Director’s Message at the Establishment of Direct Selling Research Center

                                                                                                                                                          November 4,2000

Since the establishment in September 1998, Direct Selling Research Center has been ideating constantly on promotion of direct selling research and advocating appropriate direct selling management concepts to increase public’s acceptance. Meanwhile, it impels NSYSU to become strategically important in direct selling research.

1999 year-end, to improve our understanding and interaction with direct selling industry, we had invited experienced direct selling distributors to be our advisors. On December 1999, we convened an advisory council and generated many precious suggestions and assistance. On June 2000, we initiated our first direct selling summit and invited only chief officers from leading direct selling firms, government officers and scholars to attend, to discuss various topics and to increases communications among enterprises, government and academic. The summit was a tremendous success and participants are very supportive of the event and recommended similar events to be held on January and June annually and further extent participants to include all chief officers of leading direct selling firms, top direct sellers and ministers. During the summit, we had elected five staffs for arrangement of next summit that expected to be held after New Year 2001. After this summit, we will aggressively in planning our next “Direct Selling Summit” holding in January 2001.

             Over the past year, major events were taken as follows:

With the vigorous support from Direct Selling Association and donations from various enterprises, “The Fifth Direct Selling Academic Symposium” commenced effectually. In addition, through the direct selling committee this year, we have granted financial support from Direct Selling Education Foundation (DSEF) of WFDSA to assist our advance research study in direct selling.

The content of our web http://www.DSRC.nsysu.edu.tw covers materials world-wide, and allows public to access into our published dissertations and copyright essays online. Except it is friendly to use, it assists public in improving public’s awareness on direct selling. Over the past few months, we have received inquiries via emails over the world, obviously representing the effectiveness of our web. In the future, we plan to add on a new category for industrial information. We appreciate every direct selling firm and direct selling distributor to supply us as much as news and management information, we will place them online at no cost.

I sincerely hope that all members of direct selling industry can gather together to support our work. By supplying us extensive information and resources, we will run more effectively, letting our nation’s direct selling academic standard be recognized and management standard be uplifted the world.

Let us work together, for our dreams in direct selling.  

Best wishes,

Der-Fa Robert Chen