Verlagsgruppe Passau, Orkla Media, and Mecom Analysis of Different Business Strategies on Polish Press Market

After socio-political breakthrough in 1989 foreign companies entered Polish media market. Firstly, investors appeared in the press sector, later on in the electronic media. One of the first groups presented in Poland was Orkla Media. The Norwegians launched a brand new regional daily. After subsequent failure they changed the pattern of business activity. When in 2006 Mecom bought out Orkla＇s shares, a new era began. The British fund was mainly interested in making their assets more profitable. The biggest shareholder of the regional press sector, however, is still Verlagsgruppe Passau （VGP）. The German group appeared in 1993, in disguise of a Swiss company and next year took over eight regional dailies. In due course, VGP bought out a couple of more regional titles and became the leader of this sector of the market. Although the Germans were competing against the Norwegians and the Brits, they showed a different style of managing their assets. The author attempts to describe different patterns of business strategy in the press sector in Poland, examining each investor＇s behavior and the results of their efforts. This can lead to conclusions about the past activities as well as to predictions about the future of the market.

Ceroil's Business Strategies

Over the past a few years, the China National Cereals, Oils & Foodstuffs I/E Corp. (Ceroil) has continuously been in the top ranking among China’s 500 largest import and export enterprises. Business for Ceroil was difficult because the price of cereals was decentralized and the operation system was constantly changing. In spite of that, Ceroil actively promoted industrializing, internationalizing

Addressing Sustainability Risks of Bioenergy—Policy Strategies and Corporate Initiatives

This paper focuses on the sustainable use of solid and gaseous biomass for electricity, heating and cooling. It provides updated findings of policy analyses and corporate strategy analyses performed in the frame of BIOENERGY PROMOTION, one of the flagship projects under the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. In particular, the paper highlights policies and measures which have been adopted by the EU and EU Member States to address environmental and social sustainability risks of bioenergy. Taking into account the conclusions of BIOENERGY PROMOTION, the paper identifies promising policy developments, but also shortcomings. On the Member State level, the paper refers to the examples of Germany and Poland. It illustrates how problematic policy priorities and policy malfunctioning in two sub-sectors (biogas from energy crops in Germany, biomass co-firing in Poland) led to undesirable environmental and social developments and how policies have been re-adjusted to mitigate sustainability risks. The paper also portrays a number of voluntary corporate sustainability initiatives which emerged due to the lack of a binding European sustainability framework for solid and gaseous biomass. The authors conclude that without a binding sustainability framework at EU level there is a risk of having a patchwork of potentially diverging sustainability regimes and initiatives across Europe causing market intransparency and insecurity for investors.

Business Strategy and Perceived Benefits of Internet Banking: Their Impact on Banks' Strategic Responses to China's Entry to WTO

With the entry to WTO and development of IT, banks in China are adjusting their competitive strategies to meet the competition. Internet banking has become a kind of strategic choice to response to the entry to WTO. Based on relevantly selective reviews of literature of strategy theory and research, a model is developed to study banks' strategic response to entry to WTO. According to a survey of 192 sets of questionnaires, this study finds that external pressure, business strategy and perceived benefits of Internet banking would influence banks' perceived increase in Internet banking investment. And banks' perceived increase in Internet banking investment has no difference between big banks and small banks.

Profit Strategy of CNPC＇s Overseas Business in a Oil Price Downturn

In 2016,CNPC managed to achieve a profit even despite the fact that the international oil price was lingering at a decade low.This was the third year in a row for the group to gain profit.Moreover,2016 was a year that marked significant gains for both CNPC’s operational and non-operational business,and the company also did excellent work in terms of international trading。

Learning and Talent Development Alignment——take Network Railway as an example

Learning and talent development(LTD)aims to enhance an organisation’s performance,the need for LTD to link to the organisation’s overall business strategy,which also be described as linkage/alignment,is more imperative than ever in this rapid changing environment.This paper aims to explore how Network Rail utilise LTD strategies to support its overall business strategies.

