我国流通产业规模经济效益的实证分析

本文在分析流通产业规模经济形成机理的基础上,使用实证的方法得出中国流通产业规模经济效益并不明显这一结论,并对这一结论进行了解释,最后对提升我国流通产业规模经济效益提出了相关对策。     

创新流通产业理论问题的研究

西方漫长的贸易实践中有许多贸易思想产生,但始终未能形成系统的商学理论,本文分析了西方经济理论在生产与流通关系上的两次理论反复与4个阶段,以及忽视流通的原因,提出用流通主体结构、客体结构、对象结构、功能结构、系统结构、社会结构、比较结构7个分析框架创新流通理论内容,从改变基础理论单一化、明确研究对象、统一商学理论规范等10个方面改变传统的流通分析方法,实现流通产业理论方法的创新。总的来说,流通产业经济学需要汲取新制度经济学、新兴古典经济学、空间经济学等多学科的研究成果,实现创新和发展。     

对流通理论与流通经济学科发展的几点思考

文章梳理了流通理论在当代西方经济学的发展历程,揭示了各种经济学流派对流通理论研究的影响。进而分析了全球化背景下中国经济面临的挑战以及现代流通的特点及其在经济体系中的重要作用,明确了构建我国流通理论体系的重要性。最后从流通理论核心概念的界定、流通理论研究对象的确定与学科体系的构建、流通理论研究方法的创新等方面提出了我国流通理论研究与学科体系构建的思路。     

中国流通服务业影响力实证研究

本文运用多元回归分析方法,计量分析流通服务业对国民经济的直接与间接贡献,得出三个主要结论:流通服务业作为一个产业规模较小,传统方法的分析低估了流通服务业对经济增长的外溢作用;流通服务业对宏观经济的贡献力、对区域经济的辐射力、对上游产业的控制力以及对消费的服务力,使其在宏观经济中稳居基础产业地位;由于流通体制的制约和传导机制的阻塞,流通服务业对经济增长和社会发展的巨大作用还没有充分显现出来。     

流通产业影响力实证研究

本文运用多元回归分析方法,计量分析流通产业对国民经济的直接与间接贡献,得出三个主要结论:流通产业作为一个产业规模较小,传统方法的分析低估了流通产业对经济增长的外溢作用;流通产业对宏观经济的贡献力、对区域经济的辐射力、对上游产业的控制力以及对消费的服务力,使其在宏观经济中稳居基础产业地位;由于流通体制的制约和传导机制的阻塞,流通产业对经济增长和社会发展的巨大作用还没有充分显现出来。     

城乡互动流通促进农村消费的实证研究

在城乡双向流通体系下,我国的商品流通实现了城市和农村的合二为一,提高了农村居民的消费水平。本文通过城乡互动流通对农村经济,尤其是农村消费的影响进行分析和研究,并通过面板数据模型,对这一研究进行了实证检验,从而证实了城乡互动流通对农村消费有着显著的影响。在此研究结果的基础上,笔者还提出了相关的政策建议,以供参考。     

树精品意识 创一流刊物——中国流通经济杂志百期纪念座谈会致辞

中国流通经济杂志是以研究流通经济理论为特色的学术理论刊物,其宗旨是贯彻双百方针,注重理论联系实际,提倡学术争鸣,鼓励理论创新,加强流通经济理论研究,促进流通体制改革.坚持以基础理论研究为主,注重实际问题和管理经验的研究,突出理论性、实践性、应用性等特点.这次百期纪念座谈会主题是探讨如何推动流通现代化,促进我国经济社会发展.同时进一步总结经验,加强交流,与时俱进,开拓创新,打造品牌,创立名牌,树精品意识,创一流刊物.     

立足中国国情 加快流通创新

分析中国城乡二元经济结构的基本特征,是流通创新的基点.从这一基点出发,研究"十五"期间流通创新的主要内容:流通制度创新、流通组织创新、流通业态创新和流通观念创新,以及提出这一系统工程的相应配套措施,更好地发挥流通对社会经济的功能.     

我国流通经济周期性波动分析

现代流通产业是国民经济的重要组成部分,并逐步成为国民经济的先导产业。本文对我国流通经济周期性波动特征进行统计分析,实证分析结果显示:我国流通经济存在增长型周期性波动,但流通经济周期性波动总体上正向“低位、平缓”型转变。     

数字经济背景下农产品流通模式创新分析

当前,数字经济飞速发展,农村也迎来一场数字化转型为主的重大变革。这一转型不仅极大地推动了农产品流通模式的创新,还促成了农产品流通模式的根本性变革。本文以数字经济发展为背景基础,全方位分析数字化对农产品流通渠道带来的影响,并制定完善的农产品流通模式,以期将数字经济的优势真正发挥出来,从而为我国农产品行业的发展奠定坚实的基础。本文通过对数字经济背景对农产品流通模式带来的影响进行分析,重点从五个方面制定完善的创新策略：渠道关系创新、渠道参与主体创新、流通业态创新、流通技术/手段创新、政府政策支撑体系创新,真正有效地在网络经济背景下构建完善的农产品流通形式,以更好地促进农产品行业的良好发展,推动农村经济发展。     

Understanding the Theoretical and Empirical Content of Critiques of U.S. Job Creation Research

Although the hypothesis that small firms create the majority of net new jobs is widely believed, a number of researchers have attacked this using empirical data. Since these attacks have been presented as corrections of past methodological errors, their authors may influence policy makers. This paper argues that the substance of these attacks is a difference in theoretical perspectives even though the researchers claim to focus on methodological differences. This paper explains the two underlying economic theories and then reviews the job creation research to demonstrate the relationship between theory and methodology.The theory discussion and methodological results demonstrates that all methodologies used to calculate small firms share of net new jobs are incorrect for analyzing the dynamics of capitalism. The appropriate methodology for understanding economic growth is analysis of new employment created over time by cohorts of newly formed firms. Recognition of this fact, combined with describing the empirical research supporting this approach, reinforces the use of economic development policies designed to promote entrepreneurship.     

