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This paper deals with quality management using ISO 9001 certificate and other similar certificates and with Costs of Quality. Numerous studies claim that quality management increases a company’s performance, mainly measured by operational indicators. The paper aims to find out if there is also...
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In many respects, Australian boards more closely approach normative best practice guidelines for corporate governance than boards in other Western countries. Do Australian firms then demonstrate a board demographic-organisational performance link that has not been found in other economies? We...
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Ziel der Arbeit ist die Entwicklung eines qualitätsorientierten Beschreibungsmodells für Nutzungsszenarien in E-Publishing und E-Learning. Wichtige Trends wie die Transparenz und Offenheit von Formaten, Strukturen und Prozessen werden einbezogen (Open...-Bewegung), ebenso die Frage nach...
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In the last five years, China's refrigerator market has grown rapidly, and now urban markets are showing signs of … the first half of 2007, when the draft standard was completed under the direction of the China National Institute of … Standardization (CNIS). Development of the information label grades required consideration of stakeholder input, continuity with the …
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market. This paper systematically assesses the degree of standardization (and adaptation) of four commonly identified retail … – within three countries. These countries – Sweden, the UK and China – represent different cultural settings and are markets in … standardization in international retailing should be considered from the perspective of replicating the concept, rather than …
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Information technology (IT) plays an important role in the daily operation of themodem business organization. The implications for, and influences onorganizational structure from the deployment of IT have long been recognized. Oneof the most important, recent innovations, in the world of...
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comprehensively examine the determinants and implications of corporate cash reserves in a developing market namely China based upon a … comprehensively examine the determinants and implications of corporate cash reserves in a developing market namely China based upon a … firm specific characteristics. Results indicate that the speed of adjustment of cash holdings in China is more rapid than …
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self-interested earnings manipulation. This study is designed to fill the gap in governance literature in China that is … related to earnings management. Previous research on corporate governance mechanisms and earnings management in China is not … China. The use of alternative measures for earnings management yields similar results compared with the accruals models and …
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China’s industrial sector: state enterprises, collective enterprises, and private enterprises. Market-oriented economic …
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