...Strategies for Small and Medium-Sized U.S. Businesses Interested in Investing in China: Lessons That Can Be Learned from Taiwanese Companies Xun Wang Department of Sociology/Anthropology University of Wisconsin -Parkside David A. Ralston Management Department Michael F. Price College of Business University of Oklahoma Investing in China has been one of the hottest and most critical issues in the ever-changing business world since the early 1980s. Huge amounts of foreign investment poured into China during this period primarily because of China's huge market, plentiful cheap labor, and rapid economic development (Davies, 1998; Luo, 1998; Shi, 1998; Sun & Tipton, 1998; Wang & Ralston, 1995). From 1980 to 1988, the number of foreign-joint ventures approved in China increased from 348 to 15,955, and the amount of foreign capital pledged increased from $1.7 million to $28.2 million (Pomfret, 1991). The foreign investment in China totaled $27.5 in 1993 and that amount rose to $37.5 billion by 1995. At present, there are over 318,000 foreign funded companies in China with the total amount of realized foreign investment from 1978 to 1998 totaling $250 billion (Shi, 1998). While the interest in investing in China is worldwide, two major investors are the U.S and Taiwan (Pomfret, 1991; Shi, 1998; Sun & Tipton, 1998; Walker, 1996; Wang & Ralston, 1995;). What is also interesting to note is that while almost all U.S. companies investing in China are large multinational corporat...
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...Contents Issues Seeking Permission Page 1 Chapter I Introduction and Background Tribute, Acknowledgements, Pre-budget Consultations, Vision for prosperous Bangladesh, Expectations vis-à-vis Resource Constraints 1-4 Some Important Pledges: Implementation Progress Facing Recession, Achievements of Power and Energy Sector, Agriculture Sector, Land, Fisheries and Live Stock, Food Security, Roads and Bridges, Education, Health, Digital Bangladesh, Climate Change, Women and Children Welfare, Social Safety Net Programmes, Employment Generation, Rural Development, Population Census, Industry and Trade, Public Welfare and Good Governance, Immigration and Skill Development, Optimum Utilisation of Public Money 4-15 Macro-economy and the Global Perspective Growth, External Sector, Export, Import, Remittance, Current Account Balance, Foreign Exchange Reserve, Exchange Rate, Monetary Sector, Inflation, Economic Strategy 15-22 Revised Budget for FY2010-11 Revenue Situation, Revenue Mobilisation, ADP Utilisation, Total expenditure, Budget Deficit 23-25 Chapter II Some Key Sectors Power and Energy: Integrated Development i 25-98 26-31 Issues Program Power: Electricity Production Plan, Power Transmission and Distribution Line, Renewable Energy, Power Savings Energy: Use of Alternative Energy Sources, Gas Production, Exploration of Oil and Gas Page 26-29 29-31 31-47 Agriculture and Rural Development Agriculture: Agriculture Subsidy, Seeds, Hybrid Paddy...
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...Instructor’s Manual Operations and Process Management: Principles and Practice for Strategic Impact Second Edition Nigel Slack Stuart Chambers Robert Johnston Alan Betts ISBN: 978-0-273-71852-9 Pearson Education Limited 2009 Contents Part 1: Teaching Guide ........................................................................................................................................ 7 Chapter 1: Operations and processes.................................................................................................................... 8 Chapter 2: Operations strategy ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 3: Supply network design...................................................................................................................... 19 Chapter 4: Process design 1 – positioning.......................................................................................................... 22 Chapter 5: Process design 2 – analysis ............................................................................................................... 26 Chapter 6: Product and service design processes ............................................................................................... 31 Chapter 7: Supply chain management ................................................................................................................ 34 Chapter...
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...A N N U A L REPORT 2015 Financial Highlights As of or for the year ended December 31, (in millions, except per share, ratio data and headcount) Reported basis1 Total net revenue Total noninterest expense Pre-provision profit Provision for credit losses Net income Per common share data Net income per share: Basic Diluted Cash dividends declared Book value Tangible book value2 2015 $ $ $ Selected ratios Return on common equity Return on tangible common equity2 Common equity Tier 1 (“CET1”) capital ratio3 Tier 1 capital ratio3 Total capital ratio3 Selected balance sheet data (period-end) Loans Total assets Deposits Total stockholders’ equity Headcount 93,543 59,014 34,529 3,827 24,442 6.05 6.00 1.72 60.46 48.13 2014 $ $ $ 95,112 61,274 33,838 3,139 21,745 5.33 5.29 1.58 56.98 44.60 11% 13 11.6 13.3 14.7 $ 837,299 2,351,698 1,279,715 247,573 234,598 10% 13 10.2 11.4 12.7 $ 757,336 2,572,274 1,363,427 231,727 241,359 Note: 2014 has been revised to reflect the adoption of new accounting guidance related to debt issuance costs and investments in affordable housing projects. For additional information, see Accounting and Reporting Developments and Note 1 on pages 170 and 183, respectively. 1 Results are presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP), except where otherwise noted. 2 Non-GAAP financial measure. For further discussion, see “Explanation and Reconciliation of the Firm’s Use Of Non-GAAP ...
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