BUILDING AND EVOLVING DATA WAREHOUSING AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ARTEFACTS: THE CASE OF SYSCO

This paper investigates use of data warehouse and business intelligence capabilities to integrate with customers in the supply chain and improve insights into customer sales. By making internal data warehouse sales information available to customers, additional value to those customers is created, eliminating asymmetries of information in the supply chain. In addition, the evolution of data warehousing into business intelligence is investigated, expanding sales information to include marketing associate performance analysis generated for internal use. Further, a methodology that was used for building a business intelligence system is also examined. Finally, what appears to be a business‐intelligence‐driven focus on enterprise resource planning systems is analyzed. These issues are illustrated using real‐world data warehousing and business intelligence artefacts developed at SYSCO. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

浙江省出口贸易结构演进的实证分析

"浙江现象"启发了人们对浙江省外贸"奇迹"的思考.浙江省外贸"奇迹"主要体现在数量效应和结构效应两方面.而后者往往容易被忽略.本文着重考察的是浙江省出口贸易的结构效应,从出口贸易的主体结构、商品结构、市场结构和出口方式结构等方面对浙江省出口结构变化进行实证分析,以期为优化出口贸易结构,转变外贸增长方式提供客观的依据和有益的思维.     

时空协同视角下的义乌中国小商品城演进历程分析

集贸式市场组织是一项极具“中国特色”的诱发性制度创新,是以某个固定场所为集聚地,以众多企业和个体商户为经营主体所形成的共享式交易平台。近年来,我国集贸式市场的组织形态及其功能都发生了重大变化,出现了与博览会、连锁经营、电子商务等现代流通业态相融合的趋势。在一个充分竞争的市场环境中,市场组织演进的结果体现出经济效率导向的要求。交易者将随着市场环境的变化,调整交易时间配置和空间分布的组合,以求达到交易成本最小化。本文以义乌中国小商品城为实证对象,以时间配置和空间分布为分析维度,运用交易费用经济学的理论方法,研究我国集贸式市场组织演进的动态过程。     

政府参与农民合作经济组织发展的职能演变

农民合作经济组织与政府之间的关系对合作组织的发展有着至关重要的影响。政府参与是我国农民合作经济组织发展的必要条件,政府应依照农民合作经济组织发展的初期、成长期、成熟期三个阶段的特性来对自己的职能进行动态定位,以哺育、扶持、守夜人身份执行政府职能。     

The evolution of tourist arts

Tourist arts with ethnic content are at the nexus of changing tourism, ethnicity and art in the modern world. This paper explores the range of varieties of tourist arts, the dynamics of change between various types of artifacts, and the interaction between tourist arts and notions of ethnic self-perception. The analogy between language and art is pursued to illuminate the nature of the various communication codes embodied in tourist and ethnic arts. The paper concludes by stressing that tourist arts are not an end-point, but one possibility within the fluid relationships between material symbols, outsiders' demand, and the defense and reformulation of ethnicity. It also concludes that the evolution of ethnic awareness, combined with increased education and travel opportunities, is bringing a uniformity of attitudes towards tourism, material heritage, and museums among the middle classes of all nations. Thus minority ethnic symbols have become the manipulated “totems” of touristic identity.     

Exploring the core factors of online purchase decisions by building an E-Commerce network evolution model

With the continuous development of the Internet and information technology, online shopping has become a popular purchase mode. The in-depth analysis of consumer decision-making in online shopping is an important issue. Our purpose is to study how the factors of the shopping web pages corporately affect online purchase decisions and determine which are the core factors that affect consumer purchase decisions. We screen the influencing factors on the shopping webpage and deploy e-commerce network evolution based on various weight combinations of these factors to generate sales distributions of online products. By comparing these simulated sales distributions to the real data, the optimal weight of each factor is obtained. The results show that sales volume and the number of high-quality negative comments are the most important factors influencing consumers' decision-making, the number of comments and the number of comments with pictures are relatively minor factors, store type and video presentation of the products have the least impact. The optimal simulated sales distribution is very close to the real case and verifies that the introduced network evolution technology is applicable. The proposed model can be used as a uniform evaluation platform for correlational study, which is an important link in the purchase research chain.     

两权分离与公司治理的演进——英美经验与我国实践

公司治理的演进过程也是所有权和控制权以及经营权分离的过程。通过对英美国家公司发展不同时期两权分离的历史考察,发现两权分离与公司治理演进之间存在依存关系：两权分离依次经历了所有权和经营权分离、所有权和控制权分离、控制权和经营权分离和同股不同权等阶段,不同形式的两权分离带来不同的公司治理问题,从而产生相应的治理手段,推动着公司治理的演进。通过对中国企业改革和发展过程的历史回顾也证明了两权分离与公司治理之间存在共同演进关系。针对研究发现,最后提出了我国公司治理改革的方向性建议。     

制度、人力资本与乡村劳动力迁移

本文构建制度框架下政府与乡村迁移者博弈模型说明政府政策选择机制形成与迁移者决策过程。在不同经济发展阶段,经济发展目标决定迁移者迁移策略,城市发展能否从迁移中获得利益决定政府对迁移的管制程度,农业发展能否为迁移提供支持决定迁移者的迁移决策。迁移者的人力资本水平是影响政府策略与迁移者策略选择的关键因素。改善乡村劳动力人力资本积累条件有助于加速迁移进程,减少城市劳动力市场对迁移者的歧视,提高城市化质量。     

中国企业研发效率动态演进的背后：市场化改革的力量

本文基于1999—2011年中国省际高新技术产业层面的研发数据,综合运用生产要素产出弹性模型和格林（2005）提出的真正固定效应随机前沿模型,实证检验了市场化改革对企业研发效率动态演进的实际影响效应,并进一步探析国有经济和行业保护政策在市场化改革塑造企业研发效率的过程中所扮演的角色。基于产业维度的核算结果表明,研究期间中国高新技术企业整体研发效率大约偏离最优效率37％～44％,但其在市场化进程中表现出稳步提升的动态演进趋势,研发中间产出效率和最终产出效率分别从1999年的0．403和0．523（0．490）提高到2011年的0．713和0．766（0．755）。更为重要的是,经验证据表明市场化改革确实是推动中国高新技术企业研发效率持续动态增进的背后驱动力量;但国有经济和行业保护政策显著抑制了市场力量对企业研发效率塑造能力的充分发挥,具体表现为市场化改革在国有经济和保护性行业中不仅无法起到提升研发效率的作用,反而还可能具有损害企业研发效率的负面影响。     

Services,industry evolution,and the competitive strategies of product firms

Services of different types have become increasingly important for product firms. While these firms mainly focus on products, managers and researchers lack a comprehensive framework to understand when to make significant investments in particular kinds of services. We identify three categories of product‐related services from a product firm—smoothing and adapting services, which complement products, and substitution services, which enable customers to pay for the use of a product without buying the product itself. We develop propositions about the relative level of these different kinds of services vis‐a‐vis industry evolution, as well as suggest how these services affect industry structure. We draw upon various literatures, though we conclude that the relationship between products and services is more complex and richer than any one literature suggests. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.