Gender equality's impact on female directors’ efficacy: A multi-country study

This paper studies the role of gender equality in female directors’ efficacy and its subsequent effects on firms. Female directors in more gender equal societies should possess greater skills and exert more influence due to better access to educational/professional opportunities and more amicable boardroom dynamics. Therefore, we hypothesize that gender equality serves as an important moderator in the relation between female board representation and firm outcomes. Using a multi-national panel comprising 1986 public firms from 24 countries or areas spanning from 2007 to 2016, we obtain results that firms with higher female board representation exhibit higher overall performance, less earnings management, and less excessive risk taking, in which all three relations are stronger in countries with greater gender equality. Taken together, our paper implies that the impact of female directors on firm outcomes depends on a country's overall level of gender equality.     

去工业化、技术差距与产业转移的技术溢出效应

中西部承接产业转移缺乏显著的正向技术溢出效应，成为2000年后区际技术差距持续扩大以及近年部分地区过早去工业化的关键影响因素之一。利用2001~2017年全国30个省（市）面板数据研究证实，各地区技术水平与工业增加值在地区生产总值中的份额之间存在显著正相关性；中西部在2005~2014年承接了较大规模产业转移，而区际技术差距却持续扩大，技术溢出效应显著为负。在相对偏低的技术水平条件下，中西部地区在十余年的产业承接中主要依赖于廉价的要素成本优势，其自主创新能力、创新资源积累已不足以抵御本地消费升级、要素成本上升与国际需求疲软等负面因素的叠加影响。最终，技术差距、商品及服务净输出赤字的扩大至少加快了部分欠发达地区的去工业化。     

The value of ongoing venture capital investment to newly listed firms

We examine whether the market values continuing venture capital (VC) investor involvement in firms post-IPO. Compared to the US, Australian VC investors exit their investments post-IPO by on-market sales rather than distribution of holdings to their investors. Lockup periods tend to be longer and ownership thresholds for reporting trades lower. We find that the market responds positively to buy transactions, negatively to sell transactions of VC investors and negatively to the resignation of VC directors. These results are consistent with VC investors in the firm having a positive influence and creating value from which the VCs and other shareholders benefit.     

浅谈独立学院教学秘书队伍建设

独立学院教学秘书是教学管理中最基层的实施者,其工作质量直接影响着整个学院的教学管理水平,本文结合独立学院教学秘书队伍的现状提出了有针对性的建议。     

区域科技基础条件平台构建研究

区域科技基础条件平台的构建，可以更好的发挥公共科技服务在区域自主创新和科技进步中的作用，有利于减少科技资源布局分散和重复建设等问题，将为区域主导产业的发展起到极大的促进作用，可以确保产业在全国同行业中处于领先地位。本文在解析了区域科技基础条件平台建设影响因素的基础上，分析区域科技基础条件平台构建的目标任务和重点工作内容，并探讨相关的保障措施。     

多元智能理论对独立学院英语教学改革的启示

多元智能理论是美国哈佛大学著名心理学家加德纳于1983年在其著作《智能的结构》中提出来的。该理论认为人类拥有多种相互独立的一些智能,而每个人都有着不同的智能组合。如果能够建立一种教育体系,开发学生多种不同的智能潜力,帮助他们发展其独特的智力特点,就会促进学生全面而又有个性的发展。就独立学院的英语教学改革而言,多元智能理论对当前教学环境的变革、对教学理念和教学内容的重新解读以及对教学评价的多样化思考都产生了深远的影响。     

The Influence of Board Composition on Sustainable Development Disclosure

Despite knowing the potential effect of social reporting on firms' continuity, there is limited research into the influence of the composition of boards of directors on CSR disclosure. This paper adds to the emerging CSR literature empirical evidence by examining how board composition relates to a firm's social and environmental disclosure as well as the implementation of social policies. Using a sample of FTSE 350 firms for the period 2007–2012, the results show that higher board independence facilitates the conveying of firms' good citizenship image through enhancing societal conscience. The results also show that female participation on boards is favorably affecting CSR engagement and reporting as well as the establishment of ethical policies. Hence, the research suggests that boards with higher female participation and independence boost the legitimacy of CSR reporting. Board gender diversity and independence facilitates directing part of the firm's scarce resources toward value maximizing social projects and subsequent reporting on these. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

利用FDI促进我国自主创新的思路探讨

改革开放以来的30年时间里，外资经济已成为我国经济的一个重要组成部分，它为推动我国的经济发展做出了十分重要的贡献。然而。“利用FDI”与“自主创新”之间究竞存在怎样的关系，一直是学术界争论的焦点。文章从我国利用FDI的现状入手，分析了利用FDI对我国自主创新的影响，得出事实上利用FDI与自主创新之间并不矛盾的结论，并剖析出当前制约我国利用FDI提高自主创新能力的因素，进而提出我国应当如何提高FDI利用率来促进自主创新的思路。     

独立学院市场营销专业人才培养模式研究

目前独立学院市场营销专业人才培养目标、教学计划等还存在一些问题,需要对人才培养目标进行科学的定位,应根据应用性复合型人才的培养目标制订具体的培养措施。     

独立董事法律责任的中国实践——来自证监会对上市公司处罚的经验证据

独立董事制度作为现代公司治理机制的重要组成部分,在维护资本市场秩序,保护投资者利益方面发挥着重要作用。但是,随着独立董事队伍的扩大,其特殊身份引发的特别法律责任问题也引起了人们的关注。本文主要针对中国证监会2001～2007年对上市公司独立董事的处罚进行了实证研究,并针对法律实施中发现的问题,如立法粗糙、执法不均衡、处罚方式单一、政策导向性强等问题,提出了一些有建设性的意见和建议。