Discuss how technology is used and related to boundary-less in police activities. Include an example in your response.
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CASE_2
COMPARING UK AND MALAYSIAN ONLINE SHOPPING BEHAVIOUR
How did I end up here? Daniel mused as he sat staring at his computer screen. Six months earlier, as he left family and friends in Malaysia to complete his master’s degree on an exchange in UK, the future seem bright. Hundreds of kilometers away from home, with a deadline looming that could make or break his future career, he did not know where to start. He had left university with a bachelor’s degree in Marketing from Northern University four years before and since that time had been on a graduate recruitment scheme with one of the largest supermarket chains in Malaysia. His performance in the early stages of a part time master’s programme in Retail Management sponsored by his employer had been good.
This, combined with his high standard of English, meant he had been offered the opportunity to travel to the UK to study for one year on a full-time basis and obtain a double qualification from both his Malaysian and a British institution. The taught classes in the first semester had complemented his previous studies and he had soon identified the area he wanted to investigate for his research project – online supermarket shopping. He decided the aim of his project would be to compare and contrast UK and Malaysian consumer’s behavior of supermarket’s online shopping offerings.
From his observation, almost every student he knew had bought something on eBay, Lelong.com, or Amazon, and many chose to do their supermarket shopping online to avoid wasting time standing in checkout queues. In addition, many supermarkets had diversified their offer away from daily consumables into white goods such as washing machines and even financial services (Colgate & Alexander, 2001); meaning consumers were now looking to these organisations for more than just the weekly household shopping. In other words, shopping convenience and variety of product offerings can give strong attitude towards online shopping.
In class, Daniel’s supervisor had identified the effect of perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use on the attitude towards online shopping (Juniwati, 2014; Suwunniponth, 2014; Ramayah & Ignatius, 2005; Yu et al., 2005). He also emphasized the issue of consumer concerns around security and trust (Beldad et al., 2010; Koufari & Hampton-Sosa, 2004) that can influence the attitude of online shopper.
It has been reported that the intention to purchase online strongly link to the positive attitude on online shopping. When consumers have the intention to purchase online the tendency of making the purchase online is high (Li & Zhang, 2002; Wu, 2003; Yang, Lester, & James, 2007). In this study, Daniel also wants to find out whether consumer characteristics have significant impact on the relationship between attitude and intention to purchase online.
It had been a revelation to see how well developed the retail websites were in the UK, compared with those in Malaysia, and how different the webscape was in the two countries. Statistics he had found showed that in June 2010 there were 51.4 million Internet users in the UK, 82.5% of the population, an increase of 234% between 2000 and 2010. In Malaysia, the figures were 17.7 million users, 60.7% of the population, an increase of 356.8% between 2000 and 2012 (Internet Usage Stats and Marketing Report, 2015).
Daniel decided he needed to identify his population, and from that draw a representative sample. He thought his organisation’s database of existing online customers would be a useful place to start, but he was unsure whether he would be allowed access. In addition, he did not simply want to undertake a large-scale quantitative survey of existing customers as did not think it would produce a picture of the wider situation. One of his objectives was, after all, to identify the Malaysian consumers’ expectations of these online offerings. How could he ensure he limited bias in the respondents’ answer, which would be a threat to the reliability of his findings?
His initial idea to use Facebook to gain access to a bigger population had not been received enthusiastically by his project tutor but he had anticipated the need to justify this suggestion. He argued that using this informal network, and building simple instructions and collecting demographic data in an Internet questionnaire, he would be able to categorize respondents and identify which supermarket website they were evaluating.
So here he was, with an interesting project that fitted perfectly with the need of his employer, which wanted to develop its presence on the Web. His intention was to get an overview of online consumer perceptions and expectations of the online supermarket sites available in the UK and France. He then planned to compare the data collected from the participants to identify the differences between the online activities of the British and Malaysian supermarkets and produce some guidelines to help his employer develop this side of its activities. However, the problem he came back to gain was how to select his sample.
Daniel thought a non-probability approach would fit this exploratory research but, if he was honest, the research methods lectures had totally confused him. A great deal of time had been spent on the explanation of the formula to work out the optimum sample size for a survey, and population. His concern was how to build the argument for using non-probability sampling and be able to justify it to his project tutor, whose own research activity involved large-scale marketing research projects run in conjunction with companies in Malaysia.
So here he was preparing his argument to produce a questionnaire using Survey Monkey and post the link on Facebook. In addition, he would send the link via emails to other friends who did not use Facebook. He would make the request that they all pass the link on their friends and family who fell within the parameters that would be defined in the message accompanying the link.
One point he felt that was in his favour was he had been able to develop a network of contacts during his time in the UK. As one of the few Malaysian students on campus he had taken advantage of his generous nature and tried to meet as many people as possible. His Facebook wall had thousands of postings from his ‘friends’. He was convinced this was the place to start but really needed to get his head around non-probability sampling if he was going to do it well.
