When tradition meets the new technology: An examination of the antecedents of attitudes and intentions to use mobile devices in private clubs

Mobile technology increasingly permeates the social fabric of the contemporary society and the business models of hospitality organizations, including the private club industry. Using data from a nationwide sample of members of private clubs in the United States, this research examined the manner in which system beliefs (i.e., usefulness, ease of use), subjective norms, and facilitating conditions influence club members’ attitudes and intentions to use mobile devices to make reservations for activities/facilities in private clubs. It was found that usefulness and subjective norms have an impact in developing attitudes, which in turn influence club members’ intentions to use mobile devices in clubs. Being the first study to examine the development of attitudes and intentions toward mobile technology in a club context, this study brings important theoretical and practical contributions.     

The more,the merrier? Women in top‐management teams and entrepreneurship in established firms

Research summary: We study the association between firms' entrepreneurial outcomes and their gender composition. Though highly topical, there is little solid empirical knowledge of this issue, which calls for an inductive approach. We match a paired‐respondent questionnaire survey with population‐wide employer‐employee data, and find evidence that the presence of female top managers is positively related to entrepreneurial outcomes in established firms. Yet, this relation is conditional on the proportion between male and female top managers. Another finding is that the overall proportion of women in the firm's workforce negatively moderates the relation between female top managers and entrepreneurial outcomes. We discuss various mechanisms that can explain these findings, and argue that they are best understood in terms of the dynamics of social categorization. Managerial summary : We investigate how companies benefit from having more women on the top‐management team. We show that beyond a threshold level of female top managers, more women are associated with more entrepreneurial outcomes (more products and services profitably launched). However, this positive effect is weakened in firms that have many women in the workforce. These effects may be explained in terms of the ways employees mentally categorize managers and how this influences their work motivation. We find evidence for such an explanation. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

When Social Infrastructure Deficits Create Displacement Pressures: Inner City Schools and the Suburbanization of Families in Melbourne

Under advanced capitalism, gentrification converges with the post‐Keynesian ‘unhinging' of the state from the project of social reproduction, including its responsibilities for collective consumption (e.g. housing, schools). Gentrification research scrutinizes this convergence through the ongoing assault on social/affordable housing, and yet anaemic housing welfare is not its endpoint. The social contract is further fractured through the ongoing discreditation and dismantling of the full gamut of legacies of the publicly regulated Keynesian inner city, including essential social infrastructure. Focusing on public schools, as an essential site for social reproduction, this article explores how the struggle for the city under neoliberal gentrification may be emerging along additional (non‐housing) vectors. Based on a qualitative study of families' experiences of poor public education provision in central Melbourne (Australia), this article argues that the exclusionary effects of gentrification likely exceed residential encroachment as state subsidization of residents continues to yield to the subsidization of capital. In particular, this article identifies life‐stage specific, infrastructure‐related displacement pressures wrought by a state failure to provide adequate public primary schools in the ‘regeneration' of central Melbourne, and it illustrates how these pressures prompt housing strategies that unevenly divest families of the locational advantages secured in the inner city. Highlighting the role of public school deficits in the reluctant suburbanization of lesser‐resourced families assists in foregrounding state complicity in displacement dynamics and the potential for these to magnify socio‐economic, gendered and socio‐spatial inequalities across the city.     

Supply's strategic contribution: An empirical reality

Since the mid-1970s, authors from academia and from business have recognized that the strategic contribution made by supply is multi-faceted, although their work does not distinguish among the levels of strategic contribution. This study makes this differentiation by using a systematic literature review of the last 30 years and by performing a content analysis of 131 selected articles. The analysis of the increasing sophistication of supply's strategic contributions leads to three main observations: 1) the different types of contributions can indeed be classified into categories: category I (support to corporate improvement targets), category II (support to the organizational competitive advantage), and category III (source of sustainable competitive advantage); 2) contribution types in category I have been recognized since at least the early 1980s, while recognition has progressively taken place mostly in the 1990s for categories II and III; and 3) the contribution types in category I are perceived both as contributions that the supply function must master before it can take on those in categories II and III, and as contributions expected even when the supply function already contributes well to categories II and III. Therefore, supply professionals should develop their ability to better utilize the currently acknowledged strategic contributions, while being ready to take advantage of the new types of contributions.     

