Most of Shopping malls in Taiwan locate in downtown. In city Taipei, city Taichung, and city Kaohsiung, homogeneous competitiveness between rapidly growing department stores blooms. The majority of survivalists are with great enterprise groups as capital back-up. Chain shopping mall becomes a trend. The growth of shopping mall steps into a high density and intense competitiveness age. When facing such highly homogeneous competitive shopping malls, how to find the way out from the price competition of the red ocean, and to create the successful market share, is the main point of this paper. In this study, we adopted the Satty¡¦s Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to establish individual multi-estimate criteria models of the key decision-making factors, and then by AHP qualitative and quantitative questionnaires, undertook research and analysis of various key decision-making factors. Finally, the Analytic Hierarchy Process was applied to calculate the ¡§weighting¡¨ and to sequence the priority of these factors so that the weighting of key success factors can be discussed and proved. Through SWOT analysis and five forces as well as a comparison with Treasure Island, the key success factors for the Dream Mall were identified. The result of the research is to help to offer a develop-oriented location of shopping malls and to invent the management strategies which differ from competitors. According to the result of survey that we can define the sequence are transportation, parking, multifunction and customer stratify. Meanwhile, in the factor of transportation which the public transportation system is first priority; in the factor of parking which the parking space is the first priority; in the factor of multifunction which the department store and movie town is the first priority; in the Customer stratify which the safety is most concern by customer. It is helpful and meaningful which provide to President Shopping mall owner define the strategy according to the key success factor.

Labor conflict mediators play a very important role during the process of labor dispute resolution; their competence will help enhance the quality of labor dispute mediation and improve the relationship between labor and management. The main purpose of this research is to probe into the criteria that labor conflict mediators should possess. Based on the Competence Theory, this research collects opinions from experts and scholars and utilizes Fuzzy Delphi Method and Analytic Network Process respectively to construct a competence-based model to select labor conflict mediators. Results are achieved as follows: 1. To firmly establish critical competence items and definition of labor conflict mediators, including practical experience, problem resolution, professional expertise, fairness and objectivity, integrity, thinking and judgment, and investigation ability, in order to set up the hierarchical structure of competency indices. 2. In consideration of the dependency relation among principles of competency, this research utilizes Analytic Network Process to systematize decomposition and quantify judgment, in order to firmly establish the weight of competency indices, as well as to construct a competence-based model with an evaluation standard of weight to select labor conflict mediators. 3. Through the empirical study, the competence-based model to select labor conflict mediators which is constructed in this research can effectively discriminate outstanding labor conflict mediators. 4. The competence-based model developed in this research to choose labor conflict mediators utilizes the following procedures: (1) collate the competence indices; (2) To utilize Fuzzy Delphi Method to identify critical items of competence; (3) To utilize Analytic Network Process to firmly establish the weight of competence items; (4) To develop the competence-based model; (5) To examine the effectiveness of competence-based model.

In Taiwan, under the competitive environment that exported fruits enter the market gradually, domestic fruits should manifest their features through the establishment of product brands and governmental certifications. In addition, the consumer behavior such as consumers¡¦ habits and characteristics of choosing domestic fruits will become the key factors whether domestic fruits will have great market share successfully. Therefore, this study intends to explore what the key factors are when our countrymen choose domestic fruits. Through Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Method, the key indicators that our countrymen choose domestic fruits have been established. Through complete collections of related literatures, including the collections and the explorations of literatures such as consumer behavior, Consumer Decision-Making Model, product attributes, and consumers¡¦ characteristics of choosing fruits, this study has constructed the key indicators that our countrymen choose domestic fruits, in which the aspects of product, consumer habit and policy are included. The aspect of product includes brand, product feature, product price, product package style, product quality, product classification, and product safety and hygiene; the aspect of consumer habit includes purchase purpose, source of information, promotion activity and purchase location. Finally, this study is of the opinion that governmental policies play a key role in the aspect of policy. Therefore, the aspect of policy has also been classified as the main dimension in this study, including the sub-principles such as promotion policies, quality certification by the government, the government¡¦s policies of imports and exports, traceability and so on. Through the analyses and retrievals of the questionnaires answered by the experts in the fields of production, official, and academia, related suggestions about marketing have been proposed, and provided as the reference for the supply and distribution units such as agriculture associations, fruit and vegetables cooperatives, and production-marketing groups and so on to select and set up related products and strategies. As a whole, this study has found out that as for the key factors that our countrymen choose domestic fruits, the most emphasized ones are: the aspect of product¡]0.406¡^¡Ö the aspect of consumer habit ¡]0.361¡^¡Ö the aspect of policy¡]0.233¡^. In other words, in terms of the aspect of policy (traceability, quality certification by the government, promotion policies, and the government¡¦s policies of imports and exports), consumers are less easily affected by the factor of the aspect of policy, aimed at the issue of the key indicator that our countrymen choose domestic fruits. In the perspective of related agriculture units, there is still room for improving the effort made according to our country¡¦s agriculture policies. In the future, the guiding principle for improvement needs be drawn up actively, aimed at the previous effort in the aspect of policy made by related agriculture units. In addition, in this study, related research suggestions have been proposed, aiming at the directions such as product safety and hygiene, brand strategies for domestic fruits, consumers¡¦ purchase behavior, package styles, and so on.

