Firms in many sectors have achieved significant economies by taking advantages of opportunities made possible by innovation in trucking logistics. Transportation usually represents the single most important component in trucking logistics costs for most firms. Transportation costs are particularly important to the corrugated container industry. Averaging an estimated 12 to 20% of total costs, transportation costs are a vital factor in the geographical scope of the markets producer can serve in addition to affecting the prices of production inputs and outputs. A natural question for the corrugated container industry is how improvements in the trucking logistics impacts a firms overall operating rate. The literature contains very little information on the relative costs and benefits of alternative logistic operations, including outsourcing, long term contracts, and private carrier. This research seeks to identify practices in trucking logistics that box plants might utilize to obtain materials and disburse products more economically.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the relationship between the corporate governance of investor trust companies in Taiwan and the performance of their mutual funds. Consider the feasibility of data collection, the data from the mother company of those investor trusts which are listed or publicly-held companies have been used instead in this study. There are 17 companies and 334 mutual funds in total. For the corporate governance indicators, the constituent of the corporate boards, the common stock holdings, and the level of information transparency are measured as the independent variable. For the performance of mutual funds, the return of mutual funds, the Jensen Performance Index, the excess return of Fama and French¡¦s Three Factor Model, the excess return of Carhart¡¦s Four Factor Model, and the excess return under those models¡¦ with timing factor are measured as the dependent variables. The market value of the companies and the timing of financial crisis are measured as the control variables. The statistics and the regression are applied to evaluate the relationship among them. The results are as follows: 1.After the financial crisis, the return of mutual funds has significantly decreased. 2.The scale of the corporate boards, and the sock-holding percentage of major shareholders have significantly lower down the performance of mutual funds. These results support Jensen (1993)¡¦s and Salman (1993)¡¥s researches because the more of the directors and the higher of the stock-holding percentage of major shareholders, the more difficult to have agreements for the company to follow. The reason why it is different from the concept that the sock-holding percentage of major shareholders has significantly increased the performance of the company could be the index this research measured is the performance of the company¡¦s products, mutual funds, not the performance of the companies. 3.The rate of outside independent directors, the stock-holding percentage of executive, the stock-holding percentage of corporate directors, and the rank of information transparency have significantly increased the performance of mutual funds.

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Governance vis-à-vis management has broad means, it includes formal and informal institutions, which need to have 1.agile, 2.adapt and 3.adjust ability in order to achieve ¡§Good¡¨ governance. The taxonomy of local decentralization includes: 1.delegate type, 2.creative type, 3.conservative type, 4.concentrative type and 5.coorperative type, that is essential for central government providing subsidy fund to local government under imperfect information to prevent misallocation of resources. Looking at intergovernmental relationship, this thesis classified it as 1.accountable type, 2.collusive type, 3.self-interest type and 4.responsible type, and utilizes this classification to study public issues, and argue that only the accountable-type local government can well manage local public affairs. In order to incubate and local competitiveness and attract outside investment, industrial cluster has became the most important development strategy for government to pursue, this thesis argues that integrate regional innovation, industrial network and social capital for concreting industrial embeddedness would be inductive to industrial cluster and helpful to create industry¡¦s competitive advantage. To develop regions competitive advantage, the cooperation between business entrepreneur, government officials and scholars to concrete 1.agile, 2.adapt 3.adjust and 4.atmosphere ability is essential to cope with changing environment and enlarging globalization.

