Possibilities for critical management education and studies

This research note builds upon recent discussions in this journal in an exploration of different scenarios for the way that critical management education and studies can relate to mainstream management education and studies. It is argued that there is no choice but for there to be a relationship of some sort between the two, albeit of a complex sort. Three scenarios are envisaged. In one, the two approaches largely ignore each other and their relationship is left tacit and covert. In the second, there is an engagement between the two. In the third, critical approaches gain ascendancy and become the mainstream. Whilst fraught with difficulties, the conclusion is that the second scenario, that of engagement, is preferable.     

Management Women in the Corporate Workplace: Possibilities for the Year 2000

This article considers what corporations' attitudes toward women will be in the year 2000, and what women's attitudes toward corporations will be at that time. Women's current position in the workforce is characterized. Consideration is given to the direction today's workplace is taking as it transitions to the start of a new century. Based on current observations and trends, the article explores the needs and desires of the twenty-first century woman. Four major tools available to U.S. corporations preparing to enter the next century are discussed, including family issues, a commitment to innovation, training, and women's contributions to the management of transition.     

The Crisis of Economic Reform in the USSR and Possibilities for Change

What are the prospects for economic reform in the Soviet Union? Anatoly Chubais, of the Institute of Economics and Technology in Leningrad, explores the roads by which the Soviet economy can move from central planning to a market economy.     

关于水土保持监测抽样方法的思考

水土流失对环境会造成较大危害,相关部门需要对水土保持进行监测,为其提供相关信息,以保证能够为水土保持监测工作提供有效的决策。所以,在文章中,基于对水土保持监测概念、意义以及监测的对象和内容进行详细分析,主要研究水土保持监测抽样方法,为水土保持相关工作人员提供有效参考,促进监测执行工作的完善发展。     

Sampling frame coverage and domain adjustment procedures for internet surveys

The objective of this paper is to define and compare alternative sampling frames for the representative population coverage as a basis for sample selection in internet surveys. The study aims to provide a methodology for domain weighting and adjustment procedures for free access web surveys that are based on the restricted access surveys. Some basic variables can be proposed for the data adjustment, namely gender breakdown, age groups, and education groups. The application of our work consists of a first stage based on a web survey by an e-mail invitation (restricted access) and a second stage based on a voluntary participation web survey (free access). An advertising company’s registered customer list was taken as the sampling frame population for the first stage. This frame was an electronic e-mail list of the population of registered customers. Two different types of questionnaire were loaded on the company’s internet web site for a month each, for two independent rounds, for testing the visual aspects of the questionnaire design. The restricted access internet survey design relies on probability selection procedures in this study. These results are used with the provided algorithms for the adjustment procedures of free access web surveys. A new methodology is also proposed for the estimation and allocation of the population frame characteristics of adult internet users by gender and age groups. The proposed alternative methodologies will be beneficial tools for future web survey users.     

连续批计数抽样检验中的跳批抽样技术

文章介绍了跳批抽样的基本原理、适用范围、条件以及一般程序。文章主要对GB／T2828．3《计数抽样检验程序第3部分跳批抽样程序》技术内容进行了解读和介绍,帮助实际应用者正确运用跳批抽样程序,以达到预期目的。     

成败型产品一次抽样检验方案研究

一、引言 抽样检验是产品检验的最基本方式之一。对一次性使用的产品，我们无法整批逐个检验：其次。即使是非破坏性的检验。当产品批量很大时，用于检验的人力、物力、财力都很惊人，并且大量重复劳动容易引起人们的厌倦和疲劳．反而会造成漏检和误检。     

混合数据抽样波动模型

混合数据抽样(MIDAS)模型能处理不同频率变量间的动态关系。本文比较了MIDAS波动模型和ABDL模型,发现我国股市对数实现波动呈长期记忆性。在预测波动方面,ABDL模型优于MIDAS模型;利用MIDAS波动模型预测实现波动水平,日绝对值报酬是最好的回归项;利用MIDAS模型预测未来波动,至少应采用一个月的历史数据。     

