An interdisciplinary research approach to manpower planning and development-an Israeli case study

The purpose of this paper is to describe a model for interdisciplinary research and to analyze the problems inherent in the application of this methodology. The discussion is illustrated by an analysis of a case study of the seafaring occupations in Israel.     

The role of organizational control in outsourcing practices: An empirical study

Recent case study research has examined the role of organization control as a critical component of outsourcing performance (Kang et al. 2012a. Journal of Business Research 65, 1195–1201). In contrast to case study methodology, this paper aims to empirically examine the relationships among outsourcing strategies and organizational control in the Chinese context and refine the theoretical and managerial implications of the current research model. Based on data collected from 158 firms operating in China, this paper examines the impact of two types of outsourcing strategies on different organizational control measures. Our findings suggest that for efficiency-seeking outsourcing, output control and process control are appropriate in creating successful outsourcing practices. As for innovation-seeking outsourcing, social control and process control are the most effective options. Theoretical and managerial implications for strategic outsourcing are also discussed.     

城市开放空间服务能力的研究方法探索

在回顾近期国内外城市开放空间研究的基础上,指出当前研究的趋势与不足,并提出一个全新的研究视角:通过建立城市开放空间"服务能力"的概念,构建对其评价的多维度"形动"(形态与活动)耦合模型。借助软系统的分析方法,提出该视角下的研究思路:在对典型研究问题进行理论研究的基础上,演绎出"(宏观)形态——(市民)活动——(微观)形态"的城市开放空间服务能力的概念模型;建议再通过实地资料收集和田野调研,以定量与定性相结合、宏观与微观综合分析的方法,揭示城市开放空间的现象和特征,并验证概念模型,为解释当前城市开放空间形态、提升城市开放空间的服务能力奠定基础。     

Pricing in a Service Sector Context: Accounting and Marketing Logics in the Hotel Industry

The paper analyses hotel room pricing via an application of institutional economic theory. The institutional framework considers the impact of accounting and marketing templates that help hotel managers make sense of complex pricing decisions. From an institutional perspective, the spread and implementation of these templates is influenced by specific historical factors and may be subject to path dependency. The institutional theory is applied to a case study using a pragmatic constructivist methodology. The case site revealed that whilst long run cost structures are important in locating the market niche of the business and that hotels use conventional cost control techniques, costs play relatively little role in price determination with a dominant role for marketing templates that concentrate on revenue management. The study suggests how the synthesis between institutional economics and pragmatic constructivism offers a research framework that could be replicated in further studies.     

The entropic indeterminateness of public interest: Case study of organized interest in electric power plant siting and technology options

The fundamental premise of this paper is that the integration of public values into collective action and policy must be based on a study of the public interest as an entropic process. To perform such a study, willingness-to-compromise and consistency of values are characterized as analogous to the concept of entropy. Hence high entropy is taken to imply unwillingness-to-compromise and consistency of values while low entropy to indicate that public values are in a state of flux. The assessment of the need for entropy reversal and the assessment of the entropic indeterminateness are suggested as focal points of research. A methodology is suggested and tested through the case study. Findings from the case study are also interpreted as illuminating the contributions of the approach and providing supportive arguments for a participatory, systematic, anticipatory and qualitative study of policy options and public values.     

Lessons from implementing the balanced scorecard in a small and medium size manufacturing organization

The UK manufacturing sector is facing massive challenges to survive in today's global and volatile marketplace. In an attempt to overcome these challenges, companies are adopting newer management systems to clarify their vision and strategy and translate them into action. The balanced scorecard (BSC) is one such approach which is gaining significant interest, especially within the small and medium size enterprises (SME). In this paper, a case study with a SME demonstrates how BSC can be implemented successfully using a systematic and structured methodology. This paper lists the experimental results of the proposed deployment method and highlights the experiences, successes and lessons leant during the implementation process. In conclusion, this research exercise confirms the validity and usefulness of the proposed methodology and offers managerial insights and guidelines for similar implementations.     

施工赶工计划优化

以原施工网络计划未实施部分构成新的网络计划。针对关键路线上每一个工作不同的时间压缩值建立费用矩阵，采用动态规划法寻找最优赶工方案。文中通过实例表示优化计算的方法与过程。     

Exploring Project Knowledge Acquisition and Exchange Through Action Research

This paper presents a research methodology used to develop a novel framework for an investigation into how project managers acquire and exchange knowledge. The qualitative study was conducted with six experienced project managers based in Australia. Adopting and augmenting an action research methodology, the data were analyzed using grounded theory techniques. Data collection occurred through four sequential interventions that aligned to three action research cycles. Three additional spin‐off cycles were utilized to ensure quality and validity of the research approach with an external reference group. The implications of this research approach are presented for application in future research.     

