...Chinese government, it could engage in direct business activities, co-ordinate most business functions, and unite all NES profiles in China. However, the approval was still outstanding despite multiple revisions. The Chinese officials were skeptical about approving holding companies as a form of foreign investment, because holding company was still a relatively new business concept in China. Although NES’ application was “complete and perfect”, the Central Department continued to delay the approval. The company headquarters now pressured the representative office to obtain approval within a month. A Chinese public affairs employee, Lin Chen, suggested the company to invite the officials to dinners and give gifts to help accelerate the application process. However, the company financial controller, Jochen Steinmann, and corporate lawyer, Dr. Jean Perrin, were dubious about the suggestion. They both believed that the act of gift giving is equivalent to bribery and would potentially...
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...Zhen Xiong CHEN 助教老师：Dr. Lin Wang (Associate Professor) 授课对象: Research students 英文课程名称： Advance Management Research Methods 开课学期：Fall 2013 授课时间: • 9:00am-12:00pm Monday and • 2:30-5:30pm Friday 学 分：2 授课地点： Room MBA601 (Monday) Room MBA601 (Friday) 周学时/总学时：36 联 系 方 式 (Contact Information)： george.chen@anu.edu.au 辅 导 、 答 疑 时 间 （ Office Hours） 4:00-5:00pm or by appointment ： 一、课程概述 (Course Overview) This course aims to introduce the research students to advanced scientific methods in organization and management research. The focus is on equipping students with the advancedl knowledge and skills for undertaking emperical research and to critically evaluate research conducted by others. The course is divided into four interrelated segments: problem formulation and conceptualisation, the common empirical research methods, measurement issues in management research, and data analysis approach. At the end of the course, students can expect to have acquired an appreciation of the research process both as a craft and as methodology. 二、课程目标 (Objectives) By the end of this course, the students are expected to have attained proficiency in the following areas: identifying research problems in management, reviewing management literature, asking important and interesting research questions and developing hypotheses based on relevant management theories and research evidence, selecting and implementing appropriate research design, collecting data, conducting data analysis with computer...
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...| Money, Attitude, and Unethical Behavior | Business Research Methods | | | December 11, 2013 | This research paper focuses on the relationship between money, attitude, and unethical behavior. Comparing the data found in regards to gender and major according to a study by Dr. Chen and Dr. Tang. | Introduction Many believe that the success of a business is determined by they amount of money they generate on an annual basis. Because of this widespread belief, we often see a lack of morals, values, and ethics incorporated into the business. Many businesses feel as if there is no room for ethics in the business world and that the relationships built should focus solely on the generation of revenue. According to Merriam Webster dictionary, we can define ethics as, “the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and obligation.” Every company has a code of ethics in order to determine the company’s culture and values. It also acts a driving force behind any decisions made by top executives. In market where there are so many profit-based businesses, often times we see the many difficulties in balancing the pursuit of profits while staying true to their code of ethics. The balance of ethical practice and profit maximization causes companies to face difficult decisions and many times businesses choose profit maximization. Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer transactions require frequent interaction. In every type of business transaction...
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...Mathematics learning performance and Mathematics learning difficulties in China Ningning Zhao Promotor: Prof. Dr. Martin Valcke Co-promoter: Prof. Dr. Annemie Desoete Proefschrift ingediend tot het behalen van de academische graad van Doctor in de Pedagogische Wetenschappen 2011 This Ph.D research project was funded by Ghent University BOF Research Grant (BOF07/DOS/056) Acknowledgements There is still a long and indistinct way and I will keep on going to explore the unknown. 路漫漫其修远兮，吾将上下而求索。 - Qu Yuan (340-278 BC) This dissertation would not have been possible unless so many persons contributed to it. The first person I should give my gratitude is Prof. dr. Cong Lixin in Beijing Normal University. It is she who recommanded me to my promoter - Prof. dr. Martin Valcke. Based on the cooperation contact between the two universities, I have the opportunity to start my journey in Ghent University. The fantasty journey started from Year 2007 gudided by the Prof. dr. Martin Valcke. I am heartily thankful to my promoter Prof. dr. Martin Valcke and my co-promotor Prof. dr. Annemie Desoete, whose encouragement, supervision and support from the preliminary to the concluding level enabled me to carry on the research project. My deepest gratitude is to Prof. dr. Martin Valcke. I am not a smart student who always give him so much revision work. It is extremely fortunate for me to have a promoter who is characterized by energy...
