环境保护水平的地区差异及对策研究——基于山东省17地市的实证分析

环境既在一定意义上构成经济增长的前提和基础,又是经济增长的主要目的,甚至环境本身就被当作资源禀赋和财富。近年来,山东省环境保护水平有了明显提高,但地区差异较大。本文采用因子分析和聚类分析法,对山东省17地市的环境保护水平进行了综合性评价,以期为环境保护水平的提高提供理论依据和对策建议。     

国有企业员工个体差异与提高整体效能初探

强化企业管理,提高整体效能,这是一个值得企业研究的课题。国有企业的可持续发展涉及千方百面,员工个体差异多彩纷呈。文章初步探讨在企业管理中发挥员工的主观能动作用,在各自的工作岗位上,人尽其才,才尽其用,并提出建议。     

毛泽东邓小平人才思想差异性及其原因分析

人才是当今社会文明进步、国家繁荣昌盛的重要推动力量,党和国家领导人历来非常重视人才队伍建设.毛泽东、邓小平的人才思想在基本立场上是一致的,但由于所处时代背景与个人气质的不同,其差异性主要体现在人才思想的出发点、理论创新侧重点、实践方式等方面,对其差异性进行研究,有利于积极应对日趋激烈的国际人才竞争,坚定不移实施人才强国...     

Adolescent injuries in relation to economic status: An international perspective

The primary objective of the study was to examine the relationship between patterns in car-to-car crashes involving young drivers and car and driver characteristics and the research design was a national register-based prospective cohort study. Individual records in a cohort born 1970 – 1972 are linked to road-traffic-crash data (1988 – 2000). Subjects' first police-registered two-car crash leading to severe or fatal injury (n = 4875) are identified. Typical crash patterns are highlighted and associations between pattern and both car and individual socio-demographic characteristics are tested. Four crash patterns are highlighted. Male drivers and those with lower educational attainment are over-represented in all patterns. Pattern-based risk levels vary considerably according to car safety level and driver's age at time of injury and socio-economic status. Crash patterns might be considered in young adult driver education systems, bearing in mind the consistent higher risks of male drivers and of drivers with lower educational attainment.     

Teenagers on the Net

ABSTRACT

Both in business and in academic research, the Internet and electronic commerce grow exponentially. Attention has predominately been directed to developing the companies' capabilities and systems, while the consumers' perspective in contrast has received much less attention. This paper takes this perspective and focuses on online behavior of specifically 16- to 18-year-old teenagers. This particular segment tends to open to new things and know a great deal about using computers and the Internet. A questionnaire conducted among students in a high school in southern Finland showed that the overwhelming majority had computer and Internet access at home. Most of the young respondents had already used the Internet for various purposes and intend to do so even more in the future. For the young, information search and communication were the main purposes of using the Internet, and lower-value products related to mobile phones were the main products being bought online. At the same time they had different concerns that influence their behavior and, somewhat surprisingly, reported a slightly negative attitude towards electronic commerce. In line with previous studies, privacy and security issues were the primary concerns for the young Internet users. Gender aspects also emerged from the data since there were several differences in Internet usage and online purchasing between girls and boys. Based on the findings, the paper ends with implications and recommendations for companies attempting to approach teenagers in order to build relationships with them.     

英语专业写作教学中文化差异对比研究

不同的文化背景和文化传统使中西方的文化差异不仅体现在价值观念、行为准则和生活方式上,还体现在中西方民族的思维方式上。在高校英语专业的写作教学中培养学生跨文化意识的途径：充分挖掘和利用教材在日常教学中加以渗透;积极改进教学方法;促进对不同文化背景知识的比较与思考等。     

CULTURAL DIFFERENCES IN SHOPPING FOR LUXURY GOODS: WESTERN,ASIAN, AND HISPANIC TOURISTS

This study examines the significant differences in shopping for luxury goods among Western, Asian, and Hispanic tourists and, in particular, the perceived importance of different types and characteristics of the luxury consumer and travel goods tourists buy on vacation. The results show that Western, Asian, and Hispanic tourists‐shoppers significantly differ in the perceived importance of luxury consumer and travel goods and their characteristics. Western and Asian tourists attach more importance to buying “gifts for others” than Hispanic tourists. Asian tourists attach more importance to buying “golf equipment,” “health spa/wellness treatment,” “luxury cruises,”and “luxury yachts/rentals” than Hispanic tourists. Western tourists attach more importance to “fine dining” than Hispanic tourists. Implications of the study results and recommendations for future studies are discussed.     

The Impact of Consumers’ Need for Uniqueness and Nationality on Generation Y's Retail Patronage Behaviors: Investigating American and Taiwanese Consumers

ABSTRACT

Generation Y (Gen Y) consumers are now one of the most influential buying segments in U.S. history. This article empirically assesses the extent to which American Gen Y consumers and same-aged Taiwanese consumers’ need for uniqueness serves as a meaningful discriminant across retail patronage behaviors for branded apparel products. Results indicate a great deal of similarity between the two cultures’ need for uniqueness. Empirical findings reveal that consumers’ need for uniqueness does influence retail patronage behaviors. The implications of the similarities and differences between American Gen Y consumers and their Taiwanese counterparts serve as potential managerial mechanisms for building and sustaining retail patronage in a globalization era.     

Transaction Costs and Cattle Marketing: The Information Content of Seller-Provided Presale Data at Bull Auctions

At sales of breeding bulls, prospective buyers have strong incentives to undertake presale measurement activities. To reduce these transaction costs, sellers often provide information on sale bulls. We examine the information content of two measures of the expected performance of the bulls and find that within a given herd, older, simpler measures of performance contain more information about prices (from buyers' perspectives) than newer, more sophisticated measures known as expected progeny differences, or EPDs. We also find, however, that buyers appear to pay considerable attention to annual changes in herd-average EPD values when comparing animals from different sellers.