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

Session: Innovation challenges in management

33 articles
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The Making Of Contemporary Australian Monetary Policy - Forward Or Backward Looking?

Ying Chen, Maoguo Wu
Monetary authorities rarely disclose their true reasons for their policy reactions. Tracing the policy reaction function to see if the monetary authority is using simple rules would offer profound insight into the past behavioral relationship between the monetary authority and economic agencies. A reasonable...
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Image Consumption of People Perceived As Leaders

Julita Majczyk
The purpose of this paper is to examine the way in which the press creates, sustains, and enhances a leader's legitimacy. The research subjects are not leaders considered as flesh-and-blood human beings, but rather the images of people perceived as leaders and their impact in the process of societal...
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The Analysis of Digital Marketing among SMEs in Chaozhou City

Caiyong Zhuang, Shanwei Lin, Fu Lin
With the growing importance of digital marketing among companies, it is essential for the companies, especially the SMEs, to take a proactive approach in utilizing the digital marketing channels. The purpose of this essay is to investigate SMEs' digital marketing usage in Chaozhou and to provide recommendations...
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The Necessity and Feasibility of Docking China's 'the Silk Road Economic Belt' with Russia's 'the Crossing-Eurasian Development Belt'

Haiping Xu, Ye Zhang
The Silk Road Economic Belt and the Crossing-Eurasian Development Belt are two strategies which are respectively put forward by China and Russia for the common development of Europe and Asia. As the strategies are both coincident as well as complementary, how to dock these two economic belts has become...
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Self-efficacy and Career Satisfaction: the Mediating Role of Work Effort

Julia Yalalova, Li Zhang
This study examines whether or not employees' willingness to exert high level of work effort mediates the correlation of self-efficacy and career satisfaction. Another intention is to find if there exist gender differences in self-efficacy, career satisfaction, and work effort. Data were collected from...
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Dao Intelligence and Dao Leader Well-being

Dilin Yao, Jun Chen
Chinese traditional philosophy can offer a rich source of insight for current leadership studies. The aim of this article is to discuss two main aspects of Dao philosophy, Dao intelligence and Dao leader well-being. The article makes two contributions to knowledge. First, it outlines a conceptual model...
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Dao Philosophy and Non-action Management

Dilin Yao, Jun Chen
Traditional Chinese philosophy can serve as a rich source of insight for management studies. The aim of this article is to discuss two main aspects of Dao philosophy, non-action management and non-action leadership. The article makes two contributions to knowledge. First, it outlines a conceptual model...
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A Survey Study in Vertical Cooperation of Chinese Fruit Supply Chain

Jun Chen, Chao Chen, Dilin Yao
Facing fierce global competition, Chinese fruit industry has to transfer its growth pattern from simple quantity expansion to quality upgrading. Vertical cooperation is one of the most helpful methods through this process. In this occasion, this paper aims to analyze the situation of vertical cooperation...
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Tail Dependence Analysis of Extreme Fog and Haze Weather Occurring in Beijing and Tianjin Based on Copula Function and EVT

Yubo Ma, Guangkuo Gao
In order to quantitatively verify that there is a strong correlation between the occurrence of extreme haze in Beijing and Tianjin. First, we estimated marginal distribution functions of the occurring of extreme fog and haze weather in two cities according to the POT model. Then, conditional probability...
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Analysis on the Comparative Advantage and Export Competitiveness of China's Fruit Products

Jun Chen, Chao Chen, Dilin Yao
China is the world's largest producer of fruits. The fruit industry occupies an important position in the national economy. Since 1993, fruit yield volume and orchard area of China have been ranking the first place in the world. The improvement of the export competition of China's fruit products still...
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The Development of Cross Border E-commerce

Feng Ding, Jiazhen Huo, Juliana Kucht Campos
Cross-border e-commerce is one type of international e-commerce similar to cross-border e-tailing. An increasing amount of people are shopping online across the borders, especially in China. By systematic review recent academic papers and research reports, the current situation of its development was...
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Building a Strong Customer-brand Relationship From CBBE

