Conducting Trade with Chinese Family Businesses

Authors: Kenneth L. Wall
             Joanne C. Preston, Ph.D
             Runtong Zhang, Ph.D

Starting in 1978, family businesses changed significantly as a result of Chinese economic reform from a planned to a market economy. Opportunities now exist for Western companies to conduct business directly with these family businesses with significant favorable profitability prospects for all parties concerned. The Chinese culture and family business functions are undergoing major change with emphasis being placed on practices to increase wealth, which often encourages expanding trade with the West. To conduct business successfully in China, it is critical to understand the culture of this Asian society and the unique operating paradigm in family businesses.

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City growth, community oriented policing and a social capital model

Authors: Thomas Wheeler
             Mike McCoy

Community oriented policing has been acknowledged by sociologists, urban planners and law enforcement practitioners as a key tool for establishing a police-community partnership to aid in identifying, prioritizing, and resolving crime problems, and relies heavily upon the modern concept of social capital. Social capital involves personal relations and networks of relations as being important for generating trust and enforcing norms (Coleman, 1988 & 1990). This paper suggests that critical areas of social capital, such as creating policies that promote and sustain trust, can be diluted by factors affecting growth and proposes a model for creating a high trust culture by implementing management systems that promote community-based partnerships for addressing crime and improving police services. The model specifically leverages six key social capital precepts to provide a standardized approach for identifying and periodically assessing the health of community policing partnerships.

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Why the Doctor of Management Degree

Author: Darrell Norman Burrell, Ph.D

Learning to be an effective leader is a complex undertaking. Cognitive theories would outline that learning is a process of relating new information to previously learned information. Think of the leadership challenges facing the President of Virginia Tech University in the aftermath of the campus shootings. Often the degree of choice to develop educational administrators is usually the Doctor of Education in Administration and the Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Administration.

Most traditional master's level and doctoral leadership programs teach students to use a form of thinking that involves "conventional wisdom." The problem with that kind of thinking is that scenarios can change which can make leadership decision making reactionary instead of forward thinking or creative.

In contrast to the traditional Ph.D. and Ed.D., which is geared toward the engagement of operations theory and research, the advanced leadership knowledge involved in the Doctor of Management (DM) encompasses advanced leadership training that is practical and focused on leadership's complex impact on improving organizational culture and decision making.

Fast-tracking Careers in Federal Government

Author: Darrell Norman Burrell, Ph.D

Fast-tracking careers in the Federal Government