农产品逆向物流的运作模式及对策研究

农产品逆向物流是农产品在流通中的容器、包装物以及农资产品、农村消费品的从城镇到农村的流动过程。在对农产品逆向物流进行了定义和对其特点、现状、面临问题进行分析后,提出可以采用双向共赢,组合优化的车辆利用型的共同配送运作模式,实现农产品包装物、农资产品和农村消费品等以较低的费用从城镇到农村的回流。     

农产品逆向物流的发展

农产品逆向物流是对农产品正向物流的补充和完善,是实现经济循环可持续发展的必要条件,既关系到农产品生产者(农户)的利益,又关系到消费者的切身利益。文章阐述了农产品逆向物流的含义及特征,并分析了发展农产品逆向物流的重要意义,进而提出了相应的发展对策。     

低碳经济下的农产品绿色物流新模式

农产品绿色物流是在农产品物流环节融入绿色物流的理念,利用有效的物质循环,加强农产品正向物流以及逆向物流的生态管理,实现物流过程中产生废物最小化,保证废物处理可以实现资源化以及无害化,进而实现农产品有效增值的物流活动。其目标是降低环境污染、减少能耗、节约资源。由于人们对三农、绿色消费、绿色生产的不断关注,导致农产品流通中的相关问题逐渐凸显,农产品绿色物流被认为是农村经济健康稳定发展的重要手段。低碳经济的观念影响了人们的生产、生活方式,同时改变了农产品绿色物流的成本收益关系。在国家大力提倡低碳经济的前提下,发展农产品绿色物流迎来了全新的机会。     

农产品逆向物流的博弈分析

农产品逆向物流特有的动态复杂性、效益性及效益背反等特征,要求逆向物流构成的闭环供应链上众节点协同进行合理化管理.在寻求社会效益和企业自身效益的平衡中,政府和企业的博弈是关键,以政府和企业作为决策主体构建了农产品逆向物流博弈模型,并求出博弈的策略纳什均衡解,通过对所得结果的分析,指出政府及企业在农产品逆向物流体系建设中的相应策略.     

逆向物流潜在价值探析

逆向物流作为在传统物流及现代物流上发展起来,为满足人类逐渐增强的环保意识和对绿色产品的渴求应运而生的产物,肩负着改善人类生存环境、加强能源可持续发展、提升制造流通企业利润等一系列重任。文章在详细分析逆向物流产品运作存在问题的基础上,论述了逆向物流成本与收益组成,从而进一步提出挖掘逆向物流潜在价值对策。     

山西省农产品物流发展现状及问题研究

农产品物流是物流业的一个重要分支,是为了满足消费者需求而进行的农产品物质实体及相关信息从生产者到消费者之间的物理性经济活动,农产品物流是连接农产品生产与流通的关键环节,是提高整个农业系统运行效率的关键因素.文章通过对农产品物流理论和国内外农产品物流的发展,研究山西农产品物流发展现状,对农产品合作组织的主体、流通环节中不同范围的农产品物流活动、农产品的销售市场等方面存在的问题进行了深入分析,提出山西省农产品物流发展对策和政策建议.     

我国汽车制造业绿色逆向物流体系构建研究——基于循环经济3R原则

结合汽车绿色逆向物流理论和发展现状,基于循环经济3R原则,从汽车生产、流通、消费三个环节切入,构建了我国汽车制造业绿色逆向物流过程体系,并针对目前汽车制造业逆向物流存在的问题,提出了该体系实施的保障措施,最后总结全文并针对汽车逆向物流的发展提出相关建议.     

湖南省农产品物流发展战略规划

农产品物流是促进农产品流通的载体,其运行的好坏直接影响到农村及城市经济发展与民生。文中通过分析湖南省农产品物流的现状,总结出湖南省农产品物流尚存在的不足。在分析面临的发展环境的基础上针对性地提出了发展战略建议,希望能够促进湖南省农产品物流的高速稳步发展,实现新型城镇化的战略目标。     

供应链一体化导向下农产品物流整合模式研究

首先分析了我国目前农产品物流实践环节中存在的农产品物流环节过多、批发市场不健全、农产品流通中信息化程度较低等问题,提出农产品物流必须按照供应链一体化的导向和要求对生产和流通环节进行整合和集成,最后重点研究和探讨了对农产品生产环节、流通环节以及生产流通环节的供应链一体化集成和整合方案.     

基于供应链理论的果蔬类农产品物流模式研究

文章对人们首选的生鲜农产品——果蔬类农产品的物流模式进行研究．通过国内外农产品物流发展现状的对比分析,以供应链理论为基础,构建了以生鲜农产品加工配送中心为核心,以上游农户以及批发市场、下游生鲜超市为主要节点企业的果蔬类农产品供应链的物流模式,从而减少果蔬类农产品流通环节,降低物流成本,提升流通价值,进而推动果蔬类农产品市场的高效运营。     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Ansätze und Ergebnisse anglo-amerikanischer M&A-Forschung

Based on a review of established U.S. management journals (1995–2003), six schools of thought are identified within the Anglo-American M&;A research: “Capital Market”, “Principal/Agent”, “Industrial Organization”, “Organizational Behavior”, “Human Resources” and “Strategic Management”. The literature review shows that the definition of M&;A success, the methods applied, and insights from empirical research differ according to the respective school of thought. Empirical studies focus on the resource combinations of merger partners, the specific circumstances of merger negotiations, and on integration management as antecedents of merger performance. Unfortunately, empirical findings have not yet provided reliable explanations for M&;A success. Based on the current state of Anglo-American M&;A research, the authors discuss implications for business practice, identify research gaps, and propose areas for future research.