Title
Year
Author
The impact of digital technology on changing consumer behaviours with special reference to the home furnishing sector in Singapore
The impact of digital technology on changing consumer behaviours with special reference to the home furnishing sector in Singapore
2022
Easwaramoorthy Rangaswamy
Nawaz, Nishad)
Changzhuang, Zhou
Collection | Bureaucracy & The Civil Service |
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Author/Creator |
Easwaramoorthy Rangaswamy Nawaz, Nishad) Changzhuang, Zhou |
Title |
The impact of digital technology on changing consumer behaviours with special reference to the home furnishing sector in Singapore |
Source Title | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications |
Publication Date | 2022 |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01102-x |
Subject |
House furnishings -- Internet marketing -- Singapore Consumer behavior -- Singapore |
Page | 83 |
Language | English |
URI | |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 1 |
Abstract |
The impact of digital technology has altered consumers’ choices for decades, which has fostered large amounts of eCommerce, including in the home furnishing business. Furthermore, due to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, consumer behaviours have changed, with consumer satisfaction influencing purchasing initiatives and decision-making online. There is insufficient research on online purchasing behaviours in the home furnishing sector in the context of Singapore. The advent of digitisation and the emergence of marketing through digital platforms compared to offline marketing have changed purchasing behaviours regarding home furnishing in Singapore. Research designs and methods, including realism philosophies, deductive approaches, a quantitative research method, a cross-sectional analysis in a descriptive research design and a questionnaire research instrument, were applied to the current study. The findings show a critical trend: consumers prefer an omnichannel approach when purchasing furniture, thereby enhancing competitive costs and personalisation designs and services. Consumers expect advantages both online and offline to maximise the benefits of their purchasing. © 2022, The Author(s). |
The origins of the public bureaucracies in the Asean countries
The origins of the public bureaucracies in the Asean countries
Collection | Bureaucracy & The Civil Service |
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Author/Creator |
Quah, Jon S. T. |
Title |
The origins of the public bureaucracies in the Asean countries |
Publication Date | 1978 |
Publisher | Singapore : Chopmen Enterprises |
Call Number | JQ96 Qua |
Subject |
Bureaucracy -- Asean countries |
Page | 32 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Book |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
The politics of policymaking: policy co-creation in Singapore’s financial sector
The politics of policymaking: policy co-creation in Singapore’s financial sector
Collection | Bureaucracy & The Civil Service |
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Author/Creator |
Woo, J. J. |
Title |
The politics of policymaking: policy co-creation in Singapore’s financial sector |
Source Title | Policy Studies |
Publication Date | 2021 |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2019.1634185 |
Subject |
Finance -- Government policy -- Singapore Public-private sector cooperation -- Singapore |
Page | 210-227 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
restrictedAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 42 |
Issue | 2 |
Abstract |
Faced with an increasingly complex policy environment, policymakers have sought to leverage upon non-state resources and expertise to supplement their policy efforts. What have emerged are collaborative efforts at policymaking, founded upon close relations between public and private actors. This paper focuses on policy co-creation in Singapore’s financial sector, differentiating between formal and informal processes of policy co-creation. In doing so, it aims to provide a policy-oriented approach to understanding government-business relations that can both expand on and contribute to existing corporatist studies of economic development in Asia. |
The Public Service Commission in Singapore: a comparative study of its evolution and its recruitment and selection procedures vis-a-vis the Public Service Commissions in Ceylon, India and Malaysia
The Public Service Commission in Singapore: a comparative study of its evolution and its recruitment and selection procedures vis-a-vis the Public Service Commissions in Ceylon, India and Malaysia
Collection | Bureaucracy & The Civil Service |
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Author/Creator |
Quah, Jon S. T. |
Title |
The Public Service Commission in Singapore: a comparative study of its evolution and its recruitment and selection procedures vis-a-vis the Public Service Commissions in Ceylon, India and Malaysia |
Publication Date | 1971 |
Call Number | JA36 *1971 2 |
Subject |
Civil service -- Singapore Civil service -- Malaysia Civil service -- Sri Lanka Manpower policy -- Singapore Manpower policy -- Malaysia Manpower policy -- Sri Lanka |
Page | 311 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Dissertation/Thesis |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Description |
Thesis (M.Soc.Sci.) -- Dept. of Political Science, University of Singapore |
The Public Service Commission system in Singapore
The Public Service Commission system in Singapore
Collection | Bureaucracy & The Civil Service |
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Author/Creator |
Lim, Quee Tiong |
Title |
The Public Service Commission system in Singapore |
Publication Date | 1971 |
Call Number | JA36*N 1971 2 |
Subject |
Singapore. Public Service Commission Public service commissions -- Singapore Civil service -- Singapore Bureaucracy -- Singapore |
Page | 100 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Dissertation/Thesis |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Description |
Academic exercise -- Dept. of Government & Public Administration, Nanyang University |
The rediscovery of the market and public-administration: some lessons from the Singapore experience
The rediscovery of the market and public-administration: some lessons from the Singapore experience
1993
Quah, Jon S. T.
