Mongolia’s mass privatization program was implanted in a country that lacked the very basic institutions of capitalism. This paper examines the effects of competition and ownership on the efficiency of the newly privatized enterprises, using a representative sample of enterprises and controlling for possible selection biases. Competition has quantitatively large effects; perfectly competitive f...

Knowing the defects in financial accounting management and putting forward corresponding strategies are helpful to improve the level of financial accounting management of enterprises. This paper discusses the defects in financial accounting management of construction enterprises, establishes financial risk prevention system, and explores corresponding strategies. It is shown that the establishm...

The rapid evolution of the markets and the changing client’s demands determined enterprises to adapt their business from traditional business practices to e-business, and new forms of collaboration (such as supply chain enterprises, extended enterprises or virtual enterprises) were created. Technologies such as Peer-toPeer, Web services, intelligent agents, Workflow become core technologies sup...

This study was an exploratory investigation of the practice of the enterprise architecture (EA) in private and public enterprises in Malaysia. The Zachman Framework was used to evaluate the practice of EA in these enterprises. Ten enterprises from public and private sector participated in the study. Multiple sources including interviews, documents and survey were used as the data sources of the...

Many major shipbuilding enterprises outsource the professional IT work to reduce costs and improve efficiency. In recent years, shipbuilding enterprises have become one of the most important IT outsourcing customers all over the world. In this paper, the key influence factors of the choice of outsourcing service providers are analyzed by AHP to support the decision of shipbuilding enterprises.

Although there are already some qualification offers available for enterprises to support resource efficiency innovations, the high potentials that can be identified especially for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have not been activated until now. As successful change lies in the hands of humans, the main aim of vocational education has to be the promotion of organisational and cultur...

China's enterprise reform has resulted in large-scale layoff of workers from state and collective owned enterprises. Mainstream Chinese economists argue that many of the workers in these enterprises are " disguisedly unemployed " and have to be laid off to achieve better economic performance. In this paper, I argue that the productivity of state and collective owned enterprises to a large exten...

The World Wide Web technology, supported on Internet, is transforming all business activities into information-based activities. As a result, one can see a radical change in the traditional theoretical models and organisation. The small and medium enterprises (SME) are the type of enterprises that can reap more advantages with the usage of Internet for electronic business. We found that current...

Nowadays, the enterprises outsource components to others, but they have not full control about delivery times, neither about components quality or defined specifications inspection during their production, because they have no remote monitoring or controlling services available in the others shop floor enterprises, even in enterprises of the same group. Moreover, when their shop floor resources...

Family enterprises are defined as a special type of enterprises. The involvement of a family in the enterprise is what makes these enterprises unique. The research presented in the paper aims to broaden our knowledge about the influence of a family on the ethical behaviour of a family enterprise. The case study research methodology was applied to explore the influence of a family on the constit...