The main objective of grid computing is to aggregate an important number of geographically distributed heterogeneous resources, owned by different organizations, in order to enable their utilization in a transparent way by the grid users. In such an environment, resource owners and users have different objectives and strategies that have to be satisfied. Because they often need a complete state...

Although government intervention in economies has been widely debated lately, the extent to which government and market affect employees’ perceptions about their organization remains inadequately discussed. We took the initial steps to create measures of perceived government influence and perceived market influence, and examined how they might be associated with organizational politics and just...

Quantum organizations are referred where stakeholders know how to access the infinite potential of the quantum field. Viewing healthcare organizations from perspective of quantum theory suggest new approaches into management techniques for effective and efficient delivery of healthcare services. This research is aimed to determine the quantum skills, quantum leadership characteristics and funct...

The traditional Chinese planned economic system was formed during the first several years of the founding of PRC. Under this system, all sorts of behaviors by individuals, economic organizations and administrative organizations for their interests restrained vigor of the economy. Cost of this system was extremely high, but its efficiency was rather low. Reform started in the late 1970s has take...

This paper describes an intelligent decision support system for evaluating state-owned enterprises (SOEs) using DEA models. This decision support system converts numerical data into information that can be used to evaluate state-owned enterprises (SOEs). In this paper, we use DEA models, including CCR, BCC and FDH, to shed new light on the operational efficiency and determinants of stateowned e...

Executive Overview For the past decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on more than 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India, tend to be poorly managed. America...

‘‘New Tigers” (including city commercial banks) outperform state-owned commercial banks burdened with non-performing loans from unprofitable state-owned enterprises. We study whether this is solely due to superior corporate governance (multiple shareholders versus total government ownership) or also to the favorable environment (the New Tigers target affluent China, while state-owned commercial...

The harmonious development of China state-owned enterprise and employees is the essential approach to develop state-owned enterprise. The development of enterprise is the premise of employees’ developments, and only harmonious enterprise can ensure employees’ complete development and bring up better employees. At the same time, employee’s quality decides the development level of enterprise, and...

We propose a next generation Internet architecture that will allow natural sharing of resources among multiple organizations by dynamically reconfiguring and creating a virtual network for a particular application. Our architecture called "Internet 3.0" consists of a 3-tier object model. The bottom tier consists of a high-speed network infrastructure owned by multiple ISPs. The second tier cons...

This paper describes and demonstrates the application of family systems therapy to the workplace. Practical applications of family systems therapy are reviewed, including consultation with organizations, counseling troubled employees, and working with family-owned and -operated busines.-^es, Basic similarities and diflerences between organizations and families are discussed Examples of specific...