The future of mobile shopping: The interaction between lead users and technological trajectories in the Japanese market

This paper uses the concepts of lead users and technological trajectories and the current status of mobile shopping in Japan to forecast the future of mobile shopping. In interviews with more than 100 Japanese and foreign firms between 2000 and 2005, the author investigated the impact of a number of technological trajectories on mobile shopping applications that are suggested to be promising ones based on the behavior of lead users. Push-based Internet mail and other key services that are not yet available in Western markets were the initial drivers of the market for mobile shopping in Japan between 2001 and 2003. Currently, the fastest growing market for mobile shopping in Japan involves the integration of mobile sites with other media such as magazines and radio and television programs where these other media compensate for the small screens of mobile phones. This paper forecasts the impact of improvements along a number of technological trajectories on the integration of mobile sites with other media.     

When Galatea cares about her reputation: How having faith in your workers reduces their motivation to shine

We develop a theory of leadership that focuses on the role managers play in motivating employees through their attitudes towards employees. We model a manager's attitude as her perception about employees' abilities of successfully completing challenging tasks. We show that a positive attitude motivates employees who are driven by monetary rewards. A negative attitude may motivate employees who are driven by concerns about their reputation for being able. When employees are driven by monetary rewards and care about their reputations, an increase in the reward for successfully completing challenging tasks may lead employees to shy away from these tasks.     

互联网顾客体验与顾客网站忠诚度的关系研究——以结构方程模型为基础

本文通过对顾客体验和顾客忠诚的文献探讨,提出了研究互联网环境下顾客体验与顾客忠诚关系的结构方程模型.通过实证研究,本文认为,网站的教育性、娱乐性、遁世性和美感对于创造良好的用户网站体验,并进而提升网站忠诚度有着十分显著的影响.     

新疆国有大中型企业改制与战略调整问题研究

本分析了新疆国有大中型企业改革的进程和存在的主要问题，并对国企改革应着力于进行规范的公司制改革、积极探索国有资产管理有效方式、对国有大中型企业进行战略调整等问题做了进一步探讨。     

UMTS in France and Europe: How to allocate the licenses?

The awarding of UMTS mobile licenses in France gave rise to a passionate debate as well as to a rather fluctuating history. A beauty contest with a predetermined price was preferred to an auction mechanism, as opposed to what was decided in most European countries, in particular United Kingdom and Germany where licences' prices reached very high levels. In France, only two candidates could be selected from a first tendering and a second one is now being organized in order to allocate the two remaining licences, after the Government has drastically lowered the price of all four licenses. The purpose of the present contribution is to show that auctions, although refused in France for the sake of "controlability" of the awarding procedure, are indeed an appropriate means of spectrum allocation for mobile services, provided that the mechanism is carefully designed and adapted to the context, which may differ according to the country. We first summarize the main lessons from the auctions theory and then discuss the compared efficiency of different mechanisms and their resistance to predation or collusion. On this basis, we finally analyse the actual process of UMTS auctions in various European countries and we tentatively propose a backward fictitious scenario for France.     

From 3G to 4G: technology evolution and path dynamics in China's mobile telecommunication sector

This paper adopts a standard-related lens on technology trajectory to analyse the mobile telecommunication technology choices beyond the third generation (3G) in one of the largest emerging countries. The attempt is made to model and map the technological evolution based on different standard platforms and through competing technologies under the globalised background. The interplay between different stakeholders behind different technological standards in China is examined. Whether and to what extent technological developments have respectively shaped the paths is also explored. We identify the key technological, commercial and institutional dynamics driving such technology evolution, and argue that large emerging countries can pursue their own policy agenda while dealing with the diverse interests of various stakeholders home and abroad. We also indicate that there remain some high uncertainties in terms of future technology trajectories under the emerging contexts.     

种植橡胶林对西双版纳热带雨林的影响及影响的消除

西双版纳是世界上生物多样性最丰富的地区之一.近年来,在各种原因的作用下,西双版纳的热带雨林正逐渐丧失.本文主要探讨了橡胶林对西双版纳地区热带雨林的影响,同时对如何减少或消除这种影响提出了一些观点.     

