科技对纺织的战略意义

世界主要工业发达国家以及亚洲“四小龙”在工业化过程中，尤其是在工业化初期和中期，作为劳动密集型的纺织工业具有重要的推动和关联作用。从目前和今后一段时期我国经济发展和工业化趋势来看，纺织工业在21世纪前50年间，在出口创汇、增加就业、扩大消费等方面仍将为我国国民经济发展起到重要的支撑作用，这种作用是其他产业一时难以取代的。这与中国纺织工业在原料供给、加工能力、产业体系、劳动力成本及素质等方面仍然具有明显的比较优势，以及占有世界市场最多的份额作为竞争的基础有着直接关系。由此，依靠科技、深化改革把我们的纺织大国建成纺织强国越来越具有重要的战略意义。     

略论中国企业跨文化管理的原则与方法

本文阐述了跨文化管理的基本原则,重点探讨了企业实施跨文化管理的主要方法。     

Pensions and poverty traps: Is saving worthwhile for women?

Present policy means that a private pension, unless it is substantial, may fail to bring financial gain in retirement due to means testing: the pensions poverty trap. This paper examines women's acquisition of private (occupational and personal) pensions and their risk of facing this trap. Because of the loosening link between marriage and motherhood, previous patterns of pension advantage according to marital status are shifting. The employment and pension impact of motherhood varies with socio-economic status but the pension prospects of the majority of women are poor. It is concluded that women's need for financial advice to avoid the pensions poverty trap is greater than men's. An improved basic pension, indexed to national income, would reduce the risk of mis-selling and restore confidence that saving for a pension is worthwhile.     

Thought leadership in investment banking: The beginning of a new era

The paper argues that although considerations such as industry consolidation, the role of lending and the effects of technology are still important in shaping the future of investment banking, sustainable competitive advantage necessitates that emphasis is also placed on thought leadership. This entails quite a radical change in terms of the way in which the industry approaches the problem of competition and requires emphasis on value creation for all the constituent parts of the industry: corporations, investors, the banks themselves and research departments. Accordingly, the paper provides a rationale for this change and provides inter alia a range of examples to illustrate how thought leadership could lead to a fundamental change in the future of the investment banking industry.     

A play-the-winner-type urn design with reduced variability

We propose a new adaptive allocation rule, the drop-the-loser, that randomizes subjects in the course of a trial comparing treatments with dichotomous outcomes. The rule tends to assign more patients to better treatments with the same limiting proportion as the randomized play-the-winner rule. The new design has significantly less variable allocation proportion than the randomized play-the-winner rule. Decrease in variability translates into a gain in statistical power. For some values of success probabilities the drop-the-loser rule has a double advantage over conventional equal allocation in that it has better power and assigns more subjects to the better treatment. Acknowledgments. I thank Stephen Durham, the associate editor, and the referees for their helpful suggestions.     

浅析物流产业的发展途径

探讨了物流在经济生活中的作用和现阶段我国物流产业方面存在的问题。提出了发展我国物流产业的基本途径。指出了我国的物流企业应该适时调整经营战略。顺应世界经济的发展趋势。不断提高自身的生存和发展能力。以应对未来更为激烈的竞争局面。