The abundance of active and innovative entrepreneurs has been ascribed as one of the main reasons for Taiwan’s miraculous economic development. This paper expounds upon the past 60 years and how Taiwanese business behaviour has been manifested by adaptive entrepreneurship. Taiwan’s entrepreneurs exercise their alertness to opportunities, use guerrilla strategies to profit whenever possible, man...

Control charts with exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) statistics (mean and variance) are used to jointly monitor the mean and variance of a process. An EWMA cost minimization model is presented to design the joint control scheme based on pure economic or both economic and statistical performance criteria. The pure economic model is extended to the economic-statistical design by addin...

Statistical business process is variously designed and implemented in different organizations. This makes it difficult to exchange the knowledge, benefit from the good practices and the cooperation between national and international organizations. In order to solve this problem and help statistical organizations discuss developing statistical metadata systems, General Statistical Business Proce...

This article examines the relationship between urban land development and municipal finance in a Chinese regional economy undergoing rapid urbanization. Drawing upon insights from the perspective of political economy, this article identifies a strategy by which land-centered urbanization has been actively pursued as a means of revenue generation in response to the reshuffling of state power. Th...

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