Pooling,unpooling/specialization,and discretionary task completion are typical operational strategies in queueing systems that arise in healthcare,call centers,and online sales.These strategies may have advantages and...Pooling,unpooling/specialization,and discretionary task completion are typical operational strategies in queueing systems that arise in healthcare,call centers,and online sales.These strategies may have advantages and disadvantages in different operational environments.This paper uses the M/M/1 and M/M/2 queues to study the impact of pooling,specialization,and discretionary task completion on the average queue length.Closed-form solutions for the average M/M/2 queue length are derived.Computational examples illustrate how the average queue length changes with the strength of pooling,specialization,and discretionary task completion.Finally,several conjectures are made in the paper.展开更多
This work examines the role of social network sites as a tool used by companies to achieve marketing goals. As known from the main business literature, the social network represents one of the most important instrumen...This work examines the role of social network sites as a tool used by companies to achieve marketing goals. As known from the main business literature, the social network represents one of the most important instrument to improve the company fame by strengthening the affection of customers to the brand. For this reason, some companies use these tools to build relations and contacts with customers all over the world. The population of social networks users is made, for the most parts, of youngsters （people belonging to the 13-30 years old cluster）. In the last years, with the social web networking, social communication lost the exclusive social meaning and social network sites become strategic instruments for the construction of powerful relations that connect people with people and people with firms. This work is aimed at clarifying the genesis and the evolution of the relations between companies and potential customers, focusing on the tools used by the firm to achieve their marketing goals through social network sites （SNSs）. First of all, the work proposes the recognition of some studies about the origin of web social network and their links with marketing strategies. Secondly, it considers marketing goals achieved from any companies through social networking with a particular focus on advertising through web social networking.展开更多
This study combines the listed companies which regard the sports industry as the main business with eamings management which is the current hot issue in the study of corporate governance at home and abroad to explore ...This study combines the listed companies which regard the sports industry as the main business with eamings management which is the current hot issue in the study of corporate governance at home and abroad to explore corporate governance of the enterprises taking sports industry as the main business. By summarizing and analyzing the relevant theory, the study establishes a hypothesis, designs empirical models, and verifies the hypothesis using the data of USA listed companies. Empirical results show that enterprises taking the sports industry as the main business have a higher degree of earnings management, due to the high growth potentials of this type of enterprise.展开更多
The impact of the financial crisis exacerbated the students＇ employment situation, and the current situation of college students＇ entrepreneurial activities is worrying, which urgently need a systematic support prog...The impact of the financial crisis exacerbated the students＇ employment situation, and the current situation of college students＇ entrepreneurial activities is worrying, which urgently need a systematic support program to be support and guide to the main business college. Based on the analysis of current situation and problems, this paper tries to build a entrepreneurial support system of contemporary college students as core, of tripartite coordinating community, university and government as basis to promote the healthy and sustainable development of entrepreneurial activities for the ultimate purpose of the entrepreneurial support system, to promote the healthy and sustainable development of entrepreneurial activities.展开更多
E-commerce systems for construction material procurement are becoming increasingly important in Hong Kong. These E-commerce systems are non-interoperable and create problems for the buyers who use these systems to pur...E-commerce systems for construction material procurement are becoming increasingly important in Hong Kong. These E-commerce systems are non-interoperable and create problems for the buyers who use these systems to purchase construction materials. This paper presents the mobile agent-based approach and Web services-based approach for enabling interoperation of these systems in the E-Union environment.展开更多
Macbeth was wary when he heard the witches out. He deliberated. He dithered. And Lady Macbeth puckered his courage up to the hilt and egged him on to murder. Macbeth murdered. Then he balked. He hallucinated himself o...Macbeth was wary when he heard the witches out. He deliberated. He dithered. And Lady Macbeth puckered his courage up to the hilt and egged him on to murder. Macbeth murdered. Then he balked. He hallucinated himself out of his wits. Then he went on a rampage to save his own skin. He destroyed in fear of being destroyed. Yet all he ended up doing is losing his peace, his composure, his wife, and finally, his life. The whole of Operation Kingship, if the author may so call the whole business of eliminating Duncan out of the way of the royal throne, failed miserably. Macbeth, on the lookout for power found himself terribly, fearfully beaten, crestfallen, devastated. The million-dollar question then is -what is it that went so very wrong in the whole process？ Critics are often heard to cry his ambition--his ＂overvaulting ambition＂ down as his incorrigible hamartia. But living in the 21st century, one gets to hear that ambition is not bad after all--the higher the ＂ambi-horse＂ vaults, the higher the chances of success is. In this dissertation, the author proposes to analyze Macbeth＇s case from the perspective of management studies. This paper, more than setting forth a literary statement of Macbeth＇s predicament, aims at what management Gurus would love to call a candid SWOT （strength, weakness, opportunity, threat） and STEEPLED （social, technological, economic, educational, political, legal, environmental, and demographic factors） analysis of Macbeth＇s situation to find out where the shoe pinched, whether the whole project crashed because of inefficient leadership, or whether there was no leadership at all, whether organizational strategies were not properly formulated or whether the implementation capsized horribly, thereby making the whole business a rudderless wild goose chase. The discussion necessarily follows up with an insight into what Macbeth lacked as far as Maslow＇s Pyramid of Needs is concerned and what it could have been like, had it been rewritten with a corporate-friendly, management-savvy 21st century protagonist armed with well formulated action plans and stronger inter-personal skills, in the titular lead.展开更多
文摘Pooling,unpooling/specialization,and discretionary task completion are typical operational strategies in queueing systems that arise in healthcare,call centers,and online sales.These strategies may have advantages and disadvantages in different operational environments.This paper uses the M/M/1 and M/M/2 queues to study the impact of pooling,specialization,and discretionary task completion on the average queue length.Closed-form solutions for the average M/M/2 queue length are derived.Computational examples illustrate how the average queue length changes with the strength of pooling,specialization,and discretionary task completion.Finally,several conjectures are made in the paper.
