Natural Resources,Wage Growth and Institutions – a Panel Approach

This paper exam,ines the effect of nat,u,ral resource export depen,dence and fis,cal respon,si,bil,ity on wage growth, which is derived from the labour first‐order con,di,tion and esti,mated using a panel growth‐account,ing frame,work. Using annual data, the study accounts for the var,i,abil,ity of resource rev,e,nues, one of the major dif,fi,cul,ties of man,ag,ing these resources. The con,trol vari,ables include the most cru,cial growth fac,tors. Due to insuf,fi,cient annual data, human cap,i,tal is only con,sid,ered inside wages as in many endog,e,nous growth mod,els. We esti,mate the influ,ence on real wage growth aris,ing from the growth‐impacts of nat,u,ral resources through labour and cap,i,tal effi,ciency while con,trol,ling for fis,cal respon,si,bil,ity, which proves a suit,able proxy for pol,i,cies and insti,tu,tions in a sin,gle‐panel case. The results show that respon,si,ble fis,cal pol,icy, assessed by the bud,get bal,ance, pre,vents (var,i,able) dif,fuse and point‐source resources from hin,der,ing real wage growth (through labour effi,ciency), a result also sig,nif,i,cant in a sub‐sam,ple of un‐free coun,tries. The hypoth,e,sis of a resource curse work,ing through insti,tu,tions and reflected on real wage growth holds for resource export shares, but not adjust,ing for re‐expor,ta,tion. Over,all, resource effects are jointly insig,nif,i,cant, even though point‐source resources show a positive impact through cap,i,tal effi,ciency.     

Cross‐border Economic Activities,Human Capital and Efficiency: A Stochastic Frontier Analysis for OECD Countries

We study the growth effects of outward‐ori,ented econ,o,mies by using sto,chas,tic fron,tier anal,y,sis to mea,sure the effi,ciency exter,nal,i,ties of three forms of eco,n,omic cross‐bor,der activ,i,ties – inter,na,tional trade, for,eign direct invest,ment (FDI) and migra,tion – for OECD coun,tries. The study also exam,ines whether the effi,ciency of these cross‐bor,der activ,i,ties is affected by the level of human cap,i,tal in the host coun,try. We find that inter,na,tional trade and FDI are impor,tant chan,nels for improv,ing effi,ciency, as is human cap,i,tal accu,mu,la,tion, and that the positive effects of inter,na,tional trade, FDI, and migra,tion depend cru,cially on the level of accu,mu,lated human cap,i,tal. Our results show that the impact of human cap,i,tal is impor,tant for increas,ing effi,ciency via inter,na,tional trade flows and FDI flows, while immi,gra,tion into coun,tries that are richer in human cap,i,tal enhances their effi,ciency rel,a,tively more than immi,gra,tion into coun,tries with lower human cap,i,tal. These results remain robust to alter,nate mea,sures of human cap,i,tal, con,trols on edu,ca,tion lev,els among immi,grants, and to a non‐para,met,ric esti,ma,tion of the model.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
John, Tomlinson, Globalization and Culture
Anthony, Giddens, Runaway World: How Globalization Is Reshaping our Lives
Robert, Gilpin, The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in the 21^st Century
Randall D., Germain, Globalization and its Critics: Perspectives from Political Economy
Susan, Strange, Mad Money
Ngaire, Woods, The Political Economy of Globalization
Kenichi, Ohmae, The Invisible Continent: Four Strategic Imperatives of the New Economy
Martin, Richardson, (ed.) Globalization and International Trade Liberalisation: Continuity and Change
Amartya, Sen, Development as Freedom
Michael, Edwards, Future Positive: International Co-operation in the 21^st Century
David, Held; Anthony, McGrew; David, Goldblatt and Jonathan, Perraton, Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture
John, Micklethwait and Adrian, Wooldridge, A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization     

2009 China Market Suppliers List

Company Name： Anhui Arts ＆ Crafts imports ＆ Export Co., Ltd
Company Profile： Business scope： Glassware, Ceramics, Aertex, Textiles and Garments, Gifts, Special arts and crafts, Daily-use items, toy, Footwear and Headwear, Furniture, Electrical appliances, IT product, Starsports good, General Merchandise, Plastics, Hair Ornament, flooring.     

