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This paper examines the relationship between self-regulation and performance in the computer-aided network context. In a computer-aided network context, the strategic management raises a number of interesting issues. The empirical evidence, largely from traditional economies, has been inconclusive. Moreover, little effort has been made to empirically test whether such an impact is linear or curvilinear...
??Innovation counts very much?? has been discussed more that thirty years. Most scholars consider innovation one of the cores in modern management and strategy. There have been many empirical studies on organizational innovation from viewpoint of organizational culture. And some studies focus on that from organizational structure. This study discusses over the relationships among organizational culture,...
Enterprises are confronted with the challenge of reengineering technological capability during industry conversion. Tacit knowledge accumulated in the former industry is vital for reengineering new technological capability. The research aims at the effective approach to realize tacit knowledge transfer within enterprises during industry conversion. Therefore, the process of tacit knowledge transfer...
Empowerment is an effective method of improving organization effectiveness. Empowerment can raise the service level of employees effectively, mobilize the work enthusiasm of employees and motivate employees to provide customers with good service quality and improve service quality and customer satisfaction. Many enterprises have found they have to empower front-line employees, especially front-line...
The success of enterprise information system implementation has become a major management concern. Different methodologies have been proposed to evaluate enterprise system (ES) success. Some researchers have emphasized the need for evaluating the ES success from the viewpoints of several stakeholder groups. These stakeholders typically have several and often conflicting objectives and priorities....
Effective management of safety and security risks can help a company to avoid losses. However, organizing a risk management process can be challenging. In parallel with gathering the specific information regarding technical details from several different systems, the more wide-ranging information from organizational functions is required. In addition, risk estimating requires various knowledge and...
The competition and corporation between brand and the structure within or outside the brand root in its fundamental economic structure, i.e., the relationship between brand and brand power. And the competition and corporation exceed the acting scope of modern company-brand structure. The formation of a brand ecological system of a company depends on four. To handle this demerit, this paper brings...
Labour-management relations are the interacting relations between labour (or employees) and management (or employers). Based on expounding the essence of labour-management relations - confliction and cooperation, this paper discusses with emphasis the responses and attitudes of international confederations of trade unions, trade unions and employees, towards environmental problems. Their attitudes...
In this paper the common standards of project management are discussed in the context of global manufacturing. In global manufacturing networks play a decisive role because the several activities of the value chain are distributed globally due to market, supply or cost issues. An extensive literature research shows that there is a need for incorporating human factors, especially cultural aspects,...
The paper attempts to present the big picture of lean consisting of thought process behind lean rather than just a smaller view concentrated on lean tools only. Importance of five elements of lean is discussed to appreciate the synergetic effect of each element on others, towards making an organization lean. Further, a case study on lean manufacturing implementation experience of an Indian manufacturing...
Telecommunications industry is undergoing a rigorous paradigm shift and value migration from equipment sales towards operations related services, providing long-term, ongoing operations rather than one-time deployment and commissioning. With project complexity and lifetime constantly increasing, the nature of contracting and vendor-operator partnership changes. Research explores the degree to which...
This research investigated determinants of CEO compensation, focusing the relation between ownership structure and CEO compensation based on a sample of Chinese public companies. In firms with dispersed ownership, CEO compensation is more strongly related to corporate size than that in firms with concentrated ownership, while CEO compensation is more positively related to corporate financial performance...
Health plan is generally acknowledged as the organization to commit at providing the delivery of predetermined health care benefits for a group of people. Simply, health plan is the list of health benefits covered by an organization for its employees. Two types of health plans were discovered to be in practice. Type 1 offers preset or packaged health plans that were put together by a Managed Care...
Reobtaining sustainable competitive advantage is the primary goal for company in transition. Beginning by literature review of researches of competitive advantages, this article establishes a core competence model and explains the relationship between environmental changes and company decline based on detailed analysis of competencies dimensions. Finally, the core competence mechanism shows how to...
The number of enterprises implementing knowledge management (KM) has grown dramatically in recent years. However, few companies could achieve their target and successfully implement KM, especially in Taiwan. There are several factors that need to be considered while developing or implementing knowledge sharing system. This paper is intended to specify factors which effect knowledge sharing as perceived...
Today, Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) has reached a sophisticated level in industry and the advantages of predictive maintenance are accepted globally. However, although lots of effort has been put into improving methods and techniques in CBM, most of predictive maintenance programs fail to achieve their predefined goals, which make them financially unjustifiable. In this paper, we argue that organizational...
Business application forms are popular in private companies and government organizations. There are kinds of forms, but there is a common way to use forms: Fill a form, send it to the boss or a colleague, and then wait for the approval. Most office works are done in this way together with proper decisions and operations. Hence, if every of the forms can be well controlled, then at any time the current...
Although the application of the balanced scorecard (BSC) in the business is well documented, as far as we know that very little research has been reported about the BSC in the education and no previous work proposed job market-oriented learning evaluation framework based on BSC. In this article, the authors investigate a novel job market-oriented learning evaluation framework. A BSC analyzing sheet...
Some software organizations still practice ad hoc development, evolution and maintenance of their systems. Many of them are typical start-up companies. They wish to become immediately profitable without paying heed to rudimentary success factors such as for instance software processes. As a result, they have little insight into and control over their activities. This paper reports on our experiences...
This paper presents a software process improvement (SPI) project at a small software company in China, who aims to transit quality system from ISO9000 based to CMMI based. One of the main challenges is how to combine flexibility and control without impeding a small company's innovative nature. Therefore many SPI practices were implemented, mainly including process modeling, process automation, and...
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