INTERORGANIZATIONAL TIME‐BASED POSTPONEMENT IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN

This paper presents the results of empirical research on the use of time‐based postponement in a supply chain context using data collected from two manufacturers, a distributor, and a retailer. The analysis shows that implementing postponement at the firm level can result in the supply chain carrying more inventory. In order to achieve its full potential, postponement needs to be implemented across organizations in the supply chain.     

我国对外贸易政策与环境政策的协调——基于世贸组织规则的研究

贸易与环境之间的影响及协调问题,为国际社会所关注,并已成为世贸组织多边谈判的主要议题。作为世贸组织成员国,我国在对外贸易和环境保护方面已经取得了很大的成就,但二者在政策之间还缺乏进一步的协调与联系。因此,设立专门协调机构,以世贸组织有关贸易与环境规则为依据,进一步完善对外贸易政策,加强环境保护方面的立法,强化环境国际标准的管理并积极参与国际贸易和环境保护方面的国际合作,是协调我国对外贸易政策与环境政策的有效途径。     

世贸组织框架下反倾销制度与竞争政策的协调

针对世贸组织反倾销制度与竞争政策的冲突问题,国际上提出了三种主要协调方案。文章分析认为在国际层面即在世贸组织框架下对反倾销制度与竞争政策的协调应分步骤进行:第一步先将世贸组织反倾销制度作改良处理,作为近期目标;第二步则应用竞争政策来解决倾销问题,作为最终目标。与此同时提出了相关的政策建议。     

突发事件的农产品应急物流协调指挥系统研究

针对如何提高城市突发公共事件农产品应急物流协调指挥能力,研究了农产品应急物流协调指挥系统的总体架构和功能设计,并就如何实现突发公共事件的农产品应急物流协调指挥的功能做了初步研究,对提高农产品应急物流系统的协调性、可靠性和时效性,实施科学有效的应急决策具有重要意义。     

供应链视角下竞技表演类体育产品协调机制研究

运用系统分析法和文献资料法对我国竞技表演类体育产品供应链内涵、市场特征、系统结构等进行研究,分析竞技表演类体育产品供应链失调的5大原因,并提出通过建立联合决策机制、综合考评激励机制、战略合作伙伴关系和契约机制、完善运动员的利益保障机制和供应链成员间信息沟通机制来共同协调我国竞技表演类体育产品供应链。     

Is the international propagation of financial shocks non-linear?: Evidence from the ERM

This paper tests for the presence of non-linearities in the propagation of devaluation expectations among the countries that were members of the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the EMS. We show that whenever it is possible to estimate a model for financial interdependence, a full-information technique to detect such non-linearities is more efficient than the limited-information estimator proposed, in a similar context, by Rigobon (2000). This happens, in particular, when the periods of market turbulence are relatively short. Our evidence suggests that non-linearities in the propagation of devaluation expectations were a general phenomenon in the ERM. Normally the non-linearity amounts to a stronger effect in the same direction, but sometimes, as in the Dutch case, it implies a significant effect in the opposite direction: evidence of flight-to-quality.     

Elections and the timing of devaluations

This paper presents a rational political budget cycle model where devaluation acts as a tax on consumption due to a cash-in-advance constraint. Competent governments can signal their competency by reducing the rate of devaluation prior to elections. When voters also ignore the degree to which governments are opportunistic, i.e. the extent to which they are willing to distort the economy for electoral gain, an incompetent, opportunistic incumbent can reduce the rate of devaluation in the run-up to an election. The main theoretical implication in either setup, that the rate of devaluation is significantly higher in the months following an election, is consistent with evidence drawn from 26 countries in Latin America.     

