托盘企业如何应对金融危机——第三届中国托盘国际会议侧记

当前,金融危机席卷全球,实体经济受到的冲击日趋严重.中国物流业发展受到较大影响,物流装备行业也不可避免受到冲击,增长速度下降.在这一背景下,中国托盘行业受到的影响有多大?     

How far can changes in general business activity be forecasted?

An F test [Nelson (1976)] of Parzen's prediction variance horizon [Parzen (1982)] of an ARMA model yields the number of steps ahead that forecasts contain information (short memory). A special 10 year pattern in Finnish GDP is introduced as a ‘seasonal’ in an ARMA-model. Forecasts three years ahead are statistically informative but exploiting the complete 10 year pattern raises doubts both about model memory and model validity.     

完善我国中小企业融资环境的思考

文章指出我国政府对中小企业的重视程度日趋增强,已陆续出台了一系列扶持中小企业发展的措施,但是目前我国中小企业融资难的问题并没有从根本上解决,资金缺乏仍旧是制约我国中小企业进一步发展的首要问题,其重要原因是我国中小企业融资的法律、政策、中小企业信用担保体系和其自身的组织管理体系仍不完善,且缺乏相应的融资社会服务体系,所以,当前加紧建立和完善我国中小企业融资环境已迫在眉睫。     

How supply chain strategies moderate the relationship between innovation capabilities and business performance

The purpose of this paper is to study how the fit between innovation capabilities and supply chain (SC) strategies affects business performance. An empirical study based on a sample of 329 companies from Portugal and Brazil was performed to test a theoretical model based on the resource-based view. Linear and hierarchical regression analyses are conducted to test the hypotheses. The different combinations of core and supplementary innovation capabilities and lean and agile SC strategies are empirically tested and discussed. Data reveal that core and supplementary innovation capabilities positively impact on business performance and that SC strategies moderate the relationship between innovation capabilities and business performance. The analysis also shows that the combination of an agile SC strategy and supplementary innovation capabilities offers the greatest opportunities to improve business performance. The results of this study could help managers to choose the most appropriate SC strategy, thus contributing to increasing the impact of innovation capabilities on business performance. This study contributes to the knowledge concerning the consequences of adopting different innovation capabilities and SC strategies on business performance.     

How knowledge heterogeneity influences business model design: mediating effects of strategic learning and bricolage

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal - Embedded and dispersed heterogeneous knowledge are the wealth of firms to design a unique business model, simultaneously avoid the high cost...     

企事业在办公管理中如何适应和运用电子技术

随着科技日新月异的迅猛发展,电子技术在企业办公管理中的运用己展示出其强大的优势和生命力,文章对如何解决电子技术应用中出现的新问题,及如何将新技术与传统的方法有机结合,在企业办公管理中,尽快适应并最大限度开发利用电子技术新成果,从而将其效益发挥到极致,做了较为详细的论述。     

我国零售业如何应对零售市场全面开放后的冲击

随着我国入世后过渡期的结束,我国的零售市场全面开放,国外零售企业加速了在我国扩张的脚步,我国零售业面临着更为激烈的竞争.本文通过系统分析我国零售业的优势与劣势,针对发展中存在的问题,提出了我国零售业提高自身综合竞争实力的对策.     

From circular business models to circular business ecosystems

The circular economy aims to minimize resource inputs and waste and emission outputs of the economy and its organizational subsystems. This can benefit both financial and sustainability performance of companies. To analyze industrial implementation of the concept, the prevalent unit of analysis on the firm level is currently the circular business model. Our investigation of nine Swedish biogas companies and one branch organization indicates a range of conceptual shortcomings that challenges this approach. Our comparative case analysis points towards circular ecosystems being a more appropriate concept to describe the high level of coordination between different stakeholders necessary to implement circular systems. This increases the suitability to analyze, plan, and communicate circular economy systems on an organizational level, especially if value chain integration is low. An ecosystem perspective can thus support innovation and entrepreneurship in the context of the circular economy.     

商业视窗

印度兴起海归潮;中国的能源危机;微软是如何“汉化”的？中国缘何没有真正的创新？     

Why politics needs marketing

This paper examines the survey evidence for the low standing of politics, politicians and political institutions in the mind of the British public, and discusses its consequences. Present public opinion about political parties in Britain, and about politicians in general, is predominantly negative. Politicians are distrusted, to a considerably greater extent than can be explained solely by their bad press. Nor is the public very familiar with politicians or political institutions. Yet it can be shown that in general (and not only in the political field) ‘familiarity breeds favourability, not contempt’. This may be feeding through into hostility towards the entire sector—not only the strictly ‘political’, but other institutions such as public services which the public associates with politics or government. Copyright © 2003 Henry Stewart Publications     

Variable pricing business solutions in a decomposed business environment

Evolving business models and technology advances have facilitated the creation of innovative pricing strategies. Variable pricing represents the ability to configure a pricing schedule from a set of pricing options such as fixed cost, usage, shared benefit, and performance. The objective of variable pricing is to improve a pricing schedule for the mutual benefits of the provider and consumer, based on an evaluation of criteria that results in the setting of a price as a function of the expected value to be derived, as well as the time and materials used. In this paper, we focus on the variable pricing of ‘business solutions’, which is abstractly defined as the capabilities that enable or add value to the purposes of an enterprise. In a decomposed business environment, the structure of a business is partitioned into discrete business components that are assigned specific purposes and are endowed with resources to meet them. Business components interact to achieve business goals, and do so by exposing their capabilities through business services they offer. Business services have suitable levels of granularity offering constituent units of function, which, when selectively chosen and composed, form business solutions. We assert that business services are also suitable units for variable pricing, the implication being that pricing for a given business solution is an evaluation of the variable pricing of its assemblage of business services. The benefits of this ‘variable price composition’ approach offer greater accuracy for the pricing plan, coupled with increased flexibility to compose, modify, calculate and articulate pricing for business solutions.     

华人经营之神的三个创业角度

1917年,台湾台北县一个贫寒茶农之家出生了一个小孩,他就是王永庆,今天被誉为华人经营之神、"主宰台湾的第一大企业家"的台塑集团董事长.王永庆自小就体会到贫穷的悲哀,内心殊多感触.小学毕业后,他到嘉义当米店的小工,而后创办小米店、碾米厂、砖厂、木材厂、台塑集团等,如今名列台湾首富.王永庆是怎样取得辉煌的呢?他最近的自述,有助于我们对他作一个深入的了解.下面是他所说的几个精彩人生片断.     

Kinship and business: how entrepreneurial households facilitate business growth

Building on studies that have stressed the importance of context and the role of the family in business growth, this study explores the role of the entrepreneurial household in the process of business development and growth. We seek to understand how household strategy influences the development of new businesses, the ways in which household characteristics and dynamics influence business growth strategy decisions and how business portfolios are managed and developed by the household. To examine these questions, comparative case studies were undertaken drawing data from four entrepreneurial households located in remote rural regions of Norway and Scotland. The data reveal the role of the entrepreneurial household in the evolution of business creation and growth, examining the processual aspects of entrepreneurial growth, the interactions between business activities and entrepreneurial households and how business portfolios are developed in practice. Three analytical themes emerged from the analyses: the tightly interwoven connections between the business and the household, the use of family and kinship relations as a business resource base and how households mitigate risk and uncertainty through self-imposed growth controls. Although previous studies have viewed entrepreneurial growth largely as an outcome of personal ambition and business strategy, these results reveal the importance of the entrepreneurial household and the household strategy in determining business growth activities.