供应链管理及其信息系统的构建

供应链管理是当代市场竞争环境下出现的一种先进的管理理念与管理方法，本文介绍了供应链管理的产生背景，分析了供应链管理的原理与特点，并提出了供应链管理信息系统的构建思路。     

VMI在虚拟企业供应链管理中的应用

VMI作为一种新的供应链管理方法，在优化供应链效果方面是十分显著的。通过分析虚拟企业供应链管理的特点，建立了虚拟企业应用VMI管理的模型。而且，分析了VMI系统的核心运作模式，提出了虚拟企业中如何对VMI系统进行管理。     

供应链成本管理新模式分析

从供应链成本组成入手，结合供应链成本管理的特点，介绍了成本预算管理和无形成本动因分析两种新的供应链成本管理模式。     

共应链管理的内部竞争优化研究

本文对供应链及供应链管理的概念、供应链管理的发展趋势的研究表明，对供应链管理的深入研究应该以供应链的内部竞争优化为基础，应该考虑在供应链相同节点上引入企业竞争的策略，而竞争劣势节点企业的三种策略选择对供应链管理提出了新的控制要求。文内分析了竞争劣势节点企业的退出策略，同时阐述了多个相关供应链策略和供应链内部竞争策略的形成原因和控制措施。     

生产企业供应链关系与跨组织成本管理方法选择

供应链成本管理是一种基于供销合约的跨组织成本管理，与传统的企业内部成本管理存在较大的差别，其成功运作的前提是建立良好的供应链关系。本文分析了生产企业供应链关系的类别、影响因素及管理策略，建立了较完整的供应链跨组织成本管理方法体系，可作为供应链企业进行成本控制的参考。     

供应链管理下库存控制的研究现状分析

供应链管理环境下的库存控制问题是供应链管理的重要内容。本文首先分析了供应链管理下的库存控制存在的问题，并且讨论了传统库存控制方法的不足，最后提出了国内外比较先进的对供应链库存的横向、纵横、整体等四种控制模式。     

供应链建模分析

供应链管理作为一种全新的管理模式，已经得到理论界和企业界的广泛关注，本文在分析供应链管理的基础上，提出“一流二网三关系”供应链建模思想，并对供应链建模的混合整数规划和统一优化方法论作了阐述，为供应链的建模提供较为实用的方法。     

从交易成本的角度分析供应链管理

供应链管理是20世纪80年代后期形成的一种新型的集成的管理思想和方法。本文从交易成本的角度分析了供应链管理的经济学基础，指出供应链管理是企业对当今环境积极应变的有效经营战略。     

制造企业集团供应链管理的基本模式研究

从分析企业集团供应链管理的特殊性入手，提出企业集团供应链管理的3种基本模式，分析不同模式的特点及适应条件。     

电子供应链管理中信息共享问题探析

信息共享是电子供应链管理的一个关键因素。本文首先引入了电子供应链管理中信息共享的问题，然后对信息共享的范围进行了界定，在此基础上分析了电子供应链中信息共享的3种模式，并由此提出了有效实施信息共享的对策。     

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.     

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。     

浅谈大体积混凝土裂缝的控制

大体积混凝土的裂缝问题是实际工程中长期困扰工程技术人员的问题,其控制技术的研究是混凝土结构研究的热点问题,具有重大的学术价值和潜伏的工程背景。     

Supply Chain Strategies in the UK Fashion Industry—The Rhetoric of Partnership and Realities of Power

This paper focuses on the fashion industry, one characterised by issues such as dramatic shifts in the scale and power of major retail buyers in the market, the advent of retailer own brands, and the nature of sourcing and supply chain decisions, issues that are increasingly global in nature. The aim of this research is to explore the nature of relationships between UK high street multiple fashion retailers and their contracted suppliers, many of whom are entrepreneurial firms by most definitions of the term. Four core themes emerge from the literature and provide a framework for the research, namely, power, process, partnership, and people. The research approach was qualitative, and conducted over a period of twelve months. The paper ends with an agenda for future research.