Proceedings of the International Conference on Transformations and Innovations in Management (ICTIM 2017)

Session: Transformation challenges in management

26 articles
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Research On Relationship Between Regional Corruption And Performance Of Listed Companies

Fan Yang, Haining Wu, Wenjie Yang
The research aims to test the relationship between the degree of corruption and the performance of listed companies. Based on listed companies' data before and after the implementation of the "eight bans" in 2005 and 2011, we will use the method of empirical research to analyze the impact of regional...
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Switching Factors In Mobile Service Providers: A Qualitative Study From An Arab Country

Kamel Rouibah
Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is the process by which a subscriber keeps his mobile phone number if he decides to switch between different mobile service providers (MSP). In this case, customers will not worry to inform their network of friends and family members that their number has changed every...
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An Assessment of SME's Export Competitiveness: A Case Of Kazakhstan

Aidana Zhaishylyk, Lifan Xu
The main aim of this study is to analyze factors, which affect SME's export competitiveness in Kazakhstan. In order to achieve the aim, the survey was conducted. The numbers of respondents were 40 SMEs, which is located particularly in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Moreover, in order to testify the relationship...
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Kazakhstan's Revealed Comparative Advantages in Agricultural Exports

Nurdana Zhaishylyk, Fang Sun
This paper evaluates the issue of revealed comparative advantages in the case of Kazakhstan's agricultural exports. The aim of this paper is to determine the changing pattern of comparative advantages of Kazakhstan's agricultural sector over period 2006-2016. Kazakhstan is a recent member of WTO. Therefore,...
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Comparing the Origins of External Default, Domestic Default and Banking Crisis

Chien-Jung Ting, Ching-Shu Wang
Purpose of this paper is to explore the origins of external default, domestic default and banking crisis. Using Random Forest (Breiman et al.,1984) to measure variable importance, we adopt the long-dated cross-country data on public debt developed by Reinhart and Rogoff (2009), which covers 66 countries...
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Analyzing the Relationship between Batch Sizing and Bullwhip Effect in Two-tier Supply Chain: A Case Study of Selected Pakistan Rice Firms

Shoaib Yousaf, Matloub Hussain
The purpose of this research is to investigate the bullwhip effect in two tier supply chain. Simulation has been used as a methodology to analyse the impact of batching on bullwhip in rice industry of Pakistan. Two cases of the rice industry have been chosen as a sample. The contribution of this research...
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Transmission and Distribution Industry Project Management Informationization

Yingying Yu, Chongming Zhu
Nowadays, there are thousands of transmission and distribution equipment production enterprise in the scale of electric power industry. Their products' homogeneity is serious. As China's economy is slowing, competition between enterprises has become increasingly fierce, the price of the products is cheaper,...
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The Macro-micro Factors Analysis on the Evaluation System of the Graduate Students' Education Service Trade

Jingwei Xu, Shikun Gong, Li Shen
The service trade of international education is a profound reflection of the strength of competitiveness a nation's education has. Since China's accession to WTO, domestic education industry gradually started to present itself to the service trading market. Education service trade has greatly evolved...
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Does Energy Subsidy Policy Affect Sustainable Energy Development?: Evidence From Indonesia Using Granger Causality Test on CO2 Emissions

Dede Supriatna Makbul, Yantao Wang, Janthima Rodkrajab, Satria Dijaya
This study was conducted to analyze the effect of energy subsidy on country's sustainable energy development by looking in depth at the statistical data on CO2 emissions in Indonesia. The method used in this study is Granger Causality Test and used series data from 1986-2014. Granger Causality Test showed...
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Does China Need to Abolish Family Planning Policy? - Analysis of Family Planning Policy and Two-child Policy

Yuanyuan Zhou, Yumin Lin
Family-planning policy in China has been implemented for more than 40 years. It has reliably reduced the size of the population, but inevitably it also brought a serious problem of population aging. In 2015, China introduced a new fertility policy "Two-child policy", which means each couple can have...
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The Dilemma of Direct Selling in China

Yuexin Miao
Direct selling has a history nearly 100 years, many scholars have given out their opinions about what is direct selling, but in fact the concept of direct selling is not clear. However, what is direct selling is not the question puzzled the people in China. In practical, the key issue is the ethical...
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Research on the Growth Mechanism of the Cruise Industry

Ling Sun, Huangming Xie, Hanwen Zhang, Wei Liu
The growth of the cruise industry refers to a process in which the cruise industry experiences its life cycle. The growth mechanism of the cruise industry can be divided into exogenous dynamic mechanism and the endogenous dynamic mechanism. In this paper, we build a simple cruise industry growth momentum...
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The Simulation Analysis of Cruise Route Planning

