The BIZEWEST Portal

2009 ◽  
pp. 1396-1400
Author(s):  
Alex Pliaskin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
State Government ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Development Organisation ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
The Western Region ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Business To Business

In June 2000, the Western Region Economic Development Organisation (WREDO), a notfor- profit organisation sponsored by the six municipalities that make up the western region of Melbourne, received a state government grant for a project to set up a business-to-business portal. The project was to create a “horizontal portal”—BIZEWEST—that would enable small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Melbourne’s west to engage in an increased number of e-commerce transactions with each other. The western region of Melbourne contains around 20,000 businesses, and is regarded as the manufacturing, transport, and distribution hub of South-eastern Australia (Tatnall, Burgess, & Singh, 2004). Traditionally, this region had encompassed much of the industry in metropolitan Melbourne.

The BIZEWEST Portal

2011 ◽  
pp. 94-97
Author(s):  
Alex Pliaskin
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Development Organization ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
The Western Region ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
Medium Enterprises

In June 2000, the Western Region Economic Development Organization (WREDO), a not-for-profit organization sponsored by the six municipalities that make up the western region of Melbourne, received a state government grant for a project to set up a business-to-business portal. The project was to create a “horizontal portal”—BIZEWEST—that would enable small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in Melbourne’s west to engage in an increased number of ecommerce transactions with each other. The western region of Melbourne contains around 20,000 businesses, and is regarded as the manufacturing, transport, and distribution hub of South-eastern Australia (Tatnall, Burgess, & Singh, 2004). Traditionally, this region had encompassed much of the industry in metropolitan Melbourne.

Developing a Portal to Build a Business Community

Web Portals ◽  
2011 ◽  
pp. 335-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Pliaskin ◽  
Arthur Tatnall
Keyword(s):  
Business Community ◽  
Western Region ◽  
School Students ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Development Organisation ◽  
The Western Region ◽  
Register Of Businesses ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Government Grant ◽  
Medium Enterprises

In June 2000 the Western Region Economic Development Organisation (WREDO), a not-for-profit organisation sponsored by the six municipalities that make up the western region of Melbourne (Australia), received a government grant for a project to set up a business-to-business portal. This innovative project was to create a horizontal portal, Bizewest, which would enable the whole range of small to medium enterprises in Melbourne’s West to engage in an increased number of e-commerce transactions with each other. Although Bizewest ceased operations in June 2003, the portal project as a whole must be considered to be a considerable success as it produced substantial benefits in compiling a register of businesses in the region, interesting many small to medium enterprises in the benefits of e-commerce and training school students in the design of e-commerce Web pages.

Bridging B2B E-Commerce Gaps for Taiwanese SMEs

2011 ◽  
pp. 2086-2105
Author(s):  
Yu Chung William Wang ◽  
Michael S.H. Heng
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Large Firms ◽  
The Government ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
Taiwanese Government

Many Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have been under pressures from large firms to implement Business-to-Business e-commerce (B2B e-commerce) information systems. However, these SMEs have faced various challenges to do so in the supply chain. This chapter explains the role of Taiwanese government in supporting SMEs in implementing e-commerce by analysing the interactions of government teams with current projects, and challenges of Taiwanese SMEs. Discussions and analyses focus on the government help in setting up infrastructure, B2B e-commerce implementation, and interfirm interactions among SMEs and larger firms. The Taiwanese government has been promoting its global logistic strategy for economic development which stresses supply chain integration by bridging information flows among overseas enterprises, domestic large firms, and local SMEs. Government projects related to this strategy are intended to anchor SMEs’ growing needs in linking B2B e-commerce with large firms. Our analyses and proposal dwell on how government can further bridge the gaps between the intrinsic barriers of SMEs and the interactions with larger firms in B2B e-commerce implementation.

The peculiarities of transformation of the economy of large and medium-sized cities in the Western Region of Ukraine: a comparative analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-23
Author(s):  
Viktor Borshchevskyy
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Urban Economy ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Spatial Localization ◽  
Western Region ◽  
The Western Region ◽  
The City

The problems of structural changes in the economy of large and medium-sized cities of the Western region of Ukraine are investigated. Special attention is paid to the spatial localization of cities, the cultural and historical traditions of functioning of their economy, the branch specialization and institutional environment of influence on the formation of business climate and economic development as the main factors of structural transformation of urban economy. To compare the peculiarities of economy transformation in the selected for the study large and medium-sized cities of the Western region of Ukraine, the dynamics of change of individual comparable indicators of their development in 2010 - 2017 were analyzed. This primarily relates to such indicators as the volume of freight transportations, the total area of new residential buildings, the retail turnover of enterprises, the capital investments, as well as the export services and its ratio to the export of goods. Based on the analysis of the relevant data, the main tendencies of structural transformation of the economy of large and medium-sized cities of the Western region of Ukraine that were selected for the study have been identified. The mentioned structural transformation are confirmed to be occurring primarily in the direction of equalization of the branch proportions of economic development of cities, irrespective of their size. At the same time, there is a tendency to move from mono-functional to poly-functional specialization of the urban economy on the basis of accelerated growth of those types of economic activity, the potential of which has not been fully realized before. The research gave the basis for the conclusion that the size of the city is not the determinative factor for the development or decline of certain types of their economic activity. Instead, spatial localization and traditions of business culture as well as the characteristic features of the evolution of the institutional environment of the city and the quality of human capital have the primary importance.

