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This paper reports the research that compares quality management practices of Hong Kong-owned (HK sample) and Japanese-owned manufacturing companies (JP sample) in mainland China. The comparison is based on the USMBQA framework and a questionnaire survey. It is found that, although all in mainland China, Japan-owned manufacturing firms implement quality management to a greater extent than their Hong Kong counterparts. It is also found that in the Japanese sample, three quality categories directly contribute to business result, while in the HK sample, only one category directly contributes to business results. In both JK and JP samples, customer focus is found to be directly related to business results. The result is supported by a few previous studies. However, it is rarely pointed out that this finding is different to the general principle of the latest US Quality Award framework where a human-resources focus directly contributes to business results while a customer-focus does not. The result wi...

The polluted coastal water of Shenzhen Bay was treated with composites of active materials, bacteria and algae as well as combinations of two or three of these composites. The water quality was then examined after 10 days with a focus on 8 parameters, including dissolved oxygen (DO), suspended substances (SS), turbidity (Turbidity), ammonia nitrogen (NH4+-N), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), chemical oxygen demand (COD) and harmful marine vibrio. The results showed that the water quality was dramatically improved and the levels of harmful marine vibrio were significantly reduced after the treatment with the combination of active materials, bacteria and algae. The three composites can improve the rate of DO by 89.08% and had the highest removal rates of NH4+- N, TN, TP, COD and harmful marine vibrio (HMV), at 92.59%, 94.05%, 90.05%, 94.12% and 98.21%, respectively. However, the removal rates of SS and turbidity were the highest for the treatment with active materials compound with bacteria, at 95% and 92.69%, respectively. The combination of the three composites clearly had the best treatment effect for the restoration of polluted coastal waters. This study established solid theoretical and practical foundations to control coastal pollution and restore the coastal ecology.

Pakistan and China both on industrial grounds have been engaged in following International Quality Standards to improve their products and services quality for their survival on both international and local trade. Both are neighbor developing countries and are struggling with the same aim of bringing continuous improvement in their processes and techniques. This paper is a comparative analysis of the continuous improvement practices/techniques carried out in manufacturing sector of these two countries. Here results have been derived from ISO 9001:2000 certified companies only. The sample size consists of 50 Pakistani and 45 Chinese companies of all levels. Questionnaire being used was identical. The prominent aspects being studied over here include difference of degree of practices of continuous improvement, motivational factors, barriers in successful implementation, and utilization of TQM tools. The results here would be helpful in knowing the trend and approaches of these two industries particularly ISO certified companies towards deployment of TQM.

In China, the frequent change of fund manager caused by the over-attention on the fund performance and inappropriate selection of evaluation index has become a characteristic of fund business. This article bases on the analysis of the actuality and situation of the performance evaluation for fund manager, integrates basic index (Morning fund performance rank) and assistant index (investment ability of fund manager) to design a detailed and practicable fund manager performance evaluation project. The innovations of this article are using the method which integrates classical Jensen model and T-M model as assistant index and fund performance rank, evaluating fund performance, ability of securities selection and market timing of fund manager, and getting the performance classification of fund manager. The empirical analysis proves the validity and coherency of the applications of the two models, and validates the serviceability and practicability of the evaluation project. These attempts have never been done by others. Accordingly, this fund manager performance evaluation project is worthy of being thought, adopted and applied by fund management companies.

with an empirical research method, this thesis investigates the impact of personal traits and social environment on entrepreneurial behavior through the analysis of interview recordings of 26 entrepreneurs from China and France. It leads to the conclusion that social environment has a stronger impact on entrepreneurial behavior than that of personal traits. Finally, on the basis of this conclusion, the thesis also puts forward several suggestions to improve the social environment for starting an enterprise in China.

This paper describes verification and validation activities in KT-OSS (Korea Telecom Operations Supports System) development. In this paper, the verification and verification phases for KT-OSS development are based on the general software development lifecycle and add an additional phase to the lifecycle. To have a successful KT-OSS development, we need appropriate tests which focus on functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency in the development process of KT-OSS. This paper describes various tests performed in the KT-OSS development process and tests for maintaining the developed system according to the phases. And to control the quality for KT-OSS, we organized a testing & evaluation department which is independent from a development department. Through these testing activities, we have developed KT-OSS and released it successfully