Isabella Beeton: Management as "Everything in its Place"

This article describes the precepts set out in one of the most successful books on management ever written, Mrs Beeton's 'Book of Household Management'. It then uses her work to throw light on two modern management debates: the relationship between strategic and operations management; and order/bureaucracy as against adaptability/chaos.     

Putting the learning curve in context

In implementation of change, people learn new ways of doing things, develop new skills, and adopt new organizational routines. This paper applies learning curve theory to implementation by developing a system dynamics model that includes two extensions to classic learning curve theory. First, the model includes a required output level for the individual. Second, the model includes a budget constraint on time that forces a choice between an old and a new way to achieve the output. Doing work the new way builds experience, increasing productivity and thus favoring continued use of the new skill, but model analysis demonstrates that this reinforcing process works to favor the new skill only at relatively high levels of productivity. Otherwise, the same process is a vicious cycle, driving out the new skill. The model exhibits a mode of behavior in which learning begins and then stalls and another mode in which the new skill becomes the preferred one. The paper identifies the tipping point between these two modes and characterizes the transition problem: Learning by doing is a dynamic process, a transition from use of an old way to a new way that requires accumulating experience beyond a threshold.     

中小企业公司治理的现状与对策

我国中小企业是以非公有制经济为主体,多种经济形式并存的一个庞大的企业群。改革开放30年来,我国中小企业得到迅猛发展,成为我国经济持续快速增长的强大动力。然而,中国正式加入WTO后,境外企业的资本、管理、人才等纷涌而至,这无疑使实力相对薄弱的中小企业面临更为严峻的考验。另外,由于历史原因,中小企业在治理机制方面本来就存在诸多需要加以完善的问题。因此,完善中小企业的公司治理尤显重要。     

我国保险保障基金公司监管权的配置与行使

本文首先探讨保险保障基金公司应该配置恰当监管权的理论依据和实践基础;并采用比较分析法借鉴其他国家的成功经验,进而界定我国保险保障基金公司应配置监管权的具体内容。最后提出,我国保险保障基金公司为了有效行使监管权所需的基础工作,包括:1)明确并完善与中国保监会等相关部门之间的监管协调机制和信息共享机制;2)建立相对独立的保险监管信息系统和危机预警指标体系;3)落实对重大风险的实时监测制度。     

Putting American Pragmatism to Work in the Classroom

The pragmatic inquiry process used in the Corporantes Pathfinder Notebook (CPN) enables students and others to discern their gifts, find purpose and direction in their lives, and seek a FIT between their values and various corporate cultures before making extensive commitments in their field of studies and their employment. Based on Peirce's theory of Pragmatism the CPN fosters investigation, interpretation, and action resulting from reflected narratives written in response to a series of questions in the CPN. The CPN was used successfully as a framework in a Business Ethics course for connecting career decisions to their personal lives. Other pedagogic activities were used such as case studies, role playing, service learning, team projects investigating ethical climates of corporations, as well as Socratic questioning and discussions of moral dilemmas to develop ethical sensitivity and understanding of ethical challenges and decisions. The CPN also has been used successfully by senior executives in over fifty applications.     

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War and the Corporation

Recent events have confirmed human society's commitment to building the social institutions needed for peace. It is becoming clear that these institutions will have to include business corporations.     

Place marketing in Europe

European regions increasingly compete to attract and retain residents, entrepreneurs and visitors. As the location choice of people is based more and more on such soft factors as an area’s image, most regions apply a strategy of “place marketing”. In this context, the Scandinavian Euregion of the Oresund is often highlighted as “best practice”. How should we assess the marketing of Europe’s regions and what can be learned from the case of the Oresund?     

Simulating the Global Market Place

This review discusses one simulation that has potential value as an aid in teaching international business: The Management ofStrategy in a Global Market Place. The review describes the flow of decisions in the simulation, the interaction of the environment with the decision variables, and discusses both computer aspects -and associated role play. Student evaluations of an earlier version are presented and a comparison made to another new simulation, Export To Win!     

