乡镇企业供应链管理探析

在日益激励的市场竞争中,企业间的竞争已逐步转向了供应链联盟间的竞争,而乡镇企业在面临其原有的发展环境变化的情况下,选择供应链管理作为其战略创新模式是一个必然选择,而且也具有其可行性。因此,乡镇企业应该按供应链管理要求及时调整企业运作模式,选择不同的供应链管理战略,建立起信息系统平台,及时监控供应链的运作状况和建立起对参加供应链联盟的乡镇企业的评价标准和奖励办法。     

供应链的协同管理--协同计划、预测与补给

一、供应链协同管理的发展供应链协同(SupplyChainCollaboration,SCC)是供应链管理中的重要概念。SCC指企业之间业务交往和协作的运作模式,目的在于有效地利用和管理供应链资源。供应链管理打破了企业的边界,将供应链上的各个信息孤岛连接在一起,形成完整的业务链。供应链协同则加强了企业间的合作关系,建立了企业间一种双赢的业务联盟,以共同追求利润的最大化。     

供应链提升企业核心竞争力

随着市场环境的变化和客户期望的不断提高。传统的生产和供应模式已经很难满足要求。竞争的压力迫使企业改变模式．以提高竞争能力获得生存和发展，供应链管理（SCM）模式就应运而生。供应链和供应链管理已经和正在改变着每一个企业在全球经济格局中的位置。实践证明。成功地运用供应链和供应链管理已经成为企业拥有竞争优势的法宝。国际知名企业如通用汽车、沃尔玛特、松下公司等都在优化供应链管理中受益．国内名企业海尔、TCL等也都开始尝试运用供应链管理来提升竞争力。     

零售企业电子供应链模式研究

零售企业发展电子商务与高级供应链管理相结合的电子供应链管理模式是一种必然的历史趋势。论文认为,20世纪80年代以来。企业在实施供应链管理过程中,供应链向电子供应链发展。零售企业电子供应链是以电子商务为手段。由电子采购、库存管理、物流配送和销售管理构成。实现供应链管理思想与方法的集成化、网络化和电子化,形成以零售企业为核心企业的电子供应链运作模式。     

论供应链管理条件下管理会计应用的创新

网络经济的崛起和信息技术的发展促进了企业管理的转变和进步,供应链管理随之应运而生。在供应链管理条件下,管理会计也需要做出相应的调整,从而适应新形势下企业发展的需要。本文论述了供应链管理对管理会计所产生的诸多影响,并在此基础上提出了供应链管理条件下管理会计应用的创新举措。     

电子商务环境下供应链管理策略探讨

以信息和网络技术为依托的电子商务的发展,使市场竞争更为激烈,也使企业与供应商、消费者之间的合作成为企业参与竞争的关键因素。企业与企业之间的竞争,实质上是以核心企业为中心的供应链之间的竞争。文章通过分析电子商务与供应链管理的关系、电子商务的发展对供应链管理的影响以及在电子商务环境下供应链管理存在的主要问题,提出电子商务环境下供应链管理策略。     

电子商务供应链管理与传统供应链管理的比较

随着电子商务的不断发展，企业物流和供应链运作发生了翻天覆地的变化，这种变化越来越反映在以电子商务为基础的信息化、集成化的供应链管理中。本文分析了传统供应链管理模式及存在的问题和不足，探讨了电子商务发展对供应链的影响以及电子商务时代供应链管理出现的新特点，对电子商务供应链管理与传统供应链管理物流运作模式、物流管理要求等多个方面进行了比较和分析。     

基于供应链管理的管理会计创新对策

知识经济的来临,使企业的市场竞争环境日益激烈、复杂,企业单独依靠自身的资源进行自我调整的速度,难以追踪市场的迅速变化,“横向整合”——供应链管理的模式随之产生。这种整合的趋势对管理会计产生了重大影响,促进了管理会计的改进和创新。本文重点讨论供应链管理对管理会计的影响,以及基于供应链的管理会计的观念、对象和方法等的创新。     

关于供应链企业之间合作模式的探讨

供应链管理是企业管理中的重要研究内容,而供应链企业间的战略合作则是供应链管理的本质与核心,通过对供应链企业自身战略发展需求、企业间合作特点、以及供应链综合效应的分析,总结出供应链企业间合作模式选择的影响因素。     

