Co-creation with clients of hotel services: the moderating role of top management support

Hotels can strengthen their competitiveness by expanding their innovation process beyond the boundaries of the firm to exploit the valuable knowledge and skills of their customers. This study examines the effects of new service (NS) co-creation with customers in the hotel industry on NS performance, as well as the moderating role of top management support. The research also explores the main barriers faced by hotels to co-create service innovations. Partial least squares structural equation modelling results indicate that Customer co-creation exerts a direct impact on NS market outcomes and NS development (NSD) speed, which in turn favours NS quality. NS quality translates into better NS customer-related outcomes as well as in improved NS market outcomes. Top management support enhances the effect of Customer co-creation on the NSD speed. The main barrier to NS co-creation in hotels is to find customers interested in devoting time to this activity or with the appropriate knowledge and experience.     

Broadband speed and unemployment rates: Data and measurement issues

We examine the effects of broadband speed on county unemployment rates in the U.S. state of Tennessee. We merge the older National Broadband Map dataset and the newer FCC dataset in lengthening our broadband access data over the period 2011–2015. Extending the dataset improves the precision of the estimates. Our panel regressions control for potential selection bias and reverse causality and show that broadband speed matters: unemployment rates are about 0.26 percentage points lower in counties with high speeds compared to counties with low speeds. Ultra-high speed broadband also appears to reduce unemployment rates; however, we are unable to distinguish between the effects of high and ultra-high speed broadband. We document beneficial effects of the early adoption of high speed broadband on unemployment rates. Better quality broadband appears to have a disproportionately greater effect in rural areas.     

正项级数收敛性的判别法的进一步研究

用初等方法深入研究了正向级数判别法,基于比值判别法和根值判别法判别法思想,研究了更高精度判别法,给出不断提高精度的判别法的构造思想以及一般性定理。     

Knowledge diversity and coordination: The effect of intrafirm inventor task networks on absorption speed

Research Summary: We combine the absorptive capacity and social network theory approaches to predict how intrafirm “whole” network characteristics affect the firm's speed of absorption of external knowledge to produce inventions. We start from the widely accepted view that distant, externally‐developed knowledge is difficult to absorb into the focal firm's own knowledge production. We suggest that high levels of intrafirm inventor task network diversity and task network density are essential for a diversity of knowledge inputs and coordinated actions regarding knowledge transfer, which in turn, reduces problems related to the absorption of knowledge—especially in the case of knowledge that is distant from the focal firm. The results of an event history study of 113 pharmaceutical firms that engaged in technology in‐licensing from 1986 to 2003 provide general support for our hypotheses. Managerial Summary: Firms keen to keep up with an uncertain and ever‐changing industry environment, can benefit from the speedy introduction of inventions. We examine how firms absorb licensed‐in technologies to nurture the rapid development of own related inventions. We show that a firm's absorption speed depends on the characteristics of the internal collaboration networks among the firm's inventor employees. More specifically, technologically diverse and well‐connected inventor networks improve the firm's ability to absorb external technologies quickly. This applies especially to externally acquired technologies that are unfamiliar to the firm. Depending on the distance of the acquired technology from the focal firm combined with speed‐inducing inventor network characteristics, our estimates suggest that firms can reduce the time needed for absorption by several months.     

“模糊+PI”控制技术在开关磁阻电动机调速系统中的应用

着重研究“模糊 +PI”控制技术在开关磁阻电动机调速系统中的具体应用 ,对解决开关磁阻电动机调速系统的显著非线性问题 ,提高开关磁阻电动机调速系统动态特性做了探讨 ,为开关磁阻调速电动机向更宽、更广的应用领域发展提出了自己的见解 ,以供进一步研究开关磁阻电动机调速系统参考。     

基于节能减排理念的绿色海运方式

阐述了海运船舶采用的几种节能减排方式．包括采用新能源、玻璃钢船体、经济航速等。在分析这些减排方式的基础上，综合时比了各种方法的优缺点。提出了海运船舶节能减排的一点看法。     

提高热敏打印机性能的新方法

打印密度和打印速度是衡量一台打印机性能的重要指标,文章论述了如何在打印机原有硬件结构基础上,通过改变打印头电机驱动控制方式来提高打印密度;采用软件优化设计,优化打印头移动轨迹,加快打印速度,从而提升打印机性能。     

高速切削技术及其在我国的发展

高速切削能力和技术水平已经成为衡量一个国家先进制造技术水平的重要标志。在介绍高速切削技术的发展及机理高速切削的特点基础上．探讨了高速机床的相关系统、高速切削的应用和高速切削需要解决的问题等．并分析了这种高新技术的实施条件以及在我国的发展现状。     

浅谈公路高速客运发展

近年来,随着我国高速公路陆续建成通车,高速公路客运应运而生,它以其快速、安全、经济、舒适的优势在综合运输体系中的地位日趋重要。本文在分析高速公路客运的特点、发展面临的机遇的基础上,分析了如何运作公路高速客运。     

探讨中微子超光速的现象

如果中微子属于中性轻子的话,其速度是不可能超过光速的,为什么欧洲核子研究中心的实验测量上出现中微子超光速现象呢?只能有一种合理解释:宇宙中的确存在反时空。也就是说甲乙两地距离除了视界的正空间,还应存在着反空间,在极端高能条件下中微子在反空间中通过甲乙两地,因甲乙两地距离的反空间小于正空间,所以中微子通过反空间所用的时间比正空间所用的时间短,即使中微子的速度小于等于光速,而实际测量时从正空间看来会出现中微子超光速的假象。所以欧洲核子研究中心发现的中微子超光速现象暗示人们宇宙中有可能存在着反时空。