The Administration Yuan Department of Health revised the medical treatment method, the third reading to have already passed on April 28th in 93 years. Revise the point be increasing the medical juristical person particularly the chapter the part already the clear statement standard it to change the system and build up the system. This research is standard according to the latest medical treatment organization classification that announced, the current conditions that inquires into the medical treatment organization finance information to make public currently, and from the point of view of stackholders:Investors and donators, analyzing the reading of hospital¡¦s public information for different relation persons, the usage index sign of the financial report, relatively manage it with company mutually the congeniality, the aptness and urgency that makes public currently for the hospital finance information is the research point of this thesises. Hospital's user in the information is divided into the exterior inspector,investor and inner part the governor, the hospital and company are establishing the dissimilarity on the property, the index sign that make public is also different, ducting in to make public the feasibility of the information with the analytical hospital from here. The medical treatment juristical person for match with the ordinance provision and reach the society direct to carry out the information to make public, is an irresistible general trend. With Department of Health announce the corporate body hospital financial report and each hospital manages the data the finance that make public voluntarily on the website for sample carry on the discussion. Because the medical treatment juristical person organization belongs to the not-for-profit organization, making public in the finance information up is different from in appear on market the listed company generally, The purpose of this research is inquiring into the hospital in order to respond the all society to inspect the public wealth to fly to, it carries on the public finance clarity and importance's lying in through the public lesson responsibility to safeguard the public benefit and the others rights, by the publication and transparency of the finance information, the public-spirited service and the mission responsibility that let the people understand and recognizes the pure hospital to should have, makes public the index sign and the rating result to information, expect the idea that can build up inspecting the hospital information to make public, being the investor and donator contributing money the reference that the person carries on making policy. This research makes use of the domestic and international cultural heritage research through ising analytical than the research, letting the donator known the management information and funds that its organization should make public the hospital to fly to, making the hospital be able to participate the social salvage more physically, Letting the investor known to take hospital as to invest the object of information's making public should belong to which contents, making the funds of the capital market flowed into the medical treatment industry, reaching the correction lawmaking purpose of the medical treatment method. Carrying out the hospital manages the mechanism to mainly expect to lie in the trust that can raise to contribute money the person and investor to the medical treatment juristical person, Making the national health insurance resource ability reasonable assigned through the publicly transparent finance information, reducing the medical treatment juristical person organization and an output information dissymmetry of the National Health Insurance Bureau and the morals risk of the occurrence, Passing by the public finance information makes public, and combines the exterior resultant force direct, can make to contribute money the person,investor eventually, the public ,the medical treatment promoter and the health insurance bureau to all win.

Abstract At present Taiwan is leading in the global Wafer OEM and ODM industries, and the outstanding accomplishment is growing constantly. Besides, due to the close relation between the specialized semiconductor packaging/test industries and the Wafer OEM industries, the growth rate was also similar to the Wafer OEM industries. The highly concentrated global packaging industries are gradually moving towards two-side development, big or small. Large plants, operated by group management and under shared resources, have the advantages in price negotiation and cost controls. Corporation A and B are two of the top domestic packaging/test manufacturers. At the same time, they also are No. 1 and 3 of the global specialty packaging factories. The multitudinous small factories cannot compete with these two companies on scale and growth rate. Corporation A and B still maintain the competitive advantages. Corporation C was also one of the top three packaging/test plants in the 2000s. However, in the recent years, the company did not perform as well as the overall economy. The firm has experienced massive business losses, drastic price drop in its stock. Its output was far behind the top two plants. In 2004, it became the No. 4 manufacturer, behind Corporation F. After analyzing financial ratios and investments to subsidiaries of Corporation C, this article has discovered the main reasons as to why Corporation C has changed from its flourish past to present weakness. Besides the adverse impact of the poor investment environment, they made a mistake by expanding their fixed assets without careful evaluation so the depreciation expense was too high. Moreover, their oversea investments expanded the losses because of recession, large debt amount and interest, thereby leading to the increases in bankruptcy costs. This article also discovered the decision-making quality of Corporation C and offered the improvement with the viewpoint of the Corporate Governance.

On 18th Mar 2000, Mr. Chen, Shui-Bian in Democratic Progressive Party was elected to be the new president. Taiwan experienced the first powershift. However, many state-owned banks as well as some government-shared companies re-structured their board of directors continually. In the view of politics, the powershift will be normal in Taiwan in the future. So we try to survey the the effects of powershift towards re-elections of boards and firm performance of state-owned enterprises. We discover that the major reason why government wants to intervene the operations of companies is policy. If this kind of industry is regulated or monopolistic, the government will has stronger motives to intervene its operation. On the other hand, after being intervened by the government, the cumulative abnormal return declined significantly from the event day to thirty days later. Besides, the firm performance didn¡¦t improve significantly through the view of TobinQ, EPS and Market return. So we can say that this time of powershift didn¡¦t improve the poor condition of corporate and firm performance significantly. So Taiwan corporate governance should abandon the relationship-based economic model and stride to the talent-based model.

<p>This thesis is written about IT Governance and Management, a phenomenon which can result in higher efficiency and stronger competition for the organization or enterprise in mind. By implementing good IT Governance and Management, IT can support business goals and optimize investments in IT while at the same time IT manages risks and opportunities.</p><p>The main case study is done at County Administrative Board of Kronoberg where Kronoberg County is counted as one of the smaller counties in Sweden. The County Administrative Board of Kronoberg has an awareness of the importance of good and effective IT Governance and Management even though there is room for improvement.</p>

Humboldt-Univ., Diss.--Berlin, 2005.

Thesis ( Ph.D.) -- University of Texas at Arlington, 2008.