Liang Qiao, Hui Wang
As business competition gets more and fiercer, corporate competition accordingly escalates from parts to the whole. On top of it comes the brand competition, and plays a crucial role in the process. This article cited Olin's description and gives a detailed discussion on the elements of Keller's (1993)...
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Research on Diffusion of Wechat Based on Bass - BP Combination Model

Yaping Jiang
Wechat diffusion has the nonlinear variation characteristics and the law which can not effectively described by signal prediction algorithm. Therefore, this paper presents a Bass-BP diffusion model. Firstly, use the classical Bass model to preliminary forecast the Wechat's data, and then use the BP neural...
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Questing for Brand Authenticity of Luxury Products: Consumers' Goal-contingent Process as Self-image Conformation Online

Samuel Kwok, Kate Maguire, Gertrude Shotte
This paper draws attention to the question of brand authenticity of luxury products when consumers shopping online. Illustrations from most of the luxury brands show that marketers control the ways and timing of the marketing information dissemination process. Attributes of a luxury product, for example,...
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Research on Logistics Problems of Network Marketing for Fresh Agricultural Products Based on "INTERNET+"

Huan Wang
Nowadays, the network marketing of fresh agricultural products has become a new trend. But its logistics still shows many problems, mainly including unscientific logistics organization, low conjunction between network marketing platforms and logistics links, and lack of specialized third party logistics(TPL)...
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Research on the Influencing Factors of Excessive Consumption Online - Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior

Yanping Tao, Junyi Meng, Lu Huang
With the development of Internet economy, the excessive consumption in online shopping has gradually become a social problem. The existing research on excessive consumption is mainly from the irrational consumption, in fact, the excessive consumption in the specific form of expression, the influencing...
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Super-connected: How Techno Tourism Redesigns Our Lives Through Meaningful Travel

Rakshha Kumari Karna, Qiang Ye, Arodh Lal Karn
The techno-tourism life brings together insights about innovative tourism and examines how travel life is influenced when social network structure like "Facebook" enters the picture. The end result is a landmark analysis of digital socialization and the knock of the internet and digital media across...
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A Critique of the Impact of Consumer Dissatisfaction

Portia Opoku Boadi, Guoxin Li, Andrew Adjah Sai, Philip Antwi
Research into consumer satisfaction levels have gone far enough for several years now, however, much has not been done to reiterate how consumers will react and deal with their dissatisfaction and the effect it has on the companies. The main objective of this paper was to review literature that depicts...
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Study on the Characteristics and Mechanism of Ethnic Tourism Community Contradiction

Congyuan Li
In China, with the development of tourism in the resources of ethnic culture and natural landscape has achieved great results. With the development of tourism in ethnic regions, the issues about the stakeholders of the ethnic minority areas are more outstanding, some disputes take place in the ethnic...
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Factors Influencing Travelers' Acceptance of Mobile Marketing: Comparative Analysis of China and Kazakhstan

Liang Wang, Guoxin Li, Bolatov Adilzhan, Portia Opoku Boadi
The paper is aimed to examine factors affecting travelers' acceptance of mobile marketing in China and Kazakhstan. Based on technology acceptance theories we developed a conceptual model of antecedent factors and marketing-related mobile activity related to the acceptance of mobile marketing practice....
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Innovation Clusters in Petrochemical Industry in Asia-Pacific Zone

Natalia Victorovna Trifonova, Yana Yazepovna Klementovichus, Irina Leonidovna Borovskaya, Aleksandra Sergeevna Proshkina, Irina Samvelovna Vardanyan
The article examines the role of innovation clusters in petrochemical industry in Asia-Pacific Zone. According to Sapience Integra model, the key element of an innovation cluster is an intellectual result cluster functioning, including technologies, skills and competencies, as well as knowledge. The...
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Research on Competitive Advantages and Strategies of Port Enterprises in China

Hanwen Zhang, Wei Liu
After years of construction and development, China's port enterprises have made great progress, in terms of capital, technology and management, which are basically in the positive direction. This paper lists the status quo and problems of the development of port enterprises in China. Based on the current...
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Construction and Sustainable Development of the Cross-border E-commerce Economic Regions in China

