When arm's length is too far: Relationship banking over the credit cycle

We conduct face-to-face interviews with bank chief executive officers to classify 397 banks across 21 countries as relationship or transaction lenders. We then use the geographic coordinates of these banks’ branches and of 14,100 businesses to analyze how the lending techniques of banks near firms are related to credit constraints at two contrasting points of the credit cycle. We find that while relationship lending is not associated with credit constraints during a credit boom, it alleviates such constraints during a downturn. This positive role of relationship lending is stronger for small and opaque firms and in regions with a more severe economic downturn. Moreover, relationship lending mitigates the impact of a downturn on firm growth and does not constitute evergreening of loans.     

Concentration of Banking Relationships in Switzerland: The Result of Firm Structure or Banking Market Structure?

Switzerland is one of the countries with the highest concentration of bank–customer relationships. The present paper seeks to find out whether this can be explained by the structure of Swiss firms or by the organization of the Swiss banking market. Using survey data from small and medium-sized enterprises in 1996 and 2002, we examine the influence of firm-, loan-, and bank-specific variables on the number of banking relationships. We find that firm and industry structure have the largest explanatory power, while banking market structure and conduct play a minor role. Relationship lending by state-owned cantonal banks and small regional banks tends to enhance the concentration of banking relationships.

我国城乡关系的金融学透视

我国城乡关系的"和谐"对我国战略发展的重要性是不言而喻的。金融与经济相互促进、相互依赖、相互制约。一方面,"二元结构"的不断深化使农村金融陷入低水平均衡,而缺乏资金的农村金融是无论如何也难以健康发展的;另一方面,在市场经济条件下,农村金融业的商业性经营宗旨强力否定了服务"三农"的宗旨,这是城乡差距扩大、"三农"问题恶化的金融根源。农村金融的现状引发了我们对农村金融机构定位的再思考。改革现有农村金融,农村金融深化为我们解决"城乡分治"指明了一条合理的途径。     

银行改革对银企关系的影响

随着银行改革的不断深入,银行与企业之间关系的变化已经成为业内关注的话题。毫无疑问,银行改革必定会对银企关系产生一定的影响。本文从银行改革的背景、银行改革的内容、银行改革对银企关系的影响和新型银企关系的构建四个方面进行了阐述,并得出银行改革将促进建立新型银企关系的结论。     

银企关系的信息价值与企业金融化趋势的冲击——来自贷款公告市场反应的证据

文章采用一种更加综合的银企关系度量方式,从贷款公告市场反应的视角,首次检验了银企关系强度与企业金融化对银行缓解信息不对称能力的影响。基于A股市场数据,研究发现银企关系越亲密,贷款公告的市场反应越正面,表明亲密的银企关系有助于提高银行缓解信息不对称的能力,但危机后企业的金融化行为会削弱亲密银企关系的信息价值。文章深化了银行信息生产领域的研究,为银企关系的信息价值以及信息在金融市场中的传递机制提供了新的证据。     

Redesigning the supply of gasses in a hospital

Developing buyer–supplier relationships has been relatively ignored in the literature. This paper proposes a practical approach to evaluate and plan improvements in a supply relation, consisting of two parts. Firstly, a supply chain concept is proposed that consists of four areas: physical supply, planning and control, organisation and relation, and flow of information. This concept is useful in describing and analysing a supply relation. Secondly, a method based on scenario planning is used to generate alternative designs of a supply relation and to stimulate discussion. The approach is applied for a hospital and its supplier of gasses. The application helped considerably in gaining knowledge about the actual working of the supply relation of both organisations. The alternative scenarios stimulate discussion and development of their relation. The paper also contributes to the knowledge of applying supply chain management concepts in a hospital.     

The effects of IT-enabled supply chain process change on job and process outcomes: A longitudinal investigation

Prior research on information technology (IT)-enabled supply chain management (SCM) has primarily focused on macro-level issues (e.g., IT capabilities related to SCM, and SCM design and optimization) and outcomes (e.g., firm performance). There has been limited research that focuses on micro-level outcomes related to employees who actually execute SCM processes in organizations. These employee-level outcomes are important because successful implementation of SCM systems and processes hinges on SCM employees’ support and commitment. I develop and test a model positing that SCM employees’ perceptions of changes in their work process characteristics, i.e., process complexity and process rigidity, following a new SCM system implementation will influence their job outcomes, i.e., job performance, job satisfaction, job anxiety, and job security, and their perceptions of process outcomes, i.e., process performance and relationship quality. The model incorporates a holistic appraisal of the extent of change—change radicalness—as a mechanism between work process characteristics and outcomes. The model is supported in three studies conducted in the context of three different SCM system implementations (N = 278, 282, and 304, respectively). In particular, I found that individuals perceived a significant change in their work process characteristics following an SCM system implementation, and changes in work process characteristics had a significant impact on job and process outcomes. These findings contribute to the information systems and operations management literatures and their intersections by offering insights on challenges related to IT-enabled SCM innovation implementation in organizations.     

关系型借贷对中小企业融资成本的影响——基于广西中小企业调查的实证研究

文章在研究关系型借贷理论的基础上,分析了中小企业的关系型借贷与融资成本之间的关系,通过构建计量经济模型实证研究了合作的银行数量、银企合作时间、企业的人情消费和银企关系的满意度等因素对中小企业融资成本的影响.研究发现：银企关系的满意度和企业销售额与贷款利率呈显著的负相关关系;银企合作时间等其他因素符合假设但并不显著.最后,从企业、银行和政府的角度,提出了降低中小企业融资成本的相关政策建议.     

Spatial diffusion of a new loyalty program through a retail market

Retailers who wish to launch new innovations into their markets can be much more effective if they understand the geographic forces which affect consumer adoption of those innovations. A research field which studies this process is spatial diffusion. This paper explores and models the processes and driving forces of spatial diffusion across a market area following the launch of a new loyalty card program by a national retailer. Event history modeling is used to estimate the effects of distance, the impact of the firm’s marketing efforts, and the role of previous adopters in influencing the speed and spatial pattern of the adoption process. The results, in addition to yielding new insights into the processes involved in spatial diffusion, support previous findings on the importance of targeting the Innovator adopter group in a new product launch.     

大中专学生心理健康状况堪忧

目前大中专学生的心理状况解析，从学习方面、人格方面、人际交往和意志等方面做出了详细的阐述，旨在引起人们的深思。