...advantage. McDonald's China emphasis on Quality, Service, Cleanliness and Value. Therefore, McDonald's is perceived as scientifically clean environment by Chinese customers. And the food is also considered safer than traditional road side food. In China, Modifications in the menu is other key strategy in business practices and the approach in which McDonald's management overseeing the operations in China advertises. For instance, adding the teriyaki burger to meet the demand of consumers. Many customers will not realize McDonald's is and American Corporation for it accustomed to the Chinese culture. At first, McDonald's through having 50% local ownership and purchasing local product to present itself as a Chinese corporation. McDonald's invest in local schools, give scholarships and awards competitions. Now McDonald's director is trying to remake McDonalds being a foreign. McDonald's in several cities run 24 hours every day .McDonalds' has absorption the Chinese cultural and showing understanding, respect and assimilation. McDonald's Vegetable and Seafood Soup and Corn Soup were introduced, and the company worked to modify the restaurants' design. During the 2004 Spring Festival, McDonald's on Beijing's Wangfujing Street attracted many people with a traditional Chinese look, decorating their interiors with paper-cuts of the Chinese character Fu (Happiness), magpies and twin fishes, all...
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...Motivations for Chinese overseas graduates returning home The number of Chinese overseas students has been increasing at a dramatic rate, especially since the early 1990s. The “going abroad heat” has never slackened among mainland China’s young people. China is the world’s second largest economic entity and Chinese people are getting better off with the globalization and opening reform, thus studying abroad is no longer mysterious and unachievable for the average families in China. In contrast, the “return-to-China heat” wave has caused the “American Dream” to fade rapidly among young Chinese who are now casting their eyes towards their motherland. Kellogg(2012) concludes that surveys conducted in 2001 and 2005 of Chinese students enrolled at American universities showed that the intention to return home after graduation is indeed rising.(p.83-104) Chinese contemporary economics, especially social economics, is giving more and more attention to such factors as manpower and talent. Wang (2004) states that the New York Times estimates that this large-scale reflux of talent will be a major phenomenon in China in the next decade.(p.7-11) So, an analysis of the incentives for international graduates returning back to China reveals that the tangible benefits offered by the Chinese governmental policies as well as the intangible benefits in a form of psychological satisfaction are the two main aspects of the returnees’ motivation. China is becoming the largest...
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...‘lorongs’, and the groups of people frequenting those lanes dress and behave differently from many of those seen on the main road. The most prominent group would be the streetwalkers and their pimps, who roam certain lanes targeting both foreign and local men. Among the streetwalkers, we identified two distinct groups – those of age (who seemed experienced) and those who looked under-age. A line of skimpily-dressed Vietnamese and Chinese girls who looked to be in their mid-teens shrunk against the wall as we passed by. From their cautious demeanour towards strangers, we inferred that they were illegally trafficked and were afraid of getting discovered or caught. We felt that those underage girls may have been forced into the act as they seemed unwilling and unhappy to be there. The pimps and the Thai women, in their thirties, were more brazen, and followed us from the alley to the roadside while they actively solicited the males for sex. An illegal gambling den was also set up involving at least 30 gamblers around a makeshift wooden table, most of whom were Chinese nationals. We noticed a few spotters patrolling the alley and keeping a lookout by the roadside. They looked at us suspiciously but let us pass through. However, they stopped an Indian man wearing a plain polo shirt and jeans, who looked to be in his thirties, and prevented him from entering the alley. Because I learnt that a particular gang had authority over each lorong, I believe that they work together with the den operators...
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...to China as a freelance film director with no contacts, no advertisingexperience. DMG had emerged as one of China's fastest growing advertising agencies. Mintz attributeshis success in part to what the Chinese call guanxi: Guanxi means relationship and through businesssetting it can be better understood as connection. Guanxi has its roots in the Confucian philosophy of valuing social hierarchy and reciprocal obligations. Confucian ideology has a 2,000-year-old history inChina. Confucianism stresses the importance of relationships, both within the family and betweenmaster and servant. Confucian ideology teaches that people are not created equal.Today, Chinese will often cultivate a guanxiwang, or "relationship network," for help. Reciprocalobligations are the glue that holds such networks together. If those obligations are not met-if favorsdone are not paid back or reciprocated-the reputation of the transgressor is tarnished, and he or she will be less able to draw on his or her guanxiwang for help in the future. Guanxi is an important mechanismfor building long-term business relationships and getting business done in China. There is a tacitacknowledgment that if you have the right guanxi, legal rules can be broken, or at least bent. Mintzestablished connections with two Chinese individuals with access to high ranking government officials.Who were Bing Wu and Peter Xiao. Bing Wu, who works on the production side of the business andPeter Xiao, comes from a military family with major...
