The first decade of the Asia Academy of Management

This paper briefly reviews the history of the Asia Academy of Management, the official sponsor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management. It is suggested that establishing the Asia Academy of Management is a response to the new challenges of the academic institutional environment, both in Asia and in the mainstream management research community. Judging from the achievements in terms of reputation in the region, publication citations, school rankings, and internal organizational development, this new venture has added significant value to the global academic community. The challenges facing the Asia Academy, however, include the need to attract more interested parties to actively involve in its activities, more genuine cooperation among Asian and non-Asian institutions, and a need to affirm the contributions of Asian management studies.

Familial capitalism in global institutional contexts: Implications for corporate governance and entrepreneurship in East Asia

Many of the world’s firms have a familial dimension; including some of the most dynamic and emerging markets of East Asia. However, this important aspect of organizing economic activity remains understudied and misunderstood. A central theme of this article is that while families matter in economic activity throughout the world, they matter in different ways depending on the institutional context. To illustrate this theme a varieties of capitalism perspective is used to develop a rudimentary global comparative framework. Institutional context is portrayed as a key determinant of the degree and type of family governance that typify national economies. Implications for corporate governance and entrepreneurship in East Asia are discussed.

冲突条件下供应链库存管理的协商模型

在供应链多级库存管理的过程中,公司间的订货冲突已经成为提升供应链订货效率的障碍,如何有效地化解冲突成为学者们关注的热点.由于agent适合于解决供应链等系统的协商问题,因此,提出了基于Mulli-agent的供应链协同计划模型,基于模糊理论和贝叶斯学习理论设计了该协商模型,并通过算例仿真了供应链公司库存管理的订货协商过程.     

基于风险管理的商业银行价值创造模式研究

商业银行是经营风险的企业。商业银行通过控制自身业务经营活动中的风险和主动为客户管理风险两个途径寻求建立持续竞争优势,进而创造价值。由此产生四种基本的价值创造模式：预控制、对冲操作、价值创新和重组模式。     

组织视角的组织一人匹配模式及其管理价值探析

当前,人一组织的匹配问题引起学术界越来越多的关注。但在该领域的研究中,众多学者把关注的焦点集中在员工方面,希望通过调整员工变量去适应组织系统的要求。但这种对员工的关注恰恰忽略了管理系统设计中的人的一些难以改变的因素。文章把解决问题的思路倒转过来,员工的特点和需要被当作固定不变的量,提出组织视角的组织一人匹配模式,并分析了这种视角在管理上的价值所在。     

Prospects for food demand and supply in Central Asia

Central Asia has experienced massive economic and social shocks during the past decade following the dissolution of the former Soviet Union. Demand for cereals, particularly for staple cereals and meats, has fallen significantly even as production and productivity have plummeted. Although agricultural reforms were launched in 1991, the performance of the agricultural sector has been weak across the region. Prospects for food security in Central Asia appear mixed. Projections indicate that a growing and urbanizing population in Central Asia with rising incomes will increase demand for cereals by 32% between 1995 and 2020 to reach 24 million tons, and for meat by 47% to reach 2.9 million tons. Improvements in crop productivity will be essential to meet the increases in demand projected for the region. Cereal production is forecast to keep pace with demand such that Central Asia will be virtually self-sufficient in cereals. However, national food self-sufficiency or food security does not necessarily translate into household or individual food security. Moreover, self-sufficiency comes with a high price-tag of opportunities foregone and inappropriate use made of resources. Given the growing enthusiasm for food self-sufficiency in Central Asia, it is imperative that research be undertaken to assess the full costs and benefits of such a policy.     

