China Securities Journal

Ping An: Case Study Ping An, founded in 1988, is a private company that sits at the intersection of banking and insurance in China. It has taken advantage of China being the world’s fastest-growing insurance market and reductions of regulatory controls following China’s entry into the WTO in 2001. Ping An has built a highly profitable business and is exploring using the Bancassurance strategy, that is, selling its insurance products via banks in order to quickly and inexpensively develop market share

Introduction 5 Literature Review 5 Major dimensions and elements of culture in China 5 1.1.1 Major cultural dimensions in China 5 1.1.2 The cultural elements in China 8 The elements and dimensions integrated by locals conducting business…………..8 2.1.1 The integration of locals conducting business in China 9 How cultural elements in China compare to the US business and culture………...8 3.1.1 Customs.........

benefits of excelling technologies with minimal effort [1]. There are also many cross-border policies that limit the capability of businesses, big and small, and ultimately interfere from effectively making use of cloud computing technology, such as China-U.S. political relations [3]. Russia has also been considered to be a high-level threat in the cyber-market [7]. Even with the many advantages cloud computing brings, the competitive foundation that carries the further advancement of cloud computing

Analyse the problem of accounting fraud in a listed company and evaluate possible solutions In 2001, Enron Corporation went into bankruptcy due to the disclosure of false information in its financial statements. Similarly, when Lehman Brothers collapsed there was no evidence that it had ever publicly disclosed certain detrimental accounting information. Cases of accounting fraud such as these have become increasingly serious. Accounting fraud can result in creditors and stockholders losing confidence

Multinational Corporations (MNCs) operating in South Asian countries. However, only a few of the studies have looked into the issues related to how culture plays a role in shaping key Human Resource(HR) practices such as: compensation policy, job security, training and development, selection and recruitment, decentralization and teamwork, and information

rise of China is displacing the United States (US) as hegemon is a contentious debate. While scholars on the one hand argue that this is the case, others refute this by arguing that despite the increase of Chinese influence in the South-Pacific, it is still far away from becoming a global superpower. Using the theoretical lenses of Hegemonic Stability, Balance of Power, and Realism, this paper will argue that the rise of China as global hegemon lacks theoretical support; while in fact China is growing

Korea Pyongyang and Beijing have been having a rough time especially after China arrested Zhou Yongkang, who was China’s third most powerful politician and when Jang Song-thaek, who was the second powerful man in North Korea, was executed. Since these men were both in charge of relations between Pyongyang and Beijing, North Korea and China were left with no way to calm the rising tensions between them. Now that Russia and China are focusing on their own struggles, they aren’t able to continue protecting

sophisticated attack to steal intellectual property undetected, rather than to just interrupt service or destroy data. Google had found itself a victim of an international malware attack aimed at stealing source code and spying on human rights activists in China. News of the attack first broke at the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010. Google was the first to announce that it had been a victim of such a sophisticated attack measure, although it was certainly not the last. Essentially, a general overview

The Great Big World and China Since its inception, the Chinese people and leaders have referred to their homelands as the ‘Middle Kingdom.’ This name reflects the long-held belief that China is the center of the world. For thousands of years, Chinese foreign relations consisted of subjugating countries that were unable to stand up to the powerful Chinese military and walling themselves off from empires which threatened the control the various regimes had over the economic and cultural lives of

a company's overhead. Why do companies decide to offshore outsourcing? The major motivation as any one might suppose is to decrease costs and thus increase revenues. The manufacturing industry cost in the United States is four times higher than in China or India. Conversely, the difference in manufacture is three to one. Employees can be significantly more industrious if they are equipped with the required tools and technology. Also, the lower rate of labor in emerging countries does not matter unless