configuration interface to enable customers to customize their desired products. In such systems, default options are pre-specified for levels of product features by the manufacturer or dealer. This article analyzes how the default options will affect customer decisions in product customization process. The major goal of this study is to examine the effect of framing...
This paper presents a resource oriented requirement and service description method. Using the input and output resources of requirements and services as targets, it provides a dynamic service composition match-making problem model, gives the steps to construct feasible solutions of service composition match-making, and then converts the model into the dynamic programming model for optimization. An...
Augmenting products with services is a key way manufacturers have of pursuing differentiation in today's competitive market, especially in China, an economy in transition. This paper adopts a comprehensive perspective on service in manufacturers by examining the antecedents and the consequences related to a service orientation strategy, as well as the contingency variables with its implementation...
Under the circumstances of incomplete legal system of China, the equity governance characteristics have important influence on expropriation behavior of the controlling shareholder. This article examines the tunneling effect and relationship of equity governance, the result shows that: in China assets occupied, related guarantees and dividend distribution tunneling prevails in listed firms, which...
Valuation of target companies in merges and acquisitions is a complicated issue which contains potential pricing risk. In order to precisely measure the pricing risk of M&A valuation, hence to minimize the chance of M&A failure, a rough model of pricing risk measurement is set up in this paper. By dividing the estimated acquisition price into several interval, using corresponding shareholding...
According to the idea of green manufacturing, this paper researChed about CNC machine tools made of recycle and reuse toward the next 5 to 10 years a large-scale NC machine tools scrap recycLing potential resources. Then it also analyses the flow chart of CNC recycLing and reusing, proposed evaluation method of CNC machine tools recycLing and reuse which based on fuzzy analytic hierarchy process....
Perceived service is regarded as an antecedent of customer satisfaction, and most of studies use linear model to estimate the effect of perceived service on customer satisfaction. However, nonlinear relationship between perceived service and customer satisfaction may exist according to previous theories. In this study, we use a bank customer sample of 2500 people and a refrigerator customer sample...
The retail industry is connecting the upstream Production enterprise and downstream consumer, and Chinese retail industry has already been deepened from own energy conservation environmental protection, gradually to green supply chain management. In view of China domestic Retail business's development present situation, this article starts from the analysis of the environment friendly practice's environmental...
Factors influencing the volatility of the close-end funds listed in Shanghai Stock Market are investigated based on ICA (independent component analysis). In this study, investor sentiment, net asset value of close-end funds, volatility of shares, policy factors and business cycle are found to explain the volatility of close-end funds.
Based on the present analytical method of Econometrics, this article conducts an empirical research on the co-movement of stock price of gold mine enterprises and the international gold price. By analyzing the daily datum from January 2th 2004 to October 20th 2009, the article concludes that there is a relative high correlation between the stock price of gold mine enterprises and the international...
Under the pressure of shortened product life cycle and constantly changing global market, more and more Chinese manufacturers focus on their core competencies and outsource those non-core businesses. Due to this trend, supplier management becomes increasingly important to manufacturers. However, supplier management research is at its early stage in China and there is still deficient systematic study...
One important aspect of supply chain management is supplier management. As many manufacturers are concentrating on their core competences, they need to gain a competitive edge from their supply side through effective supplier management. Based on the results of case studies at six Chinese manufacturers that recently implemented supplier management, this paper finds that although the six examined firms...
Improving supplier management is a big challenge faced by many Chinese manufacturing organizations. This paper selects case study method to explore the supplier management experiences of 6 manufacturers in China. The exploration focuses on supplier selection, supplier relationship management and supplier performance measurement. The study result finds that all the 6 examined firms have their own supplier...
Outsourcing is an increasingly important issue pursued by corporations seeking improved efficiency. Logistics outsourcing or third-party logistics (3PL) involves the use of external companies to perform some or all of the firm's logistics activities. In this paper, by analyzing the feature and role of third-party logistics, for 3PL provider selection, we put forward basic principle of data integration,...
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