The travel industry is located at the midstream of the tourism and plays a crucial role in the integration of resources. However, due to its susceptibility to the season, business prosperity, and natural or man-made disasters, the market demand in travel industry is fairly instable. Moreover, the entry-barrier is rather low in this industry, which makes it so competitive that no single enterprise can predominate over others. Consequently, to form a strategic alliance has become an imperative to survive, and a PAK alliance has been proved to be effective in practice for many years. Many travel agencies in Taiwan have taken advantage of a PAK alliance to achieve goals like a high corporate achievement or product-line expansion¡Ketc. This research discusses chiefly about what attitude the scale of business have when joining in a PAK alliance, including their motives, partner-selection, and performance improvement. Furthermore, this study probes into key factors of the success of a PAK alliance and looks into the prospect of tourism. The major findings of this research are listed below: 1. Large-scale businesses participate in a PAK alliance mainly in view of the ¡¥¡¦motive of resources¡¦¡¦, and put much more emphasis on the ¡¥¡¦market strength¡¦¡¦ of their partners. However, an alliance offers nearly no help on the part of ¡¥¡¦financial performances¡¦¡¦. 2. Middle-scale businesses participate in a PAK alliance also mainly in view of the ¡¥¡¦motive of resources¡¦¡¦, and put much more emphasis on the ¡¥¡¦ consistency of business culture¡¦¡¦ between they and their partners. Besides, an alliance can substantially assist them in gaining ¡¥¡¦market strength¡¦¡¦. 3. Small-scale businesses participate in a PAK alliance mainly in view of the ¡¥¡¦motive of economy¡¦¡¦, and put much more emphasis on the ¡¥¡¦ consistency of business culture¡¦¡¦ and ¡¥¡¦network¡¦¡¦ between they and their partners. Besides, an alliance can substantially assist them in the ¡¥¡¦accumulation of organization competence¡¦¡¦. 4. Small-scale businesses pay much attention to the influence of ¡¥¡¦human factors¡¦¡¦ on the success of a PAK alliance. 5. All types of businesses consider it plausible and inevitable for alliance members to cause damage to the overall benefit, and when it does happen, they deal passively with it. 6. In the future, businesses would place little importance on PAK alliance; instead, they are supposed to think highly of the potentiality of their main products if they are competent and the market allows them to do so, and PAK products merely serve to increase the diversity of products.

Abstract Patterns of plant species composition and their relationships to environmental factors were investigated in Jhuokou River basin. 102, 20 ¡Ñ 20 m plots with woody stems ¡Ù1.0 cm diameter at breast height (DBH) data and 12 environmental variables were analysed by Two Way Indicator Species Analysis (TWINSPAN), Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) and Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA) to classify the vegetation types and determine the significant environmental variables that affect the distribution of vegetation. Classification and regression tree (CART) were then used to perform vegetation classification tree based on these significant variables. The vegetation classification result showed that 102 sampling plots can be classified into 9 vegetation types : 1. Daphniphyllum hlaucescens subsp. oldhamii - Cyclobalanopsis morii vegetation type ; 2. Neolitsea acuminatissima - Cyclobalanopsis morii vegetation type ; 3. Adinandra formosana - Lithocarpus lepidocarpus - Machilus thunbergii vegetation type ; 4. Elaeocarpus japonicus - Castanopsis cuspidate - Machilus thunbergii vegetation type ; 5. Ardisia quinquegona - Tricalysia dubia - Beilschmiedia erythrophloia vegetation type ; 6. Schefflera octophylla - Helicia formosana - Beilschmiedia erythrophloia vegetation type ; 7. Castanopsis formosana - Mallotus paniculatus - Schefflera octophylla vegetation type ; 8. Cyclobalanopsis glauca - Glochidion rubrum - Sapindus mukorossii vegetation type ; 9. Champereia manillana - Kleinhovia hospita - Murraya vegetation type. DCA and CCA distinguished 8 significant environmental variables from 12 measured variables. Altitude and warmth index were the most important variables in 8 significant environmental variables, but were highly correlated. When used vegetation classification tree to predict the position of the reference vegetation alliance, average accuracy was 56.9 %. The results indicated that the current data was still insufficient to predict the vegetation type at alliances level with environmental variables.

