Understanding the role of marketing-purchasing collaboration in industrial markets: The case of Russia

This study aims to investigate the role of interfunctional collaboration between marketing and purchasing functions in industrial companies. Interfunctional collaboration is considered as a measure of the internal alignment and partnership between departments in the firm, which in turn contributes to the creation of sustainable advantages via improved external partnerships and facilitating demand chain integration. We test the impact of customer orientation as well as the interactions between departments (specifically marketing and purchasing) as collaboration antecedents, and analyze the direct impact of marketing-purchasing collaboration on business performance. The model is tested on a sample of 148 industrial companies in Russia with two key respondents in each firm, incorporating the purchasing as well as the marketing perspective. The results show that marketing-purchasing collaboration mediates the effects of interfunctional interaction as well as customer orientation on business performance. Alternative model testing shows that the direct effects of these antecedent constructs on performance are non-significant in the context of Russian industrial companies.     

Getting bank financing: A study of Vietnamese private firms

Private firms in transition economies are operating in an extremely uncertain environment, with underdeveloped market institutions, poorly defined property rights, and absence of reliable business data. This raises a very basic question of how owners of these firms persuade bankers to make much needed loans. This study employs an institutional perspective and argues that firms' legitimacy positively influences their accessibility to bank financing. Specifically, this study develops a model that links networking, professional management practices, and growth stage with bank financing and tests that model using a sample of Vietnamese private firms. The results support the hypotheses that growth stage and networking greatly influence firms' accessibility to bank financing, and that the impact of networking on financing is contingent on the growth stage.     

基于B/S的中小型酒店预订房间系统的设计与实现

针对目前中小型酒店预订房间所采用的基于C/S结构的MIS系统时所遇到的一些问题,设计和实现基于B/S的中小型酒店预订系统。采用UML对系统进行建模,选用Eclipse开发工具作为开发平台,采用基于MVC模式的STRUTS框架结构对Web系统进行设计,应用TOMCAT架设了Web服务器,在应用中取得了良好效果。     

中小企业进行技术创新的意义与策略选择

中小企业的技术创新不仅对企业自身的成长和竞争力的提高起决定作用,而且在促进经济发展和增长方式的转变中起重要作用。中小企业由于受到多种因素的制约,技术创新能力还不强,从宏观和微观两个角度来说,可通过制度环境的改善、产业集聚、转变技术模仿模式、以市场为导向开展技术合作等措施来提高中小企业的技术创新能力。     

Acquisition announcements and stock market valuations of acquiring firms' rivals: A test of the growth probability hypothesis in China

To examine the impact of acquisition announcements on the stock market returns of rivals of the acquiring firms, we propose a growth probability hypothesis: when an acquisition is announced, it signals the potential for future growth in the acquirer's industry to the market, resulting in positive stock market reactions to rivals of the acquiring firms. We test the growth probability hypothesis with a longitudinal sample of Chinese domestic and cross‐border acquisitions during 1993–2008. The results provide robust support for this hypothesis as a means to explain market reactions to rivals of acquiring firms. We also empirically test and negate alternative theoretical explanations advanced in prior literature to explain positive market reactions to rivals of the target firms. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

中小企业技术创新的战略分析

伴随着我国市场经济的不断发展,中小企业在中国经济社会发展的地位和作用越来越重要。这也和世界各国中小企业的发展是一致的。在当今世界上,不管是发达国家、新兴工业化国家、还是发展中国家,都把发展中小企业作为振兴经济的战略措施,已形成了中小企业发展的世界性大潮。本文首先阐述中小企业技术创新的意义,然后分析中小企业技术创新的研究现状,在此基础上着重剖析技术创新的影响因素,最后提出提升技术创新的途径。     

邢台中小型纺织服装企业转型升级对策研究

文章以邢台中小型纺织服装企业发展现状为例,分析制约中小型纺织服装企业发展的因素,针对存在的主要问题,提出产业可持续发展的对策,为进一步推动中小型服装企业转型升级,提高市场竞争力,实现创新发展提供参考.     

国有商业银行对中小企业信贷支持的探讨

本文针对我国中小企业发展现状及其信贷融资难问题,归纳了造成国有商业银行对中小企业“惜贷”的原因,并在此基础上提出建立国有商业银行中小企业信贷支持体系的思路。     

中小企业上市公司会计政策选择问题研究

正确选择会计政策,提高会计信息质量,是会计工作的一项重要内容。不同的会计政策会产生不同的会计信息,会使企业的利益相关者产生不同的决策,进而对社会资源分配产生影响。本文介绍了中小企业板上市公司会计政策的选择情况,分析了其中存在的问题,并有针对性的提出了一些解决办法,希望能给同类公司提供借鉴,从而提高中小企业上市公司会计业务的处理水平。     

我国中小商业银行的操作风险问题研究

商业银行作为经营金融资产和负债的机构,风险也随之诞生。近年来,作为商业银行风险之一的操作风险在银行业金融机构日常的经营业务过程中所造成的损失日益严重,越来越受到银行业金融机构与有关监管部门的重视。在现代竞争激烈的社会,降低操作风险造成的损失也就是间接地提高金融机构的竞争力,提升金融机构的服务质量。中小银行发展初期注重业务的快速发展,操作风险管理起步较晚,操作风险管理水平较低,操作风险管理体系仍需不断完善。     

Past,present and future trends of purchasing and supply management: An extensive literature review

This research aims to evaluate the state of the art of Purchasing and Supply Management (PSM). This is carried out through a wide, in-depth, and structured examination of published works. More than one thousand papers (i.e., 1055) published in 20 peer-reviewed journals were collected and analyzed to provide a snapshot of PSM research, including the extent of the overall production, the background theory used, the unit of analysis, the research method, and the main topics investigated. Other literature reviews related to PSM have been conducted in the past but have focused primarily on specific topics and/or considering a narrower set of publications. Furthermore, the authors define a framework useful for analyzing the PSM literature and outline the state of the art of PSM research from a content-specific perspective, including an evaluation of the maturity of PSM research as a discipline.     