2009 China Market Suppliers List

Company Name： Anhui Arts ＆ Crafts imports ＆ Export Co., Ltd Company Profile： Business scop： Glass-ware, Ceramics, Artex, Textiles and Garments, Gifts, Special arts and carfts, Dailyuse items, toy, Footwear and Headwear, Furniture, Electrical appliances, IT product, Stasports good, General Merchandise, Plastics, Hair Ornament, flooring.     

Book Review

Kindleberger, Charles P., The International Economic Order: Essays on Financial Crisis and International Public Goods, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988, xi + 235 pages.

Root, Franklin R., International Trade and Investment (6th ed.), Cincinnati, OH: South-Western Publishing Co., 1990, viii + 696 pages.

Krugman, Paul, Rethinking International Trade, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1990, viii + 282 pages.

Schmiegelow, Michele, and Henrik Schmiegelow, Strategic Pragmatism: Japanese Lessons in the Use of Economic Theory, New York: Praeger, 1989, 212 pages.

Lynn, Leonard H., and Timothy J. McKeown, Organizing Business: Trade Associations in America and Japan, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1988, xviii +191 pages.

Patterson, Seymour, The Microeconomics of Trade, Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1989, vii + 223 pages.

Whalley, John, The Uruguay Round and Beyond—Final Report from the Ford Foundation Project on Developing Countries and the Global Trading System, Ann Arbor: MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1989, xi + 211 pages.

Baumol, William J., Edward N. Wolff, and Sue Anne Batey Blackman, Productivity and American Leadership: The Long View, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989, x + 395 pages.

Carter, Barry E., International Economic Sanctions: Improving the Haphazard U.S. Legal Regime, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988, xiv + 290 pages.

Dornbusch, Rudiger, The Road to Economic Recovery: Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on International Debt, Background Paper, New York: Priority Press, 1989, vi + 123 pages.

Edwards, Sebastian, Real Exchange Rates, Devaluation and Adjustment, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989, xi + 371 pages.     

入世后宁波利用外资的特征、绩效及发展对策

入世以来宁波在外资利用方面呈现出了总量增加、投资来源地多样化、投资行业渐趋合理等特点,同时也暴露出了大项目数量少、产业集聚效应不强、辐射力差、总体质量偏低、结构不合理等弱点。为此,本论文提出了相应的对策与建议。     

企业采购人才需求分析

企业对基层采购人员(采购专员、跟单员)的需求量最大,也最迫切;企业需要基层采购人员具备采购管理、物流管理、生产管理、市场营销、计算机软件、社交礼仪、社会心理等方面的知识,合作与沟通能力及采购操作技能,具有责任意识、效率意识、组织意识、诚信意识、协作意识、创新意识等职业素质;企业将学历、所学专业、工作经验(经历)、身体条件、心理素质、职业资格证书作为采购人员入职的必备条件,最看重学历和工作经验.     

人力资源培训开发与服务外包项目的分析与实践——以某管理咨询有限公司为例

基于企业人力资源培训开发服务外包项目，从环境分析、公司组建与战略规划、运营管理、市场细分与定位、财务分析、退出机制等六个环节入手，对某管理咨询有限公司的资产负债表、利润表、资本结构、成本费用、偿债能力、运营能力、盈利能力、经营风险等问题进行具体分析发现，当公司收入高于公司运营平均成本时，可以获得超额利润。适于积极扩大经营规模；当公司收入等于或者小于公司运营平均成本时，需要考虑退出市场或进行业务收割；当公司收入小于公司运营可变成本时，公司必须停止业务运营。     

Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media

Traditionally, consumers used the Internet to simply expend content: they read it, they watched it, and they used it to buy products and services. Increasingly, however, consumers are utilizing platforms—such as content sharing sites, blogs, social networking, and wikis—to create, modify, share, and discuss Internet content. This represents the social media phenomenon, which can now significantly impact a firm's reputation, sales, and even survival. Yet, many executives eschew or ignore this form of media because they don’t understand what it is, the various forms it can take, and how to engage with it and learn. In response, we present a framework that defines social media by using seven functional building blocks: identity, conversations, sharing, presence, relationships, reputation, and groups. As different social media activities are defined by the extent to which they focus on some or all of these blocks, we explain the implications that each block can have for how firms should engage with social media. To conclude, we present a number of recommendations regarding how firms should develop strategies for monitoring, understanding, and responding to different social media activities.     

