The Influence of Environmental Pressures, Diversification Strategy, and Union/Nonunion Setting on Employee Participation

This study tests the hypotheses that environment, diversification strategy, and union/nonunion setting affect the number and variety of employee participation programs. A survey of large U.S. manufacturing firms measured the implementation of employee participation programs. Regression results suggest that environmental pressures exert a direct effect on participation in union settings. However, in nonunion settings, environment and diversification strategy both correlated directly with participation. These results suggest that unions could potentially affect participation program implementation.     

创意产业促进城市发展的内容与途径

20世纪90年代以来,创意产业作为后工业社会的城市型产业,在发达国家中迅速兴起并成为世界财富创造的新源泉,有力地推动了城市复兴、城市空间结构的功能重塑和城市治理制度与政策的全面创新.对创意产业的深入探讨,不仅有助于全面了解创意产业与城市发展之间的关系,而且还将对城市发展创意产业的政策取向提供相关启示.     

China top brand strategy and innovation

The Chinese economy appears the double-restraint characteristic at present stage including mainly resources restraint and market restraint. With the policy of reform and opening up, and especially after accelerating the two fundamental changes put forward by central government, the transformation of the economic growth mode achieved positive progress in China. There was still no brand from China mainland belonging to the 100 top world valuable brands according to Business Weekly of America in 2006. By 2007, a total of 1957 China top brand, 10 world famous China top brand are awarded in china to form a powerful enterprise group. But how to assess a brand is still troublesome. This paper shows the evolution of the policy and discusses the dilemma expecting the advice from the domestic and abroad.     

网络口碑信息对消费者购买决策的影响：一个实验研究

本文通过实验法考察了网络口碑信息对消费者购买决策的影响，就网络口碑的影响力在口碑信息类型、传播方向和产品涉入度不同的情况下会表现出哪些差异等问题作了分析。实验结果支持了所提出的6项假设，网络口碑信息对于消费者购买决策的影响力可能会随着口碑传播方向、信息类型以及产品卷入度的不同而呈现出显著差异的预测得到了证实；信息类型、传播方向和产品卷入度之间所存在的交互效应也会明显地作用到网络口碑对消费者购买决策的影响效果。     

零售品牌形象构成要素实证研究

良好的品牌形象可以降低消费者购物过程中感知的风险,从而提高其满意度和忠诚度,作为一种独特的竞争优势,它又可以使企业获得强大的品牌资产,并为品牌延伸提供了依据.笔者试图通过问卷调查,从消费者的视角识别出零售品牌形象的主要构成要素.研究发现,零售品牌形象是一个多维的概念,它主要由31个指标构成并可以划分为7个纬度.与国际零售品牌相比,本土零售品牌的名称更容易为消费者记忆与传播,消费者对本土零售品牌名称的认知明显高于国际零售品牌.     

论品牌文化的表现形式

品牌是商标名称的标识,是一种文化。品牌文化是商品流通过程的外化,高品位的文化是创建和发展品牌不可或缺的要素。品牌文化的表现形式是塑造品牌文化的直观显示,它对品牌及其文化有着重要的影响。现阶段企业的竞争已呈现文化性,体现在品牌竞争上。重视品牌及其文化建设,塑造品牌形象已经成为企业凝聚和提升自身核心竞争力的重要手段。     

Exploring export sales management practices in small- and medium-sized firms

We investigate key sales management aspects in relation to the export involvement stage of the firm. Specifically, an attempt is made to examine the presence of significant differences in export sales management control strategy, export sales organization design and export sales management behavioral attributes between ‘active’ and ‘committed’ exporting firms. We identify several differences among these exporter groups with the main conclusion being that the sales management function is more effectively organized and managed at advanced levels of export involvement. These findings are discussed in the light of existing knowledge, and various conclusions and research implications are also derived.     

构筑品牌战略 提升我国中小型企业的核心竞争力

中小型企业是国民经济的重要组成部分,对经济发展和社会稳定起着举足轻重的促进作用。中小企业的核心竞争力是企业发展的根本保证。构筑中小企业品牌战略,对强化我国中小企业核心竞争力、扩大市场份额、保持竞争优势具有重大的现实意义。     

Involving suppliers in product development: Insights from R&D directors and project managers

While there is increasing evidence that involving suppliers in new product development (NPD) is important, and for many firms even inevitable, there is also evidence that not all such efforts are successful. Firms aiming at implementing this strategy effectively have to pay close attention to several contingency factors on the organizational level and properly manage supplier involvement on the project level. The exploratory case study research underlying this article explores key issues to be considered when involving suppliers in NPD and the counter measures they can take. Our research shows that companies differentiate between so-called “know-how” and “capacity” projects, and that they manage them differently. Furthermore, this research shows that firms outside the automotive and high-tech manufacturing industries are likely to intensify supplier involvement in the future.     

中国化妆品行业——国内化妆品品牌的优点和缺点(英文)

Chinese cosmetics market gives birth since 1980s as a newly developing industry,which is the typical representative industry of the china's socialist market economy after opening policy reform.With the opening of our domestic market,the foreign brand cosmetics enter into the Chinese market as soon as possible,which accelerate the development of Chinese cosmetics industry.How to survive in this fierce competition becomes a hot topic for our domestic cosmetic companies.In this thesis,the author tries to introduce the history and development of Chinese domestic industry;analysis the advantage and disadvantage of this market;and discuss the developing method for the Chinese cosmetic market.