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In this research, we investigated the differences in the roles and responsibilities across the CIO's job across three main regions of one country - China. In particular, we studied how CIOs of Hong Kong, mainland China, and Taiwan varied across the regions. We found that the roles and responsibilities of China's CIOs were influenced by the region's government strategy and the maturity of its technology...
Scholars suggest that dynamic capabilities would bring a new lens for new technology venture research. However, little empirical research of dynamic capabilities in new technology ventures, in particular in the context of emerging economy, has been found so far. In order to contribute to this line of research, this study conducts deductive case studies on two new technology ventures in China in a...
Father-daughter succession remains rare in family business as evidenced by limited number of female leaders in business. Existing research on this topic is exclusively based on western countries. With the rise of family firms in China in the late 1970s, many founders found themselves approaching retirement age and need to consider succession issue. The strong desire of keeping business within a family...
As a sunrise industry, car rental industry is exerting more influences on the modern world. The health of the car rental industry partially determines whether the whole car industry can maximize its profits. Based on the current situation of the car rental industry in China, this paper identifies several main problems related to the car rental industry by using surveys, case studies, depth interviews...
China is considered as the potential automobile financial service market throughout the world. However, the actual market is still less developed nowadays. This paper concentrates on the problems and seeks to discover some explanations of this phenomenon. The structure of this paper can be divided into four parts. After a brief introduction and background of the situation in China automobile financial...
A trend among manufacturing companies is offshoring of R&D. The aim of this study is to investigate Swedish companies' offshoring of R&D activities to China, utilizing both a survey and explorative case studies. The survey results show that 9% of the companies have offshored R&D to China, that performance in China is satisfactory, primarily in terms of costs, and that there is a need for...
The importance of knowledge protection (e.g. IP protection) has long been recognized for maintaining continuous revenue and promoting innovation in companies. However, it is also suggested that IP protection is not the only method for knowledge protection and its application to service industries is not yet mature. In this paper, we classify businesses according to their offering types (services or...
In the paper, focusing on the massage chair in China then doing affective experience analyse. According to the three components of product experience: aesthetic pleasure, attribution of meaning, and emotional response, using approaches such as market research, user Interview, persona, field experiment to do users' affective experience test of a typical type of massage chair which produced in China...
With the fast development of information technologies implementation, Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are increasingly adopted by more large and medium-size companies in China. For most Chinese companies, ERP is still in its planning or initializing stages. Managers in those firms are expecting to know more about what will happen and what they need do after the ERP implementation. Even...
Business collaboration has been taken as an effective resort to establish and maintain the company's competitiveness. This paper explores the modes of business collaboration with special focus on the comparison between European and Chinese small and medium enterprises (SMEs). An empirical survey was conducted in five European countries and China to better understand their attitudes towards collaboration,...
This paper explored the current real situation of apparel value chain in China at the level of firms, and analyzed the roles of different sectors in apparel value chain, including yarn producers, integrated producers and apparel producers etc., as well as the rules among them. Specifically, it focused on the relations and strategies of Chinese textile and apparel enterprises on the basis of questionnaire...
China now is one of the most important places where software outsourcing businesses are flourishing. However, the subcontracting in the current software outsourcing practices has not received enough attentions. This research attempts to further the understanding on this issue. Mixed empirical research approaches were used to explore the extent and the impacts of the outsourcing subcontracting. The...
With the development of the national economy and the society in China, job burnout has become an epidemic syndrome. As for female employees, they face greater job pressures and suffer form more serious job burnout than their male counterparts. The purpose of this paper is to probe what causes job burnout of female employees and how job burnout can be prevented and mitigated. Based on the study of...
This paper analyses how small and medium size(SMEs) professional service firms(PSFs), face the human resource management(HRM) issues. These issues will, however, be of paramount importance for service firms as they rely solely on "human capital" as their only source of production. The intention is to focus on the issues of a human resources(HR) nature and to consider how these act as growth...
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