Consider the non-adopter: Developing a prediction model for the adoption of household-level broadband access

We explore the decision process for the household-level adoption of broadband Internet access. Our aim, of determining the barriers to household-level broadband adoption and how to best overcome those barriers, guides our analysis in an effort to better inform broadband policy development and implementation. We introduce and rely on data collected from 3101 New Jersey households under the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's nationwide Broadband Technology Opportunity Program. Following MATH, the Model of Technology Adoption in Households, extended with a moderating control variable, we model the conditions under which a household is more or less likely to adopt household-level broadband Internet access. We specify an original two-step model that first estimates from demographic determinants a linear latent variable of the responding household's propensity to not adopt high-speed broadband Internet access, and then regresses that propensity variable on behavioral and attitudinal measures about broadband and computer use and familiarity. Analyzing those outcomes generates three empirical findings that help inform the efficient implementation of policies to establish universal broadband access: (1) demographically, household-level broadband adoption in New Jersey is colorblind: race and ethnicity, in and of themselves, do not predict household-level broadband adoption; (2) behaviorally, the strongest facilitator for household-level broadband adoption is computer use by the household decision-maker; and (3) structurally, the strongest barrier to such adoption is lack of resources. Decomposing and better understanding the phenomenon of non-adoption will help to inform planning efforts to maximize household-level broadband adoption.     

Determinants of agricultural entrepreneurship: a GEM data based study

The aim of this study is to explain the determinants of entrepreneurship in agriculture industry. What are the drivers of early stage entrepreneurial activity of agri-business entrepreneur and how it is influenced by various cognitive and social capital factors? To answers these questions various driving factors of entrepreneurial activity have been explored from the literature. To achieve the objective, the study uses APS (Adult Population Survey) 2013 data of 69 countries provided by GEM (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor). Total number of respondents 1470, those who are alone or with others, currently trying to start a new business, including any self-employment or selling any goods or services to others in Agriculture Industry, were selected from the data set. To measure the influence of cognitive and social capital factors on early stage entrepreneurial activity logistic regression was employed. The findings show that those who see entrepreneurial opportunities, are confident in their own skills and ability, having personal relationship or social networks with existing entrepreneurs, and have invested in others business as business angels are more likely to become an entrepreneur. Additionally, fear of failure or risk perception does not prevent people to become entrepreneur. Policy implications have been discussed. This is one the first study of its kind and contributes to the existing literature by explaining agricultural entrepreneurship through an integrated approach of entrepreneurial cognition and social networking.

     

Broadband and local growth

I find a positive relationship between broadband expansion and local economic growth. This relationship is stronger in industries that rely more on information technology and in areas with lower population densities. Instrumenting for broadband expansion with slope of terrain leans in the direction of a causal relationship, though not definitively.The economic benefits of broadband expansion for local residents appear to be limited. Broadband expansion is associated with population growth as well as employment growth, and both the average wage and the employment rate—the share of working-age adults that is employed—are unaffected by broadband expansion. Furthermore, expanding broadband availability does not change the prevalence of telecommuting or other home-based work. Like other place-based policies, expanding broadband availability could raise property values and the local tax base, but without more direct benefits for residents in the form of higher wages or improved access to jobs.The analysis relies on the uneven diffusion of broadband throughout the United States, allowing comparisons between areas with greater and less growth in broadband availability. I combine broadband data from the Federal Communications Commission, employment data from the National Establishment Time-Series database, and other economic data from the US Census and BLS to examine broadband availability and economic activity in the US between 1999 and 2006.     

