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The importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has aroused wide attention of not only the corporation itself, but also the whole society. In 2006, SGCC (State Grid Corporation of China) published its first CSR report, started to make a commitment to social responsibilities. Since then, the five power generation groups published their CSR reports, sustainable development reports, or development...
There is very little research on how industry is dealing with the risk of legal liability when constructing safety-critical mechatronic systems that are also software intensive. In this paper we propose a case study approach with the goal to understand how liability concerns in this setting impact software development in industry. The approach takes into account that software development is embedded...
Organizations of handling personal or sensitive information have the pressure of complying with relevant privacy laws or regulations. Since the laws or regulations are always written with complex legal terms, it is not easy for information system designers to understand precisely such laws and regulations and adopt them directly in their designs. In this paper, we propose the method of formalizing...
Emails have drastically changed the way companies and employees communicate. Some Emails are business-relevant and have to be kept for documentation, external and internal audits, and for legal evidence. Many companies defined rules for handling Emails to comply with external and internal requirements. In this paper we describe indicators for good Email practices and develop a maturity model by weighting...
This paper will explore a combination of reliability tools used to mitigate uncertainties in new business demands. Many times, especially in industrial processes, decisions to accept new demands are made based on empirical procedures that are based only on perceptions of beings highly susceptible to failure. A methodology to reduce or eliminate that kind of risk exposure will benefit companies' executives...
Farmer cooperative organizations have improved the degree of systemization and have strengthened farmer's competitiveness and benefits. However, farmer's cooperative organizations are facing so many questions such as legal problems, cooperative governance, and so on. The paper discusses those problems and give the solutions to cooperative organizations.
The Construction Sector in Portugal shows high numbers of fatal accidents, with special occurrences in falls from height, crushing, burying and electrocution: From the 115 accidents in 2009, 56 came from this sector (ACT, 2009). So, it is important to understand better these matters bearing in mind what can be improved to minimize those numbers, namely what continues not to work properly and adequately...
Human Resource Management practices are shaped by the work environment and culture of a specific country. “Localized” HR practices also determine, to a large extent, organizational effectiveness. Nevertheless, with present milieu of globalization and internationalization of businesses the pressure to adopt best practices and follow some form of international standards has become the norm. This is...
This article has discussed the advantages and the deficiencies of Private enterprise's family management, along with Private enterprise development, Family management can not meet the requirements of the further development of private enterprises, so private enterprises should establish a sound modern enterprise system for long-term development.
Based on a pyramid-like model of e-commerce diffusion developed by Bob Travica, the paper sets up its own model by examining the indispensable elements contributing to e-commerce development in developing regions. Then, the model is used in a market research conducted in several selected remote cities in china to find out problems and obstacles currently existing in taking advantages of E-commerce...
The pay gap of management staff to be interpreted as a variable??Cownership structure??Cboard of directors??Csupervisors??Cmanagement remuneration??Cshareholdings and so on to be the explanatory variables??Cthe conclusion is made that the major factors influencing the management staff's pay gap are the scale of enterprise assets??Cboard size and directors'remuneration??DThe proportion of corporate...
Enterprises were the main finance provider of social insurance system. It was important for government to measure social insurance financial burden precisely. This paper designed an index named "enterprise's social insurance premium burden rate" based on enterprise's balance sheet and made an empirical study based on 842 A share listed companies in Shanghai stock exchange. Result showed...
This article analyzes the existing problems in the internal audit of companies in China from four approaches, and discusses about how to eliminate these problems by raising awareness, improving independence, strengthening system construction and enhancing staff quality, with an aim to give play to the required functions of company's internal audit.
Industrial democracy as the way what employee take part in management, the foreign industrial democracy operation mode has great differences with us, such as Britain's joint consultation and collective bargaining model, Germany's workers councils mode, America's collective bargaining mode. This paper mainly about comparative research on the Sino-German Industrial democracy for the development of our...
Under the different capital strength and district environment, citibanks create two typical development mode in our country. Citibanks managing in one city could cause credit risk and liquidity risk. Under the different places expansion mode, citibanks could create operational risk and moral hazard growth. We should perfect legal system and strengthen regulation to control risks of citybanks.
Headquarters economy is the inevitable results of optimizing configuration of resources in the economy of knowledge and information. After the enforcement of the newly implemented Law of the People's Republic of China on Enterprise Income Tax, tax-payment by the headquarters of enterprises has been a widespread phenomenon, resulting in the expansion of the already existing problem of tax deviation...
With the increasing competition, the enterprises' pressure and dynamic for technological competition become more and more direct and intense, and the enterprises have to strengthen the internalization of research and development (R&D for short) continuously to improve their technological competition ability. The author analyzes the causes of the phenomenon that China's enterprises strengthen the...
An experienced (read: "old") software developer recounts the ups and downs of learning Scrum as part of a geographically distributed team working on a pre-release product.
As the middle part, online payment is the most concerned problem in e-commerce transactions. Represented by third-party payment, online payment largely eliminates the concerns of people in online transactions, promoting development of e-commerce in China. However, third-party payment in practice also exposes some risks, and it is necessary to build secure third-party payment system, and promote the...
Abstract-This paper deduces: when the current final liquidate residual of a project is greater than the next period of expected revenue, investors will choose short-term debt and take it as supervision on managers; under the corporate debt maturity structure option game equilibrium between managers and shareholders, the higher the corporate governance level, the better the legal system environment,...
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