Power,policy networks and planning: the involvement of major grocery retailers in the formulation of Planning Policy Guidance Note 6 since 1988

This paper explores a neglected issue in the study of retail strategy and store location by considering the nature of policy networks operating at the interface between retailers and central government. It argues that informal networks, coupled with the economic power of retailers and the legitimization of their activities with reference to the 'consumer interest', have served to provide retailers with an influential avenue through which they can exert power over the nature of the regulatory environment within which they operate. The paper considers the limited extant 'evidence' of the operation of such networks before moving on to outline the results of a case study. The case study reflects on new store development in the UK grocery sector since 1988 as a backdrop to an analysis of the form of policy networks operating at the interface between government departments and retail organizations. It also explores the role of other stakeholders in this process. The existence of a number of such networks is described and their role explored with reference to the involvement of retailers in the formulation and evolution of Planning Policy Guidance Note 6 on retail development.     

电力建设项目的质量成本管理研究——以A电厂建设项目为例

以项目质量成本管理理论为依据，结合A电厂工程项目施工的质量成本管理现状，分析了A电厂工程项目在现场安装质量成本管理过程存在的问题，提出了电力建设质量成本管理的理念，总结提出了具体且可操作的质量成本管理对策以及相关问题的运作思路，以此为基础提出电力建设质量成本管理的途径和方法。同时，为其他电力企业加强质量成本管理提供借鉴。     

Revisiting Purchasing Power Parity in OECD

This study revisits Purchasing Power Parity theory (PPP) in the 34 OECD countries during January 1994–August 2013. We use a new panel stationary test with both sharp breaks and smooth shifts, a novel approach to panel unit-root testing, proposed by Bahmani–Oskooee et al. (2014). The results indicate that the PPP holds in half of the 34 OECD countries. These results indicate the importance of proper modelling of both sharp breaks and smooth shifts in real effective exchange rate series of OECD countries.     

功率超声场对A356半固态微观组织形成的作用机理

根据功率超声工艺制备A356铝合金半固态浆料实验结果，探讨在功率超声场作用下，A356铝合金半固态凝固过程中初生α-AL相细化和球化的机理。从合金的微观结晶过程描述了浆料中的形核和晶体的长大在超声场作用下的改变，提出了超声效应对合金凝固过程的综合影响。     

川东北地区线路铁塔岩石嵌固式基础应用浅析

四川盆地东北部地区,地形按地貌单元划分:主要为丘陵、低山～低中山。区内地层主要有第四系耕地层、残坡积粉质粘土层、冲洪积层(Q)、侏罗系(J)、白垩系(K)、三叠系(T)等砂岩～泥岩、灰岩,而以砂岩～泥岩、灰岩为主。线路铁塔岩石嵌固式基础在该区域内的大量应用,有不错的经济、环境、社会效益,同时,也是资源节约型、环境友好型—两型三新输电线路在工程实践中的具体应用。     

Experts’ perceptions of the sloping land conversion program in the Loess Plateau,China

China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) is the world’s largest payment for ecosystem services program for improving ecological conditions and farmers’ livelihood. Communicating the SLCP outcomes across diverse stakeholder groups in ecological, socio-economic, political and institutional contexts can facilitate the effective implementation of the new round of the SLCP. Experts from various fields involved in the SLCP have developed good connections with governments, agencies, and farmers; therefore they can play an invaluable role in informing urgent policy changes. This study is based upon 24 interviews with the SLCP experts with the aims of assessing their perceptions of ecological, economic, political and social impacts of the SLCP on the Loess Plateau of China, and then gathering their policy recommendations to ensure that the new round of the SLCP would be implemented efficiently. Content analysis based on the grounded theory is used in present study. Judging from expert-based consensual statements from this study’s interviews, the main concerns about the first round of the SLCP on the Loess Plateau are that the dramatic increase in the farmer’s income and livelihood is mainly from off-farm sources rather than the SLCP subsidy, that equitable government compensation is dependent on the outcome of the SLCP, that the aggressive SLCP causes soil drought which have negative effects on ecological restoration, and that the stakeholders’ interaction could be improved. Based on the analyses of the experts’ interviews, the recommendations are summarised as follows: strengthening the farmers’ environmental awareness and vocational skills, establishing multi-source financial supports and flexible compensation mechanisms, establishing participatory planning that requires stakeholder involvement especially farmers and insisting that scientific studies on the ecological restoration of the Loess Plateau must be shared with local governments and farmers.     

