The Western project management (PM) approach requires the use of not only PM technology but also PM values/beliefs. This research is concerned with the likely cultural barriers for Chinese enterprises to use the PM approach. The literature review reveals the four cultural barriers of the Doctrine of the Mean, Strong Hierarchy, Family Consciousness, and Boss Orientation. Then, through a questionnaire survey at Yunnan province, this research provides some empirical evidence about the actual status of the four cultural barriers. In general, the Chinese traditional values/beliefs of Strong Hierarchy, Family Consciousness, and Boss Orientation are empirically major cultural barriers, and the Doctrine of the Mean is not. In addition, this research empirically reveals the differences in the cultural barriers among different types of enterprises and that appropriate PM training is very important to overcome the cultural barriers. Limitations of this research are also discussed.

This paper studies the incentive mechanism of multitask cooperation in logistics service supply chain (LSSC) by building a dynamic incentive model. Research shows the following: (1) the implicit reputation in dynamic cooperation can effectively improve system incentive effectiveness; (2) the difference in the contribution of different logistics cooperation to the performance of the LSSC has a significant impact on the incentive effect; (3) when two kinds of cooperation tasks have complementary relationships, both the LSP’s choice of logistics tasks and the incentives will simultaneously act on the two types of cooperation tasks; and (4) the antirisk degree of LSI and the environment uncertainty will also have a certain impact on the incentive effect of the LSSC. Therefore, the LSI should comprehensively consider the requirements of logistics cooperation and the risk tolerance of LSI to be chosen.

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Amplitude-Versus-Offset (AVO) technology has successfully helped to detect hydrocarbon reservoir for more than two decades. However, the Zoeppritz equation only considers the elastic properties of the media, the nonelastic behaviors are ignored. There are still some problems that the traditional AVO technology doesn't handle adequately. Although the frequency-dependent AVO technology has been brought forward, a theory is lacking to guide it. Based on White's patchy saturation model, we have investigated characteristics of the frequency dependent Amplitude Versus incident-Angle (AVA) at an interface between a non-dispersive medium and a patchysaturated dispersive medium. And then, numerical modeling based on Biot's poroelastic wave theory was performed on three selected reservoir models. The numerical modeling results confirmed our analytical analysis. These variations could provide insight for frequency-dependent AVO analysis.