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A Study On Corporate Governance of China's State-Owned Enterprises - Focus On the Role of Baosteel Ccp Organization

This study is focused on Corporate Governance of China's State-Owned Enterprises(SOEs) in which research was studied on the role of SOEs under Corporate Governance of CCP(China Communist Party) organization that has been not studied a lot in previous research. As a result of the case study of Baosteel, though China's SOEs accommodated western corporate governance system, the CCP organization in the corporate has been carried out the role of internal control mechanism which complements weaknes...

Cross-Cultural Generational Differences

There are many different generational and cultural differences between the many vast countries that have evolved in our society. Along the side of the generational and cultural differences is the meaning of work that is attributed to those beliefs and cultures. The following will discuss these differences and describe and explain the way different societies have changed over generations. The biggest differences that one will see is from the societies meaning of work and the work ethic from th...

Developing Country Teenagers' Involvement in Reality Television: A Multi-Item Measurement Scale

The aim of this paper is to develop and confirm a multi-item measurement scale for developing teenagers' involvement in Reality Television. Understanding involvement of teenagers' in RTV so that its role in their consumption behavior can be better understood in important for further theory building in the consumer behavior field. Various researchers have proposed liking, time spent on watching, level of attention provided and audience desire to attend as the domain items for teenagers' media ...

Entrepreneurs: Global Compensation

We examine the compensation practices of entrepreneurs in five countries using Carraher's new International Meaning of Working data in order to examine what common practices are used to determine monetary compensation. Also, we look at what factors affect an entrepreneur's salary and how compensation relates to retention. We specifically focus on the correlation between the entrepreneur's compensation and company's start-up, rate of growth, and performance. To better perceive differences and ...

Inspiring Innovation in Norway

In an age of global competition and rapid technological change, the capacity to innovate and adapt to change is crucial to business performance. Knowledge-based assets and organizational learning capabilities are recognized to be critical to a firm's innovative activities. The process of creating new knowledge requires absorptive capacity, which is defined as the firm's overall capacity for acquiring and assimilating information, and utilizing it effectively, resulting in positive firm perfor...

International Meaning of Business

The meaning of business, when we think of business what comes to mind? Is it a bunch of businessmen gathered in a conference room discussing future investments? Is it selling products you've made online for a profit? Or is it taking your harvest into the town and selling it at the market? The truth is that these are all different concepts of business and are all correct. First we must understand what business is and from there we can determine how other cultures perceive business and what the...

Relationships Among Export, Fdi and Growth in India: An Application of Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (Ardl) Bounds Testing Approach

Most of the study of causal relationship of GDP or growth with Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in the context of India rely on cross country comparisons, or simple correlations/regressions disregarding nonstationarity properties. Some papers which consider time series properties depend on VAR or VECM or Johansen-Juselius cointegration technique which is shown to suffer from potential pretest biases, influence of nuisance parameters and asymptotic unreliability. The pitfalls of these techn...