摩托车企业即将迎来“出国热”

我国是世界摩托车生产第一大国,占据全球产量的半壁江山,出口市场覆盖180多个国家和地区。     

Fewer TV Makers Interesting in Price Wars

In May 2002, Changhong became the first Chinese firm to cut the higher end market share with its precision projection TVs. This prompted a chain reaction by other Chinese electronic companies. In just two months, TCL and Skyworth spearheaded into the market with super low RMB29800 PDP color TVs. These moves marked a mile stone for China's manufacturers in making their ways to the higher end market. TCL and Skyworth have since taken hold their position as two major     

Assessing Arms Makers’ Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a focal point for research aimed at extending business ethics to extra-corporate issues; and as a result many companies now seek to at least appear dedicated to one or another version of CSR. This has not affected the arms industry, however. For, this industry has not been discussed in CSR literature, perhaps because few CSR scholars have questioned this industry’s privileged status as an instrument of national sovereignty. But major changes in the organization of political communities call traditional views of sovereignty into question. With these considerations in mind I assess the U.S. arms industry on the basis of CSR requirements regarding the environment, social equity, profitability, and use of political power. I find that this industry fails to meet any of these four CSR requirements. Countering a claim that these failings should not be held against arms manufacturers because their products are crucial to national defense, I contend that many of these companies function not as dutiful agents of a nation-state but as politically powerful entities in their own right. So, I conclude, they should be held responsible for the foreseeable consequences that flow from use of their products. This responsibility should include civil liability and, in cases involving war crimes and violations of human rights, responsibility under international human rights standards. Edmund F. Byrne is emeritus professor of philosophy, Indiana University, and a section editor and sometime contributor to the Journal of Business Ethics. His specialties: philosophy of work and social and political philosophy. Recent publications in the former field include “Work” in the Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, and in the latter field three articles that examine the US government's unpublicized geopolitical motives for its military action in the Middle East. An erratum to this article can be found at     

Foreign Makers Help Build Up Ship Industry

IntensifiedcompetitionwillhelpChina'sship-buildingindustryincreaseitscompetitiveness.Duringthepastfewyears,foreignshipbuildershaveworkedwithbigshippingcompanies,localgovernmentsandlocalshipbuilderstobuildshipyardsalongthecoastalregionsinChina.Foreign-providedcapital,advancedmanagementexpertiseandtechnologiesandmarketingcapabilitieshavecomplementedChina'sskilledandexperiencedworkforceandhavecreatedagoodmatch.AccordingtotheChinaShipbuildingIndustryAssociation,jointventureshipbuildersanddomest…     

U.S.Solar Panel Makers Seek Duties Against China

The blossoming trade war betwee China and the United States has just been warmed-up a notch. A new body comprising seven US-based solar cell and module makers calling themselves the Coalition for Ameri...     

The Effects of Market Makers and Stock Analysts in Emerging Markets

We exploit a quasi‐experiment to examine the effects of market makers and stock analysts in three emerging stock markets. We find substantial differences in the effects across markets, and in contrast to existing literature, the effects of market makers are not always positive. Our results suggest that the structure of market makers' agreements and compensation matters for their effects on market quality. Stock analysts, on balance, have marginally positive effects on liquidity and informational efficiency. The benefits of market makers are weaker in the presence of stock analysts, and vice versa, suggesting that market makers and stock analysts are more like substitutes than complements in their effects on market quality.     

我国职业教育标准制定者、实施者及评价者的角色错位问题研究

为解决当前中国在职业教育标准制定者、实施者及评价者角色定位方面存在不科学、不合理的问题,采取比较法,根据发达国家在职业教育标准制定者、实施者及评价者角色定位方面的成熟经验和我国在职业教育标准制定者、实施者及评价者角色定位方面存在的问题进行研究并得出相应结论:我国职业教育标准的制定者应是政府专家代表、行业专家代表和工会专家代表组成的职业教育标准制定委员会,标准的实施者应该是企业、跨企业培训中心和职业院校,标准实施情况的评价者应是地方政府教育主管部门和行业协会中的考核委员会。     

Culture-Based Values and Management Style of Marketing Decision Makers in Six Western Pacific Rim Countries

ABSTRACT

Given increasing advertisement clutter, advertisers are increasingly trying unconventional means to attract consumers' attention. One such method involves the use of incongruent ads, which are believed to attract viewers' attention. This research was conducted to ascertain the impact of audiovisual congruency in ads and the moderating role of product involvement on three facets of consumer response: attention to the ad, attention to the brand, and purchase intentions. Participants were shown one of eight TV ads for 30 seconds, following which they were asked to rate the ad on several dimensions. Results indicated, as expected, that congruent product and music type elicited favorable consumer responses. However, contrary to earlier findings that congruency in ads affects consumers in both high- and low-involvement conditions, we find that that the level of involvement moderated this effect on some consumer persuasion measures. In particular, participants under high-involvement conditions were found to be less influenced by congruent product–music situations. Implications for advertisers are discussed.     

An Integer Programming Approach to Solving the Inverse Graph Model for Conflict Resolution with Two Decision Makers

Group Decision and Negotiation - Operational algorithms for solving the inverse problem for the graph model for conflict resolution are presented for the case of two decision makers (DMs) under a...     

Matrix Representation of Solution Concepts in the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution with Probabilistic Preferences and Multiple Decision Makers

Group Decision and Negotiation - In this paper, matrix methods are developed to determine stable states in the graph model for conflict resolution (GMCR) with probabilistic preferences with n...     

Price Discovery in the Pits: The Role of Market Makers on the CBOT and the Sydney Futures Exchange

This paper uses the methods of error correction and common factor analysis to estimate the contribution of locals (market makers who may participate directly by trading for their own account) and non‐local traders to price discovery on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) and the Sydney Futures Exchange (SFE) during a period when open outcry trading was used on both exchanges. We examine these two execution channels for the CBOT's U.S. Treasury bond contract and the SFE's three‐year bonds, ten‐year bonds, ninety‐day bankers' accepted bills, and stock index contracts. For each of the futures contracts, the trade price series of local and non‐local traders are cointegrated. VAR analysis reveals lag structures eight to fifteen trades long in the dynamic adjustment of equilibrium prices in these markets, but time spans of only one to three seconds within synchronous trades. We find evidence of multilateral price discovery by the two execution channels for each of the five contracts. Locals account for 44 to 73% of the price discovery in the four SFE contracts and for 58% of the price discovery in the CBOT's T‐bond contract. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark 24:785–804, 2004     

A Hierarchical Clustering Approach Based on Three-Dimensional Gray Relational Analysis for Clustering a Large Group of Decision Makers with Double Information

Two types of information, collectively referred to as double information, are usually required in management decision-making. The first is preference information expressed in a judgment matrix. The second is reference information expressed in a multi-attribute decision matrix. In this paper, we investigate large-scale group clustering problems with double information in group decision-making. We first establish a novel three-dimensional gray correlation degree index, which integrates the alternative decision-making vector, index vector and alternative preference vector, to fully excavate the correlation between decision makers with double information. We then develop a new clustering procedure combining three-dimensional gray relational analysis and the concept of hierarchical clustering. Moreover, a model for determining clustering centers is established on the basis of the maximum gray correlation degree within each cluster and minimum gray correlation degree among clusters. A heuristic algorithm for the model to identify the core decision maker in each cluster is proposed. Finally, we illustrate the applications of the developed procedures with a practical case. The rationality of the proposed method is demonstrated by comparing results with results obtained using other methods, including the traditional gray clustering method and hierarchical clustering method with single information; i.e., preference information or reference information.