Enhancing corporate social responsibility through market orientation practices in bottom of pyramid markets: with special reference to microcredit institutions

Market-oriented organizations are committed to understanding and serving customer needs. Customers become socially conscious, so market-oriented firms need to carry out ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ (CSR) initiatives. The main aim of this study was to investigate the influence of market orientation on CSR among microcredit institutions. The findings of this study are useful for microcredit institutions and marketers operating in bottom of pyramid (BOP) market to enhance their CSR through market orientation practices. The sample comprised 250 managers of microcredit institutions operating in the rural areas of Sri Lanka. The surveys were administered for data collection. All the three components of market orientation, that is, customer orientation, competitor orientation, and inter-functional coordination significantly and positively influenced the CSR involvement. Adaptation to BOP Market Culture enhanced the positive influences of both customer orientation and inter-functional coordination, on CSR. From these findings, implications for theory and practice have been discussed.     

商业智能国际研究前沿与主题演进

商业智能作为企业数据整合和决策支持的信息系统,受到了理论和实践的广泛关注.然而目前还没有针对商业智能研究前沿和主题演进规律的研究.为了揭示商业智能研究主题和演进趋势,为未来的研究工作提供思路、奠定基础,本文基于文献计量方法梳理和评述近30年(1990—2020年)Web of Science中商业智能领域的理论研究.结果表明,商业智能研究文献数量处于快速成长期,研究潜力较大.美国处于商业智能研究前沿,中国的相关研究在国际中影响力不足.目前商业智能主要聚焦于管理信息系统方向,未来商业智能的研究将主要聚焦于商业智能与大数据、商业智能的风险与挑战、商业智能与创新、商业智能与预测性分析等主题.     

Social media adoption: A process-based approach

This research conceptualizes and measures social media adoption (SMA) of companies with a process-based approach and explains its antecedents of micro- and macro-environment, size, and ownership, as well as its consequence of intention to increase resources dedicated to social media. Based on data from 310 Turkish small and medium enterprises, the study first develops a conceptual framework on the pillars of internal and external stakeholder focus as well as relationship and information oriented implementation. Based on these two dimensions, it discusses the novel concepts of social customer relations, social stakeholder communication, social intelligence, and social responsiveness related to SMA. The study further indicates that ownership type and micro environment play a role in SMA and that path dependence exists in the interplay of current adoption and future intentions.     

Emotional and interpersonal competencies and leader development

A variety of recent leader development programs have focused on improving leaders' emotional and interpersonal competencies. Decades of leadership research suggest that these “people skills” are crucial for leader effectiveness. This paper reviews the history of these leader development programs as well as research on emotional and interpersonal competencies. Suggestions for grounding leader development programs in sound research on emotional and social competencies, as well as an agenda for future research on the development of leader emotional and interpersonal skills, are provided.     

90年代以来劳动力价值问题研究述评

文章概述了90年代以来理论界在劳动力价值的构成范围、劳动力价值的实现与按劳分配、智力劳动力工资的理论解释问题上提出的许多新的观点并作出了简要的评论。随着社会主义市场经济的发展，还有许多问题，如：劳动力价格背离价值的理论问题，劳动力价格高于价值的现实问题，劳动力的特殊性对劳动力价值的影响等值得深入探讨，以使劳动价值论更好地指导社会主义市场经济实践。     

王充闾散文的情智识

王充阁散文追求诗性、历史感和哲思三者的融合统一.在散文文本中具体体现为大量的感人之情、启人之智和益人之识.这不仅打通了科学和文学的界限,而且打通了文学、史学和哲学的界限,如此加深了他散文创作的情感浓度、思想深度和知识密度.     

基于适应性商务智能的虚拟企业合作伙伴选择模型

合作伙伴选择是虚拟企业运行中至关重要的问题。迅速而准确地找到合适的合作伙伴并实现协调运作，直接影响到虚拟企业合作绩效和整体目标的实现。文章将环境感知和适应性商务智能理论引入虚拟企业合作伙伴选择中，提出了基于适应性商务智能的虚拟企业合作伙伴选择模型，设计了模型的基本架构，分析了模型的构成模块，探讨了模型的应用机理。     

论公益性和商业性地质勘查活动的划分以及运行规则

公益性工作包括基础性工作和专题性工作两部分."公益性活动和商业性活动分体运行"的提法行不通,只应是"分制运行".借鉴土木建筑行业经验,建立业主、设计、施工、监理"四分天下"的运行机制.政府行业主管部门和政府业主的分工体现了"政资分离".     

竞争情报与企业的蓬勃发展

在信息高度发达的时代,企业的的发展不仅是经济实力的发展,更重要的是情报的竞争,建立企业情报竞争系统,成立竞争情报服务中心,对提高企业发展,有着至关重要的作用。