Chamber of commerce and industry plays important role for development of business community and creating vibrant competition. Present paper compares chambers operations in Bangladesh, especially, Sylhet Chamber of Commerce and Industry(SCCI) by reviewing global models of chambers practices. The study identifies important gaps between international standards and Bangladesh practices. Mostly practiced chambers model in the world are: Continental Model, Anglo-Saxon Model and Mixed model or Asian model. Like other Asian countries, chambers in Bangladesh including SCCI, have been following Mixed Model. The empirical study found that SCCI is performing different developmental functions like accumulating members, collecting revenue, fulfilling corporate social responsibility and providing business development services to its members and business community. The notable constraining factors of SCCI operations are: short term orientation in assembling members, limited functional activities, lack of creative endeavors in diversifying services, linkage between SCCI and academic institutions, poor research involvement etc. The necessary suggestions for improvement of chambers performance include adoption of creative measures in various operations, providing training to the members, assisting entrepreneurs in obtaining industrial finance and extending support in the establishment of specialized industrial zone for attaining long term developmental objectives.

Generally, higher brand equity ends up with higher market share and higher profitability. However, superior brand equity does not guarantee the success in the market. That is, consumer choice is closely related to brand equity but we need more than brand equity to explain this complex phenomenon. We adopt the customer equity concepts: value equity, brand equity, and retention equity. By incorporating value equity and retention equity into customer equity, it is possible to avoid the problems of using the brand equity only. In the paper, we apply this customer equity concepts to cellular phone and investigate the effects of antecedent variables such as exposure, knowledge, positive experience and negative experience on the components of customer equity. In addition, as surrogate measure of customer lifetime value, the weighted measure of purchase intention, consideration set inclusion, and next purchase is used as dependent variable. We estimate the effects of components of customer equity at the brand level and aggregate level using SURE model. Estimation results show that Apple has currently low market share but has high future potentials and Korean firms have currently high market share but has rather low future potentials.

With the market evaluation of economic globalization exchanges between different cultures, cultural trade has been developing at an accelerated speed, and also playing an important role in East Asian intra-regional trade. In this research the author used gravity trade model to explain the causal relationship between dependent variable trade flows and several independent variables applying with five categories cultural goods which classified in HS codes. Firstly for cultural heritage trade flow, the results indicated that economic masses of bilateral countries have no significant influences on it; GDP per capita of host country and adjacency factor with partner country have significant negative influences on it; Internet coverage ratio has improved cultural heritages exchanges in East Asian regions. Secondly for printed matter cultural goods trade flow, the distance factor has significant negative influence but common language has significant positive influence on it. Thirdly for recorded media cultural goods, only economic masses and GDP per capita of bilateral countries can improved their trade flows. Fourthly for visual arts cultural products trade flows, almost all variables we tested have significant influences on it. Fifthly for cinema photography cultural goods trade flow, the influenced factor are same with cultural heritage products except they have strong positive interaction relationship with economic masses and common language. At last, the paper figured out some important and potential sectors for cultural goods trade in East Asia and gave some suggestions to government and cultural goods product enterprises.

본 연구의 논점은 중국 관세행정체계에서 통관절차에 대한 재설계로 문헌연구의 방법에 의해 중국 관세행정체계에서 통관절차의 재설계 연구를 통해 가장 합리적인 중국관세행정의 새로운 통관절차를 찾기 위해 노력을 하였다. 결과적으로 향후 전개될 수 있는 중국 통관절차의 변화를 감지하여 관세청이나 수출입기업들은 물론 학계에서도 이에 대한 체계적인 정보 수집과 연구가 필요할 것이다.

일본 전체 전자상거래 시장 규모는 2006년에 15조엔을 넘었고, 2009년에 B2C 인터넷 쇼핑 규모는 6조 5,700억엔을 넘는 등 지속적으로 확대되고 있다. 일본의 대표적인 인터넷 쇼핑 업체로는 락쿠텐을 들 수 있다. 락쿠텐은 인터넷 쇼핑 시장에서 45%의 점유율을 보이고 있고, 등록된 상점 수만 7만개가 넘는다. 사이트내의 과장 광고에 대한 규제 및 판매자에 대한 철저한 사전 통제로 소비자들의 높은 신뢰를 받고 있다. 일본 소비자들은 새로운 기술에 대한 수용과 동화가 빠른 편이고, 인터넷과 모바일 통신 사용률이 높다. 본 논문에서는 우리의 이웃이면서 큰 인터넷 쇼핑 시장이 있는 일본의 온라인 쇼핑 실태에 대해서 분석하였다. 즉, 인터넷 쇼핑 동기, 인터넷 쇼핑 지각 위험, 인터넷 쇼핑 혁신성 등에 따른 인터넷 쇼핑 이용의도, 만족도, 추천의도 등과 인구통계학적 특성을 고려해 살펴보았다. 총 464부 설문지에 대해 SPSS를 활용하여 빈도분석, 요인분석, 신뢰도 분석, 분산분석 등이 이루어졌다. 분석 결과 이용의도는 연령이 높을수록 높았고, 만족도는 주부가, 추천의도는 월 평균 소득이 높을수록 높았다. 또한 혁신성이 높은 집단일수록 이용 빈도, 만족도, 추천의도, 지속 사용의도가 높았다. 인터넷 쇼핑 동기와 관련해서는 여성과 주부의 쾌락적 동기가 높았고, 월 평균 소득이 높을수록 경제적 동기가 높았다. 또한 혁신성이 높은 집단이 경제적, 편의적, 쾌락적, 사회적 인터넷 쇼핑 동기 모두 높은 평균값을 보였다. 또한 학생일수록, 여성일수록, 소득수준이 낮을수록 인터넷 쇼핑 지각된 위험을 높게 평가하는 것으로 나타났으며 혁신성 정도가 낮은 집단이 역시 지각된 위험을 높게 평가하였다. 끝으로 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 향후 일본 전자상거래에 진출하고자 하는 우리나라 기업에 실무적인 시사점을 제시하였다.