U.S. Debt Crisis Increases the Risk of the Chinese Textile Exports

Credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s on Friday downgraded the U.S.’s rating.Fear is spreading quickly through the market.It’s becoming a vicious cycle and could feed into consumers reducing their demand as well.Will it has a direct impact on Chinese textile and apparel exports?     

Does corporate social responsibility influence the corporate performance of the U.S. telecommunications industry?

This study uses a two-stage approach to explore the relationship between the operational performance of U.S. telecommunications companies and their implementation of corporate social responsibility (CSR). In the first stage, this study adopts the dynamic data envelopment analysis model to measure the efficiency of the telecommunications industry in the U.S. from 2004 to 2008. The empirical results show that the corporate efficiency of those companies that implemented CSR was higher than that of those companies that did not. In the second stage, the study adopts OLS and 2SLS to explore the influence of the execution level of CSR on performance. The results show that the Kinder, Lyndenberg, and Domini & Co (KLD) social ratings indexes are significantly and positively related to corporate performance. Finally, this study suggests ways in which corporate policy makers can enhance CSR in order to improve corporate performance in the U.S. telecommunications industry.     

The Impacts of Eliminating the Step 2 Program on the U.S.and World Cotton Market

IntroductionBrazil made a formal complaint to the World Trade Or- ganization (WTO) Dispute Settlement Panel against U.S. cotton programs in 2003, alleging that these subsidies de- pressed world cotton price and were injurious to Brazilian farmers. The petition was supported by Australia and West and Central African cotton producing countries. After long deliberations, the WTO appellate body came out with their final ruling in March 2005 that upheld most of the initial decisions of the …     

Mr.Du,the Steersman''''s Brainstorming to Helm the Industry''''s Sailing

The nation-wide conference of devel-opment and reform for textile industrywas held here on January 12th, 2006 af-ter China weathered through the storms& torrents of various trade disputes in thetroubled water of 2005 and arrived at portof the new year, the start of the next Five-Year Plan period from 2006 all the wayto 2010. A roadmap for the country's eco-nomic & social growth with each fiveyear group as a routine time-table, thisplans making tradition has remained un-changed since its first…     

Industrial Pricing Strategies in Singapore and the U.S.: Same or Different?

It is generally believed that business-to-business marketing strategies are more uniform worldwide than those in consumer markets, because the buying firms focus more on issues such as product performance and profits. If this is so, a strategy model validated in one industrial market should apply reasonably well in another. This study compares pricing strategies of industrial firms in two market economies, the U.S. and Singapore. A pricing strategy model validated in the U.S. was tested in Singapore to determine whether internal and external conditions incorporated in the model could adequately explain differences in strategy choices between the markets.     

When Do U.S. Workers First Experience Unionization? Implications for Revitalizing the Labor Movement

Debates over revitalizing the U.S. labor movement often overlook when workers are first unionized. This article analyzes the frequency and nature of workers’ first unionized jobs by tracking a cohort of individuals from age 15/16 to 40/41. Though workers are most likely to be unionized when they are in their forties, this article shows that surprising numbers of individuals first encounter unionization in their jobs at a much younger age. These results highlight the importance of experiential union membership models as well as life‐cycle union representation strategies that recognize the young age at which many workers are first unionized.     

Risk assessment in the international food safety policy arena. Can the multilateral institutions encourage unbiased outcomes?

Two institutions provide multilateral venues for countries to discuss food safety measures at the international level: the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) and the World Trade Organization. Both institutions encourage their Members to base food safety standards on scientific evidence.     

拿来.吸收.创新

二滩人充分利用世界上一流的水电专家、施工队伍、制造商的优势,在项目管理同国际惯例全面接轨的同时,对国外智力、先进技术、设备的引进,吸收与应用也在积极有效地进行着,创造了二滩人的“拿来主义”、“洋为中用”。     

J.J.O.:暖暖休闲风

从去年起以高起点进军国内市场的著名外销品牌J.J.O./吉·杰欧,3月27日在北京长城饭店召开新闻发布会.     

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‘Trojan horse’ or ‘Workhorse’? the evolution of U.S.–Japanese joint ventures in the United States

Foreign investors and their domestic joint venture partners must find ways to share the benefits of the venture if both sides are to be satisfied. Some work in the literature on joint ventures has asserted that there is a danger in all joint ventures, and especially joint ventures with Japanese, that one side will exploit the venture for its own gain, using it as a Trojan Horse. To test this assertion, we build a full data set of Japanese firms with joint ventures in the United States and track the ventures over time. Our data show that the Japanese partners do not take actions consistent with the Trojan Horse hypothesis. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

新型地下管线探测仪C.A.T.

<正>新型地下管线探测仪C.A.T接收机可以探测到地下管线自然发射出的信号,或使用Genny发射机给管线施加一个可以用C.A.T探测的特殊信号。避免了无计划开挖可能对电缆或者管道造成破坏,导致昂贵的维修费用、工程的延误甚至人员的伤亡。新型地下管线探测仪具有四种工作模式,①P模式:C.A.T接收机探测带电的电力电缆发射的"电力"信号。②R模式:C.A.T接     

改进F.A.T.真空发生器控制方式

汽车制造企业车身焊接车间的F.A.T.真空发生器,因设备老化等原因,操作盒的开关按钮开始失灵。将真空发生器上的气动换向阀改为电磁换向阀,在PLC中修改SWAC面板的程序,实现SWAC面板对真空发生器的控制。