Given the growing importance of technology and innovation to high-tech firm competitiveness, there need propose an expanded research framework including the role of technology in driving mergers' decision, the impact of mergers on technology innovation, especially for Chinese high-tech companies. This paper studied the effect of M&As and technology-driven M&As on post-M&A technological innovati...

Recent advances in asset pricing|the reduced-form approach to pricing risky debt and derivatives|are used to quantitatively evaluate several proposals for mandatory bank issue of subordinated debt. We nd that credit spreads on both xed and oating rate subordinated debt provide relatively clean signals of bank risk and are not unduly in uenced by non-risk factors. Fixed rate debt with a put is u...

In the way of growing and developing firms especially high-tech firms, on many occasions manager of firm is mainly involved in solving problems of his business and decision making about executive activities of the firm, while besides executive measures, attention to planning of firm's success and growth way and application of long experience and sagacity in designing business model are vital an...

Giving the fact that hi-tech products as a trade product have become quite crucial and critical in the growth of economies in many nations, the paper took electronic equipment manufacturing industry as an example. The aim of this study is to investigate the competitiveness of the selected electronic equipment manufacturing sectors in China in comparison with selected 19 countries in the world b...

The task of designing software to support e-learning is complex. In particular, it requires careful consideration of social factors of adoption and use by communities. The tradition of engineering in America is too exclusively focused on the individual user; German philosophy provides a foundation for developing new methodologies oriented to groups of people learning collaboratively.

Engagement by the higher education sector in standardisation of the technology that supports e-learning is hardly a mainstream activity. For many stakeholders, processes associated with standardisation are both perceived as opaque and tedious. Reasons for a lack of engagement are canvassed; among them, the perception that ‘secret standards business’ is conducted only by those individuals and co...

This paper presents a method for increasing the level of formalization of the description of a problem situation and obtaining a “big picture” of the problem situation in order to be solved by TRIZ and OTSM instruments. The main output of the method is a list of problems to be turned into contradictions. Elements concerning computer support for this approach