scholarly journals Toponyms in the Western Region of Thailand

MANUSYA ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-65
Author(s):  
Sujaritlak Deepadung
Keyword(s):  
Physical Geography ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Frequency Count ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Linguistic Structure ◽  
Word Structure ◽  
The Western Region ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Village

Village names or toponyms in the Western region of Thailand, i.e. Kanchanaburi, Nakorn Pathom, Ratchaburi, Phetchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan, Samut Songkhram, Samut Sakorn and Suphan Buri, in this study are drawn from a complete list of names in Thamniap Thongthii 2535 BC (Provincial Records 1992). The aims of this study are: 1) to analyse the linguistic structure of Thai village names 2) to set up dimensions for the semantic features of the village names in the western region of Thailand and 3) to make a frequency count of the general names which are the first morpheme of a name. The result are as follows: 1) the linguistic structure of the village names is the same as that of the grammatical word structure in Thai 2) there are five major semantic dimensions of the village names, namely, the geographical features which include water or sources of water, elevated land areas and other geographical areas, the nongeographical features which consist of plants, animals, uncultivated or the cultivated land and profession, constructed objects, numbers, persons, and other ethic languages, the locative or directional features which are divided into prepositional locatives and noun locatives, the auspicious features and the descriptive features, and 3) the village names to the western region of Thailand rely significantly on physical geography of the area.

scholarly journals TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMY STRUCTURE OF THE CITIES OF THE WESTERN REGION OF UKRAINE: SECTORAL DIMENSION

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (36) ◽  
pp. 382-389
Author(s):  
M. Melnyk ◽  
I. Leshchukh ◽  
S. Shchehlyuk
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Base Period ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
The Western Region ◽  
Administrative Units

Peculiarities of transformation of the structure of the economy of cities of the Western region of Ukraine are investigated. For this purpose, the spatial concentration of economic activity in the cities of regional significance of the Western region of Ukraine, as well as the speed and intensity of transformation of the structure of their economies are analyzed. Depending on the structure of the economy of cities of regional importance in the base period and the intensity of structural changes in it during the study period, two types of studied administrative units are identified: 1) cities of regional importance, which retained the profile of economic structure; 2) cities of regional significance, which diversify the structure of the economy.  The latter, in particular, include: a) cities of regional importance — industrial centers that have diversified their activities through the development of the service economy; b) cities of regional significance, which transformed the structure of the economy in the direction of industrial development; c) cities of regional significance, which, despite the multidisciplinary economic structure of the base period, increased in the following years the economic potential only in a certain sector of economic activity; d) other cities of regional significance, in particular those that have changed the vector of economic activity in the direction of development of related industries. The existence of positive trends (higher adaptability of the structure of the economy of the studied administrative units to modern conditions of socio-economic development), as well as negative trends (asymmetry of regional socio-economic development due to concentration of business activity and capital in cities of regional significance; disproportionate sectoral and spatial structural changes) economy of cities of regional importance, strengthening the mono-profile of economic development of individual cities of regional importance in the context of exacerbation of risks of economic activity) in the transformation processes of the economy of cities of regional importance.

Literacy and Education in Contemporary China: Daunting Challenges amidst Rapid Economic Development

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-121
Author(s):  
Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh ◽  
Kah-Mun Chu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Government Funding ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
The Western Region ◽  
The Government ◽  
High Level

Education is undoubtedly playing an important role in economic development. The overall illiteracy rate in China has been decreasing since 1980 but there are still some areas such as the western region and rural areas that continue to suffer from a high level of illiteracy due to the lack of capital inflow and government funding. This has indirectly affected economic growth and development in those particular areas. The government has launched various plans and policies to overcome or ameliorate the problems of educational and economic inequality, especially in the western region, and with all these efforts the government has been able to successfully reduce illiteracy and to a certain extent reduce inequality at the regional level. However, due to funding inequalities and shortcomings of government policies, education still faces daunting challenges in contemporary China.

scholarly journals The Impact of Marketization on Sustainable Economic Growth—Evidence from West China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3745
Author(s):  
Tingying Chen ◽  
Haitian Lu ◽  
Rong Chen ◽  
Lina Wu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Level Indicator ◽  
West China ◽  
The Western Region ◽  
Policy Guidance ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, we aim to study the relation between the marketization level in the western region of China and its economic development, and to provide policy guidance for the economic development of underdeveloped regions. Mixed methods data analysis was conducted using panel data from 82 prefecture-level cities in west China from 2003 to 2017. The overall regression results show that the level of marketization has a significant role in promoting economic growth. At the same time, regional heterogeneity analyses show that the sub-indicators of marketization have different degrees of influence on economic growth in the southwest and northwest of China, whereas the overall level indicator plays a significant role in both regions. In addition, the threshold panel model was used to test whether the influence of marketization on economic growth in the western region had interval characteristics. Through the self-sampling method, it was found that there are double thresholds. In terms of the gradual progress of the marketization level range, it shows a trend of first increasing, then decreasing and then increasing again. The results show that the level of marketization in west China has significantly promoted the economic development of the western region. Additionally, the impact of marketization on economic development in relatively backward regions is gradually increasing and surpassing that of relatively developed regions. Underdeveloped areas in west China can stimulate their advantages by continuously promoting the construction of marketization and improving the level of economic organization, so as to gradually narrow the development gap between regions.

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