How to gain image and positioning on social media: Spanish agribusiness firm image and position on social media

ABSTRACT

The aim of this article is to obtain insights into how agribusiness firms can gain image recognition and positioning on SM and, in doing so, determine the images that can increase or diminish their positions on SM and predict the frequency of an image’s visibility on SM. This article uses data collected from a large number of Spanish agribusiness firms of the agrarian, agrifood and wine subsectors, located in rural peripheral areas or urban cores, to identify their images and positioning on social media. We use the Tagxedo digital tool to show the distinctive images of agribusiness firms on SM. Using the Howsociable digital tool and observing the SM key performance indicators (KPI), we measure the traffic and visibility of agribusiness firms on social media, and we find that a lot of agribusiness firms leave the potential of SM unused. The agribusiness firms upstream in the value chain and located in rural peripheral areas could take more advantages of SM visibility. We then create a model of image and positioning on SM using a binary logistic regression. We predict that more than two messages of sales per week on SM can diminish the visibility of agribusiness firm on SM.     

企业如何构建生态系统实现突破性创新？-----资源依赖与网络嵌入互动机制探析?

选取谷歌智能驾驶生态系统为案例研究对象,对突破性创新过程中的生态系统演化过程进行纵向案例分析,探讨企业如何构建生态系统实现突破性创新。研究发现:为了克服突破性技术研发期的高非平衡依赖和较弱的联合依赖,在知识物化阶段企业选择强结构嵌入、强关系嵌入以增强联合依赖;从知识物化阶段到商业化阶段,企业保持结构洞规模优势、增强系统成员异质性,并选择弱关系嵌入的方式降低两种依赖,实现突破性技术商业化。构建了企业"系统结构—资源\网络—突破性创新"的影响机制。     

How to pay for the war in times of imperfect commitment: Adam Smith and David Ricardo on the sinking fund

The paper proposes a comparative analysis of Smith's and Ricardo's views on the sinking fund. It shows that Smith and Ricardo agreed in stressing the ineffectiveness of the sinking fund as a policy instrument targeted at public debt repayment and tax-burden relief, pointing out that its actual workings had paradoxically helped to increase rather than reduce British total debt-load. Moreover, their explanation of the sinking fund paradox integrates a defective fiscal commitment technology with powerful politicians’ incentives to siphon off the money stored in the sinking fund to meet sudden increases of public expenditure whenever the occasion arose.     

The moderating effects of gender on customer satisfaction and continuance intention in mobile commerce: a UTAUT-based perspective

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study is to investigate the moderating effects of gender on proposed model relationships. In order to test the moderating effects of gender on the relationships of the model developed, multi-group SEM was applied. Performance expectancy was found to be the strongest predictor of satisfaction and comparative value was identified as the main driver of continuance intention. In addition, significant difference in attitudes between women and men were confirmed in the case of three out of ten effects. The originality of the study is its measurement of the moderating effects of gender on user satisfaction in relation to m-commerce and continuance intentions.     

High growth and low consumption in East Asia: How to improve welfare while avoiding financial failures

This paper analyzes certain policies that are typical of a number of rapidly growing East Asian countries in which a fixed exchange rate, combined with a surplus labor market, has made domestic assets relatively inexpensive, generating high rates of FDI as well as domestic capital formation. This “investment hunger” can lead to unanticipated declines in the returns to investment, and resulting financial insolvencies. Private consumption remains low and there are concerns that high savings rates cannot be sustained.We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model and apply it to a stylized Asian economy, loosely based upon China. We calibrate a benchmark equilibrium, and carry out various counterfactual simulations to analyze alternative policies, in particular tax cuts and exchange rate revaluations, as instruments in increasing private consumption while avoiding bank failures.     