大数据时代物流企业供应链管理运作模式与优化路径

大数据是数字信息化时代发展的产物,随着信息技术的发展,企业进行大数据的供应链管理已经成为大势所趋。本文以物流企业为例,指出企业通过分析客户信息数据、市场行情数据以及销量数据等海量信息,不仅能够明确物流公司供应链管理运作模式,提高企业供应链管理效率;还能使企业充分挖掘出数据背后的真相,为企业的管理和决策提供重要依据。目前,物流企业的大数据供应链运作管理模式发展尚未成熟,仍存在着诸多弊端,如产品质量有待提高、数据管理有待完善、产业优化升级不足等。因此,需要从提高产品质量、完善数据管理以及加速产业升级几个方面着手,优化大数据时代物流企业供应链管理的运作路径。     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis

Several US counties and local governments have recently considered a novel solution to the foreclosure crisis. They plan to use eminent domain to compel the owners of mortgage debt—and specifically of private‐label mortgage‐backed securities—to sell the debt to the government at a price reflecting the loan's market value. The government would then restructure the debt and resell it to new investors. The plans are striking because—in contrast to both development‐driven eminent domain and the federal subprime bank bailout—they would force investors to assume asset devaluation and increased long‐term risk. Notably, the plans have emerged as an instance of financialization‐focused politics in suburbs and suburban cities of color, specifically majority‐black and ‐Latino/a suburbs. Local support for the plans, we argue, is rooted in the long‐term disinvestment of these ‘suburbs of exception', which became targets of subprime lending and eventually sites where the ‘financial exception' has been localized. But these demographic shifts, fragmentation and fiscal pressures have at the same time created a suburban political terrain in which the plans have gained their strongest political support.     

Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization

Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role in the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the importance of serendipity and identified important individual- and organizational-level antecedents. However, the literature has been dispersed and the boundaries of the concept have been blurry, leading to a lack of conceptual clarity and structure, and thus limiting validity and managerial actionability. Based on a systematic literature review, I synthesize existing management-related research on serendipity and explicate the emergence and composition of serendipity in the organizational context. I first identify three necessary conditions that differentiate serendipity from related concepts such as luck or targeted innovation: agency, surprise, and value. Then, I draw from the literature on sensemaking, event-based theorizing, and quantum-based approaches to management to conceptualize the process of cultivating serendipity in the organizational context as a process of enabling potentiality and materialization, and develop a multi-level theory of (cultivating) serendipity. This conceptualization contributes to our collective understanding of how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) organizations can leverage the value in the unexpected, which opens up fruitful avenues for further research.     

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh A critical overview

NGOs in Bangladesh have been recognized as effective change agents in the socio-economic arena throughout the world. Their contributions in micro credit, non-formal education and primary health care are widely known. NGOs play a significant role in society. NGO accountability, as a result, has become a critical issue. NGO accountability in Bangladesh has been examined here in relation to patrons, clients and themselves. Of the three relationships only accountability to patrons is in a near satisfactory state. Accountability to clients is handicapped by lack of opportunities of beneficiaries to participate meaningfully in NGO policy making. Accountability to themselves is adversely affected due to the adherence to a strictly hierarchical system and the influence of founding and charismatic NGO leaders.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

Towards an Asian model of human resource management? A comparative analysis of China,Japan and South Korea

There has been much discussion regarding the possible decline and weakening of national systems of human resource management (HRM). Yet, culture and institutions are often cited as the major stumbling blocks to this outcome. Such constraints may dissipate in the analysis, particularly if ‘regional clusters’ are considered where geographic and cultural closeness and ‘openness’ to similar economic pressures exist. In such cases, it might be postulated that convergence in HRM will occur. We argue that China, Japan and South Korea represent such a cluster. This article examines these countries, to see if a degree of convergence is taking place and if it is towards an identifiable ‘Asian’ model of HRM. A model of change is presented that distinguishes between levels of occurrence and acceptance. Details of the development and practice of HRM in each country are then set out. The article ends with a discussion and implications section and a brief conclusion.     

The Early History of the Cumulants and the Gram-Charlier Series

The early history of the Gram-Charlier series is discussed from three points of view: (1) a generalization of Laplace's central limit theorem, (2) a least squares approximation to a continuous function by means of Chebyshev-Hermite polynomials, (3) a generalization of Gauss's normal distribution to a system of skew distributions. Thiele defined the cumulants in terms of the moments, first by a recursion formula and later by an expansion of the logarithm of the moment generating function. He devised a differential operator which adjusts any cumulant to a desired value. His little known 1899 paper in Danish on the properties of the cumulants is translated into English in the Appendix.     

Capturing the Implications of Services Trade Liberalization

This paper evaluates the impact of service sector trade liberalization on the world economy by a ten-region, eleven-sector CGE model with import embodied technology transfer from developed countries to developing countries. Simulation results show that service sector trade liberalization not only directly affects world service production and trade, but also has significant implications for other sectors in the economy. The major channel of the impact is through inter-industry input-output relations and TFP growth induced from services imported by developing countries from developed countries, which may be embodied with new information and advanced technology.