保险监管：惊变

近年来，伴随保险业的高速发展，新的问题也在不断涌现：误导客户、违规退费、私设账外账、违规建立经营机构、保险资金违规运用等等，保险市场经营主体的种种违法、违规行为严重损害了行业的整体信誉；一方面要解决市场现存的问题，另一面要加快促进行业的发展，作为保险业的主要监管部门，保险监管面临新的挑战。于是，调整监管重心、转变监管思路和方式，中国保监会从自身做起，坚定不移地走上了转型之路。     

房地产中介的春天还会远吗？

据悉,深圳正着手开展对房地产中介的专项整治工作。本次专项整治将针对房地产经纪交易的各个环节进行全面清理,对有群众投诉或举报的经纪机构及经纪人员的违法违规行为进行重点检查。重点查处未取得《深圳市房地产经纪机构备案证书》的经纪机构;未取得《房地产经纪人资格证》的从业人员;诱骗客户私自监管交易资金;挪用客户资金等经纪机构及其从业人员违法违规行为,并选择部分违法违规典型案例予以曝光。北京怎么样了？人们众说纷纭。     

房产中介机构违法违规行为查处及应对策略——以江苏省为例

目前我国房产中介机构违法违规行为频现,房产交易市场乱象丛生。以江苏省13个地级市为对象,对房产中介机构的违法违规行为进行调查研究。结果发现,房产中介机构违法违规现象比较突出,主要表现为不备案、不透明、吃差价、乱收费等行为。其主要原因是,从业门槛低、违法成本小、佣金不规范、监管不到位;发现线索难、调查取证难、定性处罚难以...     

畏惧抑或漠视:违规处罚与公司盈余质量

文章选取2008—2018年受到违规处罚的中国A股上市公司作为研究样本,考察违规处罚对上市公司盈余质量的影响及其作用机制.研究发现违规处罚显著提升了上市公司盈余质量,可以通过资本市场惩戒和外部审计监督达到政府治理的效应.进一步异质性检验说明,违规处罚在内部控制质量高、行业竞争激烈的企业中治理效果更为显著.研究表明违规处罚对上市公司盈余操纵具有抑制作用,这对监管机构进一步发挥监管处罚的治理效应具有一定的政策启示.     

违法违规事件公告的信息传递效应研究

本文通过研究上市公司违法违规事件公告对行业内其他公司产生的影响来揭示违法违规事件公告的信息传递效应。以交易所披露的违法违规事件公告为样本,将公告公司行业内其他公司股票构建为投资组合,通过该投资组合的累积非正常收益来衡量违法违规事件公告的行业传递效应。结果发现,违法违规事件公告对行业内其他公司的影响是正面的,而且公告的披露存在内幕效应,细分后的违法违规公告引起的市场反应各异。     

基于博弈视角的证券市场监管方式改进研究

监管行为和违规行为是证券市场中的一对矛盾体,两者互相博弈。本文通过建立证券市场中监管行为与违规行为的博弈模型,分别得出纯策略纳什均衡和混合策略纳什均衡。结果表明:均衡点与监管成本、违规行为处罚力度和违规收益等因素有关。最后提出了规范我国证券市场发展的若干政策建议。     

防微杜渐：供应商企业应对核心客户财务风险传染策略研究

财务风险的集聚和传染是引发系统性金融风险的潜藏路径,如何在供应链条上识别和防控财务风险的传染对防范化解系统性金融危机具有重要意义。基于2010—2020年A股上市公司构建的“客户-供应商-年度”样本,深入考察核心客户财务风险对供应商的传染效应以及供应商采取的应对策略。研究结果表明：(1)核心客户的财务风险会传染到其供应商企业,供应商采取公司治理提升策略和信息披露质量改善策略能有效应对风险传染。(2)财务风险传染机制识别发现,利益联动效应和资源联动效应是核心客户财务风险传染到供应商的可能路径。(3)异质性分析发现,当行业环境动态性越高和供应链经营波动性越强时,核心客户财务风险对供应商企业的传染效应越显著,而供应商通过公司治理提升策略和信息质量改善策略对核心客户财务风险传染的应对效果更为显著。     

供应商产权性质影响企业和客户商业信用谈判能力吗? ——基于供应链三元关系视角

在供应链网络中,企业与客户之间商业信用谈判不仅要受交易双方的影响,还要受第三方供应商的影响.民营企业相对于国有客户商业信用谈判能力较低,但是民营企业拥有国有供应商可以提升企业谈判能力,客户为了利用中间企业建立与国有供应商的联系,会减少对企业的商业信用侵占,并且供应商和客户处于差异化行业时,该优质供应商作为一项资源对企业谈判能力提升作用越大,促进供应链联盟.企业应更好地利用多方供应链资源来相互制衡,减少供应链中的三角债,促进供应链以及行业健康发展.     

