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- Creators: Pei, Ker-Wei
Using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) analysis, I further find that financing costs, service value-added, and products diversity are the three most important competitive factors for the auto financial leasing service providers. This is the case for both the corporate and individual customers in the sample. By contrast, the factors of sales channel and government relationship are found to be much less important. Finally, through an in-depth case study of the leasing company Shanghai Auto Financial Leasing, I find that the key factors determining the customers’ credit default risk are interest rate and automobile type. I also investigate factors that influence business risk during the automobile procurement stage, at the selling stage, and toward the disposition stage. The managerial implications of the above results are discussed throughout the thesis.
efficiency in resources allocation, and lacking in quality on personnel training. To achieve core competitiveness and value creation, it is important that the health nutrition & wellness industry must meet the needs of Chinese market and its customers with a customer centric perspective to design a firm’s organization strucrture and management processes. This thesis is based on an analysis of the competitive landscape faced by the nutrition & wellness industry as exemplified by By-Health.Ltd. The investigation begins with an analysis and synthsis of the common industry practices on sales & distribution channels for their underlying similarities and differences in product strategies, branding strategies, and agency models on incentive design and profit sharing mechanisms. Through an empirical survey, this thesis also investigate customer’s demand for nutritious and healthy products. The results through factor analysis reveal that such demands are driven by individual factor, product factor, enterprise factor and environmental factor. The study concludes with a proposed framework to link customer value through three innovative designs in sales and distribution: community marketing model, sharing marketing model and Internet factory marketing model.
原材料无法认证、加工工艺无法辨别、产品价格混乱的现象,成为我国红木市场三大痛
点。能否解决红木市场这三大痛点,成为未来红木行业能否健康顺利发展的关键因素。
针对红木行业存在的问题,本文应用市场交易效率理论、信息不对称理论、金融市场
微观结构理论对红木市场做理论梳理,通过实地调研获取红木企业发展现状、厘清传统红
木交易流程和各交易环节中存在的问题,尝试在信息不对称理论的框架下对行业和典型企
业进行分析,将红木市场的交易要素进行序列梳理,重构市场组织和流程再造,创造性地
利用现代的互联网技术,把涉及的非标准的市场要素进行标准化设计,使其成为可交易的
标准化标的产品,并在设计可操作性的红木交易平台上进行交易,从而解决现有红木市场
中信息不对称导致的市场交易效率低下问题。本文一共分为十一章,第一到第五章为绪论、理论研究和研究综述。主要根据市场交
易效率理论、信息不对称理论和金融市场微观结构理论,引出建立红木交易市场,从而为
后续红木交易市场的设计奠定理论基础。第五章,对红木产业及其市场的要素进行信息解
析,为后面的非标准的市场要素进行标准化设计提供依据。第六、第七章,主要对红木交
易市场的信息不对称现状、红木交易市场交易效率进行分析。第八、第九章,主要基于信
息对称条件下的交易要素标准化设计和交易架构设计。第十章,主要通过对实际数据抓
取,对红木交易平台的有效性进行实证对比验证。第十一章是本文的结论和建议。
由于红木交易平台的设计是弥补大宗交易的空白,特别是红木交易市场要素的非标
准化,给标准化交易架构的设计带来一定难度。红木交易平台未来运营与发展中可能会遇
到很多风险,特别是投资者资格认证、交易涉众等社会问题,本文限于篇幅没有进行研
究,留待今后实践中不断总结和修正。
The current study focuses on the fundamental understanding of such functional composites, from their microstructural design to macro-scale application. More specifically, this study investigates three different categories of functional cementitious composites. First, it discusses the differences between cementitious systems containing interground and blended limestone with and without alumina. The interground systems are found to outperform the blended systems due to differential grinding of limestone. A novel approach to deduce the particle size distribution of limestone and cement in the interground systems is proposed. Secondly, the study delves into the realm of ultra-high performance concrete, a novel material which possesses extremely high compressive-, tensile- and flexural-strength and service life as compared to regular concrete. The study presents a novel first principles-based paradigm to design economical ultra-high performance concretes using locally available materials. In the final part, the study addresses the thermal benefits of a novel type of concrete containing phase change materials. A software package was designed to perform numerical simulations to analyze temperature profiles and thermal stresses in concrete structures containing PCMs.
The design of these materials is accompanied by material characterization of cementitious binders. This has been accomplished using techniques that involve measurement of heat evolution (isothermal calorimetry), determination and quantification of reaction products (thermo-gravimetric analysis, x-ray diffraction, micro-indentation, scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy) and evaluation of pore-size distribution (mercury intrusion porosimetry). In addition, macro-scale testing has been carried out to determine compression, flexure and durability response. Numerical simulations have been carried out to understand hydration of cementitious composites, determine optimum particle packing and determine the thermal performance of these composites.
The results of this work prove the feasibility of PCMs as a temperature-regulating technology. Not only do PCMs reduce and control the temperature within cementitious systems without affecting the rate of early property development but they can also be used as an auto-adaptive technology capable of improving the thermal performance of building envelopes.