服务创新视角下的业务延伸研究

同质化中间产品的竞争为企业实施业务延伸创造了机会。业务延伸是一种服务创新过程控制策略,基于产品层次模型,对业务延伸进行了定义,从顾客价值等式角度探讨了业务延伸的实施条件。构建了消费者剩余模型,分析了材料损耗率和加工效率对消费者剩余的影响。研究表明,业务延伸能实现产品创新和服务差异化,增强完全产品竞争力,最大化消费者剩余,强化客户合作关系。     

Human resource business partner lifecycle model: exploring how the relationship between HRBPs and their line manager partners evolves

The human resources business partner (HRBP) role is advocated as a way for human resource (HR) professionals and the HR profession to become more strategic and less transactional, necessitating the development of different competencies. Few researchers have examined how the HRBP Model plays out in practice, over time, from the perspective of HR professionals and their line manager partners (LMPs). We collected data through interviews and focus groups with both these stakeholders at three UK organisations to understand the dynamics of the individual HRBP–LMP relationship. After analysing the data, we propose an HRBP Lifecycle Model. The model suggests the relationship between the parties is dynamic, complex and dependent upon the organisational culture as well as the skills and competencies of the main stakeholders in the partnership.     

Economic Integration and Regional Business Cycles: Evidence from the Iberian Regions*

This paper provides evidence of the positive impact of economic integration on EU regions’ business cycles convergence by focusing on two neighbouring countries: Spain and Portugal. We show that while a rise in cross‐country business cycle correlation has also been experienced by other European countries, it has been relatively more pronounced for Iberian regions. Econometric evidence suggests that the existence of an administrative border, the economic size of regions and their industrial structures can explain a substantial proportion of regional cycles.     

Digital highways and firm turnover

We study the impact of ultra-broadband (UBB) internet connections on firm entry and exit dynamics. These connections are based on optical fiber cables that link telecommunication operators to final users, allowing a significantly higher performance compared with traditional copper-line networks. We leverage on a unique comprehensive dataset collecting municipality-level information on broadband diffusion and firm turnover in Italy for the period of 2012–2019. Our empirical strategy exploits the staggered roll-out of UBB, starting from 2015. Our identification strategy is based on an instrumental variable approach that exploits plausibly exogenous variation in the physical and geographical peculiarities of the telecommunication infrastructure. Results suggest that UBB increases firm exit, particularly for small firms. On the contrary, firm entry rises only in digital intensive sectors and in the most developed geographical areas. Our findings have important implications for the ongoing debate around the massive investments in high-speed digital infrastructures, as they argue against the conventional idea that business activities equally benefit from last-generation broadband technologies.     

企业商业模式在宏观政策变动下的演化分析——基于房地产上市公司的实证研究

商业模式是指企业中企业战略、组织结构、交易过程、价值链和核心竞争力等一系列要素的整合。它反映了企业创造、获取和传递价值的基本原理。在回顾商业模式相关研究基础上,采用中国房地产上市公司2002-2010年的数据,对商业模式中的成本结构和收入来源结构进行了实证分析。结果显示房地产公司成本结构2007年与2004年相比、2009年与2007年相比均发生了显著变化,收入来源结构2008年之后变化速度明显加快。在此基础上,探讨了房地产宏观调控政策与房地产公司商业模式演化之间的关系,并对房地产公司的商业模式的调整提出了建议。     

Urban agglomerations,knowledge-intensive services and innovation: establishing the core connections

This paper investigates how resources available in urban agglomerations influence the organizational form, innovation activity and collaborative linkages of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) firms. Compared with their counterparts elsewhere, KIBS located in Norwegian large city labour market regions are more likely to be independent of multi-establishment business organizations and thus reliant on resources available externally, in their locations. This is most pronounced in the central and Western business districts of the capital, wherein independent KIBS exhibit high turnover of professionals and are less inclined to engage actively in innovation. Yet, those that do engage use the capital region economy as a platform for engaging with both domestic and international collaboration partners. Only by consecutively analysing these aspects and accounting for the selection processes involved is the empirical analysis able to uncover contrasting firm-level responses to the same urban economy resource base.     