应诉反倾销视角下的会计准则协调现状调查分析

在相关法律框架下,企业应对(包括规避)反倾销的的成败,从某种意义上讲,取决于应诉企业快速响应的态度和所提供会计信息(或会计数据)的支持效力。换言之,提高符合反倾销调查的会计信息(或会计数据)质量,需要逐步消除我国会计准则与国际会计准则的差异,研究市场经济地位对会计准则以及欧美等控诉国对我国市场经济地位的要求等问题。基于此,从三大模块内容,采用电子邮件调查、实地发放纸质问卷调查的形式,调查分析了应诉反倾销视角下的会计准则协调现状。并据此提出了完善应诉反倾销会计准则协调的建议。     

Coordination Structures and System Restrictiveness in Distributed Group Support Systems

Most GSS research has studied the impact of restricting group interaction to GSS-prescribed coordination structures with face-to-face groups, while Distributed GSS (DGSS) has been largely ignored. Due to the nature of mediated communication in asynchronous interaction, it is relatively difficult to coordinate distributed groups, and a special coordination structure must be arranged to overcome these difficulties. This study examines the effect of system restrictiveness of coordination structures in an asynchronous environment. A 2 × 2 factorial experiment was designed with two independent variables – sequential vs. parallel coordination mode, and with vs. without a leader – to construct coordination structures with varying degrees of restrictiveness. The study finds that less restrictive coordination structures are more appropriate to support asynchronously interacting distributed groups. Objective decision quality is equal for both parallel and sequential coordination mode, but is significantly better with a group leader. Groups with parallel coordination mode have a stronger belief that the decisions they made are of higher quality than those of groups with sequential coordination mode. In groups with a leader, communication effectiveness is better. Satisfaction with a decision process is higher in parallel coordination groups and in groups with a leader. There is also a significant interaction effect. Satisfaction with the decision process is higher in sequential coordination groups with a leader than sequential coordination groups without a leader.     

中国证券市场波动的区制关联性

应用单变量和二元向量SW-ARCH模型,本文发现我国证券市场收益率波动具有明显的"区制转移"特征,可以将其分为"高波动"和"低波动"两个区制.在"高波动区制"下,沪深两市间具有明显的波动"溢出"和"传染"特征,市场整体风险强;相反,在"低波动区制"下,市场间主要表现"低系统风险"特征,负相关的波动关联性使证券市场具有较强的风险分散功能和较高的资金配置效率.     

The Asian flu and Russian virus: the international transmission of crises in firm-level data

This paper examines how the Asian and Russian crises affected different types of firms around the world. It constructs a new data set of financial statistics, industry information, geographic data, and stock returns for over 10?000 companies in 46 countries. Results show that firms competing with exports from the crisis countries, or with direct sales exposure to the crisis countries, had significantly lower abnormal stock returns. Firms with higher debt ratios, however, did not experience lower abnormal returns. Country-specific effects, although important determinants of company stock returns, are generally less important than firm-specific characteristics. These results suggest that trade channels are important factors determining how crises are transmitted internationally.     

On the measurement of the international propagation of shocks: is the transmission stable?

The empirical literature on ‘contagion’ focuses mainly on two questions: (1) what are the channels through which shocks are transmitted across countries, trade, macro similarities, financial weaknesses, or investor behavior? (2) Is there a shift in the transmission of shocks during crises? Are crises spread with higher intensity? If so, why? This paper concentrates on the econometric problems that arise in dealing with the second question. The data where most of these issues are raised are plagued with problems of simultaneous equations, omitted variables, and heteroskedasticity. The standard methodologies used in the literature are inappropriate if all three are present. This paper applies a new procedure that allows one to test for parameter stability, taking into account all three predicaments. The paper tests for the stability of the transmission mechanisms among 36 stock markets during the last three major international financial crises (Mexico 1994, Asia 1997, and Russia 1998).     

