The impact of seasonality on tourism and hospitality operations in the alpine region of New South Wales,Australia

Despite the recognized importance of seasonality for tourism businesses, there has been a distinct lack of studies undertaken in the past that discuss the impact of seasonality on alpine accommodation resorts, and more specifically that focus on an Australian location. The main purpose of this study was to examine whether or not the Australian alpine accommodation providers and ski operations have been significantly impacted by the issue of seasonality and to determine more specifically, had there been industry pressure placed on them to become all season operations? For this study, a total of 15 semi-structured interviews were conducted with managers of hospitality businesses located in the sub-alpine region of Jindabyne, and nearby alpine areas of Perisher and Thredbo in New South Wales, Australia. Study results indicated that the majority of managers acknowledged the fact that there has been an increase in the number of summer visitors each year which has pressured them to make changes to their operations. They conceded that such activity has served to reinforce a ‘stand alone’ mindset which was still prevalent amongst the majority of the managers in the region.     

中国保险业具有持续的经济增长促进作用吗?——基于期限结构视角的时变参数研究

保险业促进经济发展的相关理论及由实践经验数据所得结论并未达成一致共识,部分学者认为保险业的发展有助于推动经济增长;同时也有部分学者认为保险业的经济助推作用并不明显。本文基于1999~20丨7年财险和寿险月度数据,运用时变参数向量自回归模型(TVP-VAR)研究保险业对经济增长的促进作用,得出如下结论:整体上,保险业对经济增长能够产生促进效应,并且随着保险业的发展,促进作用愈发显著;财险和寿险的发展均对经济增长产生显著地直接促进作用,在不同的期限结构时点,其持续程度与显著程度不同;此外,保险业对经济增长还存在持续的间接促进作用。该结论对于新常态下的保险监管政策制定者存在一定借鉴意义。     

城市土地整理的长效运作制度创新

市地整理是对城市原有的土地利用方式的一种改变与提高,从而有助于提升市地的经济自然环境以及景观美感的多目标体系的综合效益.以科学发展观为指导,建立健全科学的市地整理长效运作制度,有利于处理好城市发展与城市用地总量与结构平衡,实现城市土地整理区城内的社会经济协调发展.     

基于国内外高技术产业基地经验比较分析对我国基地发展提出的若干保障措施

本文研究旨在基于高技术产业基地保障体系的系统框架,总结和借鉴国外高技术产业基地保障措施经验的基础上,面向国家高技术产业基地"十二五"乃至中长期跨跃式发展面临的新形势、新规律、新使命、新任务,探讨进一步系统探讨了基地保障措施的途径,提出了若干保障措施,为新时期高技术产业基地建设的规划编制和管理决策提供参考。     

探究航空装备保障人才培养中运筹学内容体系的构建与实践

通过梳理整合航空装备技术保障运筹问题,以问题为中心,构建凸显航空装备保障与管理特色的应用型教学体系。在此基础上采取"任务驱动式"程式组织教学内容,优化课程教学设计。     

长期股权投资核算的权益法

长期股权投资权益法,其特点是投资最初以投资成本计价,以后根据投资企业享有被投资单位所有者权益份额的变动对投资的账面价值进行调整的方法。本文主要讨论了权益法的涵义与适用范围,通过实例分析了权益法下的会计处理思路等问题,并提出了相应的解决对策。     

Identifying R&D partners through Subject-Action-Object semantic analysis in a problem & solution pattern

Today’s companies still rely heavily on expert knowledge rather than quantitative data with a systematic approach to effectively identify and choose Research and Development (R&D) partners. It is advantageous to identify and select potential R&D partners using a Problem & Solution (P&S) pattern. This paper presents a novel process for identifying R&D partners on the basis of solution similarities that assist technology managers in understanding the relationships between research targets. First, we choose a thematic dataset that contains problems and quantitative data with relative topic terms. Then, we extract Subject-Action-Object semantic structures in a P&S pattern from the dataset, and identify various solutions to a technical problem, with each as a subject. In addition, we provide correlation mapping to visualise the text characters and identify R&D partners. Finally, we validate the proposed method through a case study of the dye-sensitized solar cells sector.     

农户主体行为与农民土地权益保护

保护农民土地权益需要农民内力和社会外力的共同作用才能有效实现。随着工业化、城市化程度的不断加深,各地侵害农民土地权益的事件时有发生。目前我国农民自我保护意识普遍较弱,对其自身合法权益的维护产生较大负面影响,因此政府有必要从教育、法律、组织、制度等层面引导农民树立自我保护意识。     

An integrative approach to determine store delivery patterns in grocery retailing

This article focuses on the tactical problem of selecting delivery patterns according to which grocery stores are repetitively supplied with products from different order segments by retail-owned distribution centers. The research environment considered consists of logistics processes in DCs, transportation and instore logistics. We identify dependencies on the delivery patterns selected and specify the relevant costs. These costs are reflected in the objective function of a binary selection model. Implementing and applying the model to the real case of a major European retail company yields substantial cost savings potential of 5.3%, amounting to tens of millions of euros per annum.     

IT project portfolio governance: The emerging operation manager

Today's information technology (IT) organizations are under pressure to meet or improve IT service levels for critical business functions. Various industry standards, such as the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (COBIT) standard, have gained wide acceptance as comprehensive methodologies for improving the effectiveness of IT management. The role of IT operations management is subsequently changing from a component orientation (such as networks, systems, storage, database, and applications) to managing business‐oriented, end‐to‐end IT services. This article presents a detailed analysis of available literature in order to identify the most appropriate competencies and necessary skill sets that will be needed by an operation manager for strategic business alignment.