施工项目成本管理面临的挑战及对策

建筑市场竞争激烈,物价不断提升,施工企业的利润空间越来越小,这就要求施工企业不断提高项目管理水平。文章分析了施工项目成本控制面临新的挑战,对如何加强成本管理、化解项目亏损风险进行了粗浅的探讨。     

How financial intermediation challenges national sovereignty in emerging markets

This study explores the impact of changes occurring in financial markets on national sovereignty. Sovereignty involves both the authority to rule and the capacity to exercise this rule. Changes now occurring in financial markets and their most important institution, banks, present challenges to sovereignty. Domestic challenges include consolidation, conglomeration, automation, reduction of government banking, disintermediation, and the development of risk transfer markets and mechanisms. International challenges include freeing capital inflows and outflows, foreign control of financial service institutions, regional and supranational economic integration, and the abandonment of national currencies. These often create a web of obligations that may compromise national sovereignty. While sovereignty may not be viewed as absolute in terms of national priorities, and may be in a constant state of negotiation, it is a measure of national strength. Its infringement may produce resentments and dissatisfactions among international agents and within national political structure and render a toll on national growth and development.     

挑战与回应:推进农村土地规范有序流转

农村土地规范有序地流转,有利于增加农民收入、提高土地资源的利用效率、推进城市化进程。然而,政府"角色"错位、农村土地流转法缺乏、中介组织不完善、社会保障体系滞后等因素制约了农村土地的有序流转。为此,必须贯彻党的十七届三中全会精神,建立土地流转法,完善土地流转中介组织,健全农民社会保障体系,推进农村土地有序流转。     

Internationalization Opportunities and Challenges for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises from Developing Countries

The purpose of this study was to identify opportunities and challenges for internationalizing the small and medium-sized enterprises in developing countries. In this article the author examines the internationalization motives and strategies of the managers of these enterprises. A survey was conducted in Tanzania and the effect of the identified opportunities on the decision to internationalize was modeled using the multinomial logistic regression to determine the relationship between the respondent profile and the decision to be taken in the absence of the internationalization opportunities. The results have revealed the existing opportunities including export rehabilitation incentives, schemes as well as institutional supports granted from the governmental and nongovernmental organizations, development partners, and business associations. However, inadequate international business skills, unawareness of existing export promotion programs, poor access to finance, and imperfect foreign market information are the main challenges. Profit and growth goals and saturation of domestic markets are the key drives to internationalization, with indirect exporting being the main internationalization strategy. The author concludes by drawing attention to managerial and policy implications and future research directions.     

Global talent management and global talent challenges: Strategic opportunities for IHRM

The need for multinational firms to be as competitive in the global marketplace as possible has increased dramatically over the past twenty years. For international human resource management this has meant many strategic opportunities to international human resource management. An excellent example of such an opportunity is that which exists regarding the management of talent. This opportunity began to develop in the late 1990s with the advent of the challenge of “global talent management.” During the past few years this opportunity has expanded to include challenges dealing with talent shortages, talent surpluses, locating and relocating talent, and compensation levels of talent. Together, these conditions are all “global talent challenges”. In this article we describe these several global talent challenges and the strategic opportunities they present to firms and propose the implications of these for firms and for the field of international human resource management.     

互联网金融浪潮下城商行经营发展面临的问题与挑战

近年来,伴随着科学技术的进步,以搜索引擎、大数据、社交网络和云计算等互联网技术手段为基础的互联网金融的迅速发展,因其较低的运营成本、便利的操作服务、完善的客户信用等级评估系统和惠及面较广的需求旺盛客户源,对传统商业银行业务产生了一定程度上的冲击。城市商业银行作为商业银行体系中的重要组成部门,由于资产规模和业务总量不大、IT系统建设滞后等,必然面临更多的问题与挑战,但同时如果能够积极转型,发挥自身优势,又未尝不是一个良好的机遇。     

Meeting revenue management challenges: Knowledge,skills and abilities

Hospitality industry increasingly recognizes importance of integrating revenue management into their operations and significance of their staff to do so. Yet revenue managers face major challenges from both internal and external sources. Hence revenue staff dealing with several sophisticated problems should possess various knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) to enable them effectively overcome these obstacles. However which specific capabilities are required to what extent are not clear. Therefore this study aims to match the challenges that are faced by hotel revenue managers with KSAs required in managing inventory and prices. A two step qualitative method is adopted; first 14 revenue managers were interviewed and secondly a focus group with eight participants was conducted in order to identify challenges and competencies required in improving revenue management effectiveness. Thus this study offers a typology of challenges faced by revenue managers and it also identifies KSAs that are required by revenue management staff.     

The Development, Challenge and Innovation of Agriculture Insurance： Climate Index Insurance＇s Experience Worldwide and The Role Government Playing

本文从国际国内两个层面回顾了农业保险发展进程及现状，分析传统农业保险面临的严峻挑战（主要是财务绩效不理想、缺乏可持续性），对创新型农业保险——指数保险的国际和国内实践进行较为全面和系统的分析，并结合国情就政府在推动指数保险发展方面的角色发挥提出了针对性建议。     

俄白哈经济一体化的内部分歧、挑战及其发展前景

俄白哈关税同盟已运行两年,成效显著,但同盟还只是俄白哈三国经济一体化进程的第一步,未来一体化进程推进还任重而道远。目前,俄白哈经济一体化在运行中出现了一些分歧,主要体现在进口税收分配、进口税率、一体化进程推进、能源贸易政策等方面,而且也面临诸多挑战,主要有内部产业转移、俄罗斯意志主导、WTO规则制约、白俄罗斯经济危机、哈萨克斯坦国内争议、俄乌两国天然气纠纷等。可见,今后政策协调难度会越来越大,短期内扩员前景不乐观,但长期合作前景良好。     

现代财务管理面临的挑战与创新

知识经济是建立在知识与信息的生产和使用之上的经济。因此，知识经济时代财务资源的配置需要有“相关利益者合作”产权理论及制度作为基石，否则将会加剧财务资本所有者与知识资本所有者之间的矛盾冲突；知识经济时代的财务管理应以无形资产投资为主要决策内容、财务机构的设置应具有灵敏快速的特征、财务人员应具有很强的信息接受处理能力及财务方法创新能力，否则企业财务管理将无法适应外部环境的变化。而我们现有的产权理论及制度、财务人员的素质与财务机构的设置、财务管理的理论与内容，在知识经济到来之时，存在着诸多问题，面临着严重挑战，我们需要积极创新，寻求对策。