Collection | Bureaucracy & The Civil Service |
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Author/Creator |
Quah, Jon S. T. |
Title |
The rediscovery of the market and public-administration: some lessons from the Singapore experience |
Source Title | Australian Journal of Public Administration |
Publication Date | 1993 |
DOI |
http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8500.1993.tb00284.x |
Call Number | JA26 AJP |
Subject |
Administrative agencies -- Singapore Civil service -- Singapore Government productivity -- Singapore Administrative agencies -- Australia Civil service -- Australia Government productivity -- Australia |
Page | 320-328 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 52 |
Issue | 3 |
The service sector in the free-trade agreement between the EU and Singapore: closing the gap between policy and business realities
The service sector in the free-trade agreement between the EU and Singapore: closing the gap between policy and business realities
2017
Alvstam, Claes G.
Kettunen, Erja
Ström, Patrik
Collection | Bureaucracy & The Civil Service |
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Author/Creator |
Alvstam, Claes G. Kettunen, Erja Ström, Patrik |
Title |
The service sector in the free-trade agreement between the EU and Singapore: closing the gap between policy and business realities |
Source Title | Asia Europe Journal |
Publication Date | 2017 |
DOI |
http://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10308-016-0464-z |
Subject |
Singapore -- Foreign economic relations -- European Union countries European Union countries -- Foreign economic relations -- Singapore Service industries -- Singapore Service industries -- European Union countries |
Page | 75-105 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 15 |
Issue | 1 |
Description |
The aim of this paper is to investigate how new rules and practices in multilateral, regional and bilateral trade negotiations related to the services industries can be adopted and implemented at the business level, using the recently concluded free-trade agreement (FTA) negotiations between the EU and Singapore as an illustrative case. The purpose is to put the services sector into the larger framework of business service interaction between the EU and the outside world by identifying crucial sub-sectors within the services industries and their relations to physical, ‘visible’ production and trade. Furthermore, to assess the prospects of ‘multilateralising’ regional trade agreements within the service sector, through the ambitions by both parties to make bilateral and interregional FTAs and EPAs more compatible and mutually comparable with the multilateral GATS’ rules. The EU-Singapore FTA is an agreement that became a ‘second-best’ solution of the stalled interregional EU-ASEAN negotiation, taking place 2006–2009. It can nevertheless be seen as a ‘WTO-plus’ endeavour, since it aims at reaching beyond what is under negotiation in the likewise stalled Doha Development Agenda within the WTO framework, particularly in the fields of business services, public procurement, intellectual property rights, trade-related investment measures, and, generally, competition rules. Since both parties already apply low or zero tariffs in most sectors of manufacturing, the main issues in the negotiations were related to services in general and knowledge-intensive business services in particular, with an emphasis on technical barriers to trade. To what extent will there be a true mutual opening up of the service markets between the two parties as a result of the agreement, and what technical and mental barriers remain? This FTA, if successfully implemented, can also pave the way for a revitalisation of the ‘paused’ EU-ASEAN talks, in which issues related to services were most controversial. Furthermore, it should also be seen in the global context of parallel and overlapping existing agreements or proposed talks, e.g. FTAAP, RCEP, TTIP and TPP, as well as the plurilateral TiSA initiative. In this respect, it can also be considered a test of the EU ‘Global Europe’ initiative, launched in 2006, and its follow-up communications from the Commission—the latest so far by the ‘Trade-for-All’ document in October 2015. The paper takes a combined policy- and firm-level approach, by investigating the already reached as well as the potential future impacts by the actors at both sides of the agreement through interviews with diplomatic officials representing EU, ASEAN and separate member-states within both parties, as well as with EU-originated service firms operating in Singapore. A major conclusion is that the business sector sees little direct impact of the future FTA, and that most companies stick to an ‘ad-hoc’ approach to meet and to overcome trade barriers rather than building a comprehensive strategy regarding how to behave after that the agreement has come into force. On the other hand, most companies are positive to the agreement as such but would welcome resumed EU-ASEAN talks, since the most troublesome remaining barriers are related to doing business with neighbouring countries in the region, using Singapore as the hub for transfer of knowledge-based services. |
