站在"十二五"的门口:关于物流技术与装备发展的思考

"十一五"期间,在国家"十一五"规划纲要的指导下,以及国务院<物流业调整和振兴规划>的实施,我国物流业发展迅速,2009年全国物流总额达到96.65万亿元,比"十五"末期的2005年翻一番还多,年平均增长19.08%.     

『十五』乡镇企业科技进步纲要

编者按:为进一步贯彻落实党的十五大、十五届五中全会及中共中央、国务院<关于加强技术创新,发展高科技,实现产业化的决定>精神,引导乡镇企业大力推进科技进步和创新,农业部制定了<"十五"乡镇企业科技进步的纲要>.     

我国的十个五年计划

第五个年计划——在曲折中实现历史转折 我国第五个五年计划期是从1976年到1980年."五五"计划没有独立的文本,计划的内容包含在<1976～1985年发展国民经济十年规划纲要>之中.从1974年开始制定<1976～1985年发展国民经济十年规划纲要>,到1980年"五五"计划期结束,前后历经7年.这7年既是我国经济社会环境发生深刻变化的时期,也是我国经济建设指导思想、发展战略和管理体制发生翻天覆地变化的重要转折期.这些变化对中国的发展产生了深远影响,也使"五五"计划成为调整和变化最多的五年计划.     

必须发展有国际竞争力的企业集团

为实现<"十五"计划纲要>提出的"形成一批拥有著名品牌和自主知识产权、主业突出、核心能力强的大公司和企业集团"的要求,最近,国务院办公厅转发了国家经贸委等8部门起草的<关于发展具有国际竞争力的大型企业集团的指导意见>(以下简称<指导意见>),标志着我国发展一批具有国际竞争力的企业集团的工作有了明确的政策依据.     

改革开放30年广西科技企业孵化器的发展

文章概述了广西科技企业孵化器发展的变化情况,总结"十五"期间广西科技企业孵化器成功的经验,分析存在的问题,提出贯彻落实<中国科技企业孵化器"十一五"发展规划纲要>,整合社会资源加强孵化能力建设,探索多种形式科技企业孵化器的建设等建议.     

乡镇企业贯彻落实《纲要》的若干探讨(一)

3月15日,九届全国人大四次会议通过了<中华人民共和国国民经济和社会发展第十个五年计划纲要>.<纲要>规定:"支持引导乡镇企业推进结构调整、技术进步和体制创新,促进乡镇企业合理聚集、健康发展."并在很多方面对乡镇企业提出了要求.乡镇企业在实施<纲要>过程中要充分发挥中坚力量的作用.     

贯彻落实《实施纲要》精神进一步发挥审计监督职能

最近,中共中央颁布了<建立健全教育、制度、监督并重的惩治和预防腐败体系实施纲要>,这是以胡锦涛同志为总书记的党中央在全面总结历史经验、科学判断形势基础上作出的重大战略决策.<实施纲要>明确了建立健全惩治和预防腐败体系的指导思想、主要目标、工作任务和基本要求,体现了标本兼治、注重预防、从源头上防治腐败的精神,是深入持久开展党风廉政建设和反腐败工作的纲领性文件.当前,审计机关在贯彻落实<实施纲要>中要切实做好三个方面的工作:     

区域性物流中心城市构建理论及应用研究——以四川攀枝花市为例

现在,我国正处在加速城市化增长的阶段,在今后20-50年内我国城市型的物流中心将成为物流产业增长的核心之一.2003年5月,四川省人民政府出台了<四川省"十五"及2010年现代物流业发展规划纲要>,根据省政府的部署,拟把攀枝花市作为构建区域物流中心试点城市.因此,对攀枝花市发展区域物流,构建区域物流中心城市软硬环境进行系统而全面研究具有十分重要的现实意义.     

公众参与制定新世纪第一个五年计划

根据中共中央十五届五中全会通过的<中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十个五年计划的建议>精神,在国务院的统一部署下,在全国人民的关注下,国家计委在积极开展<国民经济和社会发展第十个五年计划纲要>的研究制定工作中,为集思广益,增强"十五"计划的前瞻性和科学性,提高规划制定的社会参与度和透明度,从2000年10月23日起,与有关新闻单位共同开展了"十五"计划征文活动,向社会公众广泛征求对编制"十五"计划<纲要>的意见和建议.这项活动在社会上引起了巨大反响,得到了广大人民群众的积极响应和热情支持,取得了圆满的结果.     

如何做好国家科技计划项目（课题）概预算的编报

近年来,在党中央、国务院的领导下,我国科技创新体系建设成效显著,落实<国家中长期科学和技术发展规划纲要>取得重要进展,重大科技项目建设不断推进.科研成果不断涌现,科技队伍不断壮大.科技体制改革不断深化.我国自主创新能力进一步提高,科技对经济社会发展的支撑作用明显增强,为国家的长远发展奠定了坚实基础.     