转型时期公共财权资本化风险:一个理论分析框架

基于复杂和失范的转型时期制度环境,本文运用公共财权资本化风险这个学术新概念,重点剖析了广义公共财权资本化风险的核心内涵、生成条件、外部影响、诱发因素以及路径控制机制,初步构建了转型时期公共财权资本化风险问题的理论分析框架。本文的分析表明,财政收支失范是表象,公共财权滥用才是根本。作为一种特殊的权力存在形态,公共财权资本化风险的孕育、生成及其扩张具有明显的负外部效应,主要包括政府公信力的消减效应、经济资源的耗散效应、利益群体的分化效应以及价值观念的溃散效应。在一定程度上讲,公共财权资本化风险意味着公共权力蜕变成了资本权力,权力主体也主动或被动地被额外租金所"俘获"。基于转轨时期公共财权资本化风险本身的隐蔽性、复杂性和危害性,防范公共财权资本化风险客观上需要采取渐近与倒逼双重改革机制,构建制度内外用力、"软""硬"兼施的系统控制机制。     

The nature and dynamics of counter-implementation in strategic marketing: a propositional inventory

This paper highlights the idea that a broader perspective is needed in research into barriers to marketing implementation. It is suggested that this broader perspective should take account of contextual and behavioural issues along with an acknowledgement of implementation as a process. The nature and dynamics of counter-implementation are introduced and a propositional inventory that explicates such behaviour as encompassing actions that may be both intentional and unintentional in nature is developed.These actions may occur at the individual and group level as they evolve over the implementation process and may be both constructive and destructive to organizational performance. Particular emphasis is given to intentional counter-implementation behaviour in terms of how it initiates, manifests and develops, gaining momentum through the transition from individual level action to collective action and, therefore,greater potential leverage for successfully sabotaging implementation efforts. The paper offers implications for management and a research agenda is proposed that highlights content, context and process perspectives for future research in this area, as well as potential methodologies for future research.     

Material power and normative conflict in global and local agrifood governance: The lessons of ‘Golden Rice’ in India

This special section aims to investigate the interaction of global and local forces in shaping agrifood governance. It starts from the recognition that a multitude of actors and norms shape today’s agrifood system. The resulting opaqueness of the systems makes it extremely difficult to understand and explain processes and outcomes of agrifood governance. Given the sustainability challenges facing the agrifood system, improvements in our understanding of what the interaction of global and local actors and norms means on the ground are urgently needed, however. The section, therefore, analyses agrifood governance in India across a selected group of cases. It does so by employing a systematic framework emphasizing the material and ideational dimensions of power and their interaction. The section has chosen India as the setting in which to analyze this interaction due to the crucial role the food demand and supply of this rising power plays in today’s agrifood system. This article provides the special sections’ analytical framework, which uses the interplay of material and ideational dimensions of power as a focal lens. In addition, the article applies this framework to an empirical study of the political conflict around GMO foods in India, specifically the case of ‘Golden Rice’.     

市场势力、资产专用性与企业研发投入:来自卖方与买方双维度考量的实证研究

在纵向关联市场中,市场势力和资产专用性是企业创新研发投入的重要影响因素。基于2012-2016年我国121家医药制造业上市公司微观数据,从买方与卖方双重视角探究市场势力、资产专用性与企业创新研发投入的关系。结果表明：买方势力、卖方势力与企业研发投入之间均呈现“倒U型”关系,即当买卖双方市场势力较小时,市场势力对企业研发投入的正向“激励效应”占主导地位;在市场势力超过一定水平后,市场势力对企业研发投入的负向“挤出效应”占主导地位,且相比于专用性资产投资强度较低的医药企业而言,卖方势力与买方势力对具有高资产专用性强度的医药企业研发投入所产生的“倒U型”影响更为显著。