基于物流量的物流园区数量规划

针对物流产业发展中物流园区数量过度增长的“物流园区热”现象．在利用一元线性回归法,并引入修正系数对物流量进行预测的基础上．对影响物流园区数量的物流园区强度、物流园区作业系数、物流园区第三方物流量占社会总物流量的比例及单个物流因区的用地面积等参数进行分析．介绍基于物流量的物流园区数量计算模型。将模型应用于青岛市物流园区数量规划的计算中．得出其合理性,     

物流园区建设项目绩效评价研究

为了有效评价物流园区建设阶段的绩效,以及为物流园区的后续运营提供良好条件,构建物流园区建设项目绩效评价模型,包括客观性的“硬绩效”和主观性的“软绩效”,使得评价指标体系更符合实际;最后结合层次分析法和专家打分法对某市物流园区建设项目的绩效评价进行案例分析.     

循环经济视角的物流园区绿色度灰色评价

循环经济和绿色物流是当前低碳经济的主题,本文在分析循环经济和绿色物流的相关性后,指出评价物流园区绿色度的重要性。建立了基于循环经济的物流园区绿色度评价指标体系,利用粗糙集对评价指标进行约简和权重的确定,最后建立了物流园区绿色度灰色评价模型。     

基于灰色熵权法的绿色商贸型物流园区运营绩效评价研究

文中通过商贸型物流园区运营的特点,分析了影响物流园区运营绩效的主要因素。再根据物流园区走绿色化道路的思想,提出绿色物流园区的运营指标体系;利用熵权法对所给的指标体系赋予权重,并用灰色关联度分析方法对指标体系进行分析与评价,结果表明：灰色熵权分析法的评价方法客观性强,实用准确。     

物流园区建设项目绩效评价研究

为了有效评价物流园区建设阶段的绩效,以及为物流园区的后续运营提供良好条件,构建物流园区建设项目绩效评价模型,包括客观性的"硬绩效"和主观性的"软绩效",使得评价指标体系更符合实际;最后结合层次分析法和专家打分法对某市物流园区建设项目的绩效评价进行案例分析。     

基于粗糙集理论与德尔菲法相结合的物流园区选址研究

通过分析影响物流园区选址的主要因素,建立了物流园区选址的评价指标体系,运用粗糙集理论与德尔菲法相结合的方法,得出物流园区选址的最佳方案。     

基于SERVQUAL的物流园区服务质量评价研究

从服务保障、服务提供和服务质量管理三个方面对物流园区服务做出了详细的阐述,并将SERVQUAL方法应用到物流园区服务质量评价中,从有形性、保证性、响应性、移情性和可靠性五个方面建立评价指标体系对物流园区服务质量进行评估。     

基于AHP-隶属度转换算法的物流园区风险评价

首先分析物流园区项目风险评价的意义及模糊评价方法的不足,结合AHP与隶属度转换算法的各自优势,构建了基于AHP-隶属度转换算法的物流园区项目风险综合评价模型;然后提出并运用Microsoft Excel软件计算评价目标隶属度;最后以某物流园区项目风险评价为例进行应用研究,验证了模型的可行性.     

基于模糊综合评价方法的物流园区绩效研究

合理有效的评价物流园区经营绩效,对于园区的投资者和经营者。都具有重要意义。依据绩效评价相关理论．结合物流园区的特点,给出物流园区绩效评价的指标体系．并运用模糊层次关系评价方法对物流园区的经营绩效进行综合评价。该方法简便、易行,评价结果客观、准确,在物流园区绩效评价领域具有一定的创新性。同时,评价结果既为投资者决策提供相关依据,也可以为经营者对园区运营管理的改进提供一定帮助,实用性很强。     

物流园区土地集约利用评价研究

物流园区的建设目前土地利用方面还存在不少问题.首先介绍了物流园区土地集约利用的基本情况,然后对物流园区建设土地利用的问题进行了分析,提出土地集约化利用的评价指标,最后对土地利用评价结果的问题提出了可行性的对策建议.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Multinomial distributions applied to random sampling of particulate materials

When sampling a batch consisting of particulate material, the distribution of a sample estimator can be characterized using knowledge about the sample drawing process. With Bernoulli sampling, the number of particles in the sample is binomially distributed. Because this is rarely realized in practice, we propose a sampling design in which the possible samples have a nearly equal mass. Expected values and variances of the sample estimator are calculated. It is shown that the sample estimator becomes identical to the Horvitz–Thompson estimator in the case of a large batch-to-sample mass ratio and a large sample mass. Simulations and experiments were performed to test the theory. Simulations confirm that the round-off error due to the discrete nature of particles is negligible for large sample sizes. Sampling experiments were carried out with a mixture of PolyPropylene (PP) and PolyTetraFluorEthylene (PTFE) spheres suspended in a viscous medium. The measured and theoretical variations are in good agreement.     

The Early History of the Cumulants and the Gram-Charlier Series

The early history of the Gram-Charlier series is discussed from three points of view: (1) a generalization of Laplace's central limit theorem, (2) a least squares approximation to a continuous function by means of Chebyshev-Hermite polynomials, (3) a generalization of Gauss's normal distribution to a system of skew distributions. Thiele defined the cumulants in terms of the moments, first by a recursion formula and later by an expansion of the logarithm of the moment generating function. He devised a differential operator which adjusts any cumulant to a desired value. His little known 1899 paper in Danish on the properties of the cumulants is translated into English in the Appendix.