违规处罚能有效抑制审计意见购买行为吗

以2011—2019年被监管机构稽查出违规行为的企业为样本,运用Lennox(2000)的审计意见购买模型,检验行政处罚是否能有效抑制审计意见购买行为,以及究竟是哪种行政处罚模式更能有效抑制审计意见购买行为.研究发现:监管机构的行政处罚确实抑制了企业的审计意见购买行为;非财产罚处罚模式可以显著抑制企业的审计意见购买行为,而财产罚处罚模式对遏制企业的审计意见购买行为没有发挥显著效力.这可能是由于监管机构进行"罚款"或"没收非法所得"的金额过小,处罚力度过低,不足以对违规公司产生威慑效应.本研究拓宽了审计意见购买行为影响因素的研究,同时为优化监管机构的治理效果提供了相关的参考和建议.     

供应链关系对银行借款的影响机制研究——商业信用的中介作用和行业环境的调节效应

党的十九届五中全会提出要提升产业链和供应链现代化水平,组织实施产业链与金融业深度融合,增强供应链的弹性和韧性。本文以2009-2019年所有A股上市公司为研究对象,通过中介效应检验,分析供应链关系对银行借款的影响机制。研究发现,供应商集中度越高,银行借款规模就越大,且从供应商获得的商业信用净额在其中发挥中介传导效应;客户集中度越高,银行借款规模就越大,且向客户提供的商业信用净额在其中发挥中介传导效应。进一步以行业环境为调节变量,研究发现,所处行业成长性高、竞争激烈时,企业的供应商集中度、客户集中度与银行借款规模的显著性均更强。研究结论揭示和验证了供应链关系影响企业银行借款的内在机制,为企业加强供应链关系管理提供了理论依据。     

Development in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics

This paper outlines the ICT statistical developments that the ABS has undertaken over recent years. These developments have been on both the supply side (ICT industry) and the demand side (use of IT by sector). The content of ABS ICT surveys has changed significantly over the last few years and are expected to develop further in line with industry changes and emerging policy needs.
Recent developments in household collections have been the inclusion of IT use questions in the 2001 Census of Population and Housing and in various ABS social surveys such as Children's Participation in Culture and Leisure Activities. Annual business IT use surveys are now conducted and include topics such as Internet commerce and IT security. Biennial ICT industry surveys are conducted to provide data on ICT production, imports and exports, ICT industry employment, performance and structure information. An Internet activity survey is run every six months and provides regional Internet access details and infrastructure details on Internet service providers.
A major development for 2002–03 will be the compilation of an ICT satellite account. ABS intends to produce an ICT Information Development Plan to guide its future statistical development work in the ICT field.     

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis

Several US counties and local governments have recently considered a novel solution to the foreclosure crisis. They plan to use eminent domain to compel the owners of mortgage debt—and specifically of private‐label mortgage‐backed securities—to sell the debt to the government at a price reflecting the loan's market value. The government would then restructure the debt and resell it to new investors. The plans are striking because—in contrast to both development‐driven eminent domain and the federal subprime bank bailout—they would force investors to assume asset devaluation and increased long‐term risk. Notably, the plans have emerged as an instance of financialization‐focused politics in suburbs and suburban cities of color, specifically majority‐black and ‐Latino/a suburbs. Local support for the plans, we argue, is rooted in the long‐term disinvestment of these ‘suburbs of exception', which became targets of subprime lending and eventually sites where the ‘financial exception' has been localized. But these demographic shifts, fragmentation and fiscal pressures have at the same time created a suburban political terrain in which the plans have gained their strongest political support.     

Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization

Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role in the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the importance of serendipity and identified important individual- and organizational-level antecedents. However, the literature has been dispersed and the boundaries of the concept have been blurry, leading to a lack of conceptual clarity and structure, and thus limiting validity and managerial actionability. Based on a systematic literature review, I synthesize existing management-related research on serendipity and explicate the emergence and composition of serendipity in the organizational context. I first identify three necessary conditions that differentiate serendipity from related concepts such as luck or targeted innovation: agency, surprise, and value. Then, I draw from the literature on sensemaking, event-based theorizing, and quantum-based approaches to management to conceptualize the process of cultivating serendipity in the organizational context as a process of enabling potentiality and materialization, and develop a multi-level theory of (cultivating) serendipity. This conceptualization contributes to our collective understanding of how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) organizations can leverage the value in the unexpected, which opens up fruitful avenues for further research.     

