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The Impact Of Covid-19 On Asian Businesses And The Economy, Havovi Joshi Nov 2020

The Impact Of Covid-19 On Asian Businesses And The Economy, Havovi Joshi

Asian Management Insights

The Covid-19 pandemic will likely end when a vaccine can be made available to everyone, or when we have achieved some measure of herd immunity. Unfortunately, both are as yet nowhere in sight.


Pinduoduo: Empowering Farmers With An E-Commerce Platform, Hao Liang, Sin Mei Cheah Nov 2020

Pinduoduo: Empowering Farmers With An E-Commerce Platform, Hao Liang, Sin Mei Cheah

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

A case study on how Pinduoduo's dedicated portal has helped farmers during the Covid-19 outbreak.


Ageing In Place: Sustainable Technology Solutions To Support The Elderly, Hwee-Pink Tan Jun 2020

Ageing In Place: Sustainable Technology Solutions To Support The Elderly, Hwee-Pink Tan

Asian Management Insights

'Silver tech' allows for a scalable and sustainable solution for intelligent monitoring, detection and notification of anomalous events, and collaborative support for seniors living alone.


Cross-Border Technology Investments In Recessions, Juliana Yu Sun, Huanhuan Zheng Jun 2020

Cross-Border Technology Investments In Recessions, Juliana Yu Sun, Huanhuan Zheng

Research Collection School Of Economics

Utilizing industry-level foreign direct investment (FDI) from 72 source markets to 122 destination markets between 2003 to 2018, we apply a differences-in-differences approach to evaluate the response of technology FDI to recessions. We find that research and development (R&D) intensive FDI drops when the destination market is in recession and the source market is in a normal state, and recovers to the pre-recession levels when both destination and source markets are in recession. The result is particularly pronounced in deep and long recessions, during the propagation stage of recessions, and in destination markets with stronger intellectual property protection, looser FDI …


A Path To Digitalisation Featuring The Dbs Story, Robin Speculand May 2020

A Path To Digitalisation Featuring The Dbs Story, Robin Speculand

Perspectives@SMU

Digitalisation of businesses has been rapidly increasing over the last few years and now it has become a necessity, rather than an option, for many. The article provides a path and model for leaders to transform their business. It starts by recognising that businesses need a digital vision driven by customers’ requirements and explains how to build centricity and be ready for the future.