Project-in-charge
Prof. Waiman Cheung
Prof. Sung-chi Chu
Project duration
Jan 13 - Jun 15
Abstract:
IT innovations are critical for firms to be successful and remain competitive among peers. Quite often, institutional pressure is a major reason to innovate with IT. The literature suggests that institutional pressure leads to numerous mindless IT adoptions that results in isomorphic IT innovations. Institutional pressure can excel IT diffusion, yet it is difficult for firms to derive competitive advantages from isomorphic IT innovations, which forces firms to look and function alike. However, there are observed exceptions of successful cases, in which firms jump on the bandwagon and are still able to develop unique capabilities based on the adopted technology. More...
Project-in-charge
Prof. Waiman Cheung
Prof. Gang Chen
Prof. Sung-chi Chu
Project duration
Jan 12 - Jun 14
Abstract:
e-Service is of integrative importance in the e-business world. Its evolution can be traced to the beginning where service is rendered per user per site as a physical entity – software in a box. Conducting business online is now of a common practice rather than an exception in the integrative era, e-service, either as ASP, SaaS or as other service manifests, will continue to prevail as the trademark of developers for applications delivery. Yet, single-client e-services do not have provision to serve collaborative clients at the same time, and the interaction that may require with each other. More ...
Project-in-charge
Prof. Waiman Cheung
Prof. Sung-chi Chu
Project duration
Sep 09 - Apr 11
Abstract:
The garment industry has significant contribution to the HK economy. The industry competes very much on supply chain efficiency and effectiveness. RFID technology enables on-target visibility in supply chains beyond sight-to-sight expectation. This project guides and sets guiding standards for RFID adoption in the garment supply chain industry. The objective is to develop and deploy innovative use of RFID technology enabling on-target visibility. High visibility in general is an impetus to effective information management leading to efficiency in collaborative chain performance. While on-target visibility provides not only about goods in process and in transit, but synchronized real-time on-target movement of goods, safeguarding against logistics risk and uncertainty. More ...
Project-in-charge
Prof. Waiman Cheung
Project duration
Jun 09 - Feb 10
Abstract:
With the effects of Direct Transportation Link, the intermediate role of Hong Kong will be carefully examined. Our project study focuses on the cargo movement and trade within Greater China (China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong) and between Greater China and overseas through data analysis, interviews and case studies. In this study, six focus groups including 3PLs-sea, 3PLs-air, Shippers in China and Hong Kong are identified respectively. Various challenges faced by these groups will be studied from different perspectives. More ...
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