Ling Sun, Huangming Xie, Hanwen Zhang, Wei Liu
With the rise in popularity of the cruise market, several schemes and procedures are planned in order to cater for this advancement. Mainly, this paper demonstrates the principal approaches towards constructing plans for designing cruise routes. First and foremost, each port is ranked according to its...
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Bioeconomy and / or Biotechnology: Limited Improvements in Turkey

Irfan Kalayci, Ali Duran Uzun, Hatice Özkurt
Organic farming sector, on the way of sustainability and integration with bioeconomy, has some radical changes in the world. One of the causes for the emerging of bioeconomy is "self-sufficiency for food". Bioeconomy consists of bio-goods (energy, medicine, etc.) produced through existing and new technologies...
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Defense Investment and Reconstructioning Industry: Vision 2023 of Turkey

Ali Duran Uzun, Irfan Kalayci, Onur Demirci
Each country has to reserve a share optimum amount of defense investment from the budget. If a country's defense is inadequate, other investments will remain to be an inadequate level in the country. World military expenditure in 2016 totaled about $1.68 trillion, around 2.2 percent of world GDP. From...
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Research on the End-game Effect in the Implementation of Regional Economic Planning - An Empirical Study Based on Sub-provincial Cities

Zhan-Bing Huang, Ying Liu, Shan Wu
Is there end-game effect in the implementation of regional economic planning? According to the game theory, there is no difference between the final game and the one-time game when approaching the end of the game. The participant's non-cooperative behavior will not be punished, so the dominant strategy...
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The Impact of Brexit on Motor Industry in UK

Aimin Zhang, Ran An
The paper provides studies review on the effect of English economy after Brexit in June 2016 and an analysis of risks arising in the motor manufacturing industry under the effect of Brexit. The economy of UK is in general experiencing stable growth in the latest years, but from the perspective of trading,...
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Study on the Efficiency of Logistics Industry and Its Influencing Factors in The "core Area" of the Silk Road Economic Belt

Qinmei Wang, Yu Zhang
Using the DEA model from the overall efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency of three aspects: the overall and points of provinces and autonomous regions, national evaluation of the silk road economic belt "core" (including the five northwestern provinces in China and the five central...
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The Impact of Public Health Expenditure on Economic Development - Evidence From Prefecture-level Panel Data of Shandong Province

Lin Li, Maoguo Wu, Zhenyu Wu
Public health expenditure is an indispensable part of social economy. The public has always paid close attention to public health expenditure. In order to study the quantitative relation between public health expenditure and social economic development, this paper investigates prefecture-level cities...
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Justice Enhances Commitment When Coupled With Empowerment

Dilawar Khan Durrani, Xiangyang Li, Julia Yalalova
This study explores the impact of organizational justice on employee commitment. It also analyzes the mediating role that psychological empowerment plays in the relationship between organizational justice and empowerment. The sample for this study consisted of 206 respondents from various service sector...
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Key Success Factors of International Joint Ventures Operating in China - A Sino-German Perspective

Tim Gewiss, Jonas Oestersporkmann
International Joint Ventures (IJVs) are one the main models of multinational firms entering foreign markets and China in particular. Despite benefiting from various advantages, many partnerships eventually fail. Accordingly, it is of great importance to study factors that determine success of IJVs. Substantial...
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Cross Cultural Online Shopping Consumer Behavior: Comparision of China and Turkey

Volkan Husnu Gurcan
In this paper we examine online shopping behavior of two developing countries, China and Turkey. Local cultures have strong effects on consumer behavior in online shopping. Thus examining the cultural effects and examining the differences between different cultures are crucial to propose international,...
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Effects of An Aging Population in Shaanxi Province on Consumption Structure

Dandan Li, Shan Wu
In recent years, the trend of the aging of the population is more and more obvious; an aging population has gradually become a problem that cannot be ignored. In view of the aging population in Shaanxi province, we study the influence of the consumption structure analysis on the aging population. At...
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A Comparative Study on Knowledge Transfer Between Turkish and Chinese in Manufacturing Industry

Murat Meta, Xiangdong Chen
In this paper, the concept of 'knowledge transfer' is restricted to the marketing, technological, and managerial knowledge between companies. The overall interaction between developing countries is investigated in terms of the knowledge transfer. We extract the factors of interaction between the companies...
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Does Financial Repression Promote Outward Foreign Direct Investment in China?

Wenping Hou
Using the time series data from 1982 to 2005, we conduct whether the financial repression is the motivation for outward foreign direct investment of China or not. The empirical result shows that the Chinese financial policies promote OFDI of China significantly and population dependency ratio does not....
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Analysis of Digital Marketing Strategies of Overseas Universities in China with University of the West of Scotland as An Example

Caiyong Zhuang, You Zhou, Fu Lin
The study abroad market in China has been made a great deal with the development of China's reform and opening-up, and more and more overseas universities have been joining the market. In the age of digital, how overseas universities interact with Chinese audiences effectively through the digital marketing...