Do You See What I See? A Simulation Analysis of Order Bundling within a Transparent User Network in Geographic Space

The Physical Internet (PI) concept presents a radical change with the aim to revert the unsustainable practices that are used for transporting goods. It identifies dedicated freight flows and transforms them into transparent open logistics networks which can be accessed by other users, such as shippers and carriers. In this paper, we test the universal network openness in which the users can tap into the PI network and place orders that will be assigned to the nearest available transport service and consequently delivered to the order sender. The objective of our paper is to investigate the impact of inserting extra service points into existing dedicated freight flows of a service‐driven company. We simulate different transparency levels and routings to new pickup locations and evaluate the impact in terms of altered lead times, covered distances, and fill rates. The novel aspects presented herein are (1) deliveries based on decentralized location detection of the nearest order sender, (2) dynamically changing speed parameters of agents within specific geographic clusters based on their geo‐locations in order to account for congestion levels, (3) more realistic routing strategies that consider the urban layout, and (4) transparent querying of nearest agents in space and time that meet specific conditions such as current ongoing processes, available capacity, and position. Finally, we identify the impact from a general/holistic perspective that emerges once extra orders are assigned to the service‐driven company's fleet.     

Big data tools for Islamic financial analysis

Behavioural science states that emotions, principles and the manner of thinking can affect the behaviour of individuals and even investors in their decision making on financial markets. In this paper, we have tried to measure the investor sentiment by three means of big data. The first is based on a search query of a list of words related to Islamic context. The second is inferred from the engagement degree on social media. The last measure of sentiment is built, based on the Twitter API classified into positive and negative directions by a machine learning algorithm based on the naive Bayes method. Then, we investigate whether these sensations and emotions have an impact on the market sentiment and the price fluctuations by means of a vector autoregression model and Granger causality analysis. In the final step, we apply the agent‐based simulation by means of the sequential Monte Carlo method with the control of our Twitter measure on Islamic index returns. We show, then, that the three social media sentiment measures present a remarkable impact on the contemporaneous and lagged returns of the different Islamic assets studied. We also give an estimation of the parameters of the latent variables relative to the agent model studied.     

应变计粘贴技术的探讨

本文不仅对应变计的粘贴技术做了系统的介绍,而且还对几种常用的材料粘贴工艺应注意的问题也做了具体的说明。     

渠道代理人及其对渠道关系的影响

本文认为,渠道在过去的十年里经历了显著的变化,渠道合作双方正由交易型关系向伙伴型关系直至建立战略联盟的方向发展;作为渠道中的重要角色,渠道代理人是企业渠道关系的管理者和执行者,它主要通过渠道权力和渠道气候两个因素对渠道关系产生较大的影响,他们一方面能够为提高企业的渠道绩效服务,而另一方面也存在着对企业渠道绩效产生负面影响的可能性;为防范这些潜在的代理问题,企业必须重视和强调对渠道代理人的有效管理。     

论企业内部市场化条件下的管理审计

企业内部市场化将企业行为由总体转为个体、内部交易由计划转为市场。管理审计作为管理的延伸，将更多地发挥全面协调、管理控制的积极作用。本主要论述企业内部市场化后企业内部管理存在的问题及如何加强内部管理审计的几点思考。     

How fast to run in the Red Queen race?

This paper creates a market ecosystem, via an agent‐based model, that combines the dynamic features of the Red Queen effect with well‐accepted business world performance indicators. Essentially, firms are tasked with remaining ‘alive’ by adapting to their environment through implementing a competitive response of innovating or imitating. An analysis of the firms’ behaviours delivers a deep understanding of the drivers of innovative behaviour within the economy. The key findings of the paper are (1) that concentrated markets are not entirely detrimental to innovative behaviour, with the blend of firm type being a more important consideration, and (2) that the rate at which an innovation impairs existing markets affects the activity levels of the firms within the population. The model's results are validated against a matching study based on real‐world data.     

基于动态集成制造系统的代理协商机制的研究

介绍动态集成制造系统的概念及其代理结构,在此基础上分析代理协商的要素,对代理之间的协议进行了改进,并对影响协商决策的因素进行了探讨。     

我国耕地保护形势与应对策略

研究的目的是探索当前我国耕地保护存在的问题和保护的对策。研究的方法是文献资料法和比较分析法。研究的结果是通过对近年来的数据分析,表明我国人地矛盾极为尖锐和突出,特别是耕地保护面临前所未有的压力。研究的结论是增强国土忧患意识,大力推进科学发展;完善农村土地制度,发挥农民主体作用;创新耕地保护机制,发挥市场基础作用;遏制地方政府冲动,发挥制度约束作用。     

Understanding the Change–Cynicism Cycle: The Role of HR

Employee change cynicism is an unintended consequence of organizational change, which can undermine the effectiveness of change initiatives. Based on social information processing theory, we examine the impact of two human resource roles (administrative expert and strategic change agent) on the relationship between the quantity of organizational change and employee change cynicism. Using multilevel data from 1,831 employees in 70 organizations, we find employees who are exposed to more organizational change report higher levels of change cynicism. However, the strength of the organizational change–cynicism relationship is affected by the role of HR in the employees’ organizations. When HR undertakes an administrative expert role, change is more likely to generate change cynicism. When HR undertakes a strategic change agent role, change is less likely to generate change cynicism. Our results suggest that organizations need to think carefully about the role of HR during organizational change and encourage HR to adopt a strategic change agent role. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

非物质文化遗产法律保护机制探析

非物质文化遗产应当定位于社会法法律部门进行保护,非物质文化遗产法律保护机制由国际法规范和国内法规范共同构建。本文认为,对非物质文化遗产权利主体应当进行全面保护,实现全面的协调的可持续发展的目标。