This research paper aims to investigate the role of enterprise social network to address these concerns such as knowledge sharing and collaboration. The authors have considered a case study based research approach as it is the best method to answer the research question. The leading multinational Bus and truck manufacture Scania was considered for our case study. The study has been done by researching the impact of enterprise social network tools such as Yammer and Lync and their attempt to answer these challenges in the organization. The paper concludes with the analysis based on the empirical findings and theoretical frame of reference. Suggestions and recommendations for further research in this area have also been mentioned in the concluding part of the thesis.

The purpose of this research was to empirically examine the impacts that the presence of a state trading enterprise (STE) has in the international wheat market. There are numerous types of STEs that function in different ways to achieve many different types of policy objectives which are often unique to a particular STE. Although the existence of a STE is justified by the countries involved using numerous policy rationales, the fear that they are used as a front for trade protectionism is a prevalent concern. One specific aspect of a STE that often brings this concern to the forefront is whether or not the STE has the exclusive privilege of monopoly status.<p>The empirical objective of this thesis was to determine specifically if the use of a STE exporter has had a positive impact on world wheat trade over the 1970 2005 period and if the use of a STE importer has had a negative impact. In addition, the marginal impact of the STE having monopoly status was tested. In all cases, the designation of STEs and their monopoly status is based on WTO notification documentations. To secure econometrically robust results, a modified conventional gravity model was chosen. This model was estimated using pooled OLS and fixed effects, the latter consisting of both time and country pair fixed effects. The data that was constructed was a large panel data set of bilateral wheat trade spanning from 1970 to 2005. The model was also tested on a number of subsamples representing countries at different stages of development and in different income categories to isolate potential differences in STEs objectives and impacts.<p>In virtually all models, the presence of a STE exporter had a strongly significant and positive effect on the value and volume of wheat exports from the country with the STE exporter. The fact that a STE had monopoly status did not have any additional impact on wheat trade. The impact of STE importers was insignificant.

The importance of social entrepreneurship has been growing for the last 3 decades and is recently accelerating. South Africa presents one of the most mature social entrepreneurial sectors among developing countries and the magnitude of its impact has become critical to national economic growth and society as a whole. Many roles have risen through the spreading of this particular way of conceiving business, the role of mentors being a particularly meaningful one. Mentoring is usually related to the difficulties social entrepreneurs and operators within the field have in dealing with the variables present in a free market. Most studies concerning mentoring have been focused on business organizations or entrepreneurs. Literature approaches various interesting themes within these two contexts that can help as a guide to explore the nature of mentoring in the social entrepreneurial field. This study puts its focus on the nature of mentoring in the sole social entrepreneurial field as it is understood by its prime actors: the mentors. In doing so it adopts a qualitative approach characterised by semi-structured and open ended interviews with eight experienced mentors from as many different organizations. The final results indicate that differences with the business sector are not extreme and the two fields often intertwine, with many beneficial outcomes for the social sector. However, they also illustrate that there are some aspects very specific to the sole social entrepreneurial field. Among those are the stronger sensibility toward others, the energy infused, the type of relationships, the unique motivations and a broader reach of outcomes for the mentoring activity itself. All these aspects lead mentoring in the social entrepreneurial field not only to be a useful phenomenon for involved entrepreneurs, but potentially an activity spreading its beneficial consequences to entire communities.

Das Internet ist ein riesiger Experimentierkasten für neue Anwendungssysteme. Potenziell enthält insbesondere das sogenannte Web 2.0 Ideen und Mechanismen, die auch im Organisationsumfeld die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Mitarbeitern unterstützen können. Ein jüngstes Beispiel hierfür sind die von Facebook bekannten Activity Streams. Fraglich ist nun, wie eine Adaption dieses Web 2.0-Vorbilds in Organisationen auszugestalten ist. Hierfür ist zu klären, welcher Anwendungsfall von Activity Streams abgedeckt werden kann, welche Anforderungen hieraus sowie aus dem allgemeinen organisationalen Kontext entstehen und wie schließlich ein entsprechendes Anwendungssystem zu konzipieren ist. Die Arbeit zielt auf die Beantwortung dieser Fragestellungen in Form eines Fachkonzepts, welches anschließend durch eine prototypische Implementierung sowie die Durchführung von Fallstudien in realen Einsatzszenarien Anwendung findet.

Located in this technology island, not only because of large global IT products but also due to product relationship between industrial characteristics, business models need to change in response to raise the necessary decisions to respond more quickly. Therefore need to review internal auxiliary production resources, such as:collaboration with the organization of the mobilization, equipment and information systems support; but unfortunately in the past often used in information systems into the methodology of "process oriented", this method has become standardized work considerable help, but the allocation of resources to response or re-engineering the organization become very rigid and difficult but flexible rapid reaction with the corporate policy, so we need a rapid reaction response to organizational decision-making methodology of doing things. This research adopts enterprise architecture method to construct the service-oriented manufacturing resource planning management model (SOMRPMM). By this methodology, "service-oriented" is used to replace the traditional "process-oriented" planning. From the very beginning of manufacturing resource planning, the services, operations, and task behaviors are all clearly defined as to meet the realm of structure-behavior coalescence (SBC). Policy makers can create cost-effective coordination of resource allocation, adjusting the organizational changes to enhance the implementation of reengineering and organizational learning.