Li Xiong, Yao Liang, Mingming Liu
The Cross-Border E-Commerce has attracted the attention of the community due to the fact that its development promoted the growth of global trade and the world regard it as the new engine of economic development and format of industrial transformation in the new period. In the research, the Yangtze River...
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Innovation Performance Research On China's New Generation Information Technology Industry in the Digital Economy Context

Yangyang Huang, Guangkuo Gao
Under the background of digital economy, China's new generation of information technology industry is developing rapidly. The main purpose of our study is to explore the influencing factors of innovation performance of this industry. From a microcosmic point of view, this paper takes domestic listed...
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The Mediating Role of Ethics in the Relationship Between Attitudes and Corruption

Marwah Zuhaira, Ye-Zhuang Tian, Zaid Mahmood
This research examines the roles of ethics in the relations between individual attitudes and corruption in Iraqi universities. Correlation analysis and linear regression are used to estimate the relations among individual attitudes, ethics, and corruption. Gleaned from 600 female and male workers, and...
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Understanding Individuals' Insecure Behavior: Factors Affecting the Decision to Refuse the Adoption, Use, or Expanded Use of Protective Information Technology

Piia Perälä, Tiina Koskelainen, Mikko Siponen
In recent years, the need for protecting Internet-connected devices has increased as the number of Internet-connected devices has risen in households. Despite the increased need, some individuals still refuse to run protective information technologies (PIT) for security on their Internet-connected devices....
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Critical Considerations for Organisation-specific Information Security Policy Development

Hanna Kinnunen
Organisations use information security policies (ISP) to guide the use of their information assets. Previous literature has presented ways to develop ISPs from suggested content to development methods; however, these approaches encounter problems when they are applied in organisations without adequate...
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Strategic Contents and Evolution of Online-offline Ecosystem in New Internet Economy: A Coopetition Context Perspective

Qiang Zhang, Yan Wang
New-generation information and communication technologies and concurring socioeconomic changes trigger the emergence of online-offline ecosystem as new way of organizing business. Treating business model as the gene of business ecosystem to cope with external technological and socioeconomic pressure,...
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Multilevel Study on Psychological Empowerment and Perception of Barriers to Innovation: the Moderating Influence of Collectivism Orientation and Job Formalization

Caihong Zhang, Weilin Li, Canqiu Zhong, Chunlin Liu
This research builds and tests a conceptual model on the process how psychological empowerment affects perception of barriers to innovation after synthesizing concerned theories. Based on statistical analysis to the survey data collected from south China, we find that, as anticipated, personal level...
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Smart Bed Design for Senior Citizens: A Quality Function Deployment Approach

Jiao Chen, Xiaosong Zheng, Jiehui Jiang
With the increasing number of senior citizens, the quality of their life arises more attention. Smart beds can be used as intelligent tools to easy their life. Besides, as the user-oriented care becomes more dominant recently in healthcare industry, especially for the elderly, Quality Function Deployment...
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Economics of Crowdfunding by What-if Analysis Approach

Ieva Astrauskaitė
Fund raising alternative, demand forming activity, information spreading and sharing instrument, strengthening the communities and expanding networks, a tool for socialization - these are the crowdfunding benefits to economics. However, the numerical values are missing in various researches due to the...
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Measurement Index of Synergistic Innovative Capability: An Empirical Investigation on the SMEs in Zhejiang Province

Jiasheng Sun, Dandan Cai
With the trend of win-win model and collaborative development, more and more SEMs tend to cooperate with large enterprises, suppliers, customers, competitors, government, research organizations and intermediary organizations. Under the context of open innovation, this paper builds the measurement indicators...
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The Spatial Distribution Characteristics of Enterprises in Beijing Chaoyang CBD

Hanming Gu, Yuegang Chen
Beijing Chaoyang CBD plays a pivotal role in Beijing becoming one of the economic operation and control centers in the Asia-Pacific region. By using SPSS analysis, spatial Gini coefficient, Kriging interpolation method and kernel density estimation, we analyse the spatial distribution characteristics...