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A patent infringement lawsuit against a SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) is a difficult challenge for corporate management. Management is faced with the Hobson's choice of either 1) paying a license fee and hurting their long term competitive position; or 2) paying outside patent litigation counsel, with the incumbent legal expenses and thus hurting the short-term competitive position of the company...
With today's litigious society, more and more lawsuits are being filed. Some of these lawsuits involve very complex technical issues that are increasing the need of technical experts to help the court and jury to understand the issues in non-technical terms. Expert witnesses are compensated well, which encourages technical professionals to agree to be an expert without fully knowing the expectations...
The current coal mine security situation grim, malignant accidents occur frequently, the main reason is serious illegal or irregular act, the manage problem of false lax in some places is relatively outstanding. In order to solve illegal violation of coal mine and management from carrying out the problem. This article first from the background of the Gu county in ShanXi coal mine, introduces in detail...
This paper gives sample ethical case vignettes and discussions that will be presented at the 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'14) special session of the Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee. The session includes additional cases with audience participation and panel discussions.
There are many processes associated with product regulatory compliance that either are not documented or not adhered to by companies. This lack of clear process and responsibility represents added complexity from product development all the way through product manufacturing. The field of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is one of the most difficult of all required regulatory approvals due to the...
Communication is a crucial element in business environment. It ties companies together to work on a common business goal, as well as destroys existing business connection. Thus it is important to understand dynamics of partner networks. The current article analyses Partner Network lifecycle and it maturity aspects.
At present, the environment problems increasingly prominent, China's concerns about environment protection have reached unprecedented height, which has made the environment audit of enterprises get a preliminary development. This article, based on the analysis of the development of environment audit among our country's enterprises, finds the main factors among our express enterprises affecting the...
Today, to deal with the rapidly evolving needs of the market and its increased competitiveness, more and more companies operating in the field of construction use the risk management approach to improve their project's control.
Drawing on psychological contract theory, we experimentally examine four factors affecting perceptions of privacy breach among smartphone application users. We investigate the effects of the type of information which is perceived to be misappropriated by the application, the presence of legal agreement giving application developers rights to use the information, the source of information suggesting...
The adoption of the cloud computing paradigm is hindered by severe security and privacy concerns which arise when outsourcing sensitive data to the cloud. One important group are those concerns regarding the handling of data. On the one hand, users and companies have requirements how their data should be treated. On the other hand, lawmakers impose requirements and obligations for specific types of...
Developing global markets offer companies new opportunities to manufacture and sell information technology (IT) products in ways unforeseen by current laws and regulations. This innovation leads to changing requirements due to changes in product features, laws, or the locality where the product is sold or manufactured. To help developers rationalize these changes, we introduce a preliminary framework...
The paper investigates whether and how the power's balance can affect the performance of Japanese listed companies. With sample data of companies listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange, it was interpreted that Tobin's q (Q) and ROA (Return on Assets) could be regressed on Z (the radio of large shareholders) and L, I, F (the dummy variables of different large shareholders). By the empirical result, the dummy...
In 2007, our planet became predominantly urban as for the first time, more than half of the world's population was living in cities. This tendency for urbanization is characterized by urban sprawl phenomena and excessive environmental pollution degrading citizens' living standards. Although intelligent and safe urban planning and management is a challenging task, latest ICT advances can offer promising...
Companies belonging to offshore SMB ICT segment are subjected to various costs arising from several sources like legal compliance, alignment with best practice guidelines and standards, employee education, basic computer and network infrastructure security and cost of SaaS/cloud solutions. Furthermore, such companies usually have very limited financial resources, yet they are often involved in large...
Many IT change initiatives involving the development of software fail, and the scale of the failures can be large. We believe that the traditional contract model for software development is generally responsible for these failures. Even if an IT project is resourced internally, the organisation applies similar management practices to the IT project as if it were outsourced to a third party supplier...
Enterprise group is a new form of organization, but the particularity and complicacy of its structure and management bring much more and bigger problems. The group control of financial staff can't be ignored in the collective development of enterprise group. The article use the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to find weight calculation of the financial staff's control ability. Based on the factors,...
This study attempts to examine whether good governance practices in zakat distribution are required in zakat distribution in order to ensure that the eight asnaf receive the zakat fund and be satisfied with it. This study is motivated by the negative incidences reported in the mass media regarding improper management and non full distribution of zakat to the asnaf. Then there is a need for greater...
Many organizations providing products with com-mon features wish to take advantage of that similarity in order to reduce development and maintenance efforts. Their goal is to move from a single-system development paradigm towards a product line approach. However, this transition is not trivial and requires a systematic scoping phase to decide how the product line should be defined, i.e. what products...
This paper concentrates on cyber-pornography/obscenity, which encompasses online publications or distribution of sexually explicit material in breach of the English obscenity and indecency laws. After examining the major deficiencies of the attempts to restrict illegal pornographic representations, the authors aim to highlight that the debate regarding their availability in the Internet era neglects...
Software companies typically select new countries of operation based on cost, talent availability and other factors. In certain cases, however, new countries of operation are determined by customer locations and preferences. For e.g., a product implementation for a customer in a new country or a global rollout of an application increasingly involves setting up some level of operations in new countries...
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