Trade integration and regional inequality: a theoretical framework with empirical implications for China

In this paper we present a theoretical framework for studying integration and inequality in China, followed by some empirical discussions of the Chinese regions. Employing the inframarginal methodology, we set up a theoretical framework based on transaction efficiency and comparative advantage in order to explain integration and inequality in developing economies. Our analyses imply that, among other findings, increases in domestic transaction efficiencies tend to reduce welfare inequalities in a developing economy while increases in international transaction efficiencies tend to raise the overall welfare level of a developing economy. These and other related results of this paper may have important implications for developing countries (China) in their policy-making.     

2014年FCI分析及政策启示

金融条件指数（FCI）是衡量和预测一国货币政策和金融松紧状况的重要参考指标,对实体经济有较强的预测能力。本文结合我国的实际情况,构建了包括实际利率、实际有效汇率、社会融资规模增速、房地产市场指数、股票市场指数等5类因素在内的FCI。从总体上看,2014年我国FCI呈先升后降、总体下行的特点,对经济增长有抑制作用。从FCI成分指标变化看,除股票市场对FCI改善发挥了积极作用外,其他几个因素都在不同程度上对FCI产生了抑制作用,其中实际有效汇率对FCI下降的贡献为61.1%,是对FCI影响最大的因素。本文逐项分析了影响FCI的因素,并就金融如何更好地支持经济发展提出了政策建议。     

中国雾霾成因及治理对策

雾霾天气的成因和治理,不仅是中国政府民众重点关注的话题,更是大气环境科研工作者必须面对的挑战。从颗粒物成分、污染物来源、气象条件以及特殊时期的污染特征分析等多方面对雾霾成因进行了分析论证,并从监测、评价、控制等多角度提出了适合中国国情的雾霾治理对策。     

What Factors Affect the Persistence of an Innovation Advantage?

Factors that affect a firm's ability to achieve an advantage may differ from those that affect its ability to sustain that advantage. Moreover, if advantage is a relative concept then studies that relate resource stocks to ‘absolute’ outcomes say little about how resources contribute to enduring differences among firms. We explore these issues in the global semiconductor industry by analyzing how a firm's resource stocks contribute to the persistence of an innovation advantage (a relative outcome). The findings demonstrate that a firm's own production experience and the experience held by its partners contribute to temporary innovation advantages. The results also show that a firm's own production experience yields a more durable innovation advantage as compared to the experience held by a firm's partners and that the experience held by a firm's partners provides a more enduring advantage than a firm's patent stock.     

谦卑研究的前沿探析:基于资源观的企业竞争优势

基于谦卑的以往研究,首先梳理了"谦卑"概念的发展、内涵以及与相近概念的区分;然后基于资源观理论视角,指出谦卑是企业竞争优势的源泉,分析了谦卑作为战略性资源的特性;并进一步剖析了谦卑资源是如何通过组织学习、服务以及组织弹性发展的过程为企业创造价值;最后进行了总结和研究展望,以期为后续研究提供参考。     

二代农民工生存条件与新型城镇化

根据改革前后两个不同时期的生育政策和成长环境的客观条件,以1980年为界,将之前出生的农民工称为第一代农民工,之后出生的称为第二代农民工。二代农民工已成为当今农民工的主体,实现二代农民工城镇化最需要关注的是其子女教育、住房保障和收入增长等问题。近60％的二代农民工不愿拿土地换城镇户籍,原因是农民工子女在城市接受教育、农民工稳定就业和住房保障等方面的政策依然不健全、不完善。本文关注的是二代农民工的生存条件与其城镇化的问题,并提出相关政策建议。