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Servitization is a time-consuming-, and needs to be persistent-, process at the companies, especially in the IT branch. Thus, a company must find itself properly, on which phase of this process it is operating in, to perform further accurate steps, to succeed in a short time with this development, since the competition in the IT industry is highly dynamic. Accordingly, we perform in this paper an...
In recent years, there is a noticeable rapid development of high-technologies. High tech companies show the high level of innovation performance, using advanced management models, implementing the up-to-date technologies each of technological and managerial. The comparative analysis of high tech industry in Russia and South Korea is based on the evaluation of the high technology development level,...
Serious games and their applications in industry, businesses and other “serious” areas is a fast growing tendency. A success of serious game or serious gamified application's implementation and use in industry significantly depends on quality of external technical gamification platform to be used, or, serious game engine (SGE). The goals of the current SGE Research Group project at Bradley University...
For now, innovative SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) have become an essential component of the economic fabric in various countries in the world. However, this type of enterprises has always had difficulty to fit into the conventional financial system. Difficulties in financing innovative SMEs have become a major obstacle to ensure their own survival and development in the long term. How to overcome...
In order to promote the application value and instruction significance of “structural Keynesian investment multiplier” (abbreviated as SKIM), this paper takes environment consumption and environment input into the second-stage input-output table. It meanwhile proposes a concrete plan of compiling a “second-stage input-output table that incorporates environment factor”, and based on this designs a...
As a kind of electricity regulatory system which works in the mature market economy universally, the modern electricity regulatory system has some remarkable characteristics distinguishing itself from traditional electricity managerial system. Through a comparative analysis we can generalize these characteristics as four aspects, which are supervising in accordance with the law, the independence and...
Industrial symbiosis activities are being implemented in the philosophy of "circular economy" in China. It advocates industries organized along the model of an ecosystem, looking both environment and economy. This paper provides a case study of the Beijiang Power Plant complex in Tianjin, China. After two years of field research, we conducted a material flow analysis of it and formed a symbiotic...
To analyze the international competitiveness of trade service in Hong Kong thoroughly, and get the accurate localization in world market, this paper has a comparative analysis on the international competitiveness of trade service among Hong Kong, east Asia and Europe & America and its main economic bodies by utilizing the following indices: International market share, trade competitiveness index...
The issue of distribution is becoming one of the most concerned social issues by Chinese government. Since the political system has been set up as ownership of the whole people in China, it is laid down clearly in the Constitution (latest amended in 2004) that predominant ownership of the means of production is public ownership. Accordingly, the people are endowed to obtain property income from government-owned...
Noise Pollution is one of the current problems in cities including Tehran, which has harmful effects on people's physical and mental health in the society. Some countries have adopted legal measures to control and eliminate the noise pollution. Since, there is no conducted research relating to the legal status of noise pollution in Iran, a comparative analysis of the laws and regulations of Iran and...
By analyzing the differences of Chinese companies' stock repurchase effect in Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Hong Kong Stock Exchange and NASDAQ Stock Market during 1994 to 2007, this paper is devoted to indicate that the signaling effect and announcement effect of repurchase significantly result from the effectiveness of security market and government interference.
The Toyota Production System (TPS) has long touted the workforce management technique of continual improvement in the face of economic downturns. This is counter to a more general approach of short-term and long-term layoffs in manufacturing, associated with more traditionally managed companies. This paper builds a quantitative decision tool for choosing between layoffs and continual process-based...
Communities of practice (COPs) have been around since the founding of the first social networks many millennia ago. Organizations around the world over the last two decades have leveraged COPs as tools in the knowledge management (KM) toolkit; however, the rules of the game have changed as the ubiquity of the Internet in organizations has led to profound changes in KM practices, including the rise...
Regional economic system includes the industry structure and geographical subsystems. Yangtze River Delta is the most sparkly area in China. Since 1978, the implementation of reform and open policy, majority cities of the area has developed into the stage of industrialization period. With the statistical data of Yangtze River Delta 1978-2007, this paper uses correlation analysis, comparative analysis...
This paper aims to review research in knowledge management (KM) to identify the similarities and the differences between Chinese and abroad KM research from four perspectives: research topics, reference disciplines, research methods, and units of analysis. 467 research papers published in 21 leading academic journals in China from 1999 to 2006, and 361 research papers published in 20 leading academic...
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