The Revolution of Entrepreneurship Through E-Commerce Model:Questionnaire-based Research in China

E-commerce is evolving as an innovative tool in a wide range of areas,and has changed the face of entrepreneurship by making them more efficient and dynamic.In this paper,the author firstly reviewed the current development of e-commerce and entrepreneurship,as well as existing opportunities and challenges in this field.This paper also combines both qualitative method(literature review)and quantitative method(questionnaire-based research)to explore the impact of e-commerce on the landscape of entrepreneurship.The findings of this study suggest that the development of e-commerce has triggered fundamental changes in entrepreneurial activities.It significantly promotes the entry of new start-ups and facilitates the growth of their businesses.Meanwhile,small-and medium-sized firms also encounter greater challenges when they try to adopt and implement e-commerce.

Compassion in Buddhism and Guanxi： Can There Be a Synergy for Westem Companies in China

Compassion is one of the core fundamental elements of Buddhism. The compassionate virtues are the precious qualities essential in the practice of Buddhism. On the other hand, guanxi plays a dominant role in any successful business venture in Chinese market. This paper develops the understanding of the two ancient bodies of knowledge of Buddhism and Confucianism. The attempt will be made in this paper to understand the deeper meaning of compassion in Buddhism in terms of compassionate virtues such as generosity, discipline, patience, diligence, humility, and wisdom. In guanxi, it will delve into different aspects of guanxi in terms of its background, meaning, significance, different types, intermediary, comparison with networking and ethics and success factors. This paper is based on the literature review on compassion--guanxi. The compassion literature focuses on books on Buddhism and commentaries by great Tibetan Buddhist sages. The guanxi literatures are predominately based on business research papers related to guanxi and business culture in China. The paper provides deeper meaning of compassion in Buddhism. The application of compassion to manage guanxi in China is the topic of this paper. This research is about optimizing the art of guanxi through the application of compassion which will help many non-Chinese business managers to effectively manage it. This paper is considered the first of its kind to study compassion in Buddhism and guanxi practice in China and seeks to provide the necessary framework to conduct the further research on applying compassion to build and manage better guanxi in China.

Business Performance, Business Strategy, and Information System Strategic Alignment: An Empirical Study on Chinese Firms

The alignment between information systems （IS） and business strategy along with its implications for perceived IS effectiveness and business performance is an important question, which is rarely studied in China. Based on an empirical study, this paper summarized the significance of IS strategic alignment and its impact on business performance. This study also measured business strategy, information system strategy, and information system strategic alignment, built a conceptual model to describe the relationship between these factors, and investigated their implications for information system performance and business performance. A structural equation model was employed to test the conceptual model. Analyses of data gathered in a survey indicate that information system strategic alignment is a better predictor of business performance than business strategy or information system strategy alone, although business strategy can significantly influence business performance.

The micro-meso-macro architecture of a proposed collaborative emergent strategy for the hydrogen market

In 2018,an intergovernmental climate-change panel concluded that,to maintain a global temperature increases of<1.5℃,net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions would be required by 2050.Since then,>110 countries have pledged net-zero carbon ambitions by 2050 and hydrogen has been identified at national levels as key to achieving this.Governments have pledged>US$70 billion to further advance hydrogen infrastructure and technology,with an additional investigation on>200 proposed hydrogen-based projects expecting completion before 2030,totalling a value of US$300 billion.Reaching these aggressive targets will require a disciplined cohesion of collaborative strategies to develop an integrated macro infrastructure system.This article discusses the current infancy of the hydrogen market,introduces and defines a new‘collaborative emergent strategy’based on the emergent strategy concept by Mintzberg and Waters,and links its developmental viability through a staged micro-meso-macro architecture.Successful strategic business case studies and current market opportunities across multiple industries are reviewed as they all vie for a strategic early market position.