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...CASE STUDY – FINANCIAL REPORT ANALYSIS Three Executives of a well-known multi-national company decided to form a new company, named New Star Company Limited in 1974. These three executives were becoming close to their retirement age. Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited, the company that they worked for had been in business for the last 80 years. It was their previous employer’s policy to retire the executives with a “golden hand-shake” worth approximately US$120,000 each. The three executives occupied the following position with Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited, (1) Finance Manager – Mr. Zu Chang, (2) Sales & Marketing Manager, Mr. Lim Lam, and (3) Risk Management Manager, Mr. Shu Ching. In their previous position with Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited, they were regarded as the most respected executives because the company made significant progress in terms of organic growth and diversification. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dr. Wing Wan used to call them “the three wise men”. Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited main business activities were the manufacturing of “twisties” and acted as wholesale distributor of a special drink called “Wysalt”. The drink is full of calcium and protein and it is very popular in the South East Asia. Each year’s Annual General Meeting of Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited’s gross income and net profit before taxation increased by 10%, while its main competitor’s performance was declining at an alarming rate. Chairman Wan always wanted to find out what is...
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...CASE STUDY – FINANCIAL REPORT ANALYSIS Three Executives of a well-known multi-national company decided to form a new company, named New Star Company Limited in 1974. These three executives were becoming close to their retirement age. Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited, the company that they worked for had been in business for the last 80 years. It was their previous employer’s policy to retire the executives with a “golden hand-shake” worth approximately US$120,000 each. The three executives occupied the following position with Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited, (1) Finance Manager – Mr. Zu Chang, (2) Sales & Marketing Manager, Mr. Lim Lam, and (3) Risk Management Manager, Mr. Shu Ching. In their previous position with Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited, they were regarded as the most respected executives because the company made significant progress in terms of organic growth and diversification. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dr. Wing Wan used to call them “the three wise men”. Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited main business activities were the manufacturing of “twisties” and acted as wholesale distributor of a special drink called “Wysalt”. The drink is full of calcium and protein and it is very popular in the South East Asia. Each year’s Annual General Meeting of Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited’s gross income and net profit before taxation increased by 10%, while its main competitor’s performance was declining at an alarming rate. Chairman Wan always wanted to find out...
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...CASE STUDY – FINANCIAL REPORT ANALYSIS Three Executives of a well-known multi-national company decided to form a new company, named New Star Company Limited in 1974. These three executives were becoming close to their retirement age. Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited, the company that they worked for had been in business for the last 80 years. It was their previous employer’s policy to retire the executives with a “golden hand-shake” worth approximately US$120,000 each. The three executives occupied the following position with Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited, (1) Finance Manager – Mr. Zu Chang, (2) Sales & Marketing Manager, Mr. Lim Lam, and (3) Risk Management Manager, Mr. Shu Ching. In their previous position with Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited, they were regarded as the most respected executives because the company made significant progress in terms of organic growth and diversification. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dr. Wing Wan used to call them “the three wise men”. Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited main business activities were the manufacturing of “twisties” and acted as wholesale distributor of a special drink called “Wysalt”. The drink is full of calcium and protein and it is very popular in the South East Asia. Each year’s Annual General Meeting of Pifco-Zen Chen Company Limited’s gross income and net profit before taxation increased by 10%, while its main competitor’s performance was declining at an alarming rate. Chairman Wan always wanted to find out what is...
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...Industry Life Cycle Paula Baldridge Midway College BUS 411 August 24, 2014 Dr. Marla Ashe Abstract The purpose of this summary is to understand the concept of the industry life cycle and explore the implications in the process of designing business strategies. The authors of the article “GRA Decision Making Model for the Integrated Strategies of Life Cycle with Industrial Value Chain” familiarizes readers with evaluation models and analysis that has contributed to the development of business strategies fitted to the industry life cycle. Key words: industry life cycle, business strategies What is industry life cycle? Industry life cycle is stages (introduction, growth, shakeout, maturity, and decline) through which industries are believed to pass (Parnell, 2014). In this article, the authors use the concept of industry life cycle with the industrial value chain to propose an evaluation model to develop integrated strategies. The analytic hierarchic process and grey relational analysis is what forms the model can help decision makers to assess their integration strategies. Because of the competitive environment it is a necessary strategy for survival and development. For organizations to have successful business strategies they must be aware of where the industry stands in the industry life cycle. According to Huang, Chu & Chen, (2009) The AHP and GRA based decision-making model to construct an evaluation method can provide decision makers in PC industry...