Interventions in agriculture for nutrition outcomes: A systematic review focused on South Asia

Research on the potential impact of interventions in agriculture on nutrition outcomes is of particular relevance in South Asia where agriculture-related activities are a major source of livelihoods for large sections of society and where the population suffers from one of the highest global burdens of malnutrition in all its forms. This systematic review aims to assess the strength of the available evidence that agricultural interventions have an impact on intermediate and final nutrition outcomes in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Afghanistan. We searched five literature databases and reference lists of previous systematic reviews to identify peer-reviewed studies published between 2012 and 2017, detailing impacts of household- or farm-level agricultural interventions on nutritional outcomes in South Asia. We identified six intervention studies (reported in nine papers) conducted in Bangladesh (two studies), India (two studies) and Nepal (two studies). The majority of studies examined the impact of provision of seed, plants and training to increase home garden fruit and vegetable production with or without integrated poultry provision and training. Other studies evaluated the impact of livestock or aquaculture provision and training. Study designs and quality were mixed; heterogeneity across studies precluded formal meta-analysis. Interventions had a positive impact on intermediate outcomes on the pathway from agricultural intervention to nutritional or health status including dietary quality and dietary diversity of households and individuals (reported in seven papers). The evidence on the impact on final nutritional outcomes was mixed: one paper reported that home gardens with poultry reduced the odds of anaemia but there was no convincing evidence of an impact of agricultural interventions on child anthropometric measurement (reported in four papers). In recent years, the Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) research programme consortium has significantly expanded research on agricultural interventions for nutrition outcomes by conducting and commissioning a suite of formative and feasibility studies that have extended both the range and geographic location of interventions under study. This expanding body of research should, in the future, enable the identification of cost-effective interventions to enhance the impact of agricultural interventions sustainably to improve nutrition outcomes especially in women and children in South Asia.     

Nutrition and the governance of agri-food systems in South Asia: A systematic review

Malnutrition is a multicausal challenge that requires multisectoral responses to make comprehensive and sustainable progress, over the long term. How is agriculture and the wider agri-food system positioned within the constellation of factors and processes that determine nutrition outcomes in different contexts and countries? What is known about the role of enabling environments and the governance of agri-food systems in driving nutrition outcomes, for better or worse? In this paper we will highlight the findings of a systematic review that focuses on this question, drawing on work from the South Asian region including research undertaken by LANSA. We conclude with a discussion of the major implications and recommendations for future policy and practice.     

企业对利益相关者实施分类管理的定量模式研究

本文将企业对利益相关者的分类管理和分类管理的绩效评价结合起来，建立了具有绩效和管理双向信息反馈特征的分类管理的定量模式。一方面使企业对利益相关者实施分类管理变得定量与可控，另一方面使绩效评价真正起到对管理的导向作用，使利益相关者理论具有可操作性，并为企业通过对不同利益相关者实施分类管理来实现持续发展提供理论指导和策略依据。     

The role of functional conflict in international buyer-seller relationships: Implications for industrial exporters

In their attempt to compete successfully in foreign markets, exporting firms must comprehend the decision-making and attitude of their overseas customers. Yet, there is a noticeable lack of research dealing with the import behavior of the firm. Focusing on import distributor firms trading with export manufacturers of industrial products, this study investigates the role of functional conflict in importer-exporter relationships. Results indicate that functional conflict is related positively to exporter cultural sensitivity and asset specificity and negatively to exporter opportunism. More importantly, importers' future purchase intentions are associated negatively with opportunism and positively with asset specificity and functional conflict. Theoretical and managerial implications of the findings are discussed along with suggestions for future research.     

物流管理实施标准监督的有效模式

结合石油企业物资系统的实际，对实施标准监督在物流管理各环节中的作用及进一步推行和深化标准监督的模式分别进行了阐述以求通过行之有效的标准监督模式，使之在石油企业中发挥出更大的作用。     

多层次综合择优决策模型及应用

本文在对“模糊决策”进行深入研究的基础上,给出了多层次综合择优决策数学模型。首先提出了“效果值”的概念,解决了模糊排序中的一个难题,从而使决策结果择优更具科学性与合理性。该模型可广泛应用于社会、经济诸领域.     