论跨国公司FDI中基于垄断优势的并购及其效应——兼评邓宁的OLI范式

在邓宁OLI范式的基础上,对于跨国公司的三种优势而言,垄断优势(所有权优势)是决定其FDI最根本的因素;在动态的国际经营环境中,跨国公司将通过跨国并购的方式维持既有优势和创造新的垄断优势。FDI的这种新趋势,其直接效应就是跨国公司在世界范围内形成对诸多产业的产业控制,使发展中国家面临着新的更多的挑战。     

Putting Quality First in Ideation Research

Teams use ideation techniques such as brainstorming to generate alternatives in response to a crisis or opportunity with the goal of converging on a few high-quality ideas. Ideation research, however, tends to focus on developing techniques that generate a large quantity of ideas, sometimes giving little attention to the cognitive mechanisms that give rise to good-quality ideas, or to the validity of the metrics by which ideation quality is measured . This study examines a theoretical link between idea quality and quantity in the ideation literature using Bounded Ideation Theory (BIT). BIT proposes that the relationship between participant ability and ideation quality is moderated by cognitive factors such as scarcity of attention resources, mental and physical exhaustion, understanding of the problem, and goal congruence, as well as attributes of the problem being addressed. Ideation quality is measured in the literature using a number of approaches which diverge to differing research conclusions, even when applied to the same data set. We use a Monte Carlo simulation to demonstrate conditions under which some of these measures exhibit a bias. We present theoretical and methodological arguments to support our call for future ideation research to shift its focus from quantity to quality by focusing on the cognitive factors that influence ideation quality and using unbiased measures of ideation quality.     

骆驼公司 一种与VC倡导的理念截然相反的成功方式

它们置身于被VC绑架的商业世界之外,奉行强大而自成一统的生存逻辑。它们是反周期生存的样板,犹如沙漠中行走的骆驼,持久、缓慢、稳健。昔日狂飙的悍马被远远甩在身后。     

Putting ethics into investment

The article sets out to consider the practice of ethical investment in the light of some basic principles of moral philosophy. After establishing some principles which have been applied to individual or social conduct, it reviews the application of ethics to business, and the precedents established for investment. Because of the links between ethical investment and single‐issue campaigning, there is a detailed consideration of the relationship between campaigning groups and the issues they are concerned with on the one hand, and ethical investment on the other. The conclusion is reached that ethical investment is as much a process as a series of specific aims, and that a diversified ethical fund must consider matters in the round, within the scope of current knowledge, and must avoid an absolutist agenda.     

对我国企业融资结构与间接融资模式发展的探讨

本文考察了改革开放以来我国企业间接融资体制变迁的历史过程,分析了企业间接融资体制中存在的问题,得出结论:间接融资体制安排属于整个金融制度变迁中的有机组成部分,遵循其内在一致的演进逻辑.无论企业间接融资体制如何演进,现有的金融垄断性的间接融资制度安排都将沿着有利于提高整个社会的储蓄动员水平的轨迹变迁,有利于国家实施转轨时期的金融支持,稳定体制内的经济增长和促进体制外的经济增长.     

Building a Trust Model in the Online Market Place

ABSTRACT

If demand is not sufficient, a business will not be viable. This basic fact of business survival is intimately related to one of the most popular analytical approach for evaluating the profitability potential of a business, Porter's “Five Forces” model. Locating an online niche that is in sufficient demand to generate adequate revenues and profits is a challenging, but not an impossible, task. The Internet has the unparalleled ability to produce information trails that allow the user to measure the supply and demand for keywords used in online searches, and software has been designed to facilitate the location of potentially profitable niches. This paper provides an overview of this software along with associated strengths and weaknesses, shows examples of the output generated by leading keyword research software (KRS), and provides an extensive listing of KRS vendors and a summary of the capabilities of their products.     

体育企业物流化管理初探

体育具有强大的功能,如何把体育的价值和功能应用到企业具有很强的现实意义。本文在前人研究的基础上重新完善了企业体育的相关理论,包括:企业体育的定义,特征,功能等,并健全了企业体育组织结构,完善了企业体育的实施途径。     

新《公司法》的反思

2005年修改通过的新《公司法》,是一个符合我国实际较为成熟的法律文本。但反思新《公司法》,还存在一些明显的缺陷:因法定准用制不周延而导致的结构性失衡,应予以调整;对中小企业关注不够,有限责任公司应更凸显自治和简化;一人公司的过度规制易导致逆向选择,且在适用法人格否认制度上存在实际的困难,其各项制度价值的平衡还需要继续探讨;法人格否认制度的移植过于超前,应更重视建立滥用公司法人格的积极防御机制等。