Based on the given scenario, answer the following questions:
In: Operations Management
A company randomly chose 200 US households and found that in 120 of them, the women made the majority of the purchasing decisions. We want to know the population proportion of US housholds where women make the majority of purchasing decisions. Construct a 96% confidence interval to find p.
a) what is p hat?
b) what is alpha?
c) what is the value of the test statistic
d) what is the value of the standard errror
e) what is the value of the margin of error
f) what is the lower boundary of the confidence interval
g) what is the upper boundary of the confidence interval
In: Statistics and Probability
1. Wherever “h” is used, assume it refers to Planck’s constant: h = 6.626 x 10-34J·s or 4.136 x 10-15 eV·s.Consider a “particle in a box” (where the “box” is aregion where potential energy U(x) = 0 for 0 < x < L and U = elsewhere. Assume there is zero probability of a particle being found outside the box (where the potential energy function is infinite).
a. Write two boundary conditions for Ψ: one x = 0 and another for x = L:
Ψ(0)=
Ψ(L) =
b. Assume the solutions to the Schrodinger equation take the form of sines or cosines. Use the boundary conditions that you generated in (a) to complete the equation for the wave function(s) for the particle and showthat the solution satisfies the boundary conditions. These solutions are not required to be normalizedwave functions.
Ψn(x)=
c. Write out a mathematical expression(without having to solve it here) that would allow the functions Ψn to be normalized. Note that the normalization constant turns out to be √2?
In: Physics
Critical Thinking
The global marketplace has witnessed an increased pressure from customers and competitors in manufacturing as well as service sector (Basu, 2001; George, 2002).Due to the rapidly changing global marketplace only those companies will be able to survive that will deliver products of good quality at cheaper rate and to achieve their goal companies try to improve performance by focusing on cost cutting, increasing productivity levels, quality and guaranteeing deliveries in order to satisfy customers (Raouf, 1994).
Increased global competition leads the industry to increasing efficiency by means of economies of scale and internal specialization so as to meet market conditions in terms of flexibility, delivery performance and quality (Yamashina, 1995). The changes in the present competitive business environment are characterized by profound competition on the supply side and keenindecisive in customer requirements on the demand side. These changes have left their distinctive marks on the different aspect of the manufacturing organizations (Gomes et al., 2006). With this increasing global economy, cost effective manufacturing has become a requirement to remain competitive.
To meet all the challenges organizations try to introduce different manufacturing and supply techniques. Management of organizations devotes its efforts to reduce the manufacturing costs and to improve the quality of product. To achieve this goal, different manufacturing and supplytechniques have been employed. The last quarter of the 20th century witnessed the adoption of world-class, lean and integrated manufacturing strategies that have drastically changed the way manufacturing firm’sleads to improvement of manufacturing performance (Fullerton and McWatters, 2002).
Consult chapter 7 of your text book or secondary available data on internet and answer the following questions.
Question:
In: Operations Management
Critical Thinking
The global marketplace has witnessed an increased pressure from customers and competitors in manufacturing as well as service sector (Basu, 2001; George, 2002). Due to the rapidly changing global marketplace only those companies will be able to survive that will deliver products of good quality at cheaper rate and to achieve their goal companies try to improve performance by focusing on cost cutting, increasing productivity levels, quality and guaranteeing deliveries in order to satisfy customers (Raouf, 1994).
Increased global competition leads the industry to increasing efficiency by means of economies of scale and internal specialization so as to meet market conditions in terms of flexibility, delivery performance and quality (Yamashina, 1995). The changes in the present competitive business environment are characterized by profound competition on the supply side and keen indecisive in customer requirements on the demand side. These changes have left their distinctive marks on the different aspect of the manufacturing organizations (Gomes et al., 2006). With this increasing global economy, cost effective manufacturing has become a requirement to remain competitive.
To meet all the challenges organizations try to introduce different manufacturing and supply techniques. Management of organizations devotes its efforts to reduce the manufacturing costs and to improve the quality of product. To achieve this goal, different manufacturing and supply techniques have been employed. The last quarter of the 20th century witnessed the adoption of world-class, lean and integrated manufacturing strategies that have drastically changed the way manufacturing firm’s leads to improvement of manufacturing performance (Fullerton and McWatters, 2002).
In: Operations Management
A2. Imagine that the following events occurred in the period between 2004 and 2008. EU adopted new trade restrictions (such as higher tariffs) on Chinese products and reduced the annual rate of growth of their money supply from 5% to 3%.
Over the same period of time, Chinese trade policies and the Chinese monetary supply remained stable.
Consider these changes in a long run framework with flexible prices (i.e. PPP based theories with the real exchange rate extension apply). How do you expect the real & nominal exchange rates between the EU and China to be affected by these events, i.e. how would they change over this period? Explain using the relevant model, graphically (e.g. time paths of relevant variables) and verbally.
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Explain Unilever UK ( FOODS ) PORTER’S FIVE FORCES’ MODEL.
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Assuming £1.00 = $1.45 and €1.00 = $1.25, the interest rate in the UK is 6.50% and the interest rate in Germany is 5.45%, determine the forward rate of the £ / € if interest rate parity (IRP) holds. What does this imply about future forward rates? Explain how you can engage in covered interest arbitrage if the spot rate remains the same, and the interest rate in the UK is still 6.50%, and the forward rate is .868 £ / € .
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