Sony Style in China

Since the normalization of the diplomatic ties between China and ） Japan, the bilateral economic relations have deepened continually. According to the statistic of Japan, China passed U.S. to become Japan＇s top trade partner as well as is the second largest export market for Japan and is the largest import resource for Japan. Japan companies such as Mitsui, Sumitomo, Sony and Panasonic, have set the subsidiaries in China and explored their scales. This year 2008 marks the 30th anniversary of the signing of the ChinaJapan Treaty of Peace and Friendship.     

Sony Style in China

Since the normalization of the dip- lomatic ties between China and Japan,the bilateral economic rela- tions have deepened continually.Ac- cording to the statistic of Japan,China passed U.S.to become Japan's top trade partner as well as is the second largest export market for Japan and is the largest import resource for Japan. Japan companies such as Mitsui,Sumi- tomo,Sony and Panasonic,have set the subsidiaries in China and explored their scales.This year 2008 marks the 30th anniversary of the signing of the China- Japan Treaty of Peace and Friendship. From May 1 to May 11,President Hu Jintao paid the"Warm Spring"trip to Ja- pan successfully.China's Foreign Trade invited Mr.Shizuo Takashino,Executive Vice President of Sony Group,Chair- man of Sony China,to comment Presi- dent Hu's visit and the development of Japan companies in China.     

Plaza Accord： A Lesson Should Learn From？——Analysis of the influence on Chinese economy caused by appreciation of RMB

After the World War Two, to catch up other capitalism countries, Japan placed economic growth as the top target of the country and the government, and implemented a similar economy strategy. Mean- while, to meet the requirements of Cold War strategy, USA offered to help Japan with the economy development. As a result of Japanese governments＇ favorable policies and the financial, technological and marketing support from USA, the economy in Japan grew rapidly. Till 1968, Japan had exceeded most western countries and the gross national product ranked second in the world.     

Profile of China-Japan Trade

There are many important changes in the China-Japan economic rela- tion since 2000. Generally speaking,the economic relation between China and Japan is becoming closer and more interdependent than ever. China trade to Japan has increased at the rate of 16.2%, 31.1% and 25.7% in the year of 2002, 2003 and 2004. In 2006, the sum of the bilateral trade between China and Japan reached US$210 billion with the increasing rate of 11.5%. The amount of China trade to China has overrun that of U.S. to Japan,     

CHINA AT NO.2

China has outstripped Japan as the world＇s second-biggest economy after three decades of spectacular growth. Second-quarter GDP figures from Japan released on August 16 show that its economic output, at US$1.288 Ctrillion, fell short of the US$1.339 trillion China reported for the three months ended in June, which suggests that outpacing Japan in an early quarter is seen as a good indication that China has the momentum to past Japan for the full year.     

Both China and Japan Are Winners

In recent years, there have been comments or predictions from both official and folk circles in Japan about when Chinas GDP will surpass that of Japan. In the middle ,of August, Japan＇s official statistics showed that in the second quarter this year, Japan fell behind China in GDP, which was reported by Japan＇s major media. This is not a novel topic, so the media did not show any sign of shock. Even so, we can still sense different and completed reactions from Japan＇s public opinion on its ＂being surpassed＂.     

ASIA-PACIFIC

Japan becomes Beijing's top export market, topping the U.S. BEIJING, April 25 - Japan became Beijing's largest export market, passing the U.S. in the first quarter of 2011, said the head of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Commerce on Monday. In the first quarter of 2011, total export-import volume between Beijing and Japan reached 5.19 billion U.S. dollars,with exports accounting for 1.06 billion U.S. dollars, according to the commission.     

~XPO promotion week starts in Tokyo

Japan Travel Bureau, one of the biggest travel agencies in Japan will issue Expo tickets and sales will begin on July 1 across Japan, an official of JTB announced April 11 at the opening ceremony of＂Shanghai Expo Promotion Week＂ in Tokyo. JTB will also organize Expo delegations from next January. It is expected that more than 1 million Japanese will come to Shanghai and take part in the Expo. This is the third year Shanghai has organized promotions in Tokyo.     