"Digitization" is the global economic policy and technology development trend of the times. Cable companies have begun the digital world layout a long time ago. This research aims at finding out what kind of role as enterprise architecture plays in the digital cable TV internal marketing management. In this research, we select ¡§C¡¨ cable company in Kaohsiung as a case study, using both participant observation and secondary data analysis for data collection purpose, conducting semi-structured interviews for interviewing purpose, in order to find out how much benefit is generated by applying enterprise architecture to the digital cable TV internal marketing management. We construct a digital cable TV enterprise architecture platform for the evaluation of marketing strategy. Through case study, comprehensive results shall provide digital cable TV industry some insight recommendations on the organization marketing management of promotion, the use of help, and marketing of reaching consensus and proper use of various marketing tools. This is the contribution of our research.

This study examined customers¡¦ service quality expectations in three different countries to discuss how employee training programs should be designed and enacted in accordance with the different expectations in multinational enterprises. By using the dimensions in the SERVQUAL scale, brought up by Parasuraman et al., this study designed a set of questionnaire and distributed those to three different countries to see how different customers, under different cultural background, of targeted Japanese multinational enterprise evaluate each dimension in SERVQUAL. Results of this study suggests that different customers in different countries graded the level of importance of service items in dimension assurance and reliability differently, indicating that when setting up employee training programs, it is necessary for international HR managers to put these two dimensions into consideration and design various employee training program according to different cultural backgrounds to answer diverse customer needs.

As the tendency of globalizes and regionalization of enterprise management develops, enterprises in the world have to face an extremely important subject of multiple human resource management. Whether the enterprise is classified as globalize, cross-nation or regionalization, it should face and plan the strategy of its human resource management more appropriately, which is the core part and the foundation of an enterprise. The range and object of this research is based on Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation and its employees. The company, THSRC, is one of the largest BOT projects in the world. Employees of THSRC with their profession in construction management, operation management at railway area, were recruited from many different countries. The research of investigating the manage method and organization climate of THSRC, can surely provide a great reference to some regional enterprises during the process of transit to globalized enterprises. The purpose of this research is trying to examine the relationships among the perceptions of human resource management practice, organizational, organizational Capability and working behavior. Also, this research intends to investigate the affection of differenct business model to human resource management practice and organizational Capability. We conclude the research result as follows: The human resource management practice has a positive affection on organizational capability. The human resource management practice has a positive affection on enterprise goal. The working attitude and behavior has a positive affection on organizational capability.

With the transformation of the industrial structure environment and the coming knowledge economy era, the demand of enterprise for professional human resource is steadily on the increase, which makes the enterprise have diversified needs on manpower dispatch. In regard to the application of manpower dispatching, it has been transformed from the early labor force of blue-collar employees or the administrative personnel of white-collar staff in the basic level to the roles of skilled professionals or professional managers. There are two objectives in this research. The first objective is to probe into the current situation of professional dispatching, and the second is to probe into the management mechanism of professional dispatching in Taiwan, which are probed in the case study method on the basis of its research subject, interviewing the third dispatched party, and the interview details will be concluded and analyzed. It is discovered in this research that the dispatch triplicities think that the professional dispatch will become the development direction of manpower dispatch in the future. It is thought that dispatching agency should pick up the speed of recruitment and improve the professional degree in the practice of manpower dispatch. The ready-dispatch enterprise plays the role of reducing the otherness of professional dispatched personnel, the service charge of reasonably assessing the manpower dispatch, and the payment of professional dispatched personnel. And the dispatched personnel hope to strengthen the basis of mutual trust and improve the sense of job achievements. There are still a lot of challenges to meet the requirement of the dispatch triplicities. It is the common goal to find how to strengthen trilateral interaction and make the performance of professional live up to the standard of enterprise, which are the concerted efforts of dispatch triplicities.

In the age of knowledge-based economy, company need to hire talented people who possess leading knowledge and skill to keep its competitive advantages. Taiwan located in crucial position of Asian market, but lost competitive advantages in attracting talented people when comparing the policies and environmental conditions with neighboring countries like South Korea, Singapore and the raising China This study chooses case company which is successful in attracting global talent in Taiwanese electronic technology industry. To investigate the factors that make firm attractive to talented people. The finding show that company should build up international recruitment network and good reputation, thus job applicant will have positive perception to company. Providing long-term development opportunity to talented people to satisfy their need. Besides, company should provide social support actively, to help talented people get used to unfamiliar environment, thus talented people will contribute to company more effectively.