什么样的数字创新生态系统能提高区域创新绩效——基于NCA与QCA的研究

什么样的数字创新生态系统有助于提高区域创新绩效是亟待解决的热点问题。采用必要条件分析（NCA）和模糊集定性比较分析（fsQCA）两种方法,对我国内地31个省（区、市）进行实证分析。研究发现：①数字企业、政府、高校及科研机构、数字创新基础设施、数字人才和金融服务是数字创新生态系统的关键构成,但单个要素并不是提高区域创新绩效的必要条件;②4种数字创新生态系统要素组态有助于提高区域创新绩效,构成的数字创新生态系统分别是政府引导的智力聚集型、企业开拓的环境支撑型、主体多元的综合发展型和企业主导的资本驱动型;③各地应因地制宜,选择合适的数字创新生态系统,培育区域创新新动能,助推“数字中国”新发展。     

数字赋能企业商业生态系统跃迁升级的机理及路径研究

数字技术应用融合叠加商业模式创新催生商业生态新业态,实现跃迁升级。本文结合扎根理论与模糊集定性比较分析(FsQCA)方法,阐释数字赋能企业商业生态系统跃迁升级的机理,探究多重组态路径。从生态视角揭示了数字资源通过与传统要素资源融合释放数据价值,并驱动形成价值循环体系、实现价值共创、塑造商业群落,最终实现企业商业生态系统跃迁升级。基于FsQCA的多组态分析发现,数字赋能企业商业生态系统跃迁升级历经两个阶段分别为价值共创和商业群落生成。其中,价值共创实现有两条组态路径,即产品创新与要素融合相组合,技术融合同低产品创新、低数据资产相组合,且产品创新构成了价值共创的核心条件。商业群落生成的组态路径表现出以下特征：价值共创和价值链接协同下分别和网络组织、数据赋能相组合,网络组织和数据赋能互为替代,即在一方缺失时,分别与价值共创或价值链接组合实现商业群落构建。本研究为企业商业生态系统的结构与功能持续优化,实现数字商业生态资源的充分共享及最优利用,提供了关键方法和思路。     

财务管理中的杠杆效应与风险探析

财务管理学中的经营杠杆、财务杠杆和复合杠杆相关理论是企业优化资本结构、获取经营杠杆收益、控制经营风险、实现股东收益最大化与控制企业财务风险的重要理论,涉及筹资活动、投资活动与经营活动多个方面,是筹资决策、投资决策和经营决策的重要依据。本论从经营杠杆、财务杠杆相关理论依据与内涵入手,在分析经营杠杆、财务杠杆和复合杠杆计算及公式的基础上,重点对其三项指标的性质与作用进行分析与评价。以达到全面的、正确的理解杠杆效应与风险程度的相互关系,明晰经营风险和财务风险之间的联系,以实现经营(投资)决策与筹资决策的相互配合,共同控制与降低企业复合风险。     

互联网科技众筹金融生态风险控制体系构建

互联网科技众筹将民间资本与中小微企业科技创新项目对接,能有效解决中小微企业融资难题。目前互联网金融生态乱象丛生,互联网科技众筹发展尚不完善,建设互联网科技众筹金融生态应重点落地风险控制体系。运用金融生态系统理论,基于互联网科技众筹业务模式,梳理了互联网科技众筹金融生态风险控制体系逻辑与架构,从生态主体风险行为、生态环境内外部风险、生态关系风险类别3个角度总结分析互联网科技众筹金融生态当前存在的风险,研究与构建了互联网科技众筹金融生态风险控制体系,并从发挥生态主体作用、促进生态环境改善、维持生态关系平衡3个方面提出建议。     

平台生态系统下我国中小制造企业与互联网融合发展路径研究

随着云计算、大数据、物联网等互联技术兴起,互联网平台逐渐成为我国中小制造企业生存与发展的土壤。基于平台生态系统理论与价值共创理论,遵循“主体互动融合—跨业价值重塑—环境协同共生”基本框架,探究我国中小制造企业与互联网融合的内涵及特征。运用嵌入型多案例研究方法,探究我国中小制造企业与互联网融合发展模式,提炼归纳出我国中小制造企业与互联网融合发展的3种路径。     