In the decade of 1990s, many traditional industries of Taiwan, especially those of labor intense type, began to transfer their production lines to off shore sites for their foreign direct investment. Many of them were following their customers¡¦ migrations to China, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries based on the need of upgrading their competence through supply chain integration and taking advantages of the abundance in human resource and lower labor cost in these countries. This study applies tanning industry A company as a model which became a multi-national corporate (MNC) by establishing its first tannery in Taiwan during the 1980s, building up its second factory in China in 1998 and then opening its third one in Vietnam for mass production in 2004. Concerning the environmental and water conservation issues, the three tanneries of A company utilize a production process using wet blue instead of salted hides that most tanneries use as raw material to make finished leather as products. In the past few years, the volatility in hide market price, over capacity in the tanning industry worldwide, and customer¡¦s bargaining power increase made a dramatic fall in the margins of tanning industry. Suffering from the low margins, A company is seeking the possibility of vertical integration in raw material supply by investing a beam house tannery with slated hide as raw material to make wet blue for its three tanneries producing finished leather. This study focused on the critical factors in the site selection decision making for A company¡¦s overseas wet blue tannery investment. In this study, the high level management members of A company and selected experts from other tanneries were interviewed with a pretest questionnaire and then an AHP questionnaire on the critical factors in site selection decision making for multinational tanning industry¡¦s overseas vertical integration investment. The answered AHP questionnaires were analyzed with software Expert Choice 2000 for Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) analysis. The conclusions of this study based on the AHP analysis results include: 1. The critical factors in site selection decision making for multinational tanning industry¡¦s overseas vertical integration investment: the decisive elements in level two and level three of the AHP model as well as the ranking in priority of all decisive elements. 2. The suggested most favorable site for A company to invest a wet blue tannery for its vertival integration.

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In resent years, the competition between insurance companies in Taiwan has become more and more intense. The main reasons are not only the overall environmental issue such as financial management policies, but also the similarities of the services provided by the insurance companies that easily cause price-cutting competition. Moreover, with the economy crisis happened last year, the financial status of insurance industry has been seriously impacted. It¡¦s becoming harder and harder to run insurance businesses. In this highly competitive financial industry, what strategies should be used in order to strengthen a company¡¦s operation system, to increase efficiency and finally create a competitive advantage? Before deciding which strategy to use, the decision maker has to first understand the ¡§performance verifying index¡¨ of his company, the factors that affect company¡¦s performance, and then evaluate his company¡¦s advantage and disadvantage that it has over its competitors, and finally guide the company toward a correct path. It has been realized that past documents clearly lack a model that can provide suggestions to corporations how to face intensive competitions by using an evaluation method that can verify both financial and non-financial factors. Therefore, this research intends to use the ¡§total performance scorecard¡¨ theory to build a performance verifying index/system for insurance industry, and then develop a strategy guide. This research used ¡§analytic hierarchy process, AHP¡¨ questionnaire to conduct surveys on financial professionals, government officers and scholars, and then develop a hierarchy for the performance verifying index, and finally construct a performance management system for insurance industry. This research found out that when a insurance company is making a performance management strategy, ranking from the most important to least important aspects, they should consider financial aspect, customer aspect, learning/growing aspect and internal corporate flow path aspect. The ten most important indexes are gain per stock (0.099), cash usage net income rate (0.095), cash flow rate(0.076), customer value creation(0.063), retention expense ratio(0.062), employee professions (0.061), underwriting quality audit(0.06), customer return rate(0.059), customer satisfaction(0.055), and employee inspiration (0.052). These findings can be used as a reference when insurance companies are making performance-management decisions and strategies.

Thèse : Sciences mathématiques : Paris, Faculté des sciences : 1854. / Thèse de mécanique : Mouvement dans un milieu résistant d'un point matériel attiré par un centre fixe, p. [3]-34. Thèse d'astronomie : De la figure de l'anneau de Saturne, p. [35]-52. Titre provenant de l'écran- titre.

Thèse de doctorat : Sciences mathématiques : Paris, Faculté des sciences : 1858. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre.

Thèse : Sciences : Paris : 1855. / Thèse d'astronomie, 78 p. at end, has title: Application de la méthode de M.-Hamilton au calcul des perturbations de Jupiter. Titre provenant de l'écran-titre.

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-226).