Is evil rewarded with evil? The market penalty effect of corporate environmentally irresponsible events

The negative response of the capital market to environmentally irresponsible events is an important governance mechanism that motivates enterprises to assume environmental responsibility. Based on the theory of effective markets and organizational legitimacy, this paper takes corporate environmentally irresponsible events in Chinese environmentally sensitive industries during the period of 2014–2018 as a research sample, and our work uses the event study methodology to explore the penalty effect of the capital market from a mathematical empirical and case empirical dimension. Furthermore, this research discusses the spillover effect of corporate environmentally irresponsible events in the capital markets. The empirical results show that once an irresponsible event is exposed, it causes a significant negative cumulative abnormal return (CAR) in the short term, and the difference between the industry and the ownership type leads to a significant difference in the duration and impact of the penalty effect. More interestingly, the capital market's penalty for corporate environmentally irresponsible events may have a notable industry spillover effect, but there are differences between the penalty effect and the spillover effect in different markets. This paper confirms that the penalty mechanism of the capital market related to an environmentally irresponsible event can effectively restrain the behaviour of the company involved and the industry to which it belongs, and it may also provide a new way for the government to build an eco‐environmental protection system of multisubject “co‐governance” and bring the punitive “forced” mechanism of the capital market to bear on corporate environmentally responsible behaviour.     

中国城市聚集经济实证分析:以天津市为例

聚集经济在城市经济及区域经济研究中占核心地位,它直接体现城市及区域空间结构的经济效率以及竞争力.本研究利用卡利诺模型来对1987年至2001年期间天津市聚集经济进行实证检验.其分析结果表明:在1990年至1994年间天津市呈现出正的聚集经济效应;在1996年至2001年期间呈现出负的聚集经济效应,就是聚集不经济;最近五年聚集经济呈现出上升趋势,相当靠近于1,2001年的聚集经济系数为0.984.本研究的分析结果表明,以工业为主的天津市城市经济效应并不明显,但是,最近天津市工业的总体效应是较良好的,即将能够创造出一些空间外部经济效应.     

商业CRO与制药客户的权力动态与信任战略

CRO和制药客户之间的供应商-采购商关系是现在组织理论研究中需要给予解释的领域。本文以中国商业性CRO为研究对象,采用案例研究的方法对此做了理论探索的工作。研究发现CRO和制药客户之间的关系是一种介于战略联盟和市场化合约之间的伙伴关系,两者之间的权力动态促使对信任的追求,并引发了CRO信任战略的采用。     

The ‘T-Shaped Buyer’: A transactional perspective on supply chain relationships

This paper challenges the normative view of interdependent buyer-seller relationships and provides a more holistic perspective of the contextual reality that shapes buyer behaviour. By proposing an innovative qualitative methodology, which focusses on boundary-spanning, pre-sales interactions, the research penetrates complex and commercially sensitive buyer-seller relationships. The longitudinal research design uses web-based diaries and follow-up interviews to explore conditions of power based interdependence between buyers and sellers. The ensuing data is mapped using qualitative content analysis and the results are aggregated graphically for assessment. Using this approach the study develops a nuanced view of the dominant patterns of buyer behaviour, and challenges the opinion that a search for competitive advantage will strengthen cooperative relationships in conditions of power based interdependence. The paper introduces the metaphor of the 'T-Shaped Buyer' to explain the empirical findings and, while acknowledging the contextual limits of the study, suggests that this metaphor may cause both academics and practitioners to reflect on normative thinking.     

A candidates selection approach for district alliance of university incubators

There are 79.3% of incubators in university campus. These university incubators are funded and directed by the government in Taiwan. However, each incubator has given limited resources and geographical limitation. To overcome these issues, district alliance is become a very good way. So that the total public expenditures required for incubators can be reduced. This paper uses the viewpoint of operation research for this issue. Base on the methodology of data envelopment analysis (DEA) and heuristic techniques, this research develops an evaluation method for university incubators to select their district partners to improve the potential average efficiency, integrating resources and enhancing performance. Realistic data are collected from Taiwan government for case study. The results indicate that the average efficiency of whole university incubators increases from 0.8000559 to 0.8962224 by our approach. The research analyses by slack variable analysis to assess the maximum operational performance as well. This research can effectively integrate the multi-resources of all university incubators, enhance competitive advantage and provides practical suggestions for government authorities when district alliance is assessed and initiated.     

