对我国物流标准化建设的建议

目前我国物流标准化推广应用缓慢,现有的物流标准化管理体制落后,物流信息的标准化混乱,物流技术标准和物流作业标准不统一。因此,文章提出发展物流标准化的几点建议,以加速我国物流标准化的建设,进而使我国物流更好地与国际物流接轨。     

标准化--现代物流的基础

标准化是规范物流市场和企业、有效地管理和引导物流市场和物流企业、降低物流成本，促进我国物流业与国际市场接轨、推动物流业向现代化方向发展的基石。本文从标准化内涵，我国物流标准化现状极其发展意义进行研究，并提出一系列对策．     

物流标准体系的构建

贸易自由化、市场全球化、通讯信息化,使得物流业成为一个朝阳行业,是继劳动力、资源之后的第三个利润源泉.我国物流标准化建设还处于起步发展阶段,表现为:物流系统的标准化程度较低,物流标准之间衔接与配套不够,物流的非标准化设施和行为仍很普遍,与国际接轨不够.     

我国国际物流发展探析

随着我国经济的飞速发展,国际物流业务不断增加,对我国国际物流提出了更高的要求。在对我国国际物流现状进行深入分析的基础上,指出存在的粗放式经营、物流园区规划不合理、信息化程度低等问题,并从完善物流网络和信息化、建立和完善物流技术标准化体系、培养国际物流人才、政策上大力扶持和保护我国国际物流业发展四方面提出解决问题的方法。     

关于加快我国农产品冷链物流标准化建设的思考

随着全球经济一体化的深化,农产品的市场竞争日趋激烈,中国农产品冷链物流国际化是大势所趋。如何与国际物流通行标准接轨,关键在于农产品冷链物流标准化建设。文章在研究我国农产品冷链物流标准化建设的重要意义及发展现状的基础上,针对当前存在的主要问题提出了相关建议。     

借鉴韩国经验 发展我国托盘标准化——赴韩物流标准化考察报告节选

应韩国物流协会和亚洲托盘协议会的邀请，由交通部科学研究院、中国物流与采购联合会、中国仓储协会、物流工程学会、北京科技大学物流研究所、《物流技术与应用》杂志等单位组成的赴韩物流标准化考察团，于９月２３日至２７日赴韩国参加了托盘标准化国际研讨会，访问了韩国物流行业团体，考察了企业物流标准化现状，并与韩国物流业界朋友进行了深入、广泛的交流和探讨。大家一致认为，韩国物流发展很快，物流标准化搞的很好，特别是托盘标准化更为突出。在 我国即将加入ＷＴＯ之际，学习。 借鉴国外先进的物流管理与运 作经验，对加快我国…     

中韩国际物流和贸易结构协同发展研究

在介绍中韩国际物流发展现状基础上,提出中韩物流标准不统一和我国物流信息化水平低、高素质物流人才匮乏等问题将制约中韩贸易的健康发展,分析了中韩国际贸易结构的变化趋势和中韩国际物流承载能力对贸易结构变化的影响,阐述了中韩国际物流和贸易结构协同发展的策略,即标准化国际物流合作以及协调发展我国东部地区国际物流渠道建设,为环渤海经济带调整产业结构、促进中韩国际物流和贸易发展提供参考。     

托盘标准化是“大物流”的起点

目前,我国物流企业使用的托盘种类繁多,使用范围也比较小,与国际通用托盘标准还没有完全接轨。而托盘作为整合供应链,提高物流效率的重要器具,广泛应用于物流活动的各个环节,合理使用托盘才能大大提高物流系统的作业效率,托盘标准化也是整合与优化物流系统的起点,因此,推行托盘标准化具有十分重要的意义。     

七大规划共促物流业蓬勃发展

《全国物流标准专项规划》的制修订对于我国物流业的发展具有非比寻常的意义。实施物流标准化，对于促进物流运作高效通畅、提高物流服务水平、优化物流作业流程、更好地与国际接轨具有重要作用。     

探讨我国绿色物流的发展

目前我国存在绿色物流观念落后、物流基础设施不完善、物流标准化不统一,另外包装废弃物利用不乐观、节能与减排滞后,同时绿色物流研究也相对落后、绿色物流专业人才缺乏。因此提出几点发展绿色物流的建议,政府应通过制定政策法规加强对绿色物流的管理、企业的生产经营战略要与环境保护相结合等,以加速我国绿色物流的建设,进而使我国物流更好地与国际物流接轨。     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.