扶持林业的经济均衡观

林业的市场失灵源于其公共物品属性、效益外部性和弱质性,而市场失灵的后果使林业在市场中无法实现微观良性循环,即林业经济的不均衡。应用逻辑推理和直观定量的视角,重点剖析林业投入环节微观循环的前提性、基础性的先天缺陷,产出环节微观循环的微观补偿不畅性、萎缩性,并按照社会平均收益的回报或投资林业的机会成本与投资林业实际平均回报之间的差额,以及帕累托均衡原理,初步确定了能够维持林业经济均衡的对微观林业实行经济扶持的量的尺度与标准,进而提出实现林业经济均衡必须依靠国民收入的再分配和政府扶持的论断。     

林业职工自营经济金融支持问题研究——黑龙江伊春林区案例

当前,林业职工的自营经济是伊春市正在发展的一种经济形式。从伊春市发展林业职工自营经济中金融支持的现状出发,发现伊春市对林业职工自营经济的金融支持存在问题,为了增加就业、稳步推进林权制度改革以及经济与金融和谐发展,伊春市需要从构建和谐的金融生态环境、多层次的信用担保体系、各金融机构依据自身的比较优势来满足林业职工自营经济的融资需求。     

林业资源型城市经济转型扶持政策研究

资源型城市经济转型是一个巨大的系统工程,不仅要依靠资源型城市自身力量来完成,还需要中央和地方政府的有关政策扶持,林业资源型城市也不例外。论述林业资源型城市进行政策扶持的必要性。阐述一些西方国家针对不同类型的资源型城市的特点制定的一系列较为完善的扶持政策,如法国和德国主要依靠政府的干预,日本则通过产业政策对煤炭行业进行结构调整等政策促进城市经济顺利转型。在借鉴国外资源型城市转型扶持政策的基础上,提出促进黑龙江省林业资源型城市经济转型的扶持政策,即资源开发的补偿政策和衰退产业的扶持政策,及具体实施办法,以期促进林业资源型城市经济顺利转型。     

我国旅行社行业发展的几个理论问题——对我国旅行社行业制度变迁的考察

简要地回顾和评述了二十多年来我国旅行社行业的发展历程,对一些长期困扰旅行社行业发展的诸如旅游业发展与制度化环境、政府主导与市场主导、“政策失灵”问题,行业垄断还是行业竞争等理论问题提出了独立的见解,并就我国旅行社业的发展趋势与路径选择提出了建设性的意见。     

An investigation of problem-solving support and relaxation motivations on e-WOM

As a consequence of greater computer-mediated consumer-to-consumer communication within the firm's marketing communications, there has been a growing need to understand these digital interactions more explicitly. That is, we still know little about the exact extrinsic and intrinsic motivations that drive electronic word-of-mouth. The purpose of the paper is to better understand why members within community-based websites develop a need to exchange and/or develop a social bond within the community. Questionnaire data were gathered from 147 members of an online beauty forum in Australia. The findings highlight that those members seeking problem-solving support in combination with elements of relaxation will be more inclined to exchange with other community members and develop a social bond within that community. Marketing managers can capitalise these findings by strengthening problem-solving support systems and creating environments where community members can also relax and unwind to increase the exchange between members and also increase the social bonds within the community.     

Sustainable tourism planning and climate change adaptation in the Alps: a case study of winter tourism in mountain communities in the Dolomites

A vast body of literature suggests that the European Alpine Region is extremely sensitive to climate change. Winter tourism is closely related to climate variations, especially in mountain regions where resorts are heavily dependent on snow. This paper explores how to effectively integrate a climate change adaptation perspective with local discourses about sustainability and tourism, an increasing priority for policy-makers in the region and elsewhere. It reports on the development and application of a participatory decision support process for the analysis of adaptation strategies for local development of an Alpine tourism destination, Auronzo di Cadore (Dolomites, Italy). This experience significantly contributed to the idea that an efficient combination of modelling capabilities, decision support tools, and participatory processes can substantially improve decision-making for sustainability. The authors show that, in this case study, such a combination of methods and tools allowed for managing the involvement of local actors, stimulating local debates on climate change adaptation and possible consequences on winter tourism, encouraging creativity and smoothing potential conflicts, and easing the integration of the qualitative knowledge and the preferences of the involved actors with quantitative information. This contributed to an integrated sustainability assessment of alternative strategies for sustainable tourism planning.     

Why We Should Change Our Attitude Towards Distressed Firms

This article surveys ‘creditor‐friendly’ and ‘enterprise‐friendly’ bankruptcy regimes with a focus on the methodology underlying the filter test in distress, as reflected both in its academic treatment and in legal practice. I find that the test exhibits pro‐liquidation bias in designating liquidation of a firm with recovery potential as the Type II error, and in underplaying the benefits of a possible turnaround. Further influences militating against continuation include the power conferred on creditors through the balance sheet criterion and the undervaluation of intangible assets. I make the case for reversing such biases to establish a presumption in favour of continuation.     

Understanding Event Sport Tourism Experiences of Support Partners: A Research Note

The purpose of this research reflection is to set the stage for a more detailed research agenda in exploring event sport tourism experiences of support partners (SPs) during events. Using photo elicitation, the article presents a preliminary empirical case study. Visual materials were assembled by three female participants to interrogate how SPs experience “spectator space” and explore the processes that produced those experiences, an area of study that remains relatively unexplored in leisure research. Initial findings show how waiting to see the triathlete can be anxiety-provoking, but the release of emotion when smiles are exchanged constitutes core activities of being there. However, there are more questions than answers, and there is a need for further inquiry. Suggestions for future research on the impact of serious leisure on intimate others are given.     

Residents' place image: a cluster analysis and its links to place attachment and support for tourism

While there is a plethora of studies segmenting the lucrative tourism market, limited attention has been given to identifying potential segments of local residents based on their image of the place they live in as a tourist destination. This study aims to address this gap by (a) clustering local residents of a tourist destination based on their images of that place; and (b) identifying whether those image-based resident groups share similar/different levels of place attachment and intentions toward tourism (support for tourism, intention to recommend it to others). Analysis was based on a sample of 368 residents of Eilat, Israel. The findings suggest the presence of three resident groups with different images of Eilat – called Nature Aesthete, Appreciator, and Critical – and provide support that these groups exhibit dissimilar levels of attachment and intentions/behavior toward tourism. The Appreciator (residents with the most favorable image) were reported exhibiting higher levels of place attachment, support for tourism and were more likely to recommend their place to others as a tourist destination than the Critical (residents with the least favorable image). The implications of these findings to tourism theory and practice are discussed.     

Relationships of providing and receiving leisure social support to stress in older adults

Leisure has become a topic of interest in stress-coping research. This study examined the relationships between receiving leisure social support, providing leisure social support, leisure self-determination and leisure competence in older adults and their stress. A total of 639 community-dwelling older adults were recruited. Data were collected using face-to-face surveys, which included measures of leisure social support (receiving and providing), leisure self-determination, leisure competence and stress. Data were analysed using regression analysis. The results indicated that receiving leisure social support, providing leisure social support, leisure self-determination and leisure competence were significantly and negatively correlated with stress and that providing leisure social support was more significantly correlated with reduced stress than the other leisure factors. Implications of the results are discussed.