Options as a Marketing Tool: Pricing a Promotional Scheme for a Product with a Secondary Market

Adding options to durable products allows new opportunities for manufacturers and retailers in markets with a secondary market to create better segmentation schemes, provide creative means to differentiate their products and services, and increase the value they offer consumers. This raises the need for sellers to properly price such options. This work presents a few examples of incentive programs for the car industry, develops models and calculates their cost to the seller, demonstrating the applicability of the proposed methodology. Our numerical results indicate that such options are surprisingly inexpensive for car manufacturers and dealers. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

营销团队建设“三步曲”

“铁打的保险公司，流水的保险代理人”，保险公司各级主管在这边马不停蹄不遗余力地增员，报纸、网站上的代理人招聘广告铺天盖地满天飞扬，不停地面试，然后不停地办理入职手续。业务员却在那边不间断地流失和“阵亡”，好不容易搭建起来的营销团队，一不留神就没有了，主管们又重新变成“光杆司令”了，只好孤军奋战，还有那些“没走”的，也就是处于名存实亡状态的“睡眠代理人”。新面孔不断出现，“不老的面孔”不断地消失，人员的频繁进出构成保险公司营销部门一道独特的行业风景线。请看——[编者按]     

Advertising a product to face a competitor entry: a differential game approach

We analyze a market in which advertising is the dominant marketing tool to create market share. We assume that an incumbent firm dominates the market during an initial stage, and that a new competitor is going to enter the market. In particular, we analyze the different advertising policies that the incumbent firm can adopt, before and after the entry of the rival. We explore three possible behaviours. In the first scenario the firm knows that the competitor will arrive at a given instant. In the second one we assume the original firm to be surprised, in the sense that it does not anticipate the entry of the opponent either because it does not expect the competitor to arrive, or it is not prepared to react before the entry takes place. Finally, in the third scenario, the original firm knows that the competitor will enter at a constant rate. We characterize a differential game model and compare the firms’ behaviours in a strategic perspective.     

Between a rock and a hard place: managing diversity in a shareholder society

This study examines whether the appointment of racial/ethnic minorities into top management positions has a different impact on share price than the appointment of Caucasians into equivalent positions. Our dependent variable is the degree of change in share price following the announcement of racial/ethnic minority and Caucasian men into senior management positions. Market reaction to the naming of racial/ethnic minorities into corporate leadership positions is significant and negative, while the market's reaction to the naming of Caucasians is significant and positive. However, the negative market reaction to the appointment of racial/ethnic minorities into top management positions is mitigated in those firms that have explicitly incorporated diversity into their strategic growth plan. Our findings suggest that to successfully introduce diversity into upper management, firm decision makers must first signal the importance of diversity to market actors.     

Reevaluating waste as a resource under a circular economy approach from a system perspective: Findings from a case study

The circular economy (CE), definable as a system focused on the reorganization of material, information, and energy flows to achieve greater resource efficiency through the reuse, remanufacturing, and recycling of materials, is a concept widely discussed by practitioners and scientists of many disciplines. Waste recycling is integral to the CE, but there are still few articles focused on waste, and only few studies shed light on CE implementation at the company level. This paper focuses on a particular type of waste, that is, absorbent hygiene products (AHPs), which represents a nonnegligible fraction of municipal solid waste, considered an increasingly serious global challenge. We conducted our analysis on FaterSMART, an Italian firm that developed a unique worldwide technology able to totally convert AHP raw material wastes into recyclable materials, under a CE approach. The case study findings are based upon semi-structured interviews, direct observations, and analysis of FaterSMART's archival documents and are analyzed according to a framework developed for the research and focused on the place of waste from a linear economy, in which waste is considered a burden to CE, in which waste is considered a resource. The latter case is what we found that happens at FaterSMART. FaterSMART's findings could contribute to open up new management scenarios and stimulate further research into how this and similar types of technology will help societies to change from the “use-it-once-and-throw-it away” mentality of linear business models to the sustainable CE model that fully conceptualize waste as a resource for the system.     

Without a vision, a business may perish

The process described is not only viable for a company, but also can be used by any group that is gathered to perform any task. The process serves to explore strengths and weaknesses so the group can use one and shore up the other. It looks at the outside forces that may affect the work and allows the group to place its effort in the areas it can influence. By looking at what is or about to occur, the process may be able to create synergism or prevent disaster. A vision or direction statement that many if not all had some input into is easier to understand and support. Referral to these benchmarks or compass points makes the journey easier.     

Was George a Dreamer or a Realist?

Abstract . The republication of Steven Cord's Henry George: Dreamer or Realist? makes available once more a work which dealt with insight and depth of analysis with the misconceptions, factual inaccuracies and offhand dismissals of the American economist and social philosopher's theories. Although he alienated many in the academic community, George attracted many leading scholars in it to significant research on basic problems of our times.     

Congestion in a city with a central bottleneck

We consider dynamic congestion in an urban setting where trip origins are spatially distributed. All travelers must pass through a downtown bottleneck in order to reach their destination in the CBD. Each traveler chooses departure time to maximize general concave scheduling utility. We find that, at equilibrium, travelers sort according to their distance to the destination; the queue is always unimodal regardless of the spatial distribution of trip origins. We construct a welfare maximizing tolling regime, which eliminates congestion. All travelers located beyond a critical distance from the CBD gain from tolling, even when toll revenues are not redistributed, while nearby travelers lose. We discuss our results in the context of acceptability of tolling policies.     

Simulation of a blood-inventory-bank system in a hospital

A blood-bank inventory system has been analysed viewing it as an inventory-hank system where the demand forecasting forms a part of the inventory model. A simulation model incorporating the “desired-beginning-inventory-level” policy has been used for the analysis of system-performance. Optimal inventory policy-guidelines have been suggested for a hospital blood-bank using blood shortage and blood out-dating as the two important components of the measure of effectiveness. Numerical results have been given.