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh A critical overview

NGOs in Bangladesh have been recognized as effective change agents in the socio-economic arena throughout the world. Their contributions in micro credit, non-formal education and primary health care are widely known. NGOs play a significant role in society. NGO accountability, as a result, has become a critical issue. NGO accountability in Bangladesh has been examined here in relation to patrons, clients and themselves. Of the three relationships only accountability to patrons is in a near satisfactory state. Accountability to clients is handicapped by lack of opportunities of beneficiaries to participate meaningfully in NGO policy making. Accountability to themselves is adversely affected due to the adherence to a strictly hierarchical system and the influence of founding and charismatic NGO leaders.     

Towards an Asian model of human resource management? A comparative analysis of China,Japan and South Korea

There has been much discussion regarding the possible decline and weakening of national systems of human resource management (HRM). Yet, culture and institutions are often cited as the major stumbling blocks to this outcome. Such constraints may dissipate in the analysis, particularly if ‘regional clusters’ are considered where geographic and cultural closeness and ‘openness’ to similar economic pressures exist. In such cases, it might be postulated that convergence in HRM will occur. We argue that China, Japan and South Korea represent such a cluster. This article examines these countries, to see if a degree of convergence is taking place and if it is towards an identifiable ‘Asian’ model of HRM. A model of change is presented that distinguishes between levels of occurrence and acceptance. Details of the development and practice of HRM in each country are then set out. The article ends with a discussion and implications section and a brief conclusion.     

Ansätze und Ergebnisse anglo-amerikanischer M&A-Forschung

Based on a review of established U.S. management journals (1995–2003), six schools of thought are identified within the Anglo-American M&;A research: “Capital Market”, “Principal/Agent”, “Industrial Organization”, “Organizational Behavior”, “Human Resources” and “Strategic Management”. The literature review shows that the definition of M&;A success, the methods applied, and insights from empirical research differ according to the respective school of thought. Empirical studies focus on the resource combinations of merger partners, the specific circumstances of merger negotiations, and on integration management as antecedents of merger performance. Unfortunately, empirical findings have not yet provided reliable explanations for M&;A success. Based on the current state of Anglo-American M&;A research, the authors discuss implications for business practice, identify research gaps, and propose areas for future research.     

Introduction of New Technology with a Sound Transition of the Input-Output Structure

We examine the general equilibrium repercussions associated with the introduction of new technologies, using the generalized Leontief system that allows technological substitutions. We show that an untested introduction of cost-increasing technologies in any industry may result in creating a non-productive technological structure that does not satisfy the Hawkins-Simon condition, following the autonomous dynamic adjustment process with structural transitions in the economic system. Therefore, we propose a practicable control scheme of introducing cost-increasing technologies that strictly avoids the creation of non-productive structures in all periods of structural transition, using the available information on the ex ante technological structure.     

The Creation of the Office for National Statistics

A new Office for National Statistics was created in the United Kingdom in 1996 following a series of developments designed to strengthen the relevance and integrity of statistics. This paper describes these fundamental changes and sets out a blueprint for future progress. It also sets current developments in the United Kingdom in an historical and international context.     

What helps? Women engineers' accounts of staying on

We have considerable understanding of the obstacles that women engineers encounter and the reasons that they leave the field, but we know less about what enables them to remain. Adopting an interpretivist approach, this article examines how a group of British women engineers in two FTSE 100 companies account for “staying on” in their male‐dominated work settings. We delineate four specific forms of help that facilitate women's retention in the field. We argue that exposure to help leads to women developing a habitus that enables them to continue working in engineering. To conclude, we draw on our findings to outline HR practices that will facilitate supportive relationships in the workplace and pave the way towards developing more positive organisational climates.     

论现代物流企业的发展观

物流业经过诸多年的发展目前已经成为最热门的行业之一,物流企业的注册数量也与日俱增,达到前所未有的规模。毋庸置疑,任何企业都希望自己迅速做强做大,并成为真正现代物流企业的典型代表,要实现这一目标一个首要问题就是要解决现代物流企业的发展观问题。