也谈现代物流管理目标

现代物流管理是对现代物流活动所进行的系统管理,物流管理的目的是总体效益最佳。物流管理不仅涉及在系统中不断转移的物资实体,也涉及使物资发生运动(包括储存)的手段(如运输、储存、装卸、搬运、包装等),与所使用的资金、设施、设备的规划、设计、选择、使用以及与此有关的经济、技术、劳务等方面的问题。     

浅析我国连锁药店经营管理

近几年,我国连锁药店在政府大力支持以及市场竞争和自身发展的需求下快速发展。连锁药店的发展具有品牌、规模、经营管理、低价、专业化、渠道网络等优势,但也存在规模小、数量多、人才缺乏、信息系统不完善、没有健全的配送中心等问题。应通过培养专业人才,建立完善的信息系统,实现信息共享,降低跨区域连锁的物流成本,开拓农村市场,提高品牌意识等对策,促进我国连锁药店的发展。     

Self-Ratings and Expectations of the U.S. President, Ideal Physicians, and Ideal Automechanic

Relationships between self-ratings and expectations of an ideal U.S. president, were studied in 43 men drawn from a university setting in the eastern coast of the U.S.A. The men first rated themselves on personality variables, life choices (agentic and communal), peacefulness, spirituality, and morality. Then they were presented with a vignette requesting that they describe an ideal U.S. president on inventories measuring personality variables, life choices, peacefulness, spirituality, and morality. For the rating of the ideal U.S. president, they also were asked to respond to a 20 item questionnaire that was a composite of several factors on organization and leadership, morality, spirituality, and peacefulness. The respondents belonged to one of seven different political persuasions, similar in some ways to different cultures. Self-ratings of the men and expectations of the president were highly correlated for extraversion, openness, trait morality, agentic and communal life choices. However, no significant correlations were found between the self-ratings and expectations of the president for neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, peacefulness, nor state morality. The men were also presented with vignettes for the ideal physician and ideal automechanic and asked to rate each of them on the inventory items. Overall, the U.S. President was rated as more neurotic and immoral in terms of ingrained ideas of right and wrong, but also as more caring for others, transcendent, seeking goodness and truth, forgiving, cooperative, and most concerned with matters of justice and mercy, and more concerned with both agentic (power-seeking) and communal (community-minded) life choices than were either the ideal physician or ideal automechanic. The ideal physician was rated as highest in extra-version, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and overall peacefulness, and lowest in neuroticism. The ideal automechanic was rated as highest in state or situational immorality, and lowest in both agentic (power-seeking, business-mindedness) and communal (community-mindedness) life choices, and also lowest in caring for others well-being, transcendence, seeking goodness and truth, forgiveness and cooperation, being concerned with justice and mercy, overall expectations, overall spirituality, and overall organization and leadership. In general, the self-ratings were significantly related to ratings/expectations, of the U.S. President, ideal physician, and ideal automechanic. The men seemed to identify more with the automechanic than with the present or physician.     

Strategy for New Product Development

Abstract

This study evaluates the reasons why new products fail, and recommends a Strategy for New Product Development to avoid such failures. Using a sample of four products, the Ford Edsel, Coca-Cola's New Coke, the Sony Betamax, and the RCA Videodisc, where the introduction of a new product was unsuccessful, as research data, it is determined that the most common reasons for a products failure are poor planning, poor management, poor concept, poor execution, poor use of research, poor technology, and poor timing. A recommended strategy for successful new product development includes a sound concept, an environmental assessment, management and planning, technological feasibility, research, quality assurance, and customer feedback.     

Income and Quality of Life: Does the Love of Money Make a Difference?

This paper examines a model of income and quality of life that controls the love of money, job satisfaction, gender, and marital status and treats employment status (full-time versus part-time), income level, and gender as moderators. For the whole sample, income was not significantly related to quality of life when this path was examined alone. When all variables were controlled, income was negatively related to quality of life. When (1) the love of money was negatively correlated to job satisfaction and (2) job satisfaction was positively related to both income and quality of life, income was negatively related to quality of life for full-time, high-income, and male employees. When these two conditions failed to exist, income was not related to quality of life for part-time, median- or low-income, and female employees. This model provides new insights regarding the impact of the love of money and job satisfaction on the income–quality of life relationship. Thomas Li-Ping Tang (Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University) is a Full Professor of Management in the Department of Management and Marketing, Jennings A. Jones College of Business at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 37132. He has taught Industrial and Organizational Psychology at National Taiwan University and at MTSU. Professor Tang teaches (has taught) EMBA courses in China and France. He serves (has served) on the editorial review board of six journals and as a reviewer for 26 journals around the world. Professor Tang’s research interests focus upon people’s work motivation, compensation, money attitudes, the Love of Money, pay satisfaction, turnover, stress, and cross-cultural issues. He has published more than 100 journal articles in top behavior sciences and management journals, including Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Human Relations, Journal of Management, Management Research, Management and Organization Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Managerial Psychology, European Sport Management Quarterly, Journal of Higher Education, and others. He has presented more than 185 papers in professional conferences and invited seminars in Austria, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, the UK, the US, and other countries. His research has been cited in many languages, textbooks of several fields (e.g., Management Organizational Behavior, Human Resources Management, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Human Relations, Compensation, and Statistics), and popular books. He was the winner of two Outstanding Research Awards (1991, 1999), and Distinguished International Service Award (1999) at Middle Tennessee State University. He also received the Best Reviewer Award from the International Management Division of the Academy of Management in Seattle, WA (2003).     

