中韩合资南京LG同创企业的发展及其启示

近几年来,随着中韩两国经贸易关系的发展,韩国对我国投资持续增长。由韩国LG与南京同创集团建立的南京LG企业经过短短几年的发展,已成为我国显示器生产的重要基地,实现了跨越式增长,其经营理念里所包含的“人本”意识和对于社会的责任感是值得认真总结和学习的。     

基于顾客资产的营销模式研究——以LG电子(中国)为例

顾客资产概念的提出对传统营销模式产生了极大冲击,迫使企业从传统营销模式走向基于顾客资产的营销模式。在改善的基于顾客资产的营销模基础上,我们对LG进行了实证研究,结果表明:基于顾客资产的营销模式不仅具有理论意义,且具有可操作性和分析价值,对企业的营销实践具有指导性。     

Business failure in an age of globalisation: Interpreting the rise and fall of the LG project in Wales, 1995–2006

Abstract

In 1996, the South Korean conglomerate LG announced a £1.67 billion investment in Wales to manufacture consumer electronics and semiconductors. The project was to be Europe’s largest inward investment project, and LG was offered the UK Government’s most generous grants. However, the semiconductor plant was built but never entered production, while the consumer electronics facility closed in stages up to 2006. This article responds to calls for a ‘new business history’ by using the ill-fated investment as a case study of business failure, arguing that narrow firm-specific factors do not fully explain LG’s failure in Wales. The article finds instead that analysis of distorted institutional environments in South Korea and Wales, linked to rent-seeking behaviour by LG, provides a fuller answer.     

Sisyphus in business: Success,failure and the different types of failure

By studying three cases of obvious failure (Nokia, Baan and LG Philips Displays), this article identifies three causes of failure in business (fallibility, error and flaw) and defines three types of failing firms from these causes (Icari, Fools and Rogues). In this way, this article provides a simple typology of failure, enhancing our understanding of this phenomenon. All too often failure is approached as something to avoid and as something distinctly negative. Being in business is a Sisyphean mission; it is a continuing struggle, and this struggle is the essence of business, not becoming successful and not avoiding failure.     

LÉVY PROCESSES INDUCED BY DIRICHLET (B‐)SPLINES: MODELING MULTIVARIATE ASSET PRICE DYNAMICS

We consider a new class of processes, called LG processes, defined as linear combinations of independent gamma processes. Their distributional and path‐wise properties are explored by following their relation to polynomial and Dirichlet (B‐)splines. In particular, it is shown that the density of an LG process can be expressed in terms of Dirichlet (B‐)splines, introduced independently by Ignatov and Kaishev and Karlin, Micchelli, and Rinott. We further show that the well‐known variance gamma (VG) process, introduced by Madan and Seneta, and the bilateral gamma (BG) process, recently considered by Küchler and Tappe are special cases of an LG process. Following this LG interpretation, we derive new (alternative) expressions for the VG and BG densities and consider their numerical properties. The LG process has two sets of parameters, the B‐spline knots and their multiplicities, and offers further flexibility in controlling the shape of the Levy density, compared to the VG and the BG processes. Such flexibility is often desirable in practice, which makes LG processes interesting for financial and insurance applications. Multivariate LG processes are also introduced and their relation to multivariate Dirichlet and simplex splines is established. Expressions for their joint density, the underlying LG‐copula, the characteristic, moment and cumulant generating functions are given. A method for simulating LG sample paths is also proposed, based on the Dirichlet bridge sampling of gamma processes, due to Kaishev and Dimitriva. A method of moments for estimation of the LG parameters is also developed. Multivariate LG processes are shown to provide a competitive alternative in modeling dependence, compared to the various multivariate generalizations of the VG process, proposed in the literature. Application of multivariate LG processes in modeling the joint dynamics of multiple exchange rates is also considered.     

Korean Business Abroad——Korean business in china

Since China and South Korea established diplomatic ties in 1992, South Korean investment grew rapidly and soon became the main source of foreign capital in China.According to Ministry of Commerce statis- tics,as of the end of 2003,South Korea’s total actual investment in China amounted to 19,688 billion US dollars.Only in the first eight months of 2004,its actual investment in China had reached 4,661 bil- lion US dollars,more than Japan and the United States’ investment flows.