Can Commercialization Improve the Performance of Stock Exchanges Even without Corporatization?

We examine the performance of mutual, demutualized, and publicly listed exchanges and find evidence of improved performance along the exchange governance continuum, with publicly traded exchanges exhibiting better operating performance than demutualized exchanges. However, our robustness test, focusing on the corporatized exchanges that have gone through the three phases of the governance structure, shows that the listed exchanges do not exhibit evidence of incremental gains in efficiency and profitability beyond what they achieved at the demutualization phase. We conclude that commercialization provides sufficient freedom for exchanges to exploit monopoly rents before going public, while corporatization brings about proper valuation of the exchanges’ franchise.     

Customer Satisfaction in Retail Banking

Professional services firms (PSFs) engaged in international operations present a unique challenge for governments. They directly and indirectly affect governmental policies and the agencies that enforce these policies through policy development, problem solving, and implementation. Yet, governments that seek to advance rational, forward thinking public policy have little, if any, regulatory control over the input and influence of these professional experts. International professional service firms face an increasingly competitive marketplace and complex challenges that demand skill sets that are markedly different from those characteristically required of consumer service companies. This study identifies the qualities of the best performing PSFs that engage clients worldwide. Implications are discussed for governments to ensure the greater public good.     

机器类设备基于不同时延需求分组的随机接入方法

针对大规模机器类通信中拥塞导致的时延敏感设备时延高和接入成功率低的问题,提出将小区中设备按时延要求分组,对不同组设备引入不同的退避模型,分析时延敏感设备的时延和吞吐量,按照不同组中设备的时延需求动态分配前导数目,同时通过调整接入类限制因子实现吞吐量的优化。仿真结果表明,在给定时延敏感设备的时延限制条件时,与统一退避的机制对比,所提分组机制的时延敏感设备能够满足时延要求,并且提高了接入效率。     

Country-of-origin effects and antecedents of industrial brand equity

Does the country-of-origin effect matter to industrial brand equity in international business-to-business (B2B) markets? The effect of a product's country-of-origin (COO) on both industrial buyers' and consumers' perceptions and evaluations has been one of the most widely studied phenomena in the fields of international business, marketing, and consumer behavior since the 1960s. Although many country-of-origin studies focus on consumer behavior in developed countries and acknowledge that the processes and stages of economic development by which consumers use COO information may differ in developing countries, the fact that there has been little research to investigate the effects of COO could explain the variations in international buyers' evaluations of industrial brand equity in the newly-industrialized economies, such as Taiwan. Taiwanese firms are now formidable global B2B market players by successfully transforming themselves from manufacturing mainly low-value and labor-intensive goods to producing many high value-added products that require advanced technology, equipment and significant business expertise. With the adoption of advanced technology and equipment, an important question is whether unique and innovative fastener products from Taiwan have generated the country-of-origin effects in international B2B buyers' minds. The main finding is that the country-of-origin of fasteners has not yet become an important antecedent of industrial brand equity in the case of the fastener industry in Taiwan.     

浅谈P2P技术与网络运营

随着宽带互联网的飞速发展,P2P技术在网络中得到了大量应用,同时大量带宽资源被占用,使得电信运营商的在网络建设上投资得不到有效的回报,本文提出P2P缓存技术,为解决这一问题提供了思路。     

基于B2C的设计链协同模式研究

只有真正掌握顾客需求,企业才有不断向前发展的动力.本文提出基于B2C的设计链协同模式,是利用B2C电子商务模式平台直接面向顾客的特点,不断收集顾客真正的产品设计需求信息,运用于产品的协同设计链上,以能快速、准确的把握产品市场动向,推出顾客满意的产品,提升竞争力.     

The Impact of a Third-Party Assurance Seal in Customer Purchasing Intention

ABSTRACT

Although e-commerce is evolving at an incredible speed, asymmetric information and opportunism have increased online purchasing risks and market inefficiencies. The lack of face-to-face contact and the inability of the customer to touch and feel tangible products necessitate that online business must provide customers with reliable information and convince customers of their trustworthiness. While the research on Third-Party Assurance Seals (TPAS) is not new, the effectiveness of TPAS has not been persuasively addressed by empirical studies. Our study is different from previous efforts in that it is comprehensive because it combines consumer trust, perceived risk, and influences of TPAS in the B2C e-commerce context. The results of the study show that (1) the effects of TPAS on perceived risk are channeled through perceived trustworthiness, thus demonstrating the mediating role of perceived trustworthiness in B2C e-commerce, (2) perceived risk, perceived usefulness of website, and subjective norm appear to be significant predictors of intention to purchase from the website, (3) a third-party assurance seal strongly affects online shoppers' perceived trustworthiness toward online retailers, while the seal appears to have little effect on perceived risk directly; perceived risk is strongly associated with intention to purchase from the website.     

规范中国电子商务税收之我见

电子商务在中国的发展,给税收的征管带来了新的挑战,本文针对C2C电子商务模式,探讨了如何规范此模式下的税收征管方法.     

基于在线信息的C2C顾客可感知风险评价研究

C2C环境下顾客购物过程中面临诸多风险,如何有效识别和评价这些风险至关重要。本文以顾客可感知风险为基础,从当前国内主流C2C交易平台的主要信息出发,本着可获取、可计量的原则,在考虑时间、消费者风险偏好等因素的基础上,从C2C网站风险、卖家风险、产品风险、服务风险等方面建立风险计量指标体系,借助突变理论建立了风险综合评价模型,并对模型特点及应用进行了分析与总结。