China＇s PV Industry sees positive signs of recovery

LDK Solar Co., Ltd., one of China＇s leading manufacturers of multicrystalline solar wafers, has recently released a gratifying Q3 2009 report, after the company and Q-Celts reached an agreement to continue their supply contract for solar wafers from 2009 to 2018. The recovery of LDK Solar＇s operation may be the prelude of the rebound of China＇s photovoltaic （PV） industry.     

Solar Energy Exhibition Convention to be Held in September

On March 4, the press conference for Second China （Wuxi） New Energy Convention, i.e. the Solar Energy Exhibition Convention was held in Shanghai.     

The Effects of Monetary Magnitude and Level of Aggregation on the Temporal Framing of Price

Existing research has shown that the pennies-a-day strategy of reframing a large aggregate expense as a small daily expense helps to reduce the perceived cost of a transaction (Nagle and Holden, 1995; Price, 1995; Gourville, 1998, 1999). This paper builds on this research and explores the robustness of the phenomenon across two dimensions – (1) the level of temporal aggregation and (2) the dollar magnitude of the transaction. First, we show that the effectiveness of a pennies-a-day strategy is not limited to per-day framing. Rather, we find a more general phenomenon in which a less aggregate expense is preferred to a more aggregate expense, such that if a per-day framing is preferred to a per-year framing, than a per-month framing also will be preferred to a per-year framing. Second, we show that this effectiveness reverses with the magnitude of the underlying expense, such that while a framing of $1 per day is preferred to one of $365 per year, a framing of $4200 per year is preferred to one of $11.50 per day.     

新技术下服务产品“虚拟化”探究

产品"虚拟化"的服务业可以有效地摆脱困扰服务业的鲍莫尔"成本病"的影响,实现生产率的快速增长。本文通过一个双头博弈模型,借助"自助服务外包给顾客"的形式说明了"虚拟服务"大大优于现在占据主体服务市场的实体"柜台"服务,"虚拟服务"将取代实体"柜台"服务,从而实现服务业"产业化"经营的目标。     

Creating a Market Orientation

A market orientation is a business culture in whichall employees are committed to the continuous creation of superiorvalue for customers. However, businesses report limited successin developing such a culture. One approach to create a marketorientation, the approach taken by most businesses, is the programmaticapproach, an a priori approach in which a business uses educationprograms and organizational changes to attempt to implant thedesired norm of continuously creating superior value for customers.A second approach is the market-back approach, an experientialapproach in which a business continuously learns from its day-to-dayefforts to create and maintain superior value for customers andthereby continuously develops and adapts its customer-value skills,resources, and procedures. Theory suggests that both approachescontribute to increasing a market orientation. It also suggeststhat when the a priori education of the programmatic approachis sharply focused on providing a foundation for the experientiallearning, the combined effect of the two learning strategiesis the largest. The implication is that the two strategies mustbe tailored and managed as a coordinated joint strategy for creatinga market orientation.     

我国生鲜农产品物流变革的经济学分析

我国生鲜农产品物流存在着很多问题,由"集市"向"超市"的物流模式变革是生鲜农产品物流发展的必然趋势。根据新制度经济学的分析,本文认为从"集市"到"超市"的变革是节约交易费用的结果,也是制度变迁的结果。因此,促进这种变革,对我国生鲜农产品物流水平的提高,意义重大。     

Viagra(ization) or Technoromanticism

Viagra can rather obviously be termed "techno-romantic"--literally it is a technology to make sex possible. But technoromanticism is also a philosophical term referring to the belief that advances in technology serve "truth" "unity" and "wholeness" according to Coyne (1999). Surprisingly many pharmaceutical companies seem to have developed "Viagra" or at least substances that were very similar, but to have ignored and/or rejected commercializing them. This article assumes that the primary activity of research and development in pharmaceutical companies is to produce texts that interpret chemicals as "meaningful." Assumptions of what constitutes (medical) meaning within prevailing technoromanticism have seen R and D as a form of "production" that demands rejection of "consumption." This technoromanticism succeeded in rebuffing the sexual "techno-romanticism" of Viagra in the company studied, but Viagra's enormous commercial success has reversed priorities. R and D's meaning system has proven to be no match for Viagra-ization--the article examines the resulting crisis in meaning systems.     

