Electronic business (EB) on the Internet has been promoted as a revolutionary technology that will transform the way we do business. This paper presents an intraand inter-industry financial performance (FP) analysis of three industries: retail (R), consumer products (CP), and food beverages and tobacco (FBT). Financial statements of 165 companies selected from these three industries extending o...

As increasing importance of symbiosis and cooperation among mobile communication industries, the mobile ecosystem has been especially highlighted in academia and practice. The structure of mobile ecosystem is quite complex and the ecological role of actors is important to understand that structure. In this respect, this study aims to explore structure of mobile ecosystem in the case of Korea us...

1 Background Flow-of-funds (FOF) accounts indicate the interrelations between the various institutional sectors of each nation, including overseas sectors, in a systematic and coherent manner. The FOF system adopts a quadruple-entry system proposed by Copeland (1952), wherein each transaction is recorded with a double entry. On the other hand, the input–output (I–O) table, which indicates produ...

To enable users to utilize the services of various providers of multimedia services based on the session initiation protocol (SIP), some kind of interaction is required between the foreign provider and the home provider of the users. Such interaction is required for example to allow a user to utilize services provided by a foreign service provider while the user is on travel. In this paper we d...

China and ASEAN have been maintaining a relationship both cooperative and competitive in the textile trade. Due to its labor intensive feature and high dependence on foreign trade , the textile trade has received much attention after the 2008 financial crisis. The customs data (classified by the HS code) from year 2006-2009 is employed to research the impact of the crisis on the trade pattern o...

Through an industry-level analysis of Chinese largeand medium-size manufacturing enterprises over the period of 1996–2001, this article investigates the direct and interactive contributions of four technology acquisition channels to industry performances in terms of innovation performance and productivity. These channels include in-house R&D, foreign technology transfer, domestic technology tra...