The impact of cultural appropriation on destination image,tourism, and hospitality

Harsh critics have relentless exposed myriad instances of misuse, exploitation, and misrepresentation of values, customs, rituals, and religious objects, for example, by different actors, such as designers and artists, and in myriad contexts, such as in art, entertainment, and tourism. Instead of being perceived as the appreciation or preservation of cultures, as claimed, they have been condemned as cultural appropriation. Occasionally, they are deemed offensive by members of the culture of origin. In the context of destination image, tourism, and hospitality, the matter can be even more problematic as many places are economically dependent on tourism and hospitality services. A growing number of critics believe place brands in general and tourist destinations in particular have exploited indigenous groups for the commercial purpose of entertaining visitors. This article represents a pioneer effort to build awareness among place marketing scholars and practitioners, particularly in the context of tourism, of the importance, implications, and risks of cultural appropriation to the future of destination image, reputation, attractiveness, and sustainability and advances suggestions for future research.     

浅析我国服务贸易促进体制

我国服务贸易的发展处于初级阶段,存在着起步晚且管理滞后,规模小且基础较差,服务贸易总体水平较低,出口结构不合理,发展速度较快导致国内立法滞后,法律法规不健全,服务贸易行业人才匮乏等问题。完善我国服务贸易促进体制应促进相关行业协会的发展,培养优秀的人才,促进市场化机制的运作,建立核心服务贸易中心管理体制,完善现有服务贸易促进机构及服务贸易相关立法。     

哈尔滨市发展外向型农业的思考

哈尔滨市外向型农业存在利用外资整体水平不高,农产品出口量较小,结构不尽合理,产业外向度较低,农产品出口龙头企业规模不大,品牌意识不强,外向型农业发展环境滞后,社会化服务体系不健全等问题,应加大招商引资力度,提高农业利用外资整体水平,扩大出口规模,改善产品结构,提高产品质量,扶持壮大龙头企业,打造更多名牌产品,改善外向型农业的发展环境,构建完整的服务体系,依靠科技进步,充分挖掘发展外向型农业的内在潜能,以促进哈尔滨市外向型农业的发展。     

礼仪模特培训中五元智能理论应用与探索——以黑龙江大学国际商务社交礼仪课程为视角

礼仪模特代表着国家或一个城市的形象。“腹有诗书气自华”，礼仪模特能够有效地展现内在的个人修养、风度和个性魅力，体现着对社会的融入和认知程度、价值观、审美、教养、自重自尊等。它是艺术美学、伦理学的分支，同时也是表演学、戏剧理论、行为学、人类学、沟通心理学、演讲学、社会学等学科的交叉，是一门理论性与实践性较强的方法性学科。黑龙江大学在运用“学导式”教学法的基础上，提出的五元智能理论培养模式已经成为独具黑龙江大学学生特色的、适合哈尔滨礼仪模特课程特点、教学风格的、基于全球化语境下礼仪模特教学中的学导式教学模式，为实施“哈尔滨模特美丽时尚产业名城”奠定了坚实基础。     

走向深空--测控通信的发展方向

在传统的贸易模式下,我国经济和贸易的快速增长带来很多负面效应, 引起“三高一低”,即原材料的高强度消耗、高度污染、对国外市场的高依赖及低附加值,我国需要“三低一高”的新贸易模式来解决这些问题。本文通过图表和数据说明了旧贸易模式的危害及在旧贸易模式下我国处于不利地位,我国需要转变原有的贸易模式,并总结了将旧贸易模式转变为新贸易模式的途径。