Künstliche Intelligenz und der Faktor Arbeit

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential impact on the demand for human labour has become a fashionable topic — particularly among economic policy advisors. However, most papers that warn about high substitution rates of conventional jobs use questionable data and methodologies. Future economic policy advice ought to include a company perspective — and discover that disruption will be much more gradual and less dramatic than proclaimed by the current topical papers. As this AI revolution is just at its very beginning, economic policy makers are advised to accompany and support digital change instead of actively intervening in digital value chains with taxes and/or subsidies.     

Institutions,entrepreneurs, and communities: A special issue on entrepreneurship

This Special Issue's aim is to demonstrate that drawing on sociological research can further enrich entrepreneurship studies of institutions, entrepreneurs, and communities. We develop an organizing framework for our ten Special Issue papers that categorizes the pieces by community level and type, observed changes, form of entrepreneurial actor, institutional and entrepreneurial concepts and processes, and integrative methodologies. This set of categorizations helps us to identify components that scholars can use to build more mid-range theory around our special issue topics. The framework also helps us to isolate limitations in the Special Issue papers, thereby providing avenues for future research.     

Changing patterns of rewards in Asia: a literature review

The Asian growing economic importance has led to some important changes and developments in human resource management, such as rewards. The purpose of this article is to review the literature of rewards in Asia within the field of management. The study examines papers published in 33 leading international academic management journals between 1990–2007. A summary of the topics analysed, methodologies used, main themes developed, and future research directions is presented.     

Raising and Rising Voices in Social Media

Emerging cyber-collective social movements (CSMs) have frequently made headlines in the news. Despite their popularity, there is a lack of systematic methodologies to empirically study such movements in complex online environments. Using the Al-Huwaider online campaign as a case to illustrate our methodology, this contribution attempts to establish a rigorous and fundamental analysis that explains CSMs. We collected 150 blogs from 17 countries ranging between April 2003 and July 2010 with a special focus on Al-Huwaider’s campaigns capturing multi-cultural aspects for our analysis. Bearing the analysis upon three central tenets of individual, community, and transnational perspectives, we develop novel algorithms modeling CSMs by utilizing existing collective action theories and computational social network analysis. This article contributes a methodology to study the diffusion of issues in social networks and examines roles of influential community members. The proposed methodology provides a rigorous tool to understand the complexity and dynamics of CSMs. Such methodology also assists us in observing the transcending nature of CSMs with future possibilities for modeling transnational outreach. Our study addresses the lack of fundamental research on the formation of CSMs. This research contributes novel methodologies that can be applied to many settings including business, marketing and many others, beyond the exemplary setting chosen here for illustrative purposes.     

A review of research methodologies in international business

What is common practice in international business (IB) research methodology? To address this question, we surveyed 1,296 empirical articles published in six leading international business journals from 1992 to 2003. The study uncovers state-of-the-art approaches in research methodologies in IB in terms of five major aspects: data collection methods, sample sources including sampled countries and subjects, sampling methods, sample sizes, and response rates. The results indicate that (1) mail questionnaire surveys dominate empirical research, (2) 60.9% of the studies use a one-country sample (88.9% from western countries), (3) 33.7% of the studies are based upon sample frames provided by third parties, and (4) the median sample size is 180 with an average response rate of 40.1%. Suggestions and recommendations are also provided to improve the methodological rigor of IB research.     

Measuring product market efficiency: A new methodology

This paper proposes a new methodology to measure product market efficiency. Our approach is based on the economic theory of product market equilibrium where consumers have incomplete information, and it allows quality to be multidimensional. We illustrate the methodology and compare it with other methodologies including the data envelopment analysis (DEA)-based procedure of Kamakura, Ratchford, and Agrawal (1988). The empirical results show that our model is robust to the precise distributional form of the disturbance term. In addition, our efficiency estimates are always equal to or lower than the DEA estimates of efficiency.     

Export-led growth: a survey of the empirical literature and some non-causality results. Part 1

The economic development and growth literature contains extensive discussions on relationships between exports and economic growth. One debate centres on whether countries should promote the export sector to obtain economic growth. An abundant empirical literature on this export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis has followed. We aim to contribute to this literature in two ways. In this paper, part 1, we provide a comprehensive survey of more than 150 export-growth applied papers. We describe the changes that have occurred, over the last two decades, in the methodologies used empirically to examine for relationships between exports and economic growth, and we provide information on the current findings.The last decade has seen an abundance of time series studies that focus on examining for causality via exclusions restrictions tests, impulse response function analysis and forecast error variance decompositions. Our second contribution is to examine some of these time series methods. We show, in part 2, that ELG results based on standard causality techniques are not typically robust to specification or method. We do this by reconsidering two export-led growth applications – Oxley’s (1993) study for Portugal, and Henriques and Sadorsky’s (1996) analysis for Canada. Our results suggest that extreme care should be exercised when interpreting much of the applied research on the ELG hypothesis.     

What do we know about outsourcing in hotels?

This paper uses a content analysis focused on papers about outsourcing in hotel management in order to know the level of development reached in this research area. With that aim in mind, the authors have started from a review of the articles dedicated to this topic which are indexed in the ABI and Scopus databases. This allows conclusions to be drawn, which suggest the most successful thematic areas and research methodologies. Researchers are encouraged to enhance this field of study with empirical works where the results obtained so far can be checked in new geographical locations.