面对国际金融危机 善抓经贸发展商机

2008年是极不寻常的一年,国际国内经历了多少喜事大事,遇到灾害和挑战。在党中央的正确领导下,我们战胜了灾害,迎接了挑战,胜利举办了奥运会、残奥会。大振了国威,鼓舞了中华民族的信心,各条战线取得了辉煌的成就。     

赢销巧智慧

西方有一首著名民谣《一个钉子亡了一个国家》,说的是：钉马掌的少钉一个钉子,结果坏了一只蹄铁：坏了一只蹄铁,导致战场上折了一匹战马;折了一匹战马,伤了一位大将;伤了一位大将,输了一场战斗;输了一场战斗,亡了一个国家。美国的一位气象学家发现,一只蝴蝶在巴西漫不经心地拍动了几下翅膀,经过一段时间后,     

把引力接到新的空间

卡缪搬家了。马奎斯搬家了。 卡尔维诺搬家了。莫内搬家了。 林布阑搬家了。毕加索搬家了。 瑞典KOSTA BODA彩色玻璃搬家了。 英国WEDGWOOD骨瓷搬家了。 法国HEDIARD咖啡搬家了。 诚品敦南店搬家了。 写下以上文字的许舜英搬家了。     

全球化：从开始到结束

因为没有对石油价格对冲,失去了利润;因为没有利润,失去了红利;因为没有了红利,失去了投资者;因为没有了投资者,失去了融资;因为没有了融资,失去了航空公司;因为没有了航空公司,失去了旅游业;因为没有了旅游业,失去了经济——所有这一切都是由于没有对石油价格进行对冲。这就是全球经济的相互链接性。     

我不懂中年

离婚了,分手了,牵手了,结婚了,乱了。中年人的世界有很多说不清道不明的事儿,是单纯还是复杂,你懂吗？     

态度

＂文艺不光本身是一种真正自由的运动,并且也是令人得到自由的一种力量。＂——1947年,美学家朱光潜写文章说 ＂方便面涨价了,鸡蛋涨价了,面粉涨价了,汽油涨价了,羽绒服涨价了……除了工资,身边的一切几乎都涨价了,但是我们依然需要坚强的活下去,因为墓地现在也涨价了。＂     

浅谈云计算

本文形象了地阐述了云计算的概念，论述了云计算的出现和发展，分析了云计算是IT业革命陛的变革，指出了云计算时代是中国企业的重要机遇。     

动压巷道掘进过断层研究与应用

介绍了煤巷掘进过断层的方法并得到了应用。取得了良好的经济效益和社会效益,积累了宝贵的经验。     

试论施工企业的优化管理

<正>近几年来,广大施工企业创优积极性十分高涨,在激烈的市场竞争中,不少施工企业深深懂得"今天的质量,就是明天的市场"这个道理,在创优活动中,积累了不少宝贵的经验。通过创优,提高了企业的管理水平和人员素质,提高了企业的社会效益和经济效益,提高了企业在社会上的知名度。很多施工企业就是通过创优,树立了丰碑,赢得了赞赏,占据了市场,培养了队伍,提高了企业的信誉。事实证明,开展创优活动,对推动施工企业工程质量水平的提高,起到了极为重要的作用。     

品牌价值计量相关问题研究

本文首先对品牌的概念及特征、品牌价值计量的意义作了论述,进而介绍了品牌价值计量的研究现状,全面分析探讨了计量的方法,最后,揭示了品牌价值计量存在的问题,并提出了较行之有效的解决对策.     

Teaching International Business Abroad: Paradigms Suggested by Metaphor Theory

When International Business (IB) is taught abroad, the educational institution has to decide on organizational issues and educational and teaching paradigms. College and university programs abroad can adopt organizational values and identities similar to the home institution, or adapt to local operating environments. Likewise, educational and pedagogic paradigms can mirror those in the home institution or expand to realize and consider local contexts. Based on a consideration of metaphor theory, it is suggested that there are three ways of dealing with international educational experiences. The non‐metaphoric paradigm fails to recognize and engage with ambient difference. The comparison paradigm compares and contrasts acquired institutional understandings with local realities. The domains‐interactive seeks to stimulate a dynamic exploration of home and local assumptions, looking for new emergent themes and understanding. Insight derived from metaphor theory not only suggests how these different paradigms emerge but potentially provides vibrancy and pervasive urgency to conducting IB education abroad.     

Dimensions of marketplace exclusion: representations,resistances and responses

ABSTRACT

This positioning paper explains and develops the concept of marketplace exclusion, which has received little attention to date in the field of marketing and consumer research. Essentially the concept refers to the mechanisms through which certain individuals and communities are barred from the resources and opportunities provided by the market. Participation in the market and the accompanying rights and responsibilities that allow individuals to act as legitimate consumers is essential for social cohesion and social relations. However, one consequence of consumer culture has been a shift away from values of community and citizenship towards those of materialism and competition. Marketplace exclusion encompasses big questions of poverty, sexism and racism to individual consequences such as isolation and alienation. The paper examines various causes and types of exclusion and discusses key research questions and methodological issues in studying this topic. Finally, it introduces the papers included in this special issue of CMC.     