反倾销导向下成本会计的协调

倾销与反倾销矛盾的焦点在于产品价格和正常价值之比,产品价格是否低于产品正常价值是确定是否存在倾销行为和采取反倾销措施的重要前提,而产品价格的高低取决于产品成本的高低。因此,规范产品成本会计核算,如实反映产品成本内容,不仅可以真实、准确反映企业的经营业绩,增强企业会计信息的相关性和可靠性,而且在反倾销调查中,可以提供准确、完善的产品成本信息资料,提高出口企业在反倾销应诉中会计举证的有效性,降低或避免反倾销威胁。     

The Effects of Multimedia Communication on Web-Based Negotiation

With the rapid growth of electronic commerce, there is growing demand forremote online negotiations. Although the Internet now enables audio and video communication, most Web-based negotiation systems are still text-based. There is, however, a lack of research on the effects of multimedia on remote negotiations. In this paper, we present a theoretical model to investigate the impacts of multimedia communication in an online negotiation setting. The constructs in our model include communication efficiency, communication effectiveness, and positive and negative social-emotional communication. Through a simulated house purchasing negotiation experiment, we study how different multimedia combinations (text only; text with audio; text with audio and video) affect our constructs and thus further influence negotiation results. Our results showed that both text with audio and text with audio and video communication were significantly preferred to text alone. However, the addition of video to text and audio communication in a negotiation environment was not found to be beneficial. It did not significantly improve communication efficiency, effectiveness or positive social-emotional communication, but distracted negotiators from focusing on the negotiation task. Our analysis also revealed that the communication efficiency construct did not correlate with the perceived success of the negotiation solution; however communication effectiveness and social-emotional communication did correlate with negotiation satisfaction.     

供应链协调方法的选择研究

协调是供应链管理的核心,本文指出供应链协调常用的三种方法:集中控制、结成伙伴关系及契约,从节点企业自身的角度给出了选择协调模式的流程框图,并运用委托—代理理论对供应链协调做出解释。     

信息时代组织协调新特点研究

今天所发生的信息技术革命,不是由生产的变化驱动的,而是由协调的变化驱动的。所以必须分析和了解集中化与分权化的矛盾、信息技术对组织结构的影响、不同环境对协调的影响、组织协调的阻碍因素、规范价值和组织文化的协调、从上级协调到团队协调的特点。     

Quantity Discounts, Manufacturer and Channel Profit Maximization: Impact of Retailer Heterogeneity

In this paper, we investigate if a manufacturer can simultaneously maximize own and channel profit with any quantity-based pricing policy, including a quantity-discount policy, when selling through heterogeneous retailers. We show that the manufacturer's best possible pricing policy, when retailers self-select quantities, is a quantity discount. However, this policy does not maximize channel profit. Driven by the manufacturer's inclination to reduce the quantity sold through a high-cost or low-demand retailer, this result holds whether or not retailers compete. We discuss implications of our analysis for the manufacturer.     

浅析品牌3.0时代的品牌传播特征

品牌传播理念的发展是跟品牌及形成品牌的时代的发展相辅相成的,造就品牌的环境是一个复杂、充满活力并不断变化的有机体系。在品牌3.0时代,品牌的传播出现新的特征,这既是环境使然,也是传播技术进步后的必然趋势,研究其特征,有利于品牌的成长。     

论非公有制经济劳动关系及其协调

当前我国非公有制经济劳动关系问题突出,其根源是基于非公有制企业劳动关系主体利益对立性之上的劳动关系主体双方力量的不平衡。因此,要提升非公有制经济档次,促使劳动关系主体利益的统一性成为主流。采取措施维护劳动力供求双方力量的平衡,同时劳动部门应积极作好服务工作,维护劳动关系的协调稳定。     

The Economic Theory of International Supply Chains: A Systems View

This paper offers an integrated analysis of outsourcing, offshoring, and foreign direct investment within a systems view of international business. This view takes the supply chain rather than the firm as the basic unit of analysis. It argues that competition in the global economy selects supply chains that maximise the joint profit of all the firms in the chain. The systems view is compared with the firm-centred view commonly used in strategy literature. The paper shows that a firm’s strategy must be embedded within an efficient supply-chain strategy, and that this strategy must be negotiated with, rather than imposed upon, other firms. The paper analyses the conditions under which various supply-chain strategies – and by implication various firm-level strategies – are efficient. Only by adopting a systems view of supply chains is it possible to determine which firm-level strategies will succeed in a volatile global economy.