宽带认证计费系统融合方案与设计

随着中国电信业的改革和重组,中国联通与中国网通的业务支撑系统面临着重大的改造,相应的宽带业务平台也面临融合的问题。本文作者结合自己多年的实际工作经验对宽带认证计费系统融合相关问题进行分析探讨。     

A cybernetic view of environmental management: the implications for business organizations

Current environmental management practice is judged to be mechanistic and based on previous experience with health and safety and with quality management systems. In support of the claim that systems approaches to management are required, the question is asked: what is the systemic nature of environmental management and will it lead an organization towards some concept of sustainable business practice? To try and answer this question the Viable System Model (VSM) developed by Stafford Beer was used to analyse current environmental management practice from a systems perspective in seven manufacturing organizations. The findings suggest that significant structural changes in organizations will be necessary as well as changes in management practices (core competencies) and attitudes if organizations are to become viable. Tomorrow's business strategy is likely to be driven much more by cooperation rather than by competition. Some possible implications for business are: (1) Corporate portfolios will be organized around the supply chain (or flows of energy and materials) instead of products and markets. (2) Strategy will not only continue to be made at the corporate and business unit levels but also at the industry level. (3) Such developments will require much higher degrees of integration and cooperation than is currently practised between companies. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.     

Dynamic gains from North American free trade in an equilibrium model of the current account

The benefits of economic integration in North America are explored by quantifying the gains that the two small open economies of the region can obtain from free trade in financial assets as a vehicle to smooth consumption. Numerical simulations of a stochastic intertemporal equilibrium model are used to estimate the effects of free financial asset trading on economic activity and welfare. The results suggest that in Mexico, where business cycles have been larger and access to world markets has been more limited, free asset trading would produce more benefits that in Canada, where the risk of business cycles is smaller.     

欧洲股票市场的规模和动因:基于不同β系数的资本资产定价模型实证研究

我们选用在13个欧洲股市上市的证券,形成规模和动因组合。我们不仅发现规模溢价的证据,还发现8个样本市场存在重大动因收益率。这些收益率可能不构成异常现象,因为它们与不同β值的资本资产定价模型一致。我们还发现,系统风险与经济周期有关。此外,研究结果显示,虽然规模和动因收益率显著,但是难以在中、短期利用它们,因为在我们的样本中只有极少年份它们的数值为正且很大。     

Are mobile and fixed broadband substitutes or complements? New empirical evidence from Italy and implications for the digital divide policies

The literature on broadband policies has been focusing on the possible role of mobile broadband as a means for addressing geographical digital divide in areas with no or inadequate fixed broadband infrastructure coverage. Broadband plans designed by most of the industrialized countries take the substitutability between fixed and mobile technologies for granted, with restrictions essentially relating only to bandwidth performance. We explore the determinants of individuals' private access (away from work) to the Internet with the smartphone through a mobile broadband connection, focusing on the role played by Internet uses and taking into account the availability of a fixed broadband connection at home. The results of our econometric exercise, carried out on microdata referred to Italian individuals, provide original and interesting evidence: a complementarity effect between mobile and fixed broadband is found for browsing, video streaming, gaming and cloud services; a substitution effect emerges for social networking and music streaming. Such increasing complexity of individuals’ broadband usage patterns should be acknowledged in the way broadband coverage is mapped and policies designed, adopting a more ecosystem-oriented approach which integrates supply- and demand-side features. A first step in this direction is the inclusion of some, so far neglected, key-attributes of the demand (data traffic allowance, latency, ease of interconnection with Internet capable devices) among the relevant dimensions of policy design.     

Management in Japanese society

A small country in the Far East without any significant resources except for manpower emerged as an industrialized country in the early 1960s. Highlighting the characteristic features of business management in Japan, this paper develops the argument as to why and how Japanese firms have been mobilizing people for business activity. The paper also touches on external and internal factors contributing to economic success, which indicate how the country has reached its current state of development. Japan could be a country with a very appropriate management style for an economy where the consumer is sovereign and the subjective theory of value is dominant.     

