A large part of valued-added mobile services are free for consumers' use. To enjoy these services, however, consumers have to pay for the mobile phone handsets, and for the mobile Internet as well. This study, therefore, aims to estimate the implicit price consumers are willing to pay for these...

Taiwan has long made efforts to increase community emergency response capability, due to its vulnerability to earthquakes, typhoons, landslides and debris flows. Not until recent major natural disasters, such as the 1999 Chi–Chi Earthquake, Typhoon Toraji and Typhoon Nari, has the government...

In order to improve the efficiency of disaster reduction, the government of Taiwan has taken a number of initiatives in the development of disaster reduction technology since 1982, including the 1st, 2nd and 3rd 5-year plans for hazards prevention research, and the National Science and...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the relationship between market share and performance of large accounting firms. It also investigates whether the performance of international accounting firms is better than that of non-international accounting firms. Design/methodology/approach – This...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the operating efficiency of accounting firm partnerships. Design/methodology/approach: An empirical analysis is performed with a three-stage research method: data envelopment analysis (DEA), univariate testing and regression analysis. Findings:...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the relationship between human resource attributes and the operating performances of accounting firms by sampling data from the 2012-2013 Survey Report on Accounting Firms, as compiled by the Financial Supervisory Commission in Taiwan....

We entrapped<b> </b>lipase from <i>Pseudomonas cepacia</i> in polyallylamine-mediated biomimetic silica, and then applied entrapped lipase to the synthesis of biodiesel with soybean oil or waste cooking oil as a feedstock. The effects of reaction temperature, substrate molar ratio (methanol/oil) and <i>n</i>-hexane...