Measuring Individual Preferences for Rural Multifunctionality: The Importance of Demographic and Residential Heterogeneity

We propose an approach to conceptualise ‘rural multifunctionality’ and further investigate peoples’ preferences for it. We use an opinion survey concerning individual preferences for several functions that rural spaces should provide. We use the analytical hierarchy process approach to assess the relative importance of each function. The results show how the social weightings of these functions are balanced, confirming that society demands truly multifunctional rural territories. Nonetheless, differences are found in individual preferences. We explore the demographic and socioeconomic determinants of these individual preferences, paying particular attention to the importance of heterogeneity using seemingly unrelated regressions. In short, results from this research could be employed as a useful informative element for the future development of public policies related to rural spaces.     

Identification of significant threats and errors affecting aviation safety in Taiwan using the analytical hierarchy process

This study ranked the significant threats and human errors affecting aviation safety. Two-phase questionnaires were used to elicit experts' views on four categories of human errors and threats comprising twenty-three criteria. The analytical hierarchy process was used to calculate the weight for each criteria which were then ranked in order of importance. The study indicated that flight crew errors are the most important threats.     

协同创新的内涵、层次与框架

协同创新在我国不仅是一个学术概念,更是一个政治概念,然而现有研究对协同创新的理解与把握较少关注我国协同创新现状,局限于从中观层次（组织机构）探讨协同创新。从我国协同创新现实情境出发,在充分理解我国政府推动协同创新意图的基础上,从微观、中观和宏观3个层次分析协同创新的内涵及功能,发现不同层次的活动主体在外在动因和内在动因共同影响下,形成了相应的协同互动模式;各层次活动主体采取不同的协同创新模式及机制,从而实现了不同层次协同创新绩效。最后,基于协同创新“前因后果”的思路,从多层次视角构建理论分析框架,并提出未来研究展望。     

东亚货币一体化可行性研究：基于层次设权方法的分析

由次贷危机引发的全球性金融危机再次引发了人们时区域经济协调和货币一体化的讨论,文章应用层次设权方法（AHP）计算了东亚十个国家和地区的经济特征指数和区域经济一体化指数,并与20世纪60年代欧共体成立时的情形进行了比较。结论表明,尽管亚洲最优货币区的建立尚存在大量障碍需要克服,但东亚地区已经初步具备经济一体化的基础。     

财务会计模式的历史变迁:分析视角的考察

会计目标及实现这一目标的会计原则,规定着会计实务的主要方面,本文通过四个分析性模型从理论层面上对会计模式的历史变迁作了一个概括。完全且完美市场背景下的经济收益观是最早的会计模式。在市场不完全或不完美时,会计目标重新定位于提供决策有用的信息,提高会计数据的信息含量、更为相关可靠地计量企业的资产、负债,成为了会计政策选择理论上的标准。由于存在基于会计数据的不完全契约,会计契约观认为,减少可供选择的会计政策或硬化会计政策选择的标准,是降低契约(代理)成本的基本举措。     

贵州县域经济社会发展水平的比较分析

对于贵州全省87个县级区域,选取反映其经济社会发展水平的8个重要指标,比较其县域经济社会发展差异。应用层次分析法,解算各指标权重,确定各县域综合排序值及其在全省所居位次。从而揭示县域经济的空间分布差异,为进行宏观决策、扶贫开发、协调区域经济发展而提供量化依据。     

商务智能在中国的现状和发展研究

商务智能是数据仓库、联机分析处理和数据挖掘技术研究的新兴领域。近年来,商务智能的理论与应用研究发展迅速,并引起了国内外研究人员的重视。以科学引文索引数据库(SCI)、工程索引数据库(EI)以及清华全文数据库(CNKI)中有关“商务智能”研究文章的统计数据为研究基础,对商务智能在我国研究的总体趋势和研究热点两个方面进行分析和研究。最后,分析了商务智能在我国的发展,并对进一步发展我国商务智能的理论研究和实际应用提出了建议。     

用层次分析法评价主要交通方式的可持续发展问题

依据可持续发展的理念,在建设我国交通运输体系时,应优先发展对环境危害小、资源消耗少,而运输效益大的交通方式。因此,利用层次分析法对我国中长途运输的3种交通方式的可持续发展能力进行分析,在可持续发展的标准上建立交通方式的选优模型,从定量的角度进行分析评价,得到铁路运输具有显著优越性的结论。     

Enhancing online-to-offline specific customer loyalty in beauty industry

Customer loyalty is one of the core values for business success in beauty industry; however, there is insufficient research on weighing the importance of critical factors contributing to customer loyalty for the industry. This study, for the first time, investigates and ranks empirically the critical factors contributing to O2O specific customer loyalty in beauty industry by using Analytical Hierarchical Process. Results show that customer satisfaction, customer’s perceived switching costs, customer trust, corporate image and customer value positively influence O2O specific customer loyalty (in decreasing order of importance). Attributes contributing to the five critical factors have also been studied and ranked.     

Farmers’ objectives as determinants of organic farming adoption: the case of Catalonian vineyard production

This article assesses the decision to adopt organic farming practices. We use Duration Analysis (DA) to determine why farmers adopt organic farming practices and what influences the timing of adoption. We extend previous studies by including farmers’ objectives, risk preferences, and agricultural policies as covariates in the DA model. The Analytical Hierarchy Process is used as a multicriteria decision‐making methodology to measure farmers’ objectives. The empirical analysis uses farm‐level data from a sample of vineyard farms in the Spanish region of Catalonia. Farmers’ objectives are found to influence the conversion decision. Moreover, farmers who are not risk averse are more likely to adopt organic farming. Results point to the policy changes that have been most relevant in motivating adoption of organic practices.