A mechanism for external competence transfer to improve manufacturing system capabilities and market performance

This study uses competence transfer theory to establish a mechanism for transferring competences into an organization from the outside. It develops a research framework that describes the impact of communication on a firm's knowledge base and as well as its ability to bring external competence into the firm. Data were collected in the US from 288 manufacturing companies. The mechanism of competence transfer is empirically supported. As the level of transferred competences increase, a firm's manufacturing process competences including process automation, process integration, and process modularity increase. Furthermore, process competences lead to higher market performance.     

基于胜任力的企业高层管理人员绩效评价体系研究

本文运用胜任力和绩效管理的有关理论,对构建基于胜任力的企业高管绩效评价体系作了初步探讨;在构建了高层管理人员胜任力维度和要素、EVA综合计分卡的关键绩效评价指标体系的基础上,对模型的实施步骤进行了描述;将胜任力特征导入业绩评价指标体系中,解决了传统业绩评价指标只关注财务指标的缺陷,对新经济形势下的我国企业高管进行绩效的综合评价起到一定的指导作用。     

零售企业核心竞争力的跨国转移:一个理论框架

本文认为零售企业的核心竞争力是由外显竞争力要素和内含竞争力要素复合累积而成的动态竞争力,在跨国转移过程中,不同要素的标准化程度与本土化程度有所不同.有效的核心竞争力跨国转移受东道国环境因素和零售企业自身因素的影响.东道国环境因素包括文化环境、制度环境、经济环境、技术与基础设施环境;零售企业自身因素包括核心竞争力的情景嵌入性、企业学习能力和国际化经验.最后,作者提出了零售企业核心竞争力跨国转移过程的框架.     

企业文化与核心竞争力

本文主要讨论企业文化与企业核心竞争力之间的关系.指出企业文化是企业核心竞争力的基础,国内许多企业之所以生态状况不佳,竞争力弱,根本原因在于企业文化建设失位.企业文化是核心竞争力的核心.     

Societal effects meet sectoral effects: work organization,competencies and payment systems in the Volvo Commercial Vehicle Division

By comparing the development of competence payment systems in Volvo's Commercial Vehicle plants in Sweden, Belgium, and the UK, the paper seeks to explain some of the reasons why the UK is lagging behind in the development of innovative pay systems. In the Commercial Vehicle sector the reticence of UK-based assemblers such as Volvo and Leyland Trucks to introduce new forms of payment systems can be only partially explained with reference to societal factors. One has to look further, to the historical development of the UK automotive sector and the perception of management that the introduction of a payment system based upon individual effort would lead back to the restrictive practices and demarcation disputes which exemplified the employment relationship in the 1960s and 1970s.     

关于“能力本位”职业教育课程相关问题研究

"能力本位"职业教育课程成为当今世界职教改革的方向,它具有坚实的历史基础和广泛的国际背景。对这一问题的理论背景、哲学基础、能力的涵义、"能力本位"课程的实施等方面学术界提出了许多不同观点。对这些观点进行梳理,可以得出,"能力本位"的课程模式虽然有不可替代的作用,但是其流行的基础开始削弱。职业教育课程改革合理借鉴"能力本位"课程理论,并将重心转向关注人本身或者提升人的生活品质,这将成为职教研究的热点。     

The Pharmacia story of entrepreneurship and as a creative technical university1 – an experiment in innovation,organizational break up and industrial renaissance

While innovative technology supply has been the focus of much neo-Schumpeterian modelling, few have addressed the critical and more resource-demanding commercializing of the same technologies. The result may have been a growth policy focused on the wrong problem. Using Competence Bloc Theory and a firm-based macro to macro approach we abandon the assumed linear relation between technology change and economic growth of such models, and demonstrate that lack of local commercialization competences is likely to block growth even though innovative technology supplies are abundant.

The break up, reorganization and part withdrawal of Pharmacia from the local Uppsala (in Sweden) economy after a series of international mergers illustrate this. Pharmacia has ‘released’ a wealth of technologies in local markets. Local commercialization competence, notably industrially competent financing has, however, not been sufficient to fill in through indigenous entrepreneurship the vacuum left by Pharmacia. Only thanks to foreign investors, attracted by Pharmacia technologies that have opted to stay for the long term, the local Uppsala economy seems to be heading for a successful future.

The Pharmacia case also demonstrates the role of advanced firms as ‘technical universities’ and the nature of an experimentally organized economy (EOE) in which business mistakes are a natural learning cost for economic development.     

Learning by doing - frequency of exhibiting at UK trade exhibitions

In this paper, an exploratory qualitative study of the communication between packages and consumers found a recurring theme of duplicity in consumers' interpretations of product labelling and packaging. Therefore, a normative framework is proposed to guide the design of effective communication in product packaging. Based on Habermas' theory of communicative competence, the framework suggests that a set of norms (i.e. the norm of truthfulness, the norm of sincerity, the norm of comprehensibility and the norm of legitimacy) can guide the complex task of designing good product packaging. By following these normative guidelines, marketers can both aggressively position their package to attract and promote, while concurrently avoiding package communication that may be construed as duplicitous. The theory provides a useful benchmark against which both public policy makers and manufacturers can evaluate the level of distortion in labelling and packaging. Consumers should benefit in terms of a clearer depiction of the product offering in the market-place. Marketers adopting these guidelines should benefit from a reduction in the level of package-generated consumer cynicism and an increased potential for enhanced long-term customer relationships.     

企业合作创新研究述评

在合作竞争开始代替企业竞争而成为经济发展主流的今天,合作创新的研究具有深远的意义。本文从合作创新的内涵界定、动力机制、模式选择以及合作创新在企业核心能力建立和提高中所起的作用等几个方面对合作创新的相关研究文献进行梳理,并提出了进一步深入研究的若干设想。     

我国产业集群国际品牌力培育研究

随着世界上诸如意大利的纺织业集群、美国硅谷的IT产业集群等的崛起，中小产业集群作为一种客观存在的经济现象，引起了越来越多的关注。产业集群作为一种介于产业和市场之间的产业空间组织形式，已经对地区经济发展产生积极的影响。因此，利用产业集群优势，打造区域品牌，培养产业集群的品牌力。成为了区域经济发展的战略性思路。