文摘This work examines the role of social network sites as a tool used by companies to achieve marketing goals. As known from the main business literature, the social network represents one of the most important instrument to improve the company fame by strengthening the affection of customers to the brand. For this reason, some companies use these tools to build relations and contacts with customers all over the world. The population of social networks users is made, for the most parts, of youngsters （people belonging to the 13-30 years old cluster）. In the last years, with the social web networking, social communication lost the exclusive social meaning and social network sites become strategic instruments for the construction of powerful relations that connect people with people and people with firms. This work is aimed at clarifying the genesis and the evolution of the relations between companies and potential customers, focusing on the tools used by the firm to achieve their marketing goals through social network sites （SNSs）. First of all, the work proposes the recognition of some studies about the origin of web social network and their links with marketing strategies. Secondly, it considers marketing goals achieved from any companies through social networking with a particular focus on advertising through web social networking.
文摘This study combines the listed companies which regard the sports industry as the main business with eamings management which is the current hot issue in the study of corporate governance at home and abroad to explore corporate governance of the enterprises taking sports industry as the main business. By summarizing and analyzing the relevant theory, the study establishes a hypothesis, designs empirical models, and verifies the hypothesis using the data of USA listed companies. Empirical results show that enterprises taking the sports industry as the main business have a higher degree of earnings management, due to the high growth potentials of this type of enterprise.
文摘The impact of the financial crisis exacerbated the students＇ employment situation, and the current situation of college students＇ entrepreneurial activities is worrying, which urgently need a systematic support program to be support and guide to the main business college. Based on the analysis of current situation and problems, this paper tries to build a entrepreneurial support system of contemporary college students as core, of tripartite coordinating community, university and government as basis to promote the healthy and sustainable development of entrepreneurial activities for the ultimate purpose of the entrepreneurial support system, to promote the healthy and sustainable development of entrepreneurial activities.
文摘E-commerce systems for construction material procurement are becoming increasingly important in Hong Kong. These E-commerce systems are non-interoperable and create problems for the buyers who use these systems to purchase construction materials. This paper presents the mobile agent-based approach and Web services-based approach for enabling interoperation of these systems in the E-Union environment.
文摘Macbeth was wary when he heard the witches out. He deliberated. He dithered. And Lady Macbeth puckered his courage up to the hilt and egged him on to murder. Macbeth murdered. Then he balked. He hallucinated himself out of his wits. Then he went on a rampage to save his own skin. He destroyed in fear of being destroyed. Yet all he ended up doing is losing his peace, his composure, his wife, and finally, his life. The whole of Operation Kingship, if the author may so call the whole business of eliminating Duncan out of the way of the royal throne, failed miserably. Macbeth, on the lookout for power found himself terribly, fearfully beaten, crestfallen, devastated. The million-dollar question then is -what is it that went so very wrong in the whole process？ Critics are often heard to cry his ambition--his ＂overvaulting ambition＂ down as his incorrigible hamartia. But living in the 21st century, one gets to hear that ambition is not bad after all--the higher the ＂ambi-horse＂ vaults, the higher the chances of success is. In this dissertation, the author proposes to analyze Macbeth＇s case from the perspective of management studies. This paper, more than setting forth a literary statement of Macbeth＇s predicament, aims at what management Gurus would love to call a candid SWOT （strength, weakness, opportunity, threat） and STEEPLED （social, technological, economic, educational, political, legal, environmental, and demographic factors） analysis of Macbeth＇s situation to find out where the shoe pinched, whether the whole project crashed because of inefficient leadership, or whether there was no leadership at all, whether organizational strategies were not properly formulated or whether the implementation capsized horribly, thereby making the whole business a rudderless wild goose chase. The discussion necessarily follows up with an insight into what Macbeth lacked as far as Maslow＇s Pyramid of Needs is concerned and what it could have been like, had it been rewritten with a corporate-friendly, management-savvy 21st century protagonist armed with well formulated action plans and stronger inter-personal skills, in the titular lead.
