Goleo-Ⅵ,the World Cup''''s Mascot,Bad Omen for one,Good Fortune for the other

The whole world swirls as the football runs madly on the green patches of sports field. The World Cup heats up the football squeaking fans, but freezes Niciag, the only designated mascot manufacturer that declared a closing of business for not making a penny out of this lion-like but odd-looking doll.     

The Survival of the Fittest,the Market Philosophy Works

In China, the cotton textile industry undertakes over 50% of the total fiber processing volume, rendering a great number of quality yarns & cloth to its downstream pipelines, such as knitting, dyeing & finishing, home-textiles and apparels industries. In 2005, the export of Chinese cotton textiles & apparels reached US$41.13 billion, import US$5.393 billion. At present, the total employment in the large-scale cotton textile enterprises is estimated for 2.512 million people, holding 26.5% of …     

Shanghaimart,Starring the Sourcing Show

The day to hold the International Apparel Sourcing Fair in Shanghaimart is on its way to count down. When the domestic sup- pliers are busy preparing for this event, they could not help but wondering how many international buyers will come out and play, and how many order forms will be born? Why Shanghai? As the globalization of the world economy has speeded up its process, more international buyers now have a better realization about China's market. The Chinese manufacture system has be- …     

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the phase and voltage to switch to power line smoothly.The simulation verifies validity of the method.DQ0 coordinate transformation;freguency converter;synchronous switching;soft switching;Matlab simulation0电气传动自动化Electric Drive Automation25-27TM921.51C042C2C;C042_C2彭继     

Sessions Planned for the Industrial Organization Society at the ASSA Meetings,at Boston,January 7–9, 2001

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Mr.Du,the Steersman''''s Brainstorming to Helm the Industry''''s Sailing

The nation-wide conference of devel-opment and reform for textile industrywas held here on January 12th, 2006 af-ter China weathered through the storms& torrents of various trade disputes in thetroubled water of 2005 and arrived at portof the new year, the start of the next Five-Year Plan period from 2006 all the wayto 2010. A roadmap for the country's eco-nomic & social growth with each fiveyear group as a routine time-table, thisplans making tradition has remained un-changed since its first…     

Economics at the FCC 2020–21: Closing the Connectivity Gap,COVID-19 and Telehealth,Spectrum Auctions,Communications Marketplace Report,and Economic Research

Review of Industrial Organization - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is responsible for regulation in the communications marketplace and for management of the nation’s non-federal...     

Designing the future? Technology,values and choice

There is a widespread recognition of the desirability of broadening the scope of technology education with the objective of a form of technological literacy which would embrace social relations as well as technique. In 1990, Technology was introduced as a compulsory element of general education in England and Wales. Initially the curriculum gave equal weight both to the context as well as the content of technological activity, but subsequent revisions point the way back to an emphasis on technique and a narrower view of the role of the designer. In some respects, this simplifies the task of the technology teacher, and it might also be said to reflect the everyday realities of much technological activity. It is, however, an essentially conservative approach which tends to reinforce and legitimise attitudes which place a high value on technical performance while consigning the purposes and outcomes of technological activity to the shadows. It is argued that, for the sake of the future, it is essential that values in design and technology are brought up to the light. Technology teachers should take some responsibility for this, but cannot be expected to shoulder the whole burden.     

Safeguard,A Jab for the ''''China Flu'''' Pandemic?

Suddenly China has got all theguns pointed at her and being treatedas a'threat', or let's put it this way- apowerful and unstoppable virus.China's share in the US textile mar-ket has swirled up from 12 percentto a soaring 42 percent and textileexports from China to the EU haveincreased by 45 percent for the firstsix month of 2005, and the WorldTrade Organisation says that Chinais soon likely to control 50 percentof the world's textile market. Sosomebody has to do something, andthey have, i…     

Chinese Textile Industry,Five Years in the Past & Half a Decade in the Future

AchievementsinthePastfiveyearsThe following nine points characterize the panorama of achievements in the textile industry in past five years, known as 'the 10th Five-Year Plan Period'1.A sustained rapid and consistent growth2.A consistent improvement both in quality and benefits for the industry's economic performan3. Rapid enhancement in process technology and equipment4. Innovation capability largely strengthened5.Investment from non-governmental sectors is obviously strengthening its rol…     

Pesticide residues and trade,the apple of discord?

In this paper we study the impact of the regulations on Maximum Residue Levels (MRLs) of pesticides on the trade of apples and pears and related processed products with the aim of understanding how their similarity (or dissimilarity) affect trade. Most studies investigate the impact of sanitary regulations introducing directly in the analysis the MRL put in force in the importing country. They introduce in the analysis the level of the regulation in the importing country without taking into account the rule in force in the exporting country. Rather than focusing on a particular pesticide we take into account the entire list of substances set out by the various regulations. We then build a similarity index and introduce it into a gravity equation to assess the impact of the differences in MRL of pesticides on trade. Results suggest that the differences between regulations matter and may, in some case, hinder trade.     

