In the past few years, social media has become the most popular communication software, replacing phone calls, text messages, television and even advertisements. Social media has become the most important channel for spreading opinions. As a result of this trend, many politicians have also started to operate social media (Wang, Tsai, & Chen 2019). This study was conducted in order to understand whether there was an intercandidate agenda-setting effect between the Facebook posts of legislative candidates and presidential candidates during the election period, and whether the legislative candidates' Facebook posts were influenced by the presidential candidates' Facebook posts. The target population of this study was the three presidential candidates in Taiwan's 2020 presidential election — Dr. Tsai Ing-Wen, Mr. Han Kuo-Yu, and Mr. James Soong — as well as the 36 legislative candidates in Taipei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung.
The study focused on Facebook posts from 1thNovember 2019 to 10th January 2020, 10 weeks before the voting day. Text-mining and cosine similarity were used to organize the posts and compare the similarity between posts. Finally, the similarity between posts was presented as a line graph.
The study revealed that there was an inter-candidate agenda-setting effect between legislative candidate posts and presidential candidate posts, and that Dr. Tsai Ing-Wen, who was also the incumbent president during the campaign, was the most influential Facebook poster during the entire election.
Future research is proposed on the inter-candidate agenda-setting effect only analyzing the similarity of posts among the candidates to discuss the influence of the candidates' Facebook agenda-setting during a specific election period.
This is the first study in which the Facebook posts of Taiwanese politicians are analyzed and the relationships were analyzed and the relationships were systematically compared, across multiple degrees, which opens up a whole new subject for future elections in Taiwan.
Purpose: The study is aimed to determine the Incentives for German SMEs to offshore their business activities in India and China.
Design: This study is based on quantitative approach. Primary and secondary data is being used in the study. The data was collected from individuals working in different SMEs in Germany, having relative offshoring experience. Theories from the articles, peer reviewed journal along with relevant books were consulted throughout the study.
Findings: The findingssuggest that the benefits and advantages of offshoring strategy in India and China are cost efficiency and technology. Moreover, the challenges that are being faced by the firms while executive offshoring strategy is cultural mix especially language/cultural barriers, security issues and loss of market performance.
Originality and Value: The study on incentives of German SMEs to offshore business activities in India and China enables me to understand why companies are interested in offshoring strategy in low cost countries for expanding their business while evaluating the challenges, merits and demerits of offshoring
This study shows the potential for the make-or-buy theory in several scenarios – production, assembling and development. The evaluation of these possibilities is conducted, based on Bosch’s core competencies. A decision model is developed to support the decision making process. Based on these results, the serial production at RBAC in China is planned and suggestions for setting up the assembly line are given
Deutschland ist ein Land der Start-ups. Die heutige Jugend gründet so oft wie noch nie zuvor. Die vorliegende Masterthesis will einen Überblick über die Formalitäten einer Gründung im Textilbereich mit China Sourcing verschaffen. Hier wird der Frage nachgegangen, worauf der Gründer Wert legen soll, um erfolgreich gegründet zu haben. Dies soll mithilfe von Experteninterviews gewährleistet werden. Die daraus gewonnenen Daten werden anschließend mittels Interpretation und Explikation ausgewertet und in den Text der Masterarbeit adaptiert und umgesetzt. Das beschriebene wird anhand eines Realbeispiels, der TAD Aesthedicated UG (haftungsbeschränkt), veranschaulicht. Der Autor erhofft sich durch seinen Leitfaden einen adäquaten Erkenntniszuwachs für potentielle Gründern.
Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit besteht in der Betrachtung der Attraktivität der Industriemetropole Shanghai als globaler Logistikstandort im internationalen Vergleich. Dazu wird über eine einführende Klärung relevanter Begrifflichkeiten der Bogen geschlagen bis zur Analyse von Ressourcen und Defiziten einschließlich der Erwähnung von geplanten oder begonnenen Maßnahmen zu deren Behebung, bis hin zu Empfehlungen für die bessere Etablierung der Stadt als Logistikstandort für aus- und inländische Investoren.