Abstract For recent years, enterprises in Taiwan face the challenges of global competition. Most of Taiwan companies cannot compete with international companies on capital or scale. Thus cooperation with competitors or formation of strategic alliance become one of the best policy of reducing management and sales cost of entering new market and business risks. For the small-and-medium size enterprises which own unique skills but are lack of resources and new technologies, it could be the niche of entering global market to obtain transfer of technologies and management skill from superior internationalized enterprises. Door lock manufacturing industry is an absolute conservative industry. From the ancient year, due to security concern, it was a family inherited business. Through technology breakthrough and industrial revolution, it gradually turns into a mass production industry. Like most of the other industry, in recent years, Taiwan was developed to be an important manufacturing base of the global door lock industry. This thesis adopted the exploring methodology. It conducted its study based on the industrial analysis. It analyzes the door lock industry through horizontal analysis ¡V competitor analysis and vertical analysis ¡V supply chain analysis. It further create the following assumptions based on the resources interdependence theory, transaction cost theory and Porter¡¦s five forces analysis: 1. The motivation of strategic alliance is based on the resources interdependence theory. 2. The selection of partner in the strategic alliance is based on the transaction cost theory. 3. The objectives of strategic alliance are based on Porter¡¦s five forces analysis. Based on the above assumptions, this study conducted analysis on the strategic alliance project in between Taiwan Fu Hsing Industrial Co. Ltd. and Ingersoll Rand Group of companies. Through in-depth interviews with management executives from both companies, this study build up a model confirming the above assumptions. Further more, this thesis also present a series of recommendations to both companies in hope of leading this strategic alliance project into a win-win situation. Key words: Strategic alliance, Door lock industry

National Health Insurance in Taiwan has been implemented since March 1, 1995. With changes and challenges of medical treatment policy and environment, the strategic management of medical treatment should be re-adjusted. In order to adapt to the new healthcare environment, the different strategic alliances will be adopted by private sectors. By doing so, the organizations would gain the necessary resources, such as patients, and financial supports, to achieve the goals of mutual benefit. The purposes of this study were to examine the financial performance before and after strategic alliance, and to investigate the patient satisfaction after the implementation. The research is divided three parts to discuss: 1. Financial achievement: to gather the relatively financial data of implementing strategic alliance around ten months in A clinic and B hospital to discuss the efficiency of strategic alliance. 2. Efficiency evaluation after employees knows the implement of strategic alliance: the research will take the employees in five hospitals and clinics that have participated in policy alliance as a sample with questionnaire investigation to discuss whether "the management achievement evaluation of strategic alliance" has any significant difference in the different characteristics of the employees. 3. Satisfaction of going to doctors after strategic alliance has implemented: the research will take the patients who accept retina operation as a sample with telephone questionnaire investigation after the implement of strategic alliance to discuss whether the characteristics of patients satisfaction of going to doctors have any significant difference, and whether the medical treatment result, the process of going to doctors, and the process of medical treatment have any significant difference. The research found the followings: 1. Before implementing strategic alliance, we have evaluated A clinic's advantages, disadvantages, and its purpose of establishing strategic alliance. It found that strategic alliance is workable for A clinic for long-term. Moreover, for retina operation, basing on financial achievement, the management gross profit increases after the strategic alliance. 2. The management achievement evaluation of the personal characteristics are significant difference of the evaluation of the customer-guide. 3. The patients characteristics of the education degree, the satisfaction of the process in going to doctors¡¨, and ¡§the satisfaction of the process in medical treatment¡¨ have the significant difference. 4. ¡§The medical treatment result¡¨, ¡§the satisfaction of the process in going to doctors¡¨, and ¡§the satisfaction of the process in medical treatment¡¨ of the patients reveals the significant difference. 5. ¡§The degree of the disease improvement¡¨ and ¡§the medical treatment process¡¨ of the patients is in the positive relation.