An interaction approach to global sourcing: A case study of IKEA

This study explores the process of global sourcing through a case of the Swedish furnishing retailer IKEA from an interaction perspective. With a point of departure in the streams of existing research on global sourcing and the internationalization process of firms through networks, a research question is proposed concerning supply network interactions as an influence in the global sourcing process. The study uses an in-depth qualitative case study methodology, focusing on IKEA and its development of a supply network for the PAX wardrobe system during the years 2003–2009. The findings draw on 29 interviews in Sweden and China, ranging from interviews with the supply management function of IKEA to interviews with Swedish and Chinese suppliers and sub-suppliers. The findings show that the global sourcing process is influenced by interactions and network effects between supply network actors. In particular, we find that relationships between suppliers were identified and set up by IKEA, but cascaded into deeper interactions amongst suppliers at different supply network tiers. Our study contributes to global sourcing research in indicating the importance of interaction amongst supply network actors, showing how the global sourcing strategy of one actor may significantly influence the sourcing strategies of other actors. Global sourcing decisions therefore need to be understood and coordinated across global supply networks.     

论我国会计科学研究方法的专门研究

会计学是一门具有自身专属研究对象与研究内容的科学,它是社会科学体系中管理科学的一个重要组成部分,其理论的发展与创新离不开科学的研究方法,故会计科学研究方法也应作为会计科学理论体系中的一个专门问题进行研究。本文以对我国会计科学研究方法研究现状的评析为基础,提出会计科学研究方法研究成果的运用应当以推动其学术规范建设作为重点。     

Methodology in International acquisitions: An exploratory study

There has been relatively little empirical research into international acquisition methodology; this article examines several strategy and methodology issues through an exploratory approach based mainly on seven detailed case studies of UK-based companies. The research suggests, inter alia, that there has been greater concentration not only in terms of product categories but also in geographic markets, that the companies had well-established acquisition and country screening criteria and that for important acquisitions there is concern to achieve a detailed ‘strategic fit’. The article concludes by making tentative recommendations for company management regarding acquisition analysis.     

Taking the “Q” Out of Research: Teaching Research Methodology Courses Without the Divide Between Quantitative and Qualitative Paradigms

The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence that the debate between quantitative and qualitative is divisive and, hence, counterproductive for advancing the social and behavioral science field. We advocate that all graduate students learn to utilize and to appreciate both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies. As such, students will develop into pragmatist researchers who are able to utilize both quantitative and qualitative techniques when conducting research. We contend that the best way to accomplish this is by eliminating quantitative research methodology and qualitative research methodology courses from curricula and replacing these with research methodology courses at different levels that simultaneously teach both quantitative and qualitative techniques within a mixed methodological framework.An earlier version of this article received the 2003 Southwest Educational Research Association (SERA) Outstanding Paper Award.     

基于质量功能展开的供应链柔性优化研究

将质量功能展开方法运用到对供应链柔性优化的研究,借鉴相关的研究成果,首先找出影响供应链的柔性属性,再利用QFD方法识别出实际可行的柔性策略,从而提高供应链柔性。同时,层次分析法与模糊理论也被运用到文中的相关研究。最后,为了说明以上方法的实用性,结合某一具体行业进行实证研究。     

案例教学法在高级财务会计课程中的应用

本文认为,案例教学的实战性特征适应了高级财务会计课程内容复杂、研究性强等特点。在案例教学中,案例的选择应与教学目标、相关会计理论、当时经济活动以及国际会计案例相结合,反映教学的基本要求、会计改革与实践、学科发展前沿和会计国际化的进程。在组织案例教学时,可以采用实践探究模式或理论演进模式,通过案例准备、小组讨论、课堂讨论、撰写报告、教师小结等具体步骤实现案例教学目标。     

商业案例、教学案例和案例研究的关系

针对目前我国案例研究规范性不足的现状,本文从商业案例、教学案例和案例研究论文的角度出发,分别探究三种案例的本质以及它们之间的逻辑关系,并对未来的案例研究提出了以下建议：作为案例研究的基础,要重视商业案例;掌握将商业案例改编为教学案例的技巧;将案例研究和统计分析结合使用,以得出更加科学可信的研究结论。