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The paper gives the short historical description of the social-cultural development of Siberia - the vast geographical region of the Asian part of Russia. Due to the low population density, severe climate and remoteness from centers of the world civilization Siberia up to the XIX century was the underdeveloped part of Russia in spite of the reach natural resources. Still during the last 200 years...
This paper explores the role of design management as a transformative force inside business organizations and a means to introduce innovations inside a socio cultural center in a marginal zone. A pre-experiment was introduced in a longitudinal case study in order to explore whether design management could assist in improving its financial performance, repositioning it in the cultural sphere and changing...
Once, long time ago, there was a very old dinosaur living on the planet Earth. Big yet invisible to most, living in the dark places full of cold, dust and cables; surrounded by several groups of faithful - very specialized software teams, the only ones who truly understood him. But the life on the planet Earth had never been steady and recently spinning faster and faster around, so it happen that...
The financial crisis caused almost every country's economy in a depression, on contrast to economic recession, the financial crisis, however, gave an opportunity to the electronic entertainment with cultural elements. The authors analyzed the relationship between culture and economy, found that Economy serves as foundation for culture, and Culture is an important force for economic development. The...
Engineering research `made in China' plays an increasingly important role worldwide. As a result, international collaboration in joint research projects will be more frequent in the future. It is for this reason that there is a need for project management approaches that address the impact of cultural aspects in such partnerships. The paper reviews the state of project management in engineering projects...
In the late 1990s the Software Engineering community recognized that there was a problem with delivering global software projects to a high quality in an efficient manner. As a consequence, researchers, in the now 'Global Software Engineering Research community', carried out significant studies into GSE problems. But, did we really find what we expected? Did we expect that project delays were due...
Based on the literature review of the value chain governance and from the perspective of micro research on enterprise, this paper describes the value chain of the manufacturing firms of specialty products in minority nationalities and the key factors of geographical and cultural characteristics in value chain governance. Through the survey of the manufacturing firms in Guizhou Minority Nationalities,...
As an important component of the building of a harmonious society, the development of cultural undertakings play a pivotal role in the protection of cultural rights and interests of citizens and realize a fair and open culture and enhance the cultural vitality and competitiveness. And the study by comparing the features and representative in London, New York, Singapore and other international cities...
The paper explores and analyzes the game expression problem of Chinese future product design under the background of the low-carbon economic development in current times of globalization. In low-carbon economy era, as the primary focus of consumers gradually shifts from material to spiritual, the concept of product design will shift from function to game. The paper explains the cultural functions...
Through the design of innovative services of Longquan Swords Products, the opportunities and challenges of the development of Chinese traditional industries is summed up and analyzed and specific measures are proposed that the use of industrial design transforms and upgrades Chinese traditional industries based on practical experience.
This paper presents an investigation of innovative communication through examining design characteristics in global e-commerce sites. This investigation is necessary to establish an understanding of the barriers in communicating and implementing of e-commerce on a global level. The paper begins with an overview of current business-to-customer (B2C) e-commerce implementation on the web, and then describes...
The Ming-style round-backed armchair is thought as a gem of the traditional furniture. The factors that influence the evolvement of the Ming-style round-backed armchair are analysed, and the characteristics of the round-backed armchair among different periods are summarized. Such a realization will help us to create new classics furniture in modern time by taking full advantage of cultural factors.
This paper is formulized by the research question as how small and medium-sized manufacturing are utilizing the quality systems. The research designs to cover the findings from research exploring the nature and extent of quality practices in those types of manufacturing in the South of Thailand, as case study. Factors motivating, hierarchical patterns, encountered problems and elements of quality...
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