Does retail type matter? Consumer responses to channel integration in omni-channel retailing

A critical issue faced by marketing practitioners today is orchestrating strategies that provide a smooth consumer experience in an omni-channel environment. The extant literature offers limited guidance on managing the consumer journey in an omni-channel environment across different retail types. Using the S–O-R framework as its basis, this study generates novel insights by examining how different types of retailers influence consumer perceptions of channel integration (CPCI) as well as consumer empowerment, trust, satisfaction, and patronage intention. Data from 736 consumers was collected using purposive sampling to target those who interact with retailers from high-end specialty stores, department stores, and hypermarkets. The data was then analysed using partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). We find that consumers from high-end specialty stores, hypermarkets, and department stores have different perceptions when patronising the omni-channel retail business. The implications of the study are discussed and suggestions for future research are presented.     

风险与社会保障：一个解释性框架

当今世界正经历着一个充满各类风险而个体普遍无力应对的风险社会时期。现代社会保障制度在应对工业化风险,保障社会成员基本生活,提升社会福利方面成效显著,但自福利国家危机以来,社会保障制度也正经历着深刻的变革。通过对人类不同发展阶段的社会风险和风险保障机制的考察,我们试图厘清和解读风险与社会保障的互动与变迁过程,建立起社会保障作为风险管理的社会机制的解释性框架,从而揭示其带给当代中国社会保障制度改革的启示意义。     

Local interests or centralized targets? How China’s local government implements the farmland policy of Requisition–Compensation Balance

The Requisition–Compensation Balance of Farmland (RCBF) is a strict policy in China aimed at controlling farmland conversion and replenishing farmland loss caused by urban expansion through a set of top-down quotas. These conflict with local interests, since land conversion from agriculture to construction is a key tool by which local governments attract investment and raise fiscal revenue. How should local authorities respond to this centralized policy? This paper presents a framework “quantity–quality–productivity–environment” to investigate local governments’ coping strategy and the holistic performance of the RCBF. The empirical study indicated that local jurisdictions placed economic and financial growth first and continued expropriating farmland on a large-scale, including land of high quality, for development. However, impelled by compulsory quotas and supervision from governments at higher levels, local authorities would partly replenish the quantity loss through farmland exploitation, regardless of the quality of the new cropland and the possible environmental impact. Consequently, fast requisition and unqualified compensation undermined the capacity of regional agricultural output. We suggest that the RCBF is not capable of guaranteeing food security, whilst farmland supplementation threatens the local environment.     

构建无地农民工融入城市的制度框架

无地农民工是当前中国农村经济发展的一种独特现象,其对城乡社会稳定与经济可持续发展等具有重要影响。文章立足金融危机下无地农民工融入城市必然性的分析以及在融入上存在的问题,对无地农民工融入城市的制度问题进行分析。在解读这一问题的基础上,以无地农民工与城市相融发展乃至这一群体问题的解决为目标,提出实行渐进式户籍制度的系统重建、以无地农民工土地承包使用权丧失的补偿为基础的＂融城＂成本分担机制、以在无地农民核心地区＂9＋3＂义务教育模式试点为基础提升主体城市融入能力以及强化非正式制度建设,形成观念、文化与心理认同的调适机制等建议。     

Mapping the antecedents of telework diffusion: firm‐level evidence from Italy

Previous literature has studied telework practices predominantly from the employees' perspective rather than exploring its use at the firm level. With the objective of contributing to reducing this research gap, the relationship between firms' adoption of telework and the firms' technological, organisational and environmental contexts is explored. Data were obtained from a survey conducted between 2005 and 2009 on a sample of 1,134 Italian firms in the Piedmont region. The results show an overall increase in the diffusion of telework primarily attributable to a rise in the adoption of ‘mobile’ work rather than home‐based forms of telework. The results also show that firms that had previously adopted information systems supporting core business processes and knowledge management were more inclined to adopt telework. Telework arrangements were more widely diffused among firms facing a growing and geographically dispersed market demand, and also in the contexts of higher levels of human capital and lower capital intensity.     

困境与回应：罗尔斯对“原初状态”理论的修正

＂原初状态＂理论既是罗尔斯正义理论的逻辑起点,又是罗尔斯正义原则的论证方法,其要素包括选项预设、信息预设、主体预设、环境预设、心理预设五个方面。虽然罗尔斯的正义理论行文结构严谨,论证审慎小心,结论豁达易行,但他的＂原初状态＂理论同样受到＂社群主义＂和＂自由主义＂的批判。前者批评的焦点集中在契约各方——主体的假设上,后者则集中在社会合作必要性、可能性和利益性方面。出于对以上批评的回应,罗尔斯对＂原初状态＂理论的三个方面即理论适用范围、社会特征、契约主体作了认真的修正,以期进一步增强理论的说服力。     

挖掘地方历史文化资源，增进高职思政课教学有效性——以广州为例

地方历史文化资源对高职思想政治理论课建设具有重要价值。广州拥有丰富的近现代史资源、爱国名人文化、平实厚重、敢为人先的岭南传统文化等。对此加以开发，使之融入课堂、建设实践教学基地，开展有针对性的主题活动，是增进高职思政课教学有效性的有益途径。     

亟待开展中国特色社会主义现代化理论研究

在中国三十多年来的现代化建设过程中,不断面临着国际的舆论挑战,如"中国威胁论"、"中国崩溃论"等等,因此等中国经济发展到一定程度,理论研究就提到了议事日程。围绕着中国特色社会主义理论研究的内容、缘由、原则3个方面分析了开展中国特色社会主义现代化理论研究的必要性、重要性、可行性3个问题。     

旅游资源非优区研究述评

旅游业强劲发展态势导致旅游资源优越区不能有效满足现实旅游市场需求,客观呼唤旅游资源非优区研究。文章对国内关于旅游资源非优区的研究作了系统、全面的梳理,并就旅游资源非优区的研究成果进行述评,在此基础上从旅游资源非优区的基础研究、相关研究与应用研究三个维度进行研究展望,形成具有中国特色的旅游资源非优区理论体系,更好地指导旅游资源非优区的开发与发展实践。     

Fisher Ideal Indexes in the National Income and Product Accounts

The mastery of the spreadsheet technique has become almost universal in economics departments. The authors explain, step-by-step, how the spreadsheet can be used as an instructional aid to teach basic microeconomic concepts.