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Since IT systems are used to support business strategies of an organisation, strategic business requirements therefore are the motivation of the majority the requirements engineering approaches. But current requirements engineering approaches do not capture strategic business requirements but rather focus on functional and non-functional types of requirements. In this exploratory study two groups...
With the gradually subsided of economic crisis, China's fast moving consumer goods industry has present slow growth trend. But its market share is still not high. According to the characteristics of China's fast moving consumer goods industry, it is necessary to carry out the strategic transformation at this stage. This article departure from the beer industry, a particular fast moving consumer goods...
This paper introduces the research status of the business model at home and abroad, including the concept of business model, business model classification, the relationship between the business model classification and enterprise performance, and puts forward the shortcomings of study on the business model classification. Based on previous studies, this paper puts forward a new business model classification...
Since free cash flow has been widely employed in financial consultation, credit rating and other businesses in western countries, its financial functions have been recognized by more and more scholars. Compared with profit and net operating cash flow, free cash flow has the advantages of zero risk, excellent practicality, and comprehensive information. In this paper, the author intends to, on the...
In the last 10 years, China's automotive industry experienced an active period of overseas M&A. Geely's acquisition of VOLVO is one of the largest overseas M&A cases. In the view of the motive of Geely's acquisition, the essay analyzes difficulties and problems of overseas M&A of China's automotive enterprises, and as so provides some suggestions for the government and the...
Tourism agents of distribution are organizational links in a travel product producer's system of describing, selling, and confirming travel arrangements to the buyer. Such channels are needed because it is impractical for any supplier to own sales outlets in every market city. It is much more feasible and productive to distribute the product, for example, through 25,000 retail travel agencies. There...
Since mid-90s scale privatization have brought about positive benefits such as higher productivity, unemployment avoidance, and efficient governance structure. However, the paper finds earning quality decreases after privatization. The drivers are both operating environment and manager's opportunism. But different environment factor and discretionary factor contribute difference. Based on both private...
Based on the generalization of current service quality situation of automobile 4S stores in China, this paper introduces the definition of service quality, the discrepancy analytical model, and the service profit chain of automobile industry. Then it analyzes the evaluation indices system, and establishes a set of evaluation model for measuring the service quality of automobile 4S stores based on...
The paper attempts to understand the prevalence of outsourcing among entrepreneurs in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. Outsourcing is a convoluted process and can bring new development opportunity for the SMEs to quest for their competitiveness. A sample of ten SME entrepreneurs from Malaysia participated in this study. A series of interviews were conducted among these entrepreneurs...
The use of financial model is to predict the performance of a company. This paper presents the development of the model for IBS construction companies in predicting the business performance based on historical financial data. The development of the financial model is based on selected financial ratios obtained from the financial statements gathered from thirty (30) IBS companies in Selangor, Malaysia...
Financial information that has being deteriorated by fraud will misled users. Hence, the main objective of this paper is to identify the association between five ratios of financial reporting risks to predict fraud. Furthermore, this paper also investigates the impacts of fraud detection on audit fee. Thus, sample of 10 of fraudulent companies and sample of 40 non fraudulent companies are being identified...
Although the benefits of the Internet as an additional sales channel to traditional retailers are clear, there are significant variations in the scope and depth of online channel use among retailers. Drawing data from listed retail companies in China, this study examines the impact of online channel use on retailers' performance using event study. The results show that the online channel provides...
Rapid innovation of products by manufacturers reduces the life cycle of the current product due to frequent introduction of new version of product to the market. Manufacturers dealing with these innovative products face problems to forecast the demand from customer, thus increase the cost of carrying the inventory of such products. Generally, this drawback is observed in highly demanded product, such...
This paper concerns the monitoring, controlling and documentation of cross-system processes. In these processes different persons and tools are involved in the execution. Gaps in the information flow exist because information is exchanged across system borders. A web based workflow management system, called Infineon Workflow Manager (iWoMan), has been developed to close these gaps and provide monitoring,...
In December of 2008, at the height of the financial crisis when the bottom-line was more important than ever and pressures at their highest, I took an opportunity at NYSE Technologies, a young division with the New York Stock Exchange. The Exchange was becoming less of a financial company and more of a technology firm that provides premiere products and services to players within the financial industry...
This article put forward and analysis four major strategies with fully mastering company's real situation: turning into a comprehensive B2C enterprise, opening up the sales platform gradually, improving self-built logistics system, doing after-sales service better. We believe that if Jingdong does the above four aspects enough, it will become the Chinese e-commerce leader and occupy a space in the...
In order to study the control and optimization of macro-financial policy under the currency mismatch condition, conclusions include the following after the relationship between financial policies and currency mismatch have been fully proved. The interest margin between domestic and foreign currency should be respectively stable. Perfect the varieties of financial derivative to avoid debt risk. The...
This study examines the email correspondences of a junior engineer who just graduated from the university in 2011. The findings shows that the language patterns in the emails are greatly related to the job duties of this engineer and are specifically related to the professional practice in the engineering environment. It is also argued that the methodology adopted in this study could be utilized by...
Enterprises resource planning (ERP) systems are becoming more commonly applied by modern companies to manage and support the enterprise-wide business processes. This paper aimed to investigate the understanding of managers and staff on ERP systems in Chinese SOEs. The study took a case study approach and used chi-square tests to analyze the data derived from questionnaires. The analysis results show...
In order to examine the relationship between ownership structure and firm performance of private companies, this paper selects 283 private companies listed in Two Exchanges in the period from 2008 to 2010. Ownership structure is described in two aspects: ownership concentration and equity properties. First, a new comprehensive performance index is obtained by principal component analysis method based...
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