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In China, more and more companies are constructing internal control system as enterprise internal control basic standard (EICBS) was released last year. Based on the data obtained in a survey, we firstly examine the quality of internal control in China companies. Secondly we examine how and to what extent the firm-specific characteristics determine the quality of internal control. We find that size,...
Entrepreneurial learning has been an emerging study filed between learning and the entrepreneurial context. The present article seeks to advance the theoretical knowledge of entrepreneurial learning by reviewing and synthesizing available research into a conceptual framework. On the basis of literature review, semi-structure interview and survey, this paper divided five dimensions of entrepreneurial...
Empowerment is an effective management tool and has made tremendous benefits for employees and organizations, which has been approved by many studies and practices. However in China, it is so common that managers don't want to empower. So the main aim of this research is to analyze that phenomenon from the perspective of empowerment risk perception. From the data of 209 managers and 618 subordinates...
Based on the researches of the perceived risks in the Web, we construct a model to deal with the perception how to influence customers to buy in the field of C2C . Then, get 192 effective questionnaires through Internet survey. It is proved store risk, product risk, and delivery risk are 3 dimensions of C2C consumers' risk perception. The effects of product risk influence consumers' purchasing intention...
Survival is a key concern of many complex systems. A standard approach to maximizing the likelihood of survival is to attempt to produce a system that is as free of errors as possible. We instead propose a methodology that changes the semantics of the underlying development and execution environments to cleanly and simply obtain survival guarantees that are difficult if not impossible to obtain with...
As electrical distribution networks become more active, it is important to identify the conditions in which traditional measures of network performance still provide accurate representations of network behaviour. This work describes the development of algebraic relationships an aggregated network model, expressions for the risk to which the system is exposed under different operating periods are developed...
If Grid computing is to experience widespread commercial adoption, then incorporating risk assessment and management techniques is essential,both during negotiation between service provider and service requester and during run-time. This paper focuses on the role of a resource broker in this context. Specifically, an approach to evaluating the reliability of risk information received from resource...
We develop a possibility based model with the aim of helping firms to deal with difficult-to- predict catastrophic failures. Our study is motivated by the recent economic turmoil and recent large financial firm failures. Our results suggest that specialization is an alternative to portfolio diversification in predicting catastrophic events.
Service level agreements (SLAs) are facilitators for widening the commercial uptake of grid technology. They provide explicit statements of expectation and obligation between service consumers and providers. However, without the ability to assess the probability that an SLA might fail, commercial uptake will be restricted, since neither party will be willing to agree. Therefore, risk assessment mechanisms...
Probabilistic engineering design enhances safety and reduces costs by incorporating risk assessment directly into the design process. In this paper, we assess the format of the quantitative metrics for the vehicle which will replace the Space Shuttle, the Ares I rocket. Specifically, we address the metrics for in-flight measurement error in the vector position of the motor nozzle, dictated by limits...
Our country's small & medium enterprises (SMEs) have been one of important pillars of national economy as a result of the rapid development of SMEs. As for SMEs, technological innovation is the only way to enhance their core competitiveness and establish competitive advantage in the market. This paper constructs the index system of risk evaluation on technological innovation of SMEs through Delphi...
Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a proactive tool developed to identify, evaluate and prevent product and/or process failures. The conventional FMEA procedure suffers from inadequate definitions for some steps, high uncertainty, and even decision making failures throughout the procedure. The effectiveness of an FMEA can be significantly improved by identifying potential pitfalls, and raising...
Recently, a trend to use reputation model for selecting service providers becomes evident in the area of electronic commerce. Most of the effort have been made on providing a reliability value associated with the predicted reputation to interpret how reliable is the reputation. However, the predicted reputation will become ineffective with a low reliability value. Rather than providing a reliability...
This paper discusses a number of aspects of operational-risk assessment of transmission systems, operational-risk assessment uses techniques developed from reliability analysis to predict the performance of the transmission system during a short period of time (several hours) starting from a well-defined operational state. The influence of weather parameters on the momentary failure rate and the operational...
With the support of the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD), the Bayes linear method has been used to support reliability decision making on two 'live' projects. This paper focuses on one of these projects and shows how the Bayes linear methodology has been used to support decision making. The construction of a Bayes linear model comprises three parts. First, we need to structure the model. Second,...
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