Optimal Strategies in 2-Stage Sampling

In many survey situations simple random sampling of units and estimation of a total of interest by the expansion estimator are attractive methods, at least at first sight. Considering cost aspects suggests rather to use multiple stage sampling which, in general, is cheaper, but less effective. The design effect is an adequate criterion of the decrease of efficiency. We discuss this criterion for clusters (primary units) of equal size and derive exact conditions for a decrease of efficiency. The equality condition for cluster sizes seems not to be very restrictive, because in many cases one will be interested in clusters of approximately the same size, or, if sizes differ essentially, the clusters are partitioned into strata according to their sizes and the procedures for different strata are independent, each dealing with clusters of equal size or nearly so. In the context considered the use of the Horvitz–Thompson estimator is quite general. We examine a class of estimators with the Horvitz–Thompson estimator and a straight forward modification of it as special elements. As for the design effect all elements of the class are very similar, as for other aspects such as admissibility there are remarkable differences.     

A Destructive Sampling Method Designed for Outsourcing Situations Involving High Quality Production Processes

In outsourcing situations involving manufacturing and assembly, the sampling of units produced is important since in many situations not all of the units can be tested. Destructive sampling, which commonly occurs in the assembly and manufacturing industry, is a form of sampling where all units produced cannot be tested since the parts are destructively tested. In this situation, sampling techniques are used to determine if an entire lot should be accepted or rejected based on the sampling results. The traditional sampling techniques include single or classical sampling, double sampling, multiple sampling, skip-lot sampling, chain sampling and MIL-STD-105E. The purpose of this paper is to develop a sophisticated technique that monitors quality at a lower cost than traditional methods yet has similar monitoring characteristics in situations where quality is high and tests are destructive. The proposed technique, Destructive Sampling Method for High Quality production processes (DSM-HQ), is based on a cost function, which balances the costs of sampling versus the costs of finding a defect on the field. DSM-HQ assumes to have a Poisson process defect pattern and uses an Empirical Bayesian analysis to allow the researcher to include prior knowledge.     

Detecting Untruthful Answering in Randomized Response Sampling

This paper considers the problem of unbiasedly estimating the population proportion when the study variable is potential sensitive in nature. In order to protect the respondent’s privacy, various techniques of generating randomized response rather than direct response are available in the literature. But the theory concerning them is developed only under the hypothesis of completely truthful reporting. Actually, the occurrence of untruthful reporting is a prospect in dealing with highly sensitive matters such as abortion or socially deviant behaviors. Illustrating Warner’s [(1965), Journal of the American Statistical Association. 60: 63–69] randomized response technique we show how unbiased estimation of the population proportion can be extended to cover a case when some respondents may lie.     

低压电线质量抽检产品评价方案

本文主要针对BV、BLV/BVV、BLVV 450/750V系列单芯低压电线产品进行质量抽检,旨在明确BV、BLV/BVV、BLVV 450/750V系列低压电线排序方法,强化电线产品质量控制,以确保电力系统正常运行。     

抽检国标路线图

本文将16个抽检国标,主要基于计数与计量、孤立与连续的分类,归纳成便于检索的路线图。对类似抽检问题,比较了众多不同抽检国标的方案,并举例说明百分比抽检不合理。     

入厂汽车煤机械化采样装置优化改造

针对公司入厂汽车煤机械化采样装置运行使用中存在的问题,通过对该装置软硬件优化改造,既提高了设备可靠性,确保入厂汽车煤机械化采样装置投入率98%,又在设备安全及运行方式等方面对系统进一步完善,为公司标煤单价和热值差控制,商品煤交易的公平、公正,提供技术保证。     

单侧限“s”法抽样方案的设计（以均值为质量指标）

文章依据统计量的标准化理论,利用中心t分布给出了单侧限“s”法的抽样方案。它是对国家标准GB／T 8054—2008中表3的改进。     

A Flexible,Globally Regular Representation of Convex Production Possibilities Frontiers

This note describes how a convex N-input-M -output production possibility frontier can be locally approximated by means of a flexible Nonseparable Nested Constant-Elasticity-of-Substitution/Constant-Elasticity-of-Transformation (NNCES-CET) restricted profit function. This technique yields a summary representation of technology sets that is globally regular and thus suitable for use in applications where regularity is crucial.