The Singapore civil service and its perceptions of time
The Singapore civil service and its perceptions of time
Collection | Bureaucracy & The Civil Service |
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Author/Creator |
Lee, Boon Hiok |
Title |
The Singapore civil service and its perceptions of time |
Publication Date | 1977 |
Publisher | Ann Arbor, MI : University Microfilms International |
DOI | |
Call Number | JQ726 Lee |
Subject |
Civil service -- Singapore Public administration -- Singapore |
Page | 378 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Dissertation/Thesis |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Description |
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Hawaii, 1976 |
The Singapore civil service, past and present: an approach to the bureaucratic change in a developing society
The Singapore civil service, past and present: an approach to the bureaucratic change in a developing society
1969
Suzuki, Itoko
Collection | Bureaucracy & The Civil Service |
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Author/Creator |
Suzuki, Itoko |
Title |
The Singapore civil service, past and present: an approach to the bureaucratic change in a developing society |
Publication Date | 1969 |
Call Number | JQ726 Suz |
Subject |
Civil service -- Singapore -- History Bureaucracy -- Singapore -- History |
Page | 130 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Dissertation/Thesis |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
openAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Description |
Thesis (M.A.) -- International Christian University |
The value of fiduciary duties: evidence from en bloc sales in Singapore
The value of fiduciary duties: evidence from en bloc sales in Singapore
2022
Hu, Jianfeng
Low, Kelvin F. K.
Zhang, Wei
Collection | Bureaucracy & The Civil Service |
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Author/Creator |
Hu, Jianfeng Low, Kelvin F. K. Zhang, Wei |
Title |
The value of fiduciary duties: evidence from en bloc sales in Singapore |
Source Title | International Review of Law and Economics |
Publication Date | 2022 |
DOI |
https://libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2022.106093 |
Subject |
Public land sales -- Singapore Collective bargaining -- Singapore Negotiation in business -- Singapore |
Page | 106093 |
Language | English |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Object Type |
Text |
Terms of Use |
restrictedAccess |
Repository | NUS Libraries |
Volume | 72 |
Abstract |
This paper examines the impact of fiduciary duties on collective asset sales in the case of owners acting as delegates for other owners, thereby potentially inducing conflicts of interests. Our identification strategy exploits a unique legal shock in Singapore, which established fiduciary duties in those transactions in the real estate market known colloquially as en bloc sales. The imposition of fiduciary duties caused the price premium of units sold via en bloc sales to increase over units ineligible for en bloc sale, as well as over units that, although eligible for en bloc sale, are sold individually. In addition, this valuation effect is stronger for projects with especially severe agency problems as proxied by high ownership turnover. This legal reform also affects the general private housing market beyond the en bloc premium: findings show that residential owners are increasingly willing to participate and reduce condominium turnover. Finally, we find that the stock price of public real estate developers responded positively to the legal reform, which indicates a possible overall positive welfare effect. Our study highlights the importance of judicial oversight for addressing agency conflicts in non-consensual asset-sale mechanisms. © 2022 Elsevier Inc. |
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