The Effect of Implicit versus Explicit Comparisons on Temporal Pricing Claims

Existing research has investigated the "pennies-a-day" strategy of reframing an "aggregate" expense as a "per day" expense (Nagle & Holden, 1995; Price 1995; Gourville 1998). This paper extends this research by considering the incremental impact on compliance of explicitly comparing the cost of a transaction to a specific petty cash expense (e.g., a cup of coffee). We show that in the presence of a per day framing of price (e.g., $1 per day), an explicit comparison provides little added value. However, we also show that in the presence of an aggregate framing of price (e.g., $350), an explicit comparison to a petty cash expense is sufficient to generate a "pennies-a-day" perspective. We conclude that it is not the per day framing, per se, which drives "pennies-a-day" effectiveness, but the petty cash comparisons that such a framing either implicitly or explicitly generates.     

反倾销法国内产业定义中的“主要部分”研究——兼评欧盟紧固件案

WTO《反倾销协定》没有解释国内产业定义中"主要部分"一词的含义。"主要部分"生产者的产量占同类产品国内总产量的比例是多少?"主要部分"包含哪些生产者?欧盟紧固件案为这两个问题的解答提供了指引。"主要部分"没有具体的比例要求,但要确保为损害确定提供足够的、真实的生产者信息。调查机构不能运用结果导向型的方式来选择"主要部分"所包含的生产者,否则将违反损害确定中"客观审查"的义务。     

Business Ethics and changes in society

The business world is not a separate universe of economic values and goals distinct from society, but an aspect of the behaviour of society as a whole. Ethics cannot be a cosmetic applied to established practice in the business world, a mere restraint on the unsocial or criminal behaviour of managers or a pragmatic response to consumer pressure. The author argues for a Total Ethics concept analogous to Zero Defects concepts in operations management. This ethic should form the foundation of the organisation's mission and permeate its statements of business objectives. If the ethic is to serve the common good of all who have an interest in the business, then all the stakeholders, not just those with a financial interest, must contribute to the business objectives and exercise some control.The author is External Affairs Director of Traidcraft Plc, a publicly owned £⁵ million turnover company in the north-east of England, committed to promoting just trade with poor producers in developing countries. Before joining Traidcraft in 1985, the author worked for six years with the Intermediate Technology Development Group involving extensive travel to developing countries advising on appropriate technology and village industry development. He has a Master's Degree in Business Administration and has studied philosophy and theology.     

“Damocles shadowing”

Since the widening of the fluctuation bands in the European Monetary System in 1993 the previous core countries have pursued a “D-Mark shadowing”. The characteristic feature of this shadowing is the participating countries' willingness to voluntarily return to, and maintain, the old exchange rate parities. Our author analyses this process and its consequences for the planned monetary union.     

Can Ethical Organizational Character Be Stimulated and Enabled?: “Upbuilding” Dialog As Crisis Management Method

Crisis management can be simultaneously a content specific problem solving process and an opportunity for stimulating and enabling an organizations ethical tradition. Crisis can be an opportunity for ethical organizational development. Kierkegaardian upbuilding dialog method builds from within the internal ethical tradition of an organization to respond to crises while simultaneously adapting and protecting the organizations tradition. The crisis itself may not be a directly ethical crisis, but the method of responding to the crisis is built upon the ethical foundations of an organizations tradition. A limitation of this method is that it may be less applicable to organizations with questionably ethical traditions. The concept of upbuilding dialog is derived from Kierkegaard, but here is applied to organizational crisis management. The method is illustrated and discussed in the context of a wrongful death crisis of the Dana- Farber Cancer Institute, a nonprofit organization, and an economic survival crisis at Ben and Jerrys, a business organization.