项目物资管理的“五化”之路

通过推进物资管理队伍专业化、采购供应集中化、消耗管理精细化、过程控制标准化、业务流程信息化的"五化"建设,既保证了施工生产的物资供应,并且还大大降低了工程物资材料消耗。在铁路工程项目建设中,物资成本约占项目总成本的75%,物资管理好坏将直接影响施工企业的经济效益。中铁五局六公司高度重视物资管理工作,通过着实推进物资     

浅谈物资管理的标准化建设

物资管理的目的是通过对物资进行有效管理,以降低企业生产成本,加速资金周转,进而促进企业盈利、提升企业的市场竞争能力。在市场异常活跃的今天,物资标准化管理已经成为现代企业管理的重要组成部分,成为企业成本控制的利器,成为企业生产经营正常运作的重要保证,成为企业发展与壮大的重要基础。本文探讨了物资管理的标准化建设。     

浅论物资管理的经济效应

物资管理是企业运营的基础环节之一,如何有效控制物资管理成本,实现企业竞争力的增强,是当前企业面临的重要考验。笔者从物资管理的地位及作用着眼,就物资采购成本控制、现场材料管理及物资管理队伍建设三个方面,对物资管理工作的强化提出了一些看法与建议。     

浅论物资管理的经济效应

物资管理是企业运营的基础环节之一,如何有效控制物资管理成本,实现企业竞争力的增强,是当前企业面临的重要考验。笔者从物资管理的地位及作用着眼,就物资采购成本控制、现场材料管理及物资管理队伍建设三个方面,对物资管理工作的强化提出了一些看法与建议。     

信息化技术在物资管理中的应用与实践

在项目物资管理工作中,如何通过信息化技术手段,优质、高效地开展物资工作,使现场物资管理更能体现物资信息化、标准化管理的要求。     

浅析建筑施工中物资管理的措施

建筑行业的物资管理作为建筑施工企业生产运营管理的重要组成部分,其管理工作的好坏直接影响着建筑施工企业的经济效益、企业的成本投资和工程的质量,因此做好建筑施工中的物资管理工作非常重要,但是目前我国的建筑施工企业在物资管理过程中还存在一些问题。文章针对建筑施工企业物资管理存在的问题及原因进行了分析,并提出了提高物资管理水平的措施,旨在为建筑施工企业提供借鉴和参考。     

物资招投标管理体系的构建与优化策略

随着企业领导对物资招投标管理工作的日益重视,企业为物资招投标管理工作投入了大量的人力、物力和财力,但是在日常物资招投标管理工作中,依然存在许多有待完善的问题,因此本文详细的对物资招投标管理问题进行分析,并提出有针对性的优化策略,旨在为企业物资招投标管理的提高起到一定的参考价值.     

施工项目现场材料管理工作浅析

院施工单位的成本管理由许多环节组成,其中施工现场的物资管理工作就是其中的重要一环,材料的实际购进与耗用,机具和周转材料的领用与归还等基础工作的开展、原始信息的收集和初步加工、正确记录与基础核算及相关传递就是在这一环节完成的,物资管理工作是项目成本管理的重要基础之一,物资管理人员的专业技术能力直接影响着企业内部经济管理优化和成本有效控制的水平     

物资公司应参与施工企业直管项目管理

在企业经营活动中物资管理是企业全面标准化管理中的一个核心问题之一,现场物资管理标准化往往是施工企业标准化的一个标尺。因此项目物资管理尤为重要,不仅是管理方面的＂塑形＂需要,更重要的是可以通过好的管理节约项目物资采供成本。一、从源头上渗入工程项目,帮忙抓好物资招投标组织、规章制度建立、     

浅谈煤矿企业物资ABC管理法

煤矿企业的物资管理,是指煤炭企业进行生产和建设活动中所需要的生产资料的管理,做好物资管理工作,对于企业完成生产任务,节约物资,降低吨煤费用,加速资金周转,增加利润,以及对整个国民经济和企业经营都具有十分重要的意义。     

Development in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics

This paper outlines the ICT statistical developments that the ABS has undertaken over recent years. These developments have been on both the supply side (ICT industry) and the demand side (use of IT by sector). The content of ABS ICT surveys has changed significantly over the last few years and are expected to develop further in line with industry changes and emerging policy needs.
Recent developments in household collections have been the inclusion of IT use questions in the 2001 Census of Population and Housing and in various ABS social surveys such as Children's Participation in Culture and Leisure Activities. Annual business IT use surveys are now conducted and include topics such as Internet commerce and IT security. Biennial ICT industry surveys are conducted to provide data on ICT production, imports and exports, ICT industry employment, performance and structure information. An Internet activity survey is run every six months and provides regional Internet access details and infrastructure details on Internet service providers.
A major development for 2002–03 will be the compilation of an ICT satellite account. ABS intends to produce an ICT Information Development Plan to guide its future statistical development work in the ICT field.     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis

Several US counties and local governments have recently considered a novel solution to the foreclosure crisis. They plan to use eminent domain to compel the owners of mortgage debt—and specifically of private‐label mortgage‐backed securities—to sell the debt to the government at a price reflecting the loan's market value. The government would then restructure the debt and resell it to new investors. The plans are striking because—in contrast to both development‐driven eminent domain and the federal subprime bank bailout—they would force investors to assume asset devaluation and increased long‐term risk. Notably, the plans have emerged as an instance of financialization‐focused politics in suburbs and suburban cities of color, specifically majority‐black and ‐Latino/a suburbs. Local support for the plans, we argue, is rooted in the long‐term disinvestment of these ‘suburbs of exception', which became targets of subprime lending and eventually sites where the ‘financial exception' has been localized. But these demographic shifts, fragmentation and fiscal pressures have at the same time created a suburban political terrain in which the plans have gained their strongest political support.     

Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization

Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role in the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the importance of serendipity and identified important individual- and organizational-level antecedents. However, the literature has been dispersed and the boundaries of the concept have been blurry, leading to a lack of conceptual clarity and structure, and thus limiting validity and managerial actionability. Based on a systematic literature review, I synthesize existing management-related research on serendipity and explicate the emergence and composition of serendipity in the organizational context. I first identify three necessary conditions that differentiate serendipity from related concepts such as luck or targeted innovation: agency, surprise, and value. Then, I draw from the literature on sensemaking, event-based theorizing, and quantum-based approaches to management to conceptualize the process of cultivating serendipity in the organizational context as a process of enabling potentiality and materialization, and develop a multi-level theory of (cultivating) serendipity. This conceptualization contributes to our collective understanding of how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) organizations can leverage the value in the unexpected, which opens up fruitful avenues for further research.     

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh A critical overview

NGOs in Bangladesh have been recognized as effective change agents in the socio-economic arena throughout the world. Their contributions in micro credit, non-formal education and primary health care are widely known. NGOs play a significant role in society. NGO accountability, as a result, has become a critical issue. NGO accountability in Bangladesh has been examined here in relation to patrons, clients and themselves. Of the three relationships only accountability to patrons is in a near satisfactory state. Accountability to clients is handicapped by lack of opportunities of beneficiaries to participate meaningfully in NGO policy making. Accountability to themselves is adversely affected due to the adherence to a strictly hierarchical system and the influence of founding and charismatic NGO leaders.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

Towards an Asian model of human resource management? A comparative analysis of China,Japan and South Korea

There has been much discussion regarding the possible decline and weakening of national systems of human resource management (HRM). Yet, culture and institutions are often cited as the major stumbling blocks to this outcome. Such constraints may dissipate in the analysis, particularly if ‘regional clusters’ are considered where geographic and cultural closeness and ‘openness’ to similar economic pressures exist. In such cases, it might be postulated that convergence in HRM will occur. We argue that China, Japan and South Korea represent such a cluster. This article examines these countries, to see if a degree of convergence is taking place and if it is towards an identifiable ‘Asian’ model of HRM. A model of change is presented that distinguishes between levels of occurrence and acceptance. Details of the development and practice of HRM in each country are then set out. The article ends with a discussion and implications section and a brief conclusion.     

Ansätze und Ergebnisse anglo-amerikanischer M&A-Forschung

Based on a review of established U.S. management journals (1995–2003), six schools of thought are identified within the Anglo-American M&;A research: “Capital Market”, “Principal/Agent”, “Industrial Organization”, “Organizational Behavior”, “Human Resources” and “Strategic Management”. The literature review shows that the definition of M&;A success, the methods applied, and insights from empirical research differ according to the respective school of thought. Empirical studies focus on the resource combinations of merger partners, the specific circumstances of merger negotiations, and on integration management as antecedents of merger performance. Unfortunately, empirical findings have not yet provided reliable explanations for M&;A success. Based on the current state of Anglo-American M&;A research, the authors discuss implications for business practice, identify research gaps, and propose areas for future research.