Entrepreneurship and industrial clusters: evidence from China industrial census

Small Business Economics - This article studies the synergy effect of entrepreneurship on China’s industrial cluster. We propose an extension to Duranton and Overman’s (The Review of...     

Emerging Market Firms' Internationalization: How Do Firms' Inward Activities Affect Their Outward Activities?

Research summary : In this study we examine how an emerging market firm's inward international activities (“inward activities”) are related to its outward international activities (“outward activities”) by focusing on the role of the firm's gain from its inward activities. On the one hand, drawing upon the organizational learning perspective, we propose that a firm's gain from inward activities may facilitate its outward activities through improving its resource fungibility. On the other hand, we draw upon the prospect theory to propose that a firm's gain from inward activities may hinder its outward activities by discouraging the firm's top managers from taking risks that are inherent in outward activities. With detailed data from a sample of manufacturing firms in China, we find empirical support for both lines of arguments . Managerial summary : Are emerging market firms with higher inward gain more likely to engage in outward internationalization activities? We argue that it depends upon how a firm uses its gain from inward activities. If the firm can improve its resource fungibility (particularly organizational resource fungibility) from its inward gain, it is more likely to engage in outward activities. If the firm cannot improve its resource fungiblity, the answer is no. Our findings suggest that for emerging market firms, internationalization is not just a path toward new markets; instead, it reflects how these firms exploit and explore what they have learned from their interactions with foreign firms at home in foreign markets. Therefore, managers must think more strategically on developing (organizational) resource fungibility from their inward activities . Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

中职德育课教学模式改革探讨

本文从近年来中职德育教学出现的一些新现象入手,探讨班主任任教德育课程的可行性来分析,提出班主任任教德育课的模式及实施办法,并对出现的一些问题进行积极探索,力求把德育实效落到中职教育的实处。     

接入效应、市场分割与商品交易市场发展

改革开放以来,商品交易市场作为我国国内商品流通的重要渠道获得了快速发展。通过建立理论模型和计量分析,本文发现:首先,由于地方保护及市场分割的存在,外省的接入效应对各省商品交易市场的发展远没有本省的接入效应重要;其次,铁路、公路及高速公路等基础设施的日益完善通过降低运输成本促进各省商品交易市场的发展;最后,不同要素密集度的生产企业对商品交易市场的依赖程度存在显著差异,资本密集型产品的生产企业对商品交易市场的依赖程度远低于劳动密集型和资源密集型产品的生产企业。     

供应链管理与中小企业核心竞争力提升的相关分析

在经济全球化日益加剧的今天,任何企业想单打独斗赢得竞争优势已绝无可能,只有通过实施供应链管理,和其它企业组建战略联盟来提升自身的核心竞争力,才是上上之策。本文通过对供应链管理与企业核心竞争力之间相互作用机制进行了分析,同时对供应链管理下我国中小企业面临的新问题和挑战进行了探讨,并在此基础上提出我国中小企业如何实施供应链管理的几点相应的对策。     

国内市场分割与中国的出口贸易扩张

本文将国内市场分割和边际成本与固定成本之间的反向关系引入Melitz(2003)的模型,构建了一个开放经济模型。文章证明了国内市场分割导致不同生产技术的企业都首选进入国外市场。这似乎解释了中国出口贸易的强劲增长其实是严重的国内市场分割导致企业无法依托巨大的国内需求、发挥规模经济而被迫出口的扭曲现象。     

专业化产业区的起源与演化——一个历史与理论视角的考察

在最近十年中 ,中小企业在特定地理空间大规模集聚形成的专业化产业区是浙江经济发展和产业组织发展的一种最为重要的形式。本文探讨了专业化产业区的生成机制 ,基本假设为任何两个产业的发展都存在产业特定性要素和重叠性要素的竞争 ,而产业特定性要素在特定地理空间的大规模集聚解释了专业化产业区的起源与演化。     

DOES TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS MAGNIFY REGIONAL DISPARITIES?

We study how technological progress in manufacturing and migration costs interact to shape the space economy. Rising labor productivity in the manufacturing sector fosters the agglomeration of activities, whereas falling transport costs associated with technological and organizational innovations foster their dispersion. Since these two forces have been at work for a long time, the final outcome must depend on how drops in the costs of producing and trading goods interact with the various costs borne by migrants. Various extensions show the robustness of these conclusions.     

Rigor and Relevance: On the Development of Entrepreneurship Research in China

This study examines the contributions of Chinese entrepreneurship research to academic knowledge and its practical implications. Specifically, we investigate how Chinese entrepreneurship research meets the standards of rigor and relevance based on a review of 64 papers published in five major scholarly journals in the Chinese mainland. Results show that Chinese entrepreneurship research has paid comparatively little attention to the “rigor” dimension, while focusing more heavily on practical relevance than on academic relevance on the “relevance” dimension. Future directions for China’s entrepreneurship research are also discussed.     

Designing knowledge chain networks in China — A proposal for a risk management system using linguistic decision making

Designing Knowledge Supply Networks (KSN) with universities and research institutes has become a key source of technological innovations in Mainland China. In order to explore the key design principles, we first present typologies within KSN and explain the factors that can push, guide, or support the innovation process in such a network. Second, we identify and classify the particular risks that prevail when KSN are designed in an emerging region. To assess these risks, we next propose an advanced method that takes into consideration typical problems in group decision-making processes by applying linguistic operators derived from the field of decision theory and fuzzy-sets theory. The risk evaluation method is illustrated with a case study. Fourth, we offer advice on the mitigation of risks in KSN. Finally, we provide insights into the implementation of the risk evaluation method and its automation using Stakeholder Information Systems.