The Global Expansion of Transnational Retailers: A Case Study of the Localization Strategy of Costco in Taiwan (open access)

The Global Expansion of Transnational Retailers: A Case Study of the Localization Strategy of Costco in Taiwan

This research focuses on the global expansion of the transnational retail industry. Globalization is a phenomenon experienced by many industries in the present global economy. The global production network (GPN) framework can be used to explain and interpret the phenomenon of transnational firms' adaptation strategies. Due to market saturation in their home countries, retailers began to expand into East Asia in the 1980s. However, cultural differences and legislative limitations created barriers and restrictions for the transnational retailers making this transition. How do firms overcome these challenges? Through a case study of Costco in Taiwan, this research investigates the ways in which retailers adapt their strategies with regard to three concerns: site decisions, product mix selection, and supply network consolidation. The results shows that Costco opted for a strategy of lesser localization in all three domains. This research provides evidence to support this characterization along with examples of Costco's localization strategies via a case study and focuses on the issue of the balance between localization and standardization in the GPN framework.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Yeh, YunLung
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Graph-Based Keyphrase Extraction Using Wikipedia (open access)

Graph-Based Keyphrase Extraction Using Wikipedia

Keyphrases describe a document in a coherent and simple way, giving the prospective reader a way to quickly determine whether the document satisfies their information needs. The pervasion of huge amount of information on Web, with only a small amount of documents have keyphrases extracted, there is a definite need to discover automatic keyphrase extraction systems. Typically, a document written by human develops around one or more general concepts or sub-concepts. These concepts or sub-concepts should be structured and semantically related with each other, so that they can form the meaningful representation of a document. Considering the fact, the phrases or concepts in a document are related to each other, a new approach for keyphrase extraction is introduced that exploits the semantic relations in the document. For measuring the semantic relations between concepts or sub-concepts in the document, I present a comprehensive study aimed at using collaboratively constructed semantic resources like Wikipedia and its link structure. In particular, I introduce a graph-based keyphrase extraction system that exploits the semantic relations in the document and features such as term frequency. I evaluated the proposed system using novel measures and the results obtained compare favorably with previously published results on established benchmarks.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Dandala, Bharath
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 241, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 241, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 2, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 248, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 248, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 9, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 255, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 255, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 16, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 262, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 262, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 23, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 269, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 269, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 30, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 2, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 9, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 16, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 23, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 30, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 239, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 1, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 239, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 1, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 244, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 244, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 3, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 245, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 245, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 3, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 246, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 8, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 246, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 8, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 251, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 251, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 252, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 252, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 253, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 15, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 253, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 15, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 258, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 258, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 259, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 259, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 17, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 260, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 22, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 260, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 22, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 265, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 265, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 24, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 266, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 2010 (open access)

The Greensheet (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 266, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 2010

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: December 24, 2010
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History