Beyond clusters: How regional geographic signature affects firm value and risk

Existing studies examining how geography affects firm outcomes primarily consider how clusters affect performance. We examine how regional geographic signature—industry clusters, regional economic diversity, region size, and regional innovativeness—affects firm value and systematic and unsystematic risk using a sample of publicly traded American bank holding companies. After controlling for endogeneity of clusters, we find that locating in large and innovative regions enhances firm value, while locating in clusters and diversifying into many regions reduces value. Clusters reduce systematic risk and increase unsystematic risk, while economic diversity and innovativeness increase systematic risk. Thus, geographic locales exert multifaceted influences on value and risk, and we need to consider more than industry clusters and geographic diversification when considering geographic influence. Copyright © 2013 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The impact of war: New business networks and small-scale contractors in Britain, 1739–1770

Abstract

This article argues that the resources and skills of military contractors were a crucial component of the war-making capacity of the British state in the mid-eighteenth century. Contractors used product knowledge, access to capital and credit, market intelligence, and personal and professional connections to perform contracts effectively, and by doing so contributed towards operational capability and combat readiness. Contracting not only reveals the diversity of the domestic economy but also the degree of connectivity between different sectors. Problems of scale, cost, and risk were overcome by harnessing and channelling broad expertise across different sectors. If modern states were highly innovative in fiscal-military terms, contractors were no less so in managing extensive supply operations.     

How the Netherlands became a bicycle nation: Users,firms and intermediaries, 1860–1940

In 1925, the Netherlands was a country of cyclists and cycle producers, as all classes cycled and almost all cycles were produced domestically. The bicycle was not a Dutch invention and the country had an open economy, and this raises the question ‘how did the Netherlands become a bicycle nation?’ This article investigates the interactions of users, firms and intermediaries from 1860 to 1940 and how these impacted the bicycle, its production and its use. Furthermore, it analyses knowledge flows and the roles of intermediaries. It illustrates changes in activities and the relevance of interactions between users, firms and intermediaries, and the effects of World War I. It shows how user organisations created an infrastructure and culture which made cycling Dutch. Firms created a cartel which produced bicycles that were wanted and used by all Dutch, as they were made in the Netherlands.     

制造业创新与服务业创新:比较与融合

制造业的产出——产品与服务业的产出——服务在特征上有很大的不同,因而制造业创新与服务业创新也表现出不同的特征,主要在创新载体、消费者体验、生产者消费者界限、技术创新地位、研发依赖性等方面存在差异。同时,制造业创新与服务业创新也不是各自孤立进行的,二者相互作用、相互影响。当前,在制造业与服务业融合的背景下,制造业创新与服务业创新也出现了一系列融合特征,包括技术主导力度趋弱、创新周期缩短、非R&D活动在创新中的作用增强、专利制度对创新的影响增强等。     

出口与企业绩效:主要论题与最新进展

异质性企业贸易模型将企业的异质特征作为研究变量,加之企业层面数据的日益丰富和可用性,使对国际贸易问题的研究由宏观产业层面转向更加微观的企业层面。本文以企业异质性为焦点,对近年来大量关于出口与企业绩效之间关系的理论研究和实证研究的文献进行系统梳理,厘清了出口与企业绩效之间的因果关系,并做出简要评述。     

Price and Quality Strategies for Services:

Developing effective price and service quality strategies requires an understanding of the effect of price and service quality on buyers' attitudes, intentions and purchase decisions. Consumer Involvement is an important variable that may interact with price and service quality, and is the focus of this research. This paper examines the influence of involvement, price and service quality on attitudes and intention to purchase automobile insurance and long-distance telephone services.     

Organisational form and industry emergence: Nonprofit and mutual firms in the development of the US personal finance industry

Economic theories of commercial nonprofits and mutuals usually emphasise the advantages of such organisational forms in reducing agency and monitoring costs in markets that suffer from information asymmetries in exchanges between firms and their customers. This article examines the ability of such transaction cost theories to account for historical variations in the ownership and governance of firms in the US personal finance industry between the early nineteenth century and the Great Depression. It focuses, in particular, on mutual savings banks and their role in the development of the intermediated market for savings accounts. While I find some evidence in support of transaction cost theories of organisational form, I also find that entrepreneurial and socio-political factors played crucial roles in the choice of ownership and governance structures; mutual savings banks predominated in the early years of the industry because the form offered entrepreneurial advantages over investor-owned corporations and because in some states they benefitted from regulatory and political advantages that joint-stock companies lacked. Their relative decline by the early twentieth century was the result of increasing competition in the market for savings deposits, the loosening of regulatory barriers to entry, and changes in public policy that reduced the transaction, innovation and regulatory advantages that the mutual savings bank form had once held. The article draws out the theoretical implications for our understanding of the historical role of nonprofit and mutual firms.