Does imitation reduce the liability of foreignness? Linking distance,isomorphism, and performance

Research summary : Research demonstrates that foreign firms from institutionally distant countries imitate the practices of domestic firms (i.e., adopt an isomorphism strategy). The conjecture has been that pursuing such a strategy can help foreign firms counteract the deleterious performance consequences associated with institutional distance; yet there is scant evidence of such. This study treats isomorphism as an endogenously selected strategy influenced by institutional distance to examine its performance consequences. Using a dataset of 80 foreign banks from 25 countries operating in the United States, we find that foreign firms from institutionally distant home countries benefit initially from selecting an isomorphism strategy. However, the benefits diminish with experience. Managerial summary : Multinational companies experience great difficulty in managing institutional distance, and research suggests that one way to overcome distance‐related constraints is to imitate the strategies of local companies. Unfortunately, we do not know enough about the performance‐related consequences of engaging in such imitative behavior. This study examines whether imitating local firms improves performance for multinational companies from institutionally distant markets. We find that imitation improves a firm's performance at first; however, with experience those same strategies result in performance decrements. Managers of multinationals should therefore be careful not to get locked into imitative strategies that provide performance benefits upon entry, but that fail to provide benefits over time. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Shareholder value,stakeholder management,and social issues: what's the bottom line?

We test the relationship between shareholder value, stakeholder management, and social issue participation. Building better relations with primary stakeholders like employees, customers, suppliers, and communities could lead to increased shareholder wealth by helping firms develop intangible, valuable assets which can be sources of competitive advantage. On the other hand, using corporate resources for social issues not related to primary stakeholders may not create value for shareholders. We test these propositions with data from S&P 500 firms and find evidence that stakeholder management leads to improved shareholder value, while social issue participation is negatively associated with shareholder value. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

''''28 + 10'''',Not Antes in the Game,China Playsits Trump Card

As soon as the New Year rolled around,China, 'a card shark' as one might nick-name it, started to shuffle the card to playeven more confidently in the textile arenain the coming five years that could be bestcharacterized as an 'Innovation-OrientedEra', the theme being laid out clearly atthe on-going National People's Congressin Beijing.China has vehemently, if notoutrageously, been criticized by manycountries for what was assumed to be con-ducting 'unfair trade practices', but veryfew peopl…     

Perfect timing? Dominant category,dominant design,and the window of opportunity for firm entry

The optimal time to enter emerging industries is a key concern in strategy, yet scholars struggle to create a theoretical foundation that can integrate conflicting empirical findings. We incorporate categorical dynamics to industry life cycle theory to enhance existing entry timing theories. We introduce the concept of a dominant category—the conceptual schema that most stakeholders adhere to when referring to products that address similar needs and compete for the same market space—linking it to the dominant technological design and entry‐timing advantages. In particular, we propose the existence of a window of opportunity for firm entry that starts with the emergence of the dominant category and ends with the emergence of the dominant design. © 2013 The Authors. Strategic Management Journal published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.     

“High-Tech” Antitrust: Incoherent,Misguided, Obsolete,or None of the Above? Comments on Crandall-Jackson and Wright

That prominent antitrust cases have been in the “high-tech” arena is not surprising, since high-tech industries are often susceptible to the scale economies that lead to highly concentrated or monopoly markets. Crandall and Jackson’s observations on the IBM case are on point. Regarding AT&T, the salient observation is that recent changes in legal doctrine may make it impossible to bring antitrust cases in regulated industries. The problem with the Microsoft case was not that it was right or wrong, but that it was fundamentally incoherent. Wright’s critique of the Federal Trade Commission’s case against Intel is problematic because buyers in exclusion cases tend to be better off, not victims as they would be under collusion or anticompetitive mergers. As these observations apply more generally to cases in sectors that are not associated with high-tech, I offer a few thoughts on some antitrust issues that are particular to high-tech sectors, specifically how the prospect of innovation could affect market definition in merger cases and, more broadly, whether dynamic efficiencies reduce the need for antitrust enforcement.     

China,the 3~(rd) Largest Recipient of FDI

The WIR 2006 (World Investment Report 2006) indi- cated that China has become the worlds' third largest coun- try in attracting foreign direct investment in 2005. Also, it takes the lead to become the most popular destination for FDI amongst the developing countries last year. The United Kingdom saw its inward FDI surge by US$108 billion to reach a total of US$165 billion, making it the largest recipi- ent in 2005. Despite a decline in the level of inward FDI, the United States was t…     

Food,energy and environment: Is bioenergy the missing link?

We study price linkages between the food, energy and bioenergy markets. A vertically integrated multi-input, multi-output market model allows us to derive testable hypothesis, which we test by applying time-series analytical mechanisms to nine major traded food commodity prices along with one weighted average world crude oil price. The data consists of 939 weekly observations from January 1993 to December 2010. The empirical findings confirm the theoretical hypothesis that the prices for crude oil and food commodities are interdependent: a USD 1/barrel increase in oil prices and food commodity prices increase by between USD 0.09/tonne and USD 1.65/tonne.