项目管理成熟度模型(PMMM)研究与应用

对项目的管理能力和技术水平进行客观的、定量的评价模型，一般称之谓项目管理成熟度模型(PMMM)，它表达一个组织(或企业)具有按照预定的目标和条件成功地、可靠地实施项目的能力。它可以对企业的项目管理组织与过程进行持续的改善起重要作用。章介绍了项目管理成熟度模型的概念、应用的原因、时间、范围、主体等基本知识，以及三种名的模型，并展望了今后其的发展前景。     

The institutional environment and effects of telecommunication privatization and market liberalization in Asia

Are the privatization and market competition models resulting in the leveling of the supply-side playing field, and are they demand driven as expected? Quantitative indicators of network expansion and efficiency provide a partial and inconclusive picture. Instead, an evolutionary property rights framework is favored. Examined in detail are the institutional environments that lead to particular types of property rights which in turn affect network expansion and efficiency. The article offers two conclusions: (a) introducing market competition is slow, messy and difficult to manage but, where present, it is better for growth than privatization alone, and (b) network expansion and efficiency are most noticeable where adequate property rights and enforcement mechanisms are in place. It also conjectures that the “East Asia Model” toward network expansion may not be easily generalizable.     

标准化过程管理模式的实践与思考

新疆油田公司通过多年的实践与探索,结合生产管理实际,运用系统理论、过程方法以及PDCA方法建立了标准化过程管理模式,在具体应用中取得了良好的效果。为石油企业如何在建设综合性国际能源公司的大背景下做好标准化工作提供了借鉴和指导。     

Analysis of agricultural research investment priorities for sustainable poverty reduction in Southeast Asia

Underinvestment in agricultural research remains rife across Southeast Asia, despite the remaining importance of the subregion’s agricultural sector and ample evidence of agricultural technology impact to date. To help identify specific areas where additional investment is most needed, this study compares the impact potential for the poor of alternative agricultural research foci, taking changes in production patterns, consumption patterns and environmental sustainability into account. New spatial data on the distribution of poverty and the expenditure patterns of households below international poverty lines are used to offer more detailed assessment of the poverty relevance of alternative foci than possible previously. Patterns of impact potential are evaluated against evidence of impact to date to discern probabilities of success in achieving potential impacts. Impact patterns discerned are contrasted with current relative funding allocations across research areas in the subregion by National Agricultural Research Systems (NARSs) and International Agricultural Research Centers (IARCs) to identify key funding gaps.     

Food policy research for improving the reform of agricultural input and output markets in Central Asia

Agriculture is a significant component of the Central Asian economies. Since independence, the republics have implemented agricultural reforms in varying measure, yet production has fallen sharply across the region. The more ambitious agricultural reform programs have included measures aimed at liberalizing agricultural marketing, trade and prices. However, so far the expected supply response has yet to emerge. The objective of this paper is to highlight key policy and research issues surrounding reform of agricultural markets. It summarizes the main features of agricultural performance since the reforms, highlighting trends in grain and cotton, livestock, input use, and trade and analyzes key constraints to improvement of the sector, emphasizing price policy, sequencing problems, and institutional weakness. It presents a research agenda by identifying the main research needs for better agricultural policy design. It calls for more research on input and output market efficiency, private sector development, the effects of reform on farmers, sequencing issues, comparative advantage, water management, land tenure and farm size.     

企业业务外包风险管理的新模式：价值网战略

提出了企业业务外包风险管理的新模式，即利用价值网战略来管理业务外包风险，使企业习惯于较多地从利益保障的角度思考风险管理问题，转变为通过关注所有参与者的价值实现来有效地规避外包风险，构建业务外包的风险管理体系。     

对我国石油企业质量、安全管理模式的思考

随着我国加入WTO和市场经济体制的逐步完善、石油石化的上市与重组，我国油田企业的经营环境发生了很大变化如何在国内国际市场竞争中获胜，对我国油田企业的质量、安全、环境管理水平提出了更高的要求。主要探讨了我国石油企业质量安全管理问题．为我国石油企业选择质量安全管理模式提供理论依据。     

矿区服务体系中的质量管理模型

矿区服务系统的各项服务管理暨客户关系管理(CRM)项目,在其管理执行上都可以大体分为培训管理、策略/方案管理、数据/流程管理、平台/人员管理和质量管理这5大板块,每个板块环环相扣,互为支持。其中质量管理包括质量检评和质量控制2个方面,同时在人员招聘、培训阶段也是应该对此负责(其实质量管理的范围也应该涵盖到招聘、培训的质量),QM是控制和维持矿区服务水平在正确轨道上行进的策动力和保护力。