三层次制度环境视角下创新驱动发展评价研究——以中西部6省市为例

借鉴改进的DSIR模型思想,从政府-企业-个人3个层次出发,将制度环境作为一个外生子系统,引入创新驱动战略评价系统,形成制度环境-驱动力-状态-影响-响应5个立体层面的子系统,同时,采用混合型中心点三角白化权函数进行灰色评估分析,对中西部地区6个省市创新驱动发展状况进行实证研究。分析结果表明,在创新驱动发展方面,四川处于同类地区“领跑”地位,河南、湖北、湖南处于“并跑”地位,而陕西和重庆处于落后地位,针对各地区发展短板提出对策建议。     

企业平台化变革与创新影响因素双案例研究

在数字网络技术与相关产业融合背景下,平台以创新思维引领经济发展。平台化变革与创新是企业实现升级转型的重要战略选择,无论是传统制造业延续性创新,还互联网企业突破性创新,企业均需要根据平台战略,通过突破转型障碍获得持续发展。在已有理论的基础上,结合海尔和滴滴两个企业平台化战略实施案例,揭示企业平台化变革与创新的4个影响因素。结果发现,企业变革与创新受用户参与、产品服务、资源体量、韧性与成长周期等因素影响。因此,应根据各企业实际情况制定平台战略,使其成为企业转型升级的驱动力。     

The ‘squeezed middle’: Identifying and addressing conflicting demands on intermediate quality farmland in Scotland

The growing demand for a wide range of private and public goods and services from a finite land resource is increasingly challenging for planners at local, regional, national and international scales. The Scottish Government's development of a Land Use Strategy has given salience to resolving conflicts and enhancing synergies in land use. In Scotland, the poorest quality farmland is often designated for nature and landscape conservation and the highest quality farmland often protected for food production. This means that many of the competitive pressures on land are experienced in what we term the ‘squeezed middle’. The paper identifies the multiple (and not exclusively economic) drivers of land use choices and, through an ecosystem services lens, explores three particular areas of land use conflict. These are (i) the continued high level of public support for farming, which has done little to address the problem of low farm incomes; (ii) the pressure to increase woodland planting on farm (and other) land; and (iii) conflicts associated with intensive game management, especially on sporting estates. Using the Scottish situation as an example, the heterogeneity of land use pressures means that there is a danger of the principles of the Land Use Strategy becoming lost in translation from national policy to practical land use decision-making. The appropriate scale for delivery of integrated ecosystem services may therefore be more local than current pilot projects, and may require more active participation of land managers. It may also require policy instruments that are more flexible in adapting to the local context, including payments for ecosystem services.     

Budget impact analysis of secukinumab versus adalimumab in the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis

Background: Biologic treatments have enhanced the treatment outcomes of patients with active ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Until recently, TNF-alpha-inhibitors have been the only biologics approved for the treatment of active AS. The objective of this study was to assess the potential financial impact of the first non-TNF-alpha biologic secukinumab (fully human IL-17A-inhibitor) vs adalimumab (TNF-alpha-inhibitor) in the treatment of AS in Finland.

Materials and methods: In this model-based budget impact analysis, patients were treated either with secukinumab (150?mg) or adalimumab (40?mg). The number of patients and market share of different biologics were based on national reimbursement registry data. Adalimumab was the most commonly used biologic treatment for AS, and in the base case analysis all adalimumab patients are assumed to switch to secukinumab. Response rates were based on a matching-adjusted indirect comparison between secukinumab and adalimumab. Patients not achieving response were switched to another biologic treatment.

Results: Treating AS patients with secukinumab instead of adalimumab leads to potential savings of 18.2 million euros within a 5-year time period. The total costs within the follow-up time were 59.5 million euros and 77.7 million euros with and without secukinumab, respectively. According to sensitivity analyses, a higher adoption rate of secukinumab corresponds to higher potential savings.

Conclusions: Secukinumab is a cost-saving treatment option compared with adalimumab in the treatment of AS in Finland. More patients could be treated with a biologic by allocating resources more efficiently.     

Thinking critically about critical thinking: Assessing critical thinking of business students using multiple measures

Critical thinking is a skill that potential employers expect all graduates to possess. Hence, most business management programs consider critical thinking as an important student learning goal. Unfortunately, there is ambiguity about how to best assess critical thinking, both as a skill and a learning outcome. The authors empirically demonstrate how they measure the critical thinking ability of their students in different settings, and how their critical thinking ability improves as they progress through the business program.