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...[pic] Chinese Traditional Woman Image --- the Chinese Mother in Joy Luck Club by 陆婉霖 A thesis presented to the School of English Studies of Xi’an International Studies University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts May 18, 2011 Class: 2007-19 Advisor: 常莉 西安外国语大学 毕 业 论 文 开 题 报 告 |姓名 |陆婉霖 |性别 |女 |班级 |2007-19 |学号 |0701011921 | |论文题目: | |Chinese Traditional Woman Image --- the Chinese Mother in Joy Luck Club | |《喜福会》中中国式母亲体现出的中国传统女性形象 | |任务起止日期: 2010 年9 月1 日 至 2011 年 5 月27日 | |论文主要内容及参考文献: | |本文从跨文化交际和文学的角度对谭恩美的小说《喜福会》进行了分析。通过认知解读传统文化中的女性角色以及书中主人公的遭遇,使读者理解| |书中上一代母亲们的自我认知历程以及在此过程中所形成的价值观。文中展现了四个母亲和四个女儿的成长背景及人物性格,概述了每个人物所| |经历的不同境遇,分析了单独事件的文化原因及影响,从而呈现出典型的中国传统女性形象。文章从不同角度举出例子概括这一普遍的社会现象| |并且分析了母女冲突的原因并且从积极的角度对其结果给予了分析与展望。 | |参考文献: ...
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...“Family features shared by mother and daughter in those Chinese-American families are not something to be proud of, but rather something that causes embarrassment on one side or the other, and often on both sides” (Xu 13). With various interwoven events happening among these four Chinese immigrant families, the conflicts and misunderstandings between mothers and daughters seem to be the guideline throughout the whole novel. Amy Tan uses stories narrated by the mothers and daughters to display their daily contradictions and their inner thoughts, which are the mothers’ strong desire to control their daughters’ fate; contradicting opinions on interracial relationships and identity crises. All these “battles” could be found both in these four daughters’ childhood, and in their adulthood as well. The Chinese mothers try so hard to pass on their culture and instill Chinese character, but their efforts are resisted strongly by their daughters to different degrees. The daughters try to make their mothers accept ways of life ingrained with American features, which is also insufferable to mothers. The greatly different family backgrounds, different ways of thinking and identity crisis between these two generations contribute a lot to their contradictions, as well as generation and cultural gaps. Although the author provides a vivid description of the conflicts between the two generations, “Amy Tan’s special accomplishment in this novel is not her ability to show us how mothers and...
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...Juniata College Chinese 110-01 Fall 2015 Course Syllabus Classes: M,W,Th,F 8:00AM-8:55AM World Languages Center/Humanities 102 Instructor: Jingxia Yang (杨京霞老师) Office: World Languages Center/Humanities 106 Office Hours: M,W,F:10:00-11:00AM; T, TH: 1:30pm-2:30pm, and by appointment Phone, email: 641-3669; yang@juniata.edu Goals & Objectives: This is a beginning course in modern standard (Mandarin) Chinese. Its goal is to lay a good Chinese foundation for further study, and to strive for an all-round development of communicative competence in listening, speaking, reading and writing in Mandarin Chinese in the context of Chinese culture. Specifically, you will be able to understand short, learned utterances and some sentence-length utterances. Comprehension is limited to vocabulary and some simple questions/statements about family members, age, address, time, interests, and other daily activities. You will make short statements and ask simple questions. You will be able to identify and write at least 260 characters in simplified form and read, for instructional and directional purposes, standardized messages, such as some prices in stores, times/dates on schedules, etc. You will be able to write simple fixed expressions and limited memorized material; supply information on simple forms and documents; write names, numbers, dates, own nationality, and other simple autobiographical information as well as some short phrases and simple sentences. In a word...
