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                  As an emerged business trend, the vast applications of information technology (IT) on economic organizations are immense and immeasurable. Organizational systems and functions are now considered effortless and unproblematic because of IT. IT also expanded the opportunities concerning product development processes or innovations that provide organizations with cost and competitive advantages. In a much broader sense, information technology strengthens the business value of every organization. The parameters of using IT for internal affairs have profound impact specifically for core management responsibilities (Gunasekaran, et al , 2002). Conversational and transactional interactions, for example, are collaborative interactions that are slowly getting limited importance within the workplace since technology enables electronic collaboration. Though this process purports speedier business operation, ...

    I.           Executive Summary             This study investigates the contemporary business practices in China in the context of leadership and motivation. Leadership and motivation conforms to an interwoven concept. The effective leaders are also enablers that directly points to performance and satisfaction; hence, the motivational skills of leaders are very important. Effective leadership per se takes on influencing followership. The idea of leadership and motivation in Chinese business are guided by their culture, tradition and religion. This paper describes two leadership and two motivation theories that include transactional and transformational and Maslow's hierarchy of needs and expectant theory, respectively. The function of organizational governance is proposed on the basis of three central stages. Hofstde's cultural dimension appended the understanding of doi...

  Introduction Multinational corporations have existed since the beginning of overseas trade; thus it remained a part of the business scene throughout history. During the 17th and 18th centuries with the creation of large, monopolistic concerns, multinationals were viewed as agent of civilization and played a vital role in the commercial and industrial development of Asia, South America and Africa . (Eldrigde n.d.)             It retained its favorable image as agents of improved global relations through commercial ties by the end of the 19th century since advances in communications closely linked the world markets. However, the existence of close international trading relations did not prevent the occurrence of two world wars in the first half of twentieth century. But, after the period of conflict, an even more closely bound world economy emerged. (Eldrigde n.d.)          ...

1. Introduction This chapter shall be discussing the background of the study. It shall be divided into four subtopics. The first part shall discuss the general restructuring on China . The second part shall be covering the medical reform in the said country. On the other hand, the third part shall be describing the pharmaceutical industry of China . The last part shall identify the impacts of these reforms on the pharmaceutical companies. 1.1 General Reform In China China has done remarkably well since the beginning of the economic reform movement in 1978. (Wu, 1996) Between 1979 and 1995, China 's GDP grew at an average annual rate of 9.5 percent. China 's exports grew even faster and China now ranks among the world's top 10 exporting economies. The economic boom is very much due to the market-oriented reforms and opening up to the outside world. In the meantime, China also faces a series of knotty problems. Amongst them, significant inflationary pressure and the pr...