The R&D alliance becomes a popular way to develop products by cooperating with external organizations in the face of severe global competition. The enterprises can improve core competence and reduce environmental uncertainty through R&D alliances. However, the success rate of alliance is not high. Consequently, how to organize and operate R&D alliances effectively and successfully is the key competence of enterprise to win in the future. In order to increase the success rate of R&D alliance, the purpose of this study is to create a conceptual and integrated model for developing the successful mechanisms of formation and operation on R&D alliances. VPDCA (Vision-Plan-Do-Check-Action) cycle was developed as a conceptual framework through literature survey and case study for investigating the successful mechanisms of formation and operation on R&D alliances, which is to be regarded as a ¡¥learning by doing¡¦ process. First of all, vision leading is the first step to assure alliance to be succeeded. SSO (Search-Select-Organize) was developed as a successful process model for organizing R&D alliances. R&D alliance operation was regarded as a teamwork operation in this study. Only has the good effective team operation, can achieve expected vision. LICTEL (Leadership-Integration-Communication-Trust-Execution-Learning) was considered as the key aspects to run alliances successfully. The key success factors of each aspect are as follows: Leadership: vision, inspiration vitality, integrity and delegation Integration: open, linkage, collaboration, leverage outside resources, synergy Communication: dialogue, open mind, passion, patience and positive thinking Trust: co-value, cooperation, communication, consensus and commitment Execution: discipline, push and pull Learning: connect, interaction and share The achievements of operation and management on R&D alliance should be evaluated finally. 3P (Pleasure-Performance-Profit) was considered as key measures to evaluate the outcomes of R&D alliance implementation. Furthermore, effectiveness, efficiency and competence build-up are regarded as key measures to evaluate implementation performance of R&D alliance.

Texte remanié de: Diss.--Å°bo--Åbo akademi university, 1999. / Bibliogr. p. 348-387. Index.

Thesis (Psy.D.)--Rutgers University, 2009. / "Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-127).

Problem: To compete effectively in today’s global market, organizations are eager to expand their operations abroad. Entering a partnership accounts as a preferred way of doing this. In order to be allowed to participate in many important markets, corporations must recognize the influence of cultural orientations other than their own. In many cases it appears that this is however neglected, considering that up to two out of three partnerships ends in dissolution. Causes related to the cultural aspect of a relationship are often mentioned to form the root of the problem. We noticed that a vast number of studies have focused on how culture affects single organizations, fewer studies however focused on how partnerships are affected by cultural aspects. And even fewer studies have tried to decipher the role that cultural compatibility has prior to entering a partnership. More so, throughout our extensive literature review, we have noticed that there has not been obtained a comprehensive understanding of what cultural compatibility entails. Purpose: The intentions of our research are twofold: first, we have theoretically derived a framework that allows a comprehensive understanding of cultural compatibility as well as its influence on alliance performance, and second, we have explored how this theoretically derived framework is reflected in practice. Method: To achieve the purpose of this study we completed a qualitative, exploratory research including five case studies and five interviews/consults. The case studies were well selected based on requirements such as industry significance and the implication of a high level of cultural diversity. Conclusions: The major conclusion to our research indicates that cultural compatibility is not necessarily a requirement prior to entering a relationship, but unveils to be moreover a foundation that partnering firms should strive for in the early stages of their coalition. Additionally, we have obtained many valuable insights, yet utmost we have experienced that the subject is extremely complex, and that further research on the topic as well as the framework is indispensable to further justify our findings.

The objectives of this study are two-fold: (a) to delineate the factors that guide Ontario social workers’ decision-making when rendering judgments on the mandatory reporting of child maltreatment and (b) to understand how social workers maintain the therapeutic alliance with children and families following the decision to report suspected child maltreatment. The study is informed by two distinct bodies of literature: the decision-making theoretical literature within the fields of medicine, psychology, social work, and marriage and family therapy and the therapeutic alliance theoretical literature. Harnessing the advantages of online survey technology, the study surveyed registered members (n = 480) of the Ontario Association of Social Workers who provide direct service to children and families. Participants responded to prepared vignettes of suspected child maltreatment followed by Likert-scale questions (strongly agree to strongly disagree) and open-ended questions on strategies to maintain the alliance. Open-ended questions allowed respondents to offer further commentary regarding their opinions on mandatory reporting and on maintaining the therapeutic alliance. These comments added a rich source of information to the quantitative data. Multiple logistic regression analyses showed that social workers’ ethical responsibility to the College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, their legal responsibility to the provincial mandatory reporting laws of Ontario, and consultation with peers or eliciting direction from a supervisor comprised the main factors in their decision-making around reporting suspected child maltreatment to the Children’s Aid Society. Qualitative analyses showed that social workers employ a plethora of strategies to repair the alliance following a disclosure of child maltreatment including reporting strategies, information strategies, affect regulation strategies, advocacy strategies, and resource strategies. The major limitation of the research design was the use of vignette research, which in proscribed circumstances may not reflect what the social worker does in actual practice. Design features that compensate for this limitation include (1) use of a 5-point Likert-item response of strongly agree to strongly disagree to allow respondents a range of responses; and (2) use of open-ended questions to allow respondents the opportunity to express their opinions on the issues.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Bethel Theological Seminary, 1991. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 146-151).