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Firms with good corporate governance and enterprise have robust systems in order to enhance business performance. Government formulates laws for the purpose of preventing malpractice arising from lack of good corporate governance. This paper intends to examine how the ratio and part-time situation of independent directors affect firm performance. Empirical results show that ratio of independent directors...
A number of things appear to be changing in the job market for graduate students with an interest in remote sensing. First, there are fewer academic or government research positions. Second, increasingly the new positions in the field tend to be in industry and NGOs, including organizations that do not consider remote sensing to be their primary focus. Third, there are increased expectations (hope?)...
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), would not function without standards. Today, almost all large vendors and service providers actively contribute to ICT standardisation, as do many smaller companies. Nevertheless, comparably little is known about firms' approaches to standardisation management. This paper analyses the characteristics of the major stakeholders and of the environment...
In nowadays society, enterprise social work is becoming more and more popular, since it helps to relieve social conflicts in the company, thus contributing to the harmonious relationship between employers and employees. However, existing researches focus excessively on theoretical investigation. Therefore, this paper introduces three typical patterns in practice, including enterprise independent purchase,...
Recognition is growing of the importance of including standardization in an academic education. Standardization committees create a defined order applied to a specific application, e.g., a safety standard, a measurement standard, a telephone jack, a WiFi signal, a quality standard, a process standard, lumber size. This standardization activity is certainly necessary, but theoretically the details...
Whether social workers can supply precise service is important in wiping out such obstacle as buyers' unawareness during enterprise social work practice in China. Firstly, from the perspective of service marketing, this paper discusses how to dominate a favorable position in customers' mind when selling social work service. Secondly, within the framework of marketing positioning strategy, this paper...
This study focus on how international information from Taiwan based enterprises in China to influence on investment of Chinese services enterprises entered an Ethnic Chinese Market by Greenfield investment. It addresses two questions. First, what force drive Chinese services enterprises to entry in Taiwan? Second, how Chinese service based enterprises collected international information for learning...
Currently, e-commerce is being applied more and more widely in daily life. However, how to give an accurate, real-time and low-cost estimation of online retail sales is still a difficult problem from both academic and industrial aspects. This paper presents an efficient method for the estimation of online retail sales that is characterized by an order detection algorithm embedded in distributed clients...
Agile methods are an established process for developing software nowadays. There is, however, less evidence on their usage among software practitioners in Malaysia. While the methods have become mainstream in other regions, that is not the case in this country. This paper investigates important aspects in relation to Agile usage in Malaysia. The study was conducted using a questionnaire with 207 software...
E-procurement is an effective tool to reduce collusion and corruption, reduce procurement cost, and improve transparency. However, those claims were based on government perspectives, while from users' perspectives (e.g. businesses) little is known. This study used government e-procurement users' social media discussion, postings, exchange, and material distribution case in a local government in Indonesia...
On the basis of systematical analysis of the competitiveness, target elements, the main elements and resource elements of innovative enterprises, the power system model of enhance the competitiveness of innovative enterprises was put out. Basing on the system dynamics theory, this model revealed the rule of competitiveness enhance of innovative enterprises.
According to Situation Report on pollution of coastal areas in Vietnam, surface waters and coastal sediments in Ha Long Bay have high oil-pollution level as much as eighteen times higher than Vietnamese standard limits. The development of economic society, especially the rapid growth of the tourism industry and shipping in recent years, has led to dramatically increase the tourist boats which are...
The idea behind ‘Smart Grid Vision for India’ is to transform the Indian power sector into a secure, adaptive, sustainable, and digitally enabled ecosystem that provides reliable and quality energy for all with active participation of stakeholders. Realizing the growing importance of Smart Grid technologies in the Indian power sector, very recently Ministry of Power, Government of India on the recommendation...
In this paper we report our experiences in designing DE3TO, a tool to support the decisions about the delivery and the deployment models in the process of adoption of a cloud based solution for enterprises. The tool leverages a simple questionnaire to enable a user who is in charge of the decision about the model of deployment and delivery of a cloud service, to receive a score for each of the models...
Recent scandals have stressed the need for information sharing among companies and governments. The sharing of information is not easy as companies want to keep their administrative burden low, whereas governments need high information quality. These drivers have resulted in the initiating of programs for developing infrastructures for information sharing. In these programs public and private organizations...
In this research, we investigated the differences in the roles and responsibilities across the CIO's job across three main regions of one country - China. In particular, we studied how CIOs of Hong Kong, mainland China, and Taiwan varied across the regions. We found that the roles and responsibilities of China's CIOs were influenced by the region's government strategy and the maturity of its technology...
Taiwan's invoice system is unique in the world in the sense that every invoice must follow the same printed format specified by the government. In addition, an accompanying lottery-like mechanism is implemented to give prizes to some invoice holders periodically as an incentive for citizens to request invoices upon transaction. This allows government to audit business sales, and has proven quite effective...
With governments worldwide striving to digitize the healthcare sector beyond the institutional level of individual hospitals, many countries have developed national programs to implement eHealth technologies that increase treatment efficiency and effectiveness. However, it cannot be neglected that these programs have often been longsome, costly and have been met with considerable resistance from various...
This paper is about a framework that would facilitate economic progress in some of the poorest communities in the Philippines. Top corporations operating in the country can extend their social responsibility initiatives and at the same time get tax credits for worthy endeavors. The idea is for big businesses to adopt communities and make them progressive members of the nation. An adopted community...
This paper is about a framework that would minimize switching costs of an Electric Utility Company's customers and public transportation operators from their existing equipment to a more efficient alternative to be provided by a trade-in company at a minimal or no cost. The concept will also address the concern for the environment by reducing toxic substances into the air caused by vehicle emissions...
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