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Recent structural changes to the shipping industry triggered severe liquidity risks for not only small and medium-sized shipping lines but also global lines. Despite a severe downturn in the industry, a few lines have shown stable performance their finances. This study thus raises two research questions. Why do a few shipping lines maintain stable financial performance (FP)? How much does the governance...
Niche strategy takes some narrow business scope as starting point, through concentrating the input of resources and expanding market scope, finally become leading position in dominant market. The paper selected Ningbo BEIFA Group as example, and summarized the innovation modes, processes and approaches based on niche strategy. The paper shows that the technology innovation process of BEIFA can be...
LNG is refered to the liquefied natural gas. The transport method of LNG is more flexible and convenient than that of the pipeline natural gas. What's more, compared with other energy, it is cleaner. Therefore, LNG plays an important role in the energy market. Along with the progress of LNG liquefied technology and the reduction of transportation cost, LNG trade has developed more rapidly. This article...
This paper reports on experiences in transitioning a capstone course from a single-quarter to three-quarters. A single-quarter project course in software design and development had been offered by our department for over twenty years. More recently, upon formation of a new undergraduate degree in Informatics, this course was transformed into a three-quarter capstone course taken by students in their...
A three-level access control model based on role, department and task is proposed in this paper. Task is one of the basic concepts in project management research area and department is one of the basic concepts in organizational structure theory. After introducing the concepts of task and department, this model regards them as independent authorization factor with role of the traditional RBAC96. This...
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