中国营商环境综合发展水平的测度、地区差异与动态演变研究

研究目标:构建营商环境综合发展水平评价指标体系,以此揭示中国营商环境综合发展水平的地区差异及动态演变规律。研究方法:熵权法、整体与维度分析法、核密度估计法、Dagum基尼系数、全局和局部莫兰指数、Markov链转移概率矩阵。研究发现:2008～2018年中国营商环境综合发展水平整体处于优化上升趋势,但优化进程较慢,内部指标发展不均衡,发展水平等级转移乏力;四大地区存在明显的空间非均衡分布特征,发展水平较好为东部地区;东北地区先后被中西部地区超越;中国营商环境综合发展水平存在绝对差异和相对差异,其中绝对差异在扩大,而相对差异总体上在缩小,地区间差异是造成中国营商环境综合发展水平空间非均衡的主要原因;中国营商环境综合发展水平存在显著的空间正相关关系,不同类型的集聚模式较为稳定。研究创新:基于营商开展环境和营商生活环境两个维度构建中国营商环境综合发展水平指标体系,分别从整体、分维度、绝对差异、相对差异、空间相关性和等级转移概率等角度全面分析中国营商环境综合发展水平的地区差异以及动态演变趋势。研究价值:从营商开展环境和营商生活环境两个角度评估中国营商环境存在的现状问题,为未来进一步优化营商环境...     

Feeling successful as an entrepreneur: a job demands — resources approach

This cross-sectional study among 277 Dutch entrepreneurs investigates how entrepreneurs’ job demands relate to their work-related strain and work engagement, as well as their feelings of subjective success. As such it contributes to the literature firstly by focusing on psychological rather than business outcomes of entrepreneurship, and secondly by contextualizing demands and resources for entrepreneurs, e.g. capturing the general but also the specific factors that are demands and resources in entrepreneurial work. Results of the study show that work-related strain is related to both less personal and less financial subjective business success. Work engagement is related to higher personal, but not financial subjective business success. As predicted by the JD-R Model, both high job demands and low job resources predicted work-related strain. In contrast to findings of other studies, high job demands are not related to low work engagement, only having low job resources did. The practical implication of these findings is that entrepreneurs can achieve an important competitive advantage over other entrepreneurs if they can learn to deal effectively with job demands and work-related strain. The challenge for policy makers is to get more information about how to assist business owners in eliminating and preventing work-related strain in order to achieve higher subjective financial and personal success.     

IP城域网对集团客户多业务承载的设计和演进技术浅析——以济南城域网设计为例

本文将就集团客户多业务在IP化的城域网这一运营商最为倚重的业务传送平台的承载以及管理为切入点进行分析和论述,研究一种在运营商转型期的IP城域网重点客户综合业务运营的新方式。通过对当前城域网的客户群进行宏观分析,提出了城域网客户群定位思路;同时,在对当前城域网市场业务需求进行宏观分析后,提出了比较清晰的业务定位,对转型期电信运营商宽带城域网规划建设具有较强的策略指导意义。     

港口业务发展战略

应用迈克尔.波特竞争五力模型,以新沙港为例,对港口业务现状与发展进行了分析;借用外部-内部矩阵分析法,选择了港口业务总体发展战略,并对今后十年分阶段进行战略目标定位,前五年选择以扩张战略为主线,与维持战略和防御战略相结合的组合式战略;后五年则选择以扩张战略为特征建立八大战略目标体系。     

Exploring entrepreneurs’ human capital components and effects on learning orientation in early internationalizing firms

This study aims to enhance our understanding of the role of entrepreneurs’ human capital components and the influences on learning orientation in early internationalizing firms. Drawing from the integration of human capital theory, resource-based view theory, learning theory, and on the literature of international entrepreneurship and strategic management, a research model is proposed and consists of five constructs, namely international business skill, international business knowledge, entrepreneurial competence, managerial competence and learning orientation. The empirical analysis was carried out on a sample of 158 early internationalizing firms in a food industry in Thailand. Partial least square technique was conducted to test the structural equation models and hypotheses. This followed by some illustrative case studies as supplementary to the empirical findings. The results confirm our hypotheses and support the proposed research model. This study yielded interesting findings in which an entrepreneur’s skill and knowledge in international business enhance entrepreneurial and managerial competencies. These competencies, in turn, play an important role in influencing a firm’s strategic learning orientation