The Transaction Cost Advantage of Guanxi-Based Business Practices Stephen S. Standifird R. Scott Marshall The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical explanation of the perpetuation of China’s guanxi-based business practices. As a complement to the social embeddedness- and resource-based explanations‚ we seek to demonstrate the perseverance and relevance of guanxi in terms of the transaction cost advantages it offers. Specifically‚ we argue that guanxi-based business practices offer certain
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Documents Used to Record Business Transactions 1. Issue of a Purchase Order A purchase order (PO) is document issued by the buyer to the seller‚ indicating types‚ quantities‚ and agreed prices for products or services the seller will provide to the buyer. Sending a purchase order to a supplier is a legal offer to buy products or services. If the seller agrees to selling to the buyer it forms a contract between the two. It should include: * The order number‚ so it can be traced and
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8 November 2013 To: Mr. Lee From: Yuhui Mo Subject: Current Advertising Campaign Analysis of Nike‚ Inc. The purpose of the report is to analyze the current advertising campaign of Nike‚ Inc. Furthermore‚ this report helps answer what type of advertisement the Nike uses‚ who Nike ’s target audience is‚ and how effective Nike ’s advertising campaign is. This report recognizes that advertising strategy‚ which emphasizes communication‚ lifestyle‚ and star effect plays a very large part in Nike’s
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Goods/Services Provided- Needs or Wants? Enbridge Inc. is an energy company that TRANSPORTS‚ GENERATES‚ and DISTRUBUTES goods like oil; its biggest and main product is natural gas. Enbridge Inc. takes the raw material which is the natural gas from the earth generates it‚ and then they transport the gas to other countries and provinces‚ or distribute the gas to buildings and homes. The homes need the gas for things like the oven and other energy consuming appliances which we use on a daily basis
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Current Events in Business Research Kevin M. Caron RES/351 - Business Research September 23‚ 2013 Tracy Sipma Current Events in Business Research Introduction I can say that to the best of my knowledge I have not been a part of any type of business research at my employment‚ but I have been directly impacted by the changes made due impart to the research they have conducted. There are many different steps that are involved and whether our CEO John Legere walked in at the right time or he is a quick
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Current Ethical Issue in Business PHL/323 Current Ethical Issue in Business In today’s changing world of economical and social standings‚ individuals have to be aware of how ethical issues are of the utmost importance in the 21st century corporate world. The following paper will show the reader how a certain company deals with the ethical responsibilities and how actions of not following them of have consequences‚ not for just the company
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October 2010 After barely changing at all for decades‚ the startup funding business is now in what could‚ at least by comparison‚ be called turmoil. At Y Combinator we’ve seen dramatic changes in the funding environment for startups. Fortunately one of them is much higher valuations. The trends we’ve been seeing are probably not YC-specific. I wish I could say they were‚ but the main cause is probably just that we see trends first—partly because the startups we fund are very plugged into the
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Runninghead: UNIT 3 – COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS (CONTRACTS) Victor McLaurin 28 February 2010 Abstract This week’s individual project will be in the form of an executive summary. The summary will be based on a series of questions concerning 1) the city of Bigtown’s advertising campaign (courtesy of the mayor)‚ 2) possible similarities of this promotion to a court decision and 3) possible repercussions that could be encountered if not executed with caution. The court decision concerning
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Current Trends in Business Communication Courtney Smith University of Phoenix Online COM285 Facilitator: Paul Frise December 10‚ 2010 Current Trends in Business Communication Communication plays a very big role in the work force‚ whether you are a secretary‚ manager‚ CEO‚ or director of a company. You will always have to use communication as a skill. Everyone has to communicate in some kind of way to accomplish projects‚ or make a profit. The key to being very successful though is
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Business Communication Trends By Bonnie Gray COM/285 May 31‚ 2010 Kimberly Boyd Business Communication Trends In business today‚ communication is very important. Communication holds the business together. With technology increasing
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