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...Expatriates in China Experiences, Opportunities and Challenges Ilaria Boncori ISBN: 9781137293473 DOI: 10.1057/9781137293473 Palgrave Macmillan Please respect intellectual property rights This material is copyright and its use is restricted by our standard site license terms and conditions (see palgraveconnect.com/pc/connect/info/terms_conditions.html). If you plan to copy, distribute or share in any format, including, for the avoidance of doubt, posting on websites, you need the express prior permission of Palgrave Macmillan. To request permission please contact rights@palgrave.com. Expatriates in China Experiences, Opportunities and Challenges Ilaria Boncori Expatriates in China 10.1057/9781137293473 - Expatriates in China, Ilaria Boncori Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to University of Wollongong - PalgraveConnect - 2014-05-17 This page intentionally left blank 10.1057/9781137293473 - Expatriates in China, Ilaria Boncori Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to University of Wollongong - PalgraveConnect - 2014-05-17 Expatriates in China Experiences, Opportunities and Challenges Ilaria Boncori University of Essex, UK Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to University of Wollongong - PalgraveConnect - 2014-05-17 10.1057/9781137293473 - Expatriates in China, Ilaria Boncori © Ilaria Boncori 2013 Foreword © Heather Höpfl 2013 All rights reserved. No reproduction...
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...Contemporary Developments in Business and Management Kenneth Fee The University of Sunderland © 2013 The University of Sunderland First published September 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without permission of the copyright owner. While every effort has been made to ensure that references to websites are correct at time of going to press, the world wide web is a constantly changing environment and the University of Sunderland cannot accept any responsibility for any changes to addresses. The University of Sunderland acknowledges product, service and company names referred to in this publication, many of which are trade names, service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks. All materials internally quality assessed by the University of Sunderland and reviewed by academics external to the University. Instructional design and publishing project management by Wordhouse Ltd, Reading, UK. Contents Introduction vii Unit 1 The contemporary world of business and management Introduction 1.1 1.2 The global business environment The importance of developments in the global environment Case Study 1.3 Organisational decision making and performance vii 1 3 10 14 17 19 19 20 Self-assessment questions Feedback on self-assessment questions Summary Unit 2 Globalisation Introduction 2...
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...Bloodlines of Illuminati by: Fritz Springmeier, 1995 Introduction: I am pleased & honored to present this book to those in the world who love the truth. This is a book for lovers of the Truth. This is a book for those who are already familiar with my past writings. An Illuminati Grand Master once said that the world is a stage and we are all actors. Of course this was not an original thought, but it certainly is a way of describing the Illuminati view of how the world works. The people of the world are an audience to which the Illuminati entertain with propaganda. Just one of the thousands of recent examples of this type of acting done for the public was President Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union address. The speech was designed to push all of the warm fuzzy buttons of his listening audience that he could. All the green lights for acceptance were systematically pushed by the President’s speech with the help of a controlled congressional audience. The truth on the other hand doesn’t always tickle the ear and warm the ego of its listeners. The light of truth in this book will be too bright for some people who will want to return to the safe comfort of their darkness. I am not a conspiracy theorist. I deal with real facts, not theory. Some of the people I write about, I have met. Some of the people I expose are alive and very dangerous. The darkness has never liked the light. Yet, many of the secrets of the Illuminati are locked up tightly simply because secrecy is a way...
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...Introduction to E-business To Debbie and Richard Introduction to E-business Management and strategy Colin Combe AMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG LONDON NEW YORK PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier OXFORD TOKYO Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803 First edition 2006 Copyright ß 2006, Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone: (þ44) (0) 1865 843830; fax: (þ44) (0) 1865 853333; email: permissions@elsevier.com. Alternatively you can submit your request online by visiting the Elsevier website at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ permissions, and selecting Obtaining permission to use Elsevier material British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Control Number: 2005938727 ISBN–13: 978-0-7506-6731-9 ISBN–10: 0-7506-6731-1 For information on all Butterworth-Heinemann publications visit our website at http:/ /books.elsevier.com Printed and bound in...
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...Relational Databases and Multi-Table Queries Designing Databases and Using Related Data bjectives After you read this chapter you will be able to: 1. Design data (page 607). 2. Create tables (page 612). 3. Understand table relationships (page 625). 4. Share data with Excel (page 626). 5. Establish table relationships (page 630). 6. Create a query (page 642). 7. Specify criteria for different data types (page 645). 8. Copy and run a query (page 649). 9. Use the Query Wizard (page 649). 10. Understand large database differences (page 653). Hands-On Exercises Exercises Skills Covered 1. TABLE DESIGN, PROPERTIES, VIEWS, AND WIZARDS (page 618) Open: a new blank database Save as: chap2_ho1-3_safebank_solution.accdb Back up as: chap2_ho1_safebank_solution.accdb • Create a New Database • Create a Table by Entering Data • Change the Primary Key, Modify Field Properties, and Delete a Field • Modify Table Fields in Design View • Create a New Field in Design View • Switch Between the Table Design and the Table Datasheet Views 2. IMPORTS AND RELATIONSHIPS (page 635) Open: chap2_ho1-3_safebank_solution.accdb (from Exercise 1) and chap2_ho2_safebank.xlsx Save as: chap2_ho1-3_safebank_solution.accdb (additional modifications) Back up as: chap2_ho2_safebank_solution. accdb • Import Excel Data into an Access Table • Import Additional Excel Data • Modify an Imported Table's Design • Add Data to an Imported Table • Establish Table Relationships •...
