Assessment of the Partnership Quality between Travel Agencies and Health Care Organizations on the International Medical Tourism Market in Taiwan

The medical tourism literature lacks insight into related issues of these types of partnerships. Those that integrate multiple perspectives into one research framework are especially rare. This study evaluated and compared the influence of external environment uncertainty, trust, and resource dependence perspectives on the quality of interorganizational partnerships in the international medical tourism market and quantified these elements using external environment uncertainty assessment on the international medical tourism development. The research sample was based on a survey from 161 travel agency managers in Taiwan. This study found that external environment uncertainty has direct negative impact on trust and resource dependence has a positive influence on interorganizational partnership. Moreover, trust has a significant impact on partnership quality while resource dependence does not. Therefore, medical travel agents should extend their network of trustworthy health care organization partners in order to improve performance, decrease their self-risk, collect information, and avoid missed opportunities.     

Inflation in New EU Member States: A Domestically or Externally Driven Phenomenon?

This article empirically analyzes the domestic and external inflation determinants for eight non-eurozone new EU member states (NMS), using a structural vector autoregression model. Results indicate that foreign shocks are a major factor in explaining inflation dynamics in the medium run, while the short-run inflation dynamics are mainly influenced by domestic shocks. Moreover, the importance of the foreign inflation component has had a rising trend in the precrisis period in all NMS and mostly coincided with their accession to the EU. This trend ended with the onset of the global financial crisis. The study implicates the need to augment the classical Taylor rule with foreign factors in the case of small open economies.     

财务危机成因分析

随着当今市场环境的复杂多变和国际竞争的日益加剧,企业面临着越来越大的风险和危机,而财务危机是企业危机中最显著、最综合的表现。对企业的财务危机进行管理,必须首先在国内外学者研究成果的基础上对企业产生财务危机的原因进行分析。其外部原因主要分为宏观环境和行业环境,其内部原因主要包括管理失误、治理结构不完善、为其他公司提供担保这几大方面。     

分工深化、代工和迂回生产——基于古典经济学视角的研究

借助于代工生产方式的工业化发展道路,虽然有助于发展中国家实现起飞或低端阶段的工业化进程,但是在发展中国家进行到高端工业化进程中,却广泛地出现了低端锁定的问题。本文基于古典经济学的分析视角,借助分工理论对代工生产方式进行了深入的分析,阐释了代工模式产生的条件,对以中国为代表的发展中国家和地区制造业低端锁定问题进行了深入探讨。本文认为技术水平落后的发展中国家和地区制造业在发展过程中,旨在充分发挥各自资源禀赋差异带来的比较优势的选择行为,将引导这些地区的制造业主动、自发自然的融入全球范围制造业分工体系,主动、自发自然的被低端锁定。因此,只有依靠相关政策制定部门通过产业政策和贸易政策的协调,从外部引导制造业企业实现企业升级和产业升级,弥补市场资源配置方式和分工机制的缺陷。     

浅谈房屋权属登记薄的填制和对外利用规则

就本人在理论和实际工作中对自治区房屋权属登记簿的填制和对外利用规则谈谈个人的粗浅认识。     

创新铁路运输业竞争理论模型研究

通过对竞争理论的研究,提出了铁路运输竞争的概念及分类,建立了铁路运输内部竞争和外部竞争模型;特别是通过对现行中国铁路运输区域管理(铁路局管理)模式的实证分析研究,建立了铁路现有区域管理模式下的竞争模型,在此基础上提出了市场经济条件下、实现充分竞争的新型铁路公司竞争模型,即通过改革后使任一客户(旅客或货主)在同一地区可以选择不同铁路运输公司为其服务,建立起铁路运输企业间的内部充分竞争机制,对铁路运输改革、打破运输垄断、引入竞争机制具有一定的理论意义和重要的现实参考价值。     

国有商业银行外部公关现状之分析

大量的公关理论研究和实践表明:银行公关外部活动是否有效,直接影响银行的形象、银行的竞争力乃至银行的生死存亡。然而银行外部公关的理论研究在中国至今还近乎空白,本文就以银行外部公关为研究主题,结合国有商业银行的实际情况,运用银行管理学、公关学、制度经济学的有关理论,系统深入分析银行外部公关,即银行与客户的关系、银行与同业的关系、银行与政府的关系、银行与新闻媒体的关系等状况,针对性地提出银行在解决处理各种关系时应采取的策略措施,建立了银行外部公关的保障体系,强调银行公关组织构建、人才培养以及公关策划,对银行外部公关的特殊作用。     

企业薪酬内部公平与外部公平对接研究

岗位价值评估分数与外部市场薪酬水平对接是决定企业薪酬内部公平和外部公平程度的核心环节。在分析薪等制、薪点制和宽带薪酬等三种岗位价值评估与外部市场薪酬水平对接技术的基础上,对薪等制、薪点制中薪酬内外部公平对接技术的最新发展进行了探讨。     

Changes of Thai economy since 19701 1

Within the last 30 years, the number of Thai population increased from 35 million to 62 million, the general price level went up 6 times, and Thai currency baht devaluated 2.2 times against the dollar. The industrial production increased 36 times nominally. The biggest industry of Thailand changed from agriculture to manufacture, and the total value of exports jumped by 192 times and that of imports grew by 95 times. Thai current account balance had recorded a deficit every year from 1970 to 1996. During the same period of time, however, the capital account balance had shown surplus. The inflow of foreign capital was the only stronghold of Thai economy at that time. In 1997, Thailand suddenly experienced a total change of its external environment From then on, Thai current account shifted from a deficit to a surplus and Thai capital account turned from a surplus to a deficit. The conclusion of this paper indicates that the future of Thai economy is heavily dependent on whether the amount of surplus in Thai current account could surpass the deficit in Thai capital account