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...Intellectual Property Stephanie Brandon MGT320 The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business Dr. Rogers November 10, 2013 Abstract This will be a short essay describing intellectual property (IP). The writer will explain the need for protection and ethical issue that may arise when IP is involved. Intellectual Property A thought or an image made into a creation others to use is a fitting description for intellectual property (IP). Just as any other property, IP needs protection from the evil of the world. Unfortunately, there is always someone waiting to profit from another person’s hard work and dedication. In order to protect IP the law provides patents, copyrights, trademarks, as well as trade secrets. Some people believe that providing protect creates a monopoly and want to shorten the term, in which a product is protective. The law benefits the creator and the consumer; it does create a monopoly but only for a short time in order for the creator to profit. Once the term of protection expires the consumer can then take the product and make improvements and even buy it cheaper. Without protection people would choose not to share their creation or invention, which would cause poor economy growth. Due to the laws of protection for IP, many lawsuits are filed each day. These types of lawsuits could last for years. A lawsuit that has lasted for a few years is Apple Inc. vs. Samsung; the lawsuit between the two electronic companies began in April 2011. Apple...
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...Zhou Yaping Student number 1323440 Assignment Title Report Lecturer’s Name Dr Tony Shannon-Little BA (Hons) English for International Business Communication Wolverhampton: School of Law, Social Sciences and Communication Contents Executive Summary 1 Terms of Reference 2 Analysis 3 Participation 3 Group work 3 Evaluation of Content 4 Animal texting case 4 My language use & development 5 Recommendations 5 Conclusions 6 References 7 Appendices 8 Appendices 1 8 Appendices 2 10 Appendices 3 12 Executive Summary Firstly, the report analysed participation and group work in two parts. It has expressed that how to be participation in a group and theorises or experiences of group works. Following that, it has discussed evaluation of group study and individual development. These reports recommend that in a group work, people should focus on formal language use, cooperation, communication, information and time and task management. Terms of Reference In this report, it has analysed our group work in this module, also evaluate case of animal testing and personal development of language use. Besides, it gave some recommendations for group work and self-development. It is in order to continue development of our skills and learn the theories or task management with animal testing case. Analysis Participation Participation is important if you work together with other people. Without it, a...
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...Case study on NES China – Business ethics 1.Problem Statement The case about a company NES which is a Germany-headquartered multinational company that builds heavy machinery, automotive systems, electrical drives and steel tubes and pipes It began business in China since 1889, with 20 representative offices, 6 equity joint ventures, and 3 wholly owned enterprises. Now The Company wants to set up a holding company to facilitate its manufacturing activities in China. The case brings about the conflict between Western and Chinese business practices and protocols resulting in ethical dilemma. 2.Central issues of the case (2x2 matrixes) | | Importance | | | High | Low | Urgency | High | Obtaining approval for the holding company within a month | Uphold strong ethical culture and good corporate image as a publicly traded company | | Low | Develop a special ethical code to recognize Chinese business culture | Career development of people responsible for the approval | 3.Case problems The core issue around this case is the major differences between Chinese and western ethical values. It is common, in most developed Western countries, for businesses and government officials to closely follow business rules and regulations that are straightforward and by the books. There is absolutely no room for working around any of them, without risking your reputation and ultimately your career. It is common for Western cultures to implement internal audits to...
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...Senior Design Project Submittal May 4 2012 Bleser Park Pedestrian Bridge The following is a 2011-2012 Senior Design Project report for the Fenn College of Engineering at Cleveland State University. Senior Design Project Submittal 2012 Table of Contents 1.0.0 Introduction........................................................................................................................................ 5 1.1.0 1.2.0 2.0.0 2.1.0 2.2.0 2.3.0 2.4.0 Objective .................................................................................................................................. 5 Group Members ...................................................................................................................... 5 Project Description ..................................................................................................................... 6 Assignment .............................................................................................................................. 6 Existing Bridge ........................................................................................................................ 7 Proposed Bridge ..................................................................................................................... 8 Owner Requirements ............................................................................................................. 9 2.4.1 Safety .....................................................