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...CONNECT FEATURES Interactive Applications Interactive Applications offer a variety of automatically graded exercises that require students to apply key concepts. Whether the assignment includes a click and drag, video case, or decision generator, these applications provide instant feedback and progress tracking for students and detailed results for the instructor. Case Exercises The Connect platform also includes author-developed case exercises for all 12 cases in this edition that require students to work through answers to assignment questions for each case. These exercises have multiple components and can include: calculating assorted financial ratios to assess a company’s financial performance and balance sheet strength, identifying a company’s strategy, doing five-forces and driving-forces analysis, doing a SWOT analysis, and recommending actions to improve company performance. The content of these case exercises is tailored to match the circumstances presented in each case, calling upon students to do whatever strategic thinking and strategic analysis is called for to arrive at a pragmatic, analysis-based action recommendation for improving company performance. eBook Connect Plus includes a media-rich eBook that allows you to share your notes with your students. Your students can insert and review their own notes, highlight the text, search for specific information, and interact with media resources. Using an eBook with Connect Plus gives your...
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...Study Guide for the Certification Examination Fifth Edition ACAMS.org ACAMS.org/español ACAMSToday.org MoneyLaundering.com Study Guide for the Certification Examination Fifth Edition a publication of the association of certified anti-money laundering specialists Study Guide for the Certification Examination Fifth Edition Executive Vice President John J. Byrne, CAMS Editor Robert S. Pasley, CAMS Co-Editor Kevin M. Anderson, CAMS Contributors Joyce Broome, CAMS Heather Brown, CAMS Aub Chapman, CAMS Vasilios Chrisos, CAMS David Clark, CAMS Jurgen Egberink, CAMS Michael D. Kelsey, CAMS Saskia Rietbroek, CAMS Nancy J. Saur, CAMS Mansoor Siddiqi, CAMS Daniel Soto, CAMS Timothy White CAMS Production Assistant Catalina Martinez We would like acknowledge the following individuals for their contributions to the CAMS Exam, and the Online and Live Preparation Seminars: Kevin M. Anderson, CAMS Joyce Broome, CAMS Aub Chapman, CAMS David Clark, CAMS Josue Garcia, CAMS Hoi Luk, CAMS Ira Morales Mickunas, CAMS Robert S. Pasley, CAMS Karim Rajwani, CAMS Mansoor Siddiqi, CAMS Saskia Rietbroek, CAMS Ed Rodriguez, CAMS Nancy J. Saur, CAMS Wendy Steichen, CAMS Brian J. Stoeckert, CAMS Charles Taylor, CAMS Will Voorhees, CAMS Natalie Ware, CAMS Peter Warrack, CAMS Amy Wotapka, CAMS Crispin Yuen, CAMS Copyright © 2012 by the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists (ACAMS). Miami, USA. All rights...
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...Advertising, Promotion, and other aspects of Integrated Marketing Communications Terence A. Shimp University of South Carolina Australia • Brazil • Japan • Korea • Mexico • Singapore • Spain • United Kingdom • United States Advertising, Promotion, & Other Aspects of Integrated Marketing Communications, 8e Terence A. Shimp Vice President of Editorial, Business: Jack W. Calhoun Vice President/Editor-in-Chief: Melissa S. Acuna Acquisitions Editor: Mike Roche Sr. Developmental Editor: Susanna C. Smart Marketing Manager: Mike Aliscad Content Project Manager: Corey Geissler Media Editor: John Rich Production Technology Analyst: Emily Gross Frontlist Buyer, Manufacturing: Diane Gibbons Production Service: PrePressPMG Sr. Art Director: Stacy Shirley Internal Designer: Chris Miller/cmiller design Cover Designer: Chris Miller/cmiller design Cover Image: Getty Images/The Image Bank Permission Aquistion Manager/Photo: Deanna Ettinger Permission Aquistion Manager/Text: Mardell Glinski Schultz © 2010, 2007 South-Western, Cengage Learning ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means—graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, Web distribution, information storage and retrieval systems, or in any other manner—except as may be permitted by the license terms herein. For product information and technology assistance, contact us at Cengage Learning Customer &...
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