Special Economic Zones and Accumulation by Dispossession in India

This paper seeks to reconstruct David Harvey's theory of accumulation by dispossession (ABD) through an ethnography of a Special Economic Zone in Rajasthan, India. While Harvey sees ABD as an economic process of over‐accumulated capital finding new outlets, I argue that it is an extra‐economic process of coercive expropriation typically exercised by states to help capitalist overcome barriers to accumulation – in this case, the absence of fully capitalist rural land markets. In India's privately developed SEZs, the accumulation generated by this dispossession – which represents the disaccumulation of the peasantry – occurs through capitalist rentiers who develop rural land for mainly IT companies and luxury real estate, and profit from the appreciation of artificially cheap land acquired by the state. While such development has only minimally and precariously absorbed the labour of dispossessed farmers, it has generated a peculiar agrarian transformation through land speculation that has enlisted fractions of the rural elite into a chain of rentiership, drastically amplified existing class and caste inequalities, undermined food security and, surprisingly, fuelled non‐productive economic activity and pre‐capitalist forms of exploitation.     

Critical success factors for mutual collaboration with suppliers in IT outsourcing industry: a case study of a top IT outsourcing company in Korea

ABSTRACT

Nowadays, information technology (IT) outsourcing companies face enduring demands to reduce cost while increasing productivity. This pressure leads many IT outsourcing companies to rely on outsourcing arrangements with IT personnel suppliers. In order to maximise efficiency, outsourcing companies have focused on fostering high-performing suppliers through improved collaboration and mutual relations. However, it is very difficult to advance to a long-term partnership using the existing outsourcing process because of insufficient collaboration between IT outsourcing companies and their suppliers. Based on collaboration perspective of supply chain management (SCM), this study identifies the critical success factors for collaborative strategic partnerships and presents an evaluation framework for assessing and managing suppliers. We have developed an organisational process model for Supplier relationship management (SRM)-based collaboration which includes some of the key constructs from the previous studies and interviews with the IT outsourcing industry people. In this study, we will identify four types of strategic suppliers and suggest approaches for improving collaborative relationship between an IT outsourcing company and its partner companies. In addition, to validate the feasibility of the proposed model, we applied it to a well-known Korean IT outsourcing company ‘A’.     

浅谈IPv6技术的发展前景及影响

IPv6作为新一代互联网的核心协议,必将取代IPv4。本文通过对IPv6特点和发展现状的简要描述,论述IPv6现状及前景,IPv6终将代替IPv4,以适应时代发展的需要。所以IPv6技术越来越受到人们的关注与讨论。     

全球应用开发外包项目特点及对接包商项目招聘人员的要求

随着精细化分工的发展,由专业人员或机构来从事专门的业务的方式已经渗透到各个行业,服务外包的发展在各个领域内日趋成熟。IT业务外包作为这股潮流中一个非常重要的部分,在全球内发展迅猛。     

The Nexus between IT Investment and Banking Performance in Korea

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implications of ‘Asian Value (AV)’ discourse upon the future of ASEM. The contention here is that such discourse within ASEM is contributing to the construction of a still unidentified Asian region. Moreover, AV discourse has been initiated by individual Asian leaders in order to enhance Asia's bargaining position vis‐à‐vis Europe, emphasizing the cultural differences between the two regions.     

日本信息化的相对落后与日本政府的对策

在全球性信息化革命的浪潮中,日本的信息化虽然也迅猛发展,但与欧美各国及亚洲“四小”相比较,还处于相对落后的状态。主要表现为IT基础设施、电子商务交易、社会信息化、软件开发等方面的落后和软件人才不足。而落后的原因则是由于经济长期停滞、产业结构调整滞后、电信市场竞争不足以及宏观经济体制落后的影响等。日本政府制定了《IT国家基本战略》,并通过财政措施扩大公共投资、改革税制、放宽网上交易等限制;完善交易合同规则以及消费者保护措施制度等,为改变其相对落后的状态,采取了一系列积极的对策。     

Do formal contracts and relational governance function as substitutes or complements?

Relational exchange arrangements supported by trust are commonly viewed as substitutes for complex contracts in interorganizational exchanges. Many argue that formal contracts actually undermine trust and thereby encourage the opportunistic behavior they are designed to discourage. In this paper, we develop and test an alternative perspective: that formal contracts and relational governance function as complements. Using data from a sample of information service exchanges, we find empirical support for this proposition of complementarity. Managers appear to couple their increasingly customized contracts with high levels of relational governance (and vice versa). Moreover, this interdependence underlies their ability to generate improvements in exchange performance. Our results concerning the determinants of these governance choices show their distinct origins, which further augments their complementarity in practice. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

探索传统与现代之间的平衡支点

对于当代大学生来说,在对待IT及其相关专业与思想政治理论教育方面存在着一个“热情选择”的问题。MMD人试图用“平衡支点”这一概念,对当代大学生如何面对这二者所代表的传统与现代之间存在的必然张力作一探索。     

期权理论在IT项目风险管理中的应用

本文简要介绍了金融期权和IT项目期权的含义,以及期权定价模型,详细分析了IT项目期权的类型和IT项目期权的套期保值,其中对比分析了NPV方法和期权方法(B-S模型)在评估IT项目中的差异。     

中国商业银行信息技术资本的边际生产率及最优规模

基于12家商业银行1997～2005年间的数据，对商业银行信息技术资本的边际生产率和最优投入规模的实证研究结果表明，我国商业银行信息技术资本的边际生产率是正的，且其大小受银行规模和时间的影响；四大商业银行信息技术资本的边际生产率小于中小规模商业银行；银行整体的信息技术资本边际生产率随时间呈现不断增长的趋势；四大商业银行信息技术投资已经超过了最优规模，而中小商业银行尚未达到最优规模。四大商业银行应该着重提高信息技术资本的利用率，完善互补机制，而中小商业银行应进一步加大信息技术的投资量。研究结果证明，当前“信息技术生产率悖论”在我国商业银行中并不成立。