An Integrative Framework for Measuring the Extent to which Organizational Variables Influence the Success of Process Improvement Programmes

abstract    Studies on the three types of process improvement programmes (Continuous Improvement, Reengineering and Benchmarking) have appeared many times in the literature. These studies suggest that certain organizational variables act as enablers and their presence or absence can significantly influence success rates. Such studies have tended to examine companies where a single programme has been implemented. In contrast, this paper examines a sample of companies who have experienced all three programmes. Our aim is to compare and contrast each programme's impact on firm performance and identify which organizational variables are common and which are programme-specific enablers of success. We build and test an integrative framework to support our analysis. Our study found that: (1) Reengineering delivered the greatest impact on performance; (2) executive commitment was needed to make this happen; (3) strategic alignment was the major influence on the success rate of Reengineering and Continuous Improvement programmes; and (4) employee empowerment was necessary for each programme to work effectively.     

金融发展与江苏经济增长：实证与比较分析

多数理论与实证研究认为,金融发展与经济增长之间存在正相关关系.但是,通过对江苏金融发展水平与经济增长之间协调关系的实证分析发现,江苏的情况恰恰相反.对江苏与全国及其他部分省市的金融发展水平进行比较表明,导致这一结果的原因在于江苏金融整体发展在国内处于较低水平,从而阻碍了经济的发展.因此,当务之急是大力发展中小金融机构,完善金融服务和金融监管,加快商业银行的改革步伐,繁荣保险市场,促使江苏金融、经济的协调发展.     

建设和谐社会的文化与伦理思考

社会的和谐是现代化社会的基础，世界各国现代化的实践表明，唯有使文化现代化才能有整个社会的现代化。有中国特色社会主义现代化道路的实践进一步证明了文化、经济与社会发展之间有密切的联系，因为政治、法律制度的完善、经济制度的改革都会直接触及整个社会的一般文化传统和文化背景。     

The adaptive consequences of pride in personal selling

This study examines the adaptive consequences of pride in personal selling and its self-regulation with colleagues and customers. Study 1 investigates the effects of experiencing pride, where two benefits were found. First, pride increases salespersons’ performance-related motivations. Specifically, it promotes the use of adaptive selling strategies, greater effort, and self-efficacy. Second, pride positively affects organizational citizenship behaviors. Study 2 takes an emotion-process point of view and compares excessive pride (hubris) with positive pride. The results show that salespeople are capable of self-regulating the expression of these emotions differently toward colleagues and customers via anticipated feelings of fear, shame, and regret. Salespeople, in other words, are affected by their emotions, but they also are capable of controlling them to their advantage. Willem Verbeke (verbeke@few.eur.nl) is a chaired professor of sales and account management at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His research has appeared in a number of academic journals, including theJournal of Marketing, theInternational Journal of Research in Marketing, theJournal of Management, theJournal of Organizational Behavior, and theJournal of Applied Psychology. His area of research interests includes personal selling, sales management, emotions and emotion regulation, social capital, and knowledge management. Frank Belschak (belschak@few.eur.nl) is an assistant professor of marketing and organizational behavior at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of Cologne in Germany. His current research interests include emotions and emotion regulation in organizations and across cultures, as well as social capital and networks. Richard P. Bagozzi (bagozzi@rice.edu) is the J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Management in the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management and a professor of psychology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He conducts research on human emotions, the theory of action, goal setting and goal striving, and structural equation methods.     

汇率制度:变迁轨迹与经济绩效

通过对汇率制度变迁下实际汇率水平、内外部均衡目标的实证研究发现:钉住一揽子货币制度能较好的实现内部均衡目标,经济绩效显著;相对浮动汇率制度在内部均衡目标实现方面的经济绩效不显著,却能有效的促进外部均衡目标的实现;固定汇率制度能促进内部均衡目标的实现,国内经济绩效显著,却不能有效促进外部均衡目标的实现。我国汇率制度的变迁揭示,汇率变化要与国内经济结构和市场能力相适应。当前人民币升值虽然是趋势,但要循序渐进缓步推进,给予国内经济结构和出口行业留有转型时间和空间。我国均衡汇率的逐步形成,需要实现国内经济绩效和国际经济绩效的协调同步,才能实现经济可持续发展。     

山西天镇晚白垩世恐龙动物群发掘简报

文章简要介绍了山西天镇晚白垩世恐龙化石的发现、发掘概况及动物群的特征，讨论了含化石地层—灰泉堡组的时代，认为无疑应属晚白垩世。以晚白垩世蜥脚类巨龙科和鸟臀类甲龙科化石为代表，别具特色的新恐龙动物群为一突破性的发现，对它的深入研究，将对蜥脚类、甲龙类及其共生动物群的组成、性质、演化、迁徙和动物地理区的划分及探讨白垩纪末恐龙的绝灭有重要的科学意义。     

人口老龄化背景下如何构建我国的农村养老保险制度

人口老龄化是我国未来面临的一个重大问题,它对我国,特别是对农村的养老保险制度提出了挑战.针对我国农村养老保险制度现存的问题,提出了构建合理有效的农村养老保险制度的若干建议.     

党员先进性教育必须以提升师德水准为长效机制

结合高等院校“保持共产党员先进性教育”活动,提出了建立高校先进性教育的长效机制的关键是提升师德水准。要从办学理念、服务育人理念及大学生德育工作入手,在先进性教育活动实践及制度建设中提高师德认识、培养师德素质、提高师德信念、保障师德建设。     

信用的二重性探究

人类最初产生的信用 ,是包含在公道和友谊之中的信用 ,后来才产生借贷这种经济学意义上的信用。信用同时具有伦理品性和经济品性双重属性。现代信用既具有私人物品的竞争性、排他性 ,又具有一般公共物品的非竞争性、非排他性特征 ,还具有一般公共物品所不具备的无形化及以社会道德为基础等特殊性。信用作为公共物品仍是经济品性和伦理品性的同构体     

改革、开放和发展的不同思路与流派

在中国改革中，已形成若干经济学派别，主要有：原生马克思主义经济思潮、创新马克思主义经济思潮、新自由主义经济思潮等。创新马克思主义经济思潮认为，社会主义和谐社会的经济基础是“四主型”经济制度，即公有主体型的多种类产权制度、劳动主体型的多要素分配制度、国家主导型的多结构市场制度和自立主导型的多方童开放制度。