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...Case Analysis: Private, Dismissed Introduction This case takes place at the Overton Brooks VA hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana. Overton Brooks recently underwent major reconstructing to create the Behavioral Medicine Programs to handle inpatient and outpatient mental health services. Patty Cohen, one of the social workers hired during the restructuring of the VA's Behavioral Medicine Program worked in the outpatient mental health clinic. Patty, diagnosed with lupus, holds her clinical licensure in both Louisiana and Texas and has experience in medical social work, hospice, home-based mental health, inpatient psych, and corrections. Sharease Jackson, who has been hospitalized numerous times since first coming to the VA in 2009 is a patient of Patty's. Sharease is a 19-year-old African American veteran who joined the army at seventeen and was discharged at the age of nineteen due to instability and suicidal attempts. After being hospitalized five times, Sharease reaches out to Patty stating it is an emergency and needed to meet now. Sharease tells Patty good-bye and makes statements such as "It's like I'm already dead." Patty assesses Sharease finding that she is enough of a risk for suicide and admits her to inpatient treatment. This time seems different than the rest where Sharease shows no emotion, no yelling and screaming about...
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...1. Introduction Pre conditon Of development :Transforming population(unskilled manpower) to skilled Manpower(Human resource) Unskilled People donot come to any use of the country or socity.on the other hand the skilled people not only become successful personally but also can speed up the economic activities of the state.The skilled manpower turned into economic resourses of the state.The unskilled people are considered as the burden of of the state.the skilled people are called human resource .such type of people can acquire or produce resources.This is the productivity of man.The more personal productity is increased,the more the country wioll be productive. Pre conditon Creating skilled Manpower(Humam Resource): Leadership Leadership means vision, cheerleading, enthusiasm, love, trust, verve, passion, obsession, consistency, the use of symbols, paying attention as illustrated by the content of one's calendar, out-and-out drama (and the management thereof), creating heroes at all levels, coaching, effectively wandering around, and numerous other things. Leadership must be present at all levels of the organization. It depends on a million little things done with obsession, consistency, and care, but all of those million little things add up to nothing if the trust, vision, and basic belief are not there. (Haapaniemi, 2006) Leadership is more than just being confident that you can manage a number of people and make them follow your lead. Each one of us influences at least...
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...www.afm-journal.de www.MaterialsViews.com FULL PAPER A Core-Shell Nanoporous Pt-Cu Catalyst with Tunable Composition and High Catalytic Activity Xingbo Ge, Luyang Chen, Jianli Kang, Takeshi Fujita, Akihiko Hirata, Wei Zhang, Jianhua Jiang, and Mingwei Chen* Pt catalyst loading.[1] It has been found that alloying Pt with transition metals (such as Ni, Co, Rh, Fe, etc) can effectively decrease the Pt loading by enhancing both the catalytic activity and utilization of Pt.[2–15] Experimental and theoretical investigations have suggested that Ptbased bimetallic catalysts with a thin Ptskin surface (even a Pt monolayer[16]) and a Pt-M (M = Ni, Co, Fe, etc.) core is an ideal structure for ORR because the modification of the d-band center of surface Pt atoms, caused by the underneath alloying effect, can enhance the catalysis.[17,18] Dealloying has been proved to be an effective approach for fabricating the core-shell structured bimetallic catalysts in the form of nanoparticles because the selective etching can remove the less-noble transition metals and naturally form a Pt passivated surface.[19–22] Compared to extensive studies of Pt-Ni,[13–15] Pt-Co,[6,12] Pt-Fe[9] bimetallic catalysts, the Pt-Cu system has not been paid too much attention, particularly, for the application as an advanced catalyst for ORR. Machado et al. first studied the ORR activity of Pt with sub-monolayer Cu ad-atoms on surface. The Cu ad-atoms were found to show a strong inhibition on ORR of Pt in acid media...
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