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The competent leadership of digital transformation needs to involve the board of directors. The reported lack of such capability in boards is becoming a pressing issue. A part of leadership in such transformation is the board of director's competence to lead Enterprise Business Technology Governance (EBTG). In this paper we take the position that EBTG competencies are essential in boards, because...
When using self-service solutions to deliver services the challenge is to retain the trust of the end user. This is specifically the case when dealing with end users in the fresh produce market environment. This sector has not seen the adoption of self-service technologies specifically in southern Africa. In this paper we propose a model to enhance our understanding of trust formation using self-service...
In recent years, China's service trade grows rapidly. Service trade in China trade volume accounted for the proportion is also growing. But the factors affecting the development of service trade should not be ignored. In this paper, we using the historical data of China's service trade, based on the numerical analysis, explain some of the problems and characteristics of China's service trade. Finally,...
This paper aims to imply digitization for the book publishing industry to promote Chinese book trade. The paper initially provides a snapshot of Chinese book publishing in a global context, and then summarizes our findings on the current and potential future impact of digital technologies. The original research employed an interpretive research paradigm, using a mixed methodology design. The paper...
As digital technology becomes more important in our every day lives, it seems inevitable that the online arena would be the next stage in the evolution of bookselling. Evolution of bookselling. This paper discusses basic concepts about the EDI standard, and its implementation in the book trade by comparing book trade between China and UK. The need for EDI standards was highlighted at the 'Babel' conference...
This paper present it is necessary to develop low carbon economy in China. Additionally, considering the current development status of the low carbon economy in China, this paper puts forward relevant policy suggestions on China's low carbon economy in three aspects of legal measures, economic measures and administrative measures.
The past decade has seen a substantial increase in the issuance of privacy and security regulations governing personal information. Ensuring system and organizational compliance is both more important and more difficult than ever before, as the penalties have become more severe, and regulations more complex and nuanced. This also presents substantial difficulties for multi-national companies, as different...
Nowadays more and more technical systems will directly interfere with the everyday life of people, sometimes this can cause conflicts, which is caused by the intelligence given to the machine. The humans will not give only command to the machine but also the machine can decide itself how to handle a given situation. What is important that in this relationship the intelligent machine will not cause...
Findings from multiple cloud provider case studies identify 9 key factors and 15 subfactors affecting the adoption of cloud technology. These range from technological issues to broader organizational and environmental issues.
Ecotourism has developed extensively in recent years in China, and it is the developing direction of tourism industry now. But irrational exploitation has devastated the ecotourism resources. Confronted with the up surging ecotourism market, we are lacking in corresponding legislative control and legislative link. Therefore, forming the legal system of ecotourism and having laws to abide by can ensure...
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...
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...
After socialization group-purchase pattern, which Group on was a representive of, had get ahead in America, Chinese group-purchase websites expanded by leaps and bounds in 2010, because of low investment, low technology and simple mode. During the period, the problems of malicious fraud, quality of product and funds security ect. appeared in quantity, so the group-purchase websites were faced with...
Under the influence of economic globalization, transnational investment has improved the development of China's economy. At the same time, it arouses numbers of problems, conflicts and crises. Local industry is suffering an attack which even appears industry safety problems. On the basis of references, it can be concluded that only by deeply understanding the reasons why transnational corporations...
Modern service industry, representing the new thinking and new understanding of service industry during the process of economic transformation in China's development. Quantitative analysis and the result can give proper evaluation of the development of modern service industry and modern services policy of our country in recent years, also provide analytical framework of future policy guidance. According...
Aiming at the dumping problems in domestic and overseas markets, the status quo, the reasons, and the negative effects of this problem are discussed. Meanwhile, it indicates the countermeasures to prevent dumping from these three aspects: the governments, business, as well as the enterprises. In a buyer's market or in order to vend a new product, business enterprises in other countries always take...
Nongovernmental science and technology parks are the aggregating lands of nongovernmental science and technology enterprises, playing a great role in promoting the development of these enterprises. From locational functions, macroeconomic policies and self-developmental reality, nongovernmental science and technology parks have come to the stage on which they must transformate and upgrade. However,...
As the main body in market economy, private economy plays a major role in both the economic structure adjustment and industrial restructuring and upgrading. Although having made significant achievements, its problems and defects are gradually exposed. The development of private economy has entered a critical period of transformation and upgrading. This paper mainly discusses the problems and countermeasures...
This paper reviews and summarizes the research achievements of environmental services in China, including the definition of environment service, current status, problems and policies regarding the environment services. The paper also proposes the direction of future development of environmental services in China.
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