如何实现经济增长的效率和公平双目标?——基于联立方程模型的研究

如何在保持经济快速增长的同时使收入差距得以缩小,实现效率与公平的双目标,是当前我国经济发展中急需解决的重要问题。文章在分析我国经济增长和收入差距关系内在机制的基础上,建立了一个同时考察经济增长和收入差距影响因素的联立方程模型。省级面板数据的估计结果表明,教育和非国有化既能促进经济增长,也有利于收入差距的缩小,并且该结果对于模型的不同设定具有稳健性。因此,增加教育投资,提高人力资本的存量水平,进一步促进非国有经济的发展,是实现我国经济发展的效率和公平双目标的有效途径。     

Enterprise restructuring and adjustment in the transition to market economy: lessons from the experience of Central and Eastern Europe

Some aspects of the process of enterprise restructuring and adjustment in the Central and Eastern European countries are analysed on the basis of evideance from recent empirical research on microeconomic performance in these transition economies. The paper outlines a stylized picture of some types of enterprise behaviour which occur in this period and highlights a number of issues related to the process of enterprise restructuring and adjustment such as the problem of micro budget constraints, the motivation for enterprise restructuring, the issues of corporate governance. Some of the current impediments to enterprise restructuring as well as some of the determinants of enterprise performance in the transition periód are also featured in the paper.     

What women want (their men to do): Housework and Satisfaction in Australian Households

The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Social norms about how much housework men and women should do are likely to influence couples’ housework allocation decisions and satisfaction. Using Australian data spanning 2001–14, this study employs a two-stage estimation procedure to examine how deviations from housework norms relate to couples’ satisfaction. The study finds that satisfaction is negatively affected by predicted housework time and that women’s satisfaction, but not men’s, is robustly affected by their partners’ residual housework time. When he exceeds housework norms, she is happier with housework allocations, but less happy in broader dimensions. The study suggests several reasons for the results, including that housework is more salient in women’s lives than in men’s, that housework generally is not a preferred activity, and that some degree of gender-norm conformity in regard to housework can positively affect women’s life satisfaction.     

Reforms to Schooling in the UK: A Review of Some Major Reforms and their Evaluation

Abstract. We aim to give a brief overview of some important reforms to the school system in the UK and existing evidence on their consequences. These reforms include a change in the type of secondary school open to pupils – from a selective to comprehensive system; a change in the examination system; quasi-market reforms; area-based initiatives; reforms to the content and structure of teaching; payments to encourage the pursuit of education beyond compulsory schooling.     

加强丽江市高端休闲度假旅游市场开发的研究

加强高端休闲度假旅游市场的开发,是当今主要旅游目的地改变旅游产品结构,提高旅游经济效益,促进旅游业可持续发展的重要方式之一.丽江市的旅游资源特色、社会人口结构和旅游业发展趋势决定了其加强高端休闲度假旅游市场开发成为必然;同时,丽江市也具有开发这一市场的资源基础、物质保障和市场潜力.因而,文中提出了七大对策与措施,通过利用优势旅游资源开发综合效益好的高端休闲度假旅游市场,为丽江市旅游业的可持续发展开辟新的道路.     

污染密集型产业集群如何实现升级——基于产业活动类型与生态系统耦合模式匹配视角

如何践行习近平总书记提出的“绿水青山就是金山银山”生态发展理念,实现污染密集型产业集群绿色和可持续发展,已成为中国制造业必须破解的发展难题。引入生态系统理论,遵循物质生产方式决定社会生产方式逻辑,探究产业活动类型与生态系统耦合模式（自由耦合、固定耦合、约束耦合和自适应耦合）匹配对污染密集型产业集群升级的作用机理。选取绍兴纺织印染产业集群为研究对象,采用特征偏离分析和案例分析两种方法进行实证检验。结果表明,产业活动类型与生态系统耦合模式的合适匹配对污染密集型产业集群升级有积极影响;对于高不确定性、低共享性产业活动,生态系统宜采用自由耦合模式,对于低不确定性、高共享性产业活动,宜采用固定耦合模式,对于中不确定性、中共享性产业活动,宜采用约束耦合模式。