我国中小企业融资障碍透析与应对举措

中小企业在我国在未来经济的可持续发展过程中将会起到越来越重要的积极推动作用,但融资困难的问题仍然是困扰其进一步发展壮大的重要制约因素。从中小企业融资难的现状入手,分析影响我国中小企业融资难的障碍成因,并据此提出相应的针对性的治理策略。     

基于经济附加值的中小企业财务困境预警实证研究

本文在总结国内外财务预警相关文献的基础上,结合我国中小企业情况研究财务危机预警.旨在挖掘EVA(经济增加值)指标在我国财务危机预警领域的研究价值,运用经济附加值的指标对中小企业财务危机预警问题进行实证研究,并构建适合中国市场的具有一定实用价值的财务危机预警模型.     

不同产业集群模式下中小企业商业模式创新研究

为了更好地促进不同产业集群模式下中小企业的创新发展,依据产业集群产生的动力源类型、来源及其路径,把现有的产业集群发展模式归纳为市场导向、多核式、产业转移、规划引导4种类型。针对不同集群模式下中小企业的赋存与运营特点,将中小企业划分为配套型与市场型2种类型。在界定商业模式创新类型定位的基础上,围绕商业模式创新系统构成要素提出了2种商业模式创新:挖掘型创新和调整型创新。认为配套型宜采用挖掘型创新,市场型宜采用调整型创新。运用所构建的商业模式创新系统,围绕洞察价值、创造价值、传递价值、获取价值商业模式等创新系统构成要素,分别探讨了2种不同类型中小企业商业模式创新的实现路径。研究结果对中小企业摆脱发展困境具有一定的借鉴价值,可为不同产业集群模式内中小企业的商业模式创新提供思路。     

企业生命周期理论视角下的山东中小企业支持政策

中小企业是国民经济的重要组成部分,是市场经济中最有活力的经济主体。贯彻落实中小企业促进法,大力发展中小企业是推动地方经济发展的重点任务。企业是有生命周期的。按照企业生命周期理论把企业成长周期分为创业期、成长期、成熟期、衰退期四个阶段,根据这四个周期制定相应的中小企业支持政策,才能体现支持政策的针对性和实效性。     

The Impact of Product Market Competition on Employment Determination in Unionised and Non-Unionised Firms: Firm Level Evidence for the U.K.

In this paper we investigate the effect of increasedcompetition on employment inunionised andnon-unionised firms. We model product and labourmarket imperfections, and their interactions, in Nashequilibrium. The model predicts that employment lossin unionised firms in the face of increasedcompetition will be lower compared with non-unionisedfirms. This paradoxical outcome results from anoffsetting beneficial employment effect ofcompetition, which eliminates wage mark-ups inunionised firms. We find empirical support for thetheoretical prediction using U.K. firm level data overthe period 1985–1989.     

Global marketing and procurement of industrial products: Institutional design of interfirm functional tasks

Marketing and procuring component parts in the global marketplace can pose such significant trading hazards that industrial transactions often must be embedded in protective governance. This article identifies key forces influencing the institutional designs that best safeguard exchanges between international trading partners for such industrial tasks as the design, fabrication and delivery of component parts. The effectiveness of designs such as market contracting, alliances, and international joint ventures are shown to be a consequence of the transactional characteristics of a given task, the governance risks experienced by both buyer and supplier, and the differences between the institutional environments of the partners' countries. In addition to a comprehensive institutional design model, several propositions are developed to serve as a guide to future empirical research in the areas of global industrial marketing and procurement.     

中小型科技企业全寿命周期成本管理方案设计

中小型科技企业全寿命周期成本管理是一种实现其全寿命周期成本最小化、提高生存和发展能力的方法。在仿生学视角下将中小型科技企业的成长划分为孕育期、婴儿期、少年期、青年期、壮年期、老年期6个阶段,指出各阶段的属性、特征和成本管理应注意的事项,调查分析南阳市中小型科技企业所处寿命周期阶段和成本管理存在的问题及对策,发现其寿命周期曲线,分步设计中小型科技企业全寿命周期成本管理方案,介绍如何编制全寿命周期成本报告并进行分析应用,提出中小型科技企业全寿命周期成本管理的措施与建议。     

新疆兵团十四个师局中小企业核心竞争力差异分析

在借鉴前人对于企业核心竞争力研究的基础上,运用SPSS17.0软件的因子分析与主成分分析模块,从区域影响力、经营运作能力、成长发展力、经营安全能力、技术能力五个方面对兵团十四个师局中小企业核心竞争力进行实证研究,发掘其核心竞争力与存在的问题,并提出相应对策。     

The Impact of Size and Age on Firm-Level Performance: Some Evidence from India

Using contemporary data for an extensive sample of 1020 Indian firms, this paper investigates the impacts that size and age of firms have on firm-level productivity and profitability. In India older firms are found to be more productive and less profitable, whereas the larger firms are, conversely, found to be more profitable and less productive. These performance differences are explained as arising from the market-restricting industrial policies that have been followed in India over the past three decades.