Performance analysis for three pillars of sustainability

Journal of Productivity Analysis - Gross domestic product (GDP) has come under criticism as the only objective that countries should pursue for societal well-being. In this paper we apply an...     

国家重点建设项目绩效评审指标初解

日前,审计署与国家开发银行合作初步完成了国家重点建设项目绩效评审指标体系研究提纲.     

A case of applying importance-performance analysis in identifying key success factors to develop marketing strategies

Importance-performance analysis (IPA) is applied in a case study to identify key success factors of E-Life Mall Corporation in Taiwan. In addition, IPA along with performance ratio is used by incorporating the other leading 3C retailer, Tsann Kuen Enterprise Company Limited, as the benchmark. Both IPA and IPA with performance ratio enable the management to evaluate and identify the major strengths and weaknesses of the key success factors and then to compare the differences among key success factors between these two leading 3C retailers. Finally, this study not only provides specific analyses but also summarizes the marketing strategies from practical viewpoints.     

从实例来分析企业成功再造的关键因素

企业再造是现代企业进行组织结构、业务流程等方面调整的主要手段,是企业为了适应市场发展要求做出的必要调整,文章通过大量的国外企业的实例重点论述了企业进行成功再造的关键因素。     

The key factors for success in corporate fundraising

From the author's basic model on how charities should approach companies, ‘The Company as a Resource’, this paper offers a further and more detailed framework to encompass the major factors that must be identified, considered and developed to ensure success towards the year 2000 in the field of corporate fundraising. By breaking down the general environment and relating key success factors to different elements he offers practical advice and guidance for developing this area.     

Missing links in key sector analysis

In general terms, key sectors analysis aims at identifying and quantifying the economic impact of a sector in a given economy. For a sector, we mean here either an industry or a region, or even a cluster of them. Quite a few measures and methodologies of varied complexity have been proposed in the literature, from multiplier sums to extraction methods, but not without debate about their properties and information content. All of them, to our knowledge, focus exclusively on the interdependence effects that result from an input–output structure of the economy. By so doing the approach misses critical links beyond the interindustry ones. A productive sector's role is that of producing but also that of generating and distributing income among primary factors and households as a result of production. Thus, when measuring a sector's role, the income generating process should not be omitted if we want to elucidate the sector's true economic impact. A simple way to make the missing income links explicit is to use the SAM (Social Accounting Matrix) facility. Extending an extraction methodology to the SAM we compare lost output with and without the missing links. We observe that substantial differences in sectoral lost gross output arise but, even more important, we capture the implied shifting in the rank ordering of sectors.     

Reexamining the Explanatory Power of Earnings Number

Much effort has been dedicated to the topic of earnings usefulness to investment decisions. The low explanatory power of earnings number on the stock returns urges researchers to further investigate the theoretical and technical aspects of the model. This paper treats the econometrical issues of the topic. We try to allow heteroscedasticity in the model. In addition, panel data method is used to estimate the model. The outcome is convincing and meaningful, suggesting the adoption of panel data method with heteroscedasticity greatly improves the fitness of the model.     

Towards an operations strategy model of servitization: the role of sustainability pressure

Servitization requires an important strategic shift to drive changes in the operations of manufacturing firms. Using a large-scale survey, the purpose of this paper is (1) to build and validate an operations strategy model of servitization confirming previous case study findings on servitization as a strategic action and (2) to explore the role of sustainability pressures in, and the sustainability performance effects of, pursuing service-based operations strategies. To reach these objectives, a dataset including the responses of 735 manufacturing plants from 21 different countries is analyzed using the PLS-SEM method. The results indicate that the sustainability pressures of stakeholders can push manufacturers to adopt a service-based operations strategy, materializing in the provision of both basic (product-oriented) and advanced (customer-oriented) services (BAS and ADS). Our analysis further indicates that while offering BAS is a precondition for ADS provision, only ADS can offer a competitive edge for manufacturers, both in terms of service and sustainability-related operational performance.     

Construction,dimension reduction and uncertainty analysis of an index of trust in public institutions

Research on social capital in general and trust in particular is markedly increased. The worldwide problem of low and decreasing levels of trust in many public institutions is greatly debated. This is a very important problem because the trust citizens have in public institutions may foster democratic practices and facilitate better provision of public services. Moreover, trust is a central element of social order and survival of any democratic regime: it affects institutional performance, wellbeing, economic development and crime reduction. Public institutions should pay very much attention to citizens’ trust in them and in particular when introducing reforms aiming at improving their functioning. Trust is difficult to be assessed due to its quite elusive meaning. An index of general trust in public institutions is proposed within the framework of composite indicators. It is shown how to reduce the dimension of the index by finding out the most and least important aspects of it. Uncertainty analysis is used to test whether dimension reduction results are robust or not with respect to plausible changes in variable values and variable transformations. An application to data from the European Social Survey is discussed. The results show the very important role of the trust in politicians and political parties in explaining the level of general trust in public institutions.     

Network analysis of inter-sectoral relationships and key sectors in the Greek economy

The rapidly growing theories of networks and complex systems have been recently adopted to interpret the efficiency and robustness of various economic markets. Based on these theoretical underpinnings, the present paper describes a structural input–output analysis of the inter-sectoral linkages and main activity clusters of the Greek economy, which is modeled as a complex network. Such an analysis employs suitable network metrics to measure the centrality and influence of each sector-agent on the other ones, and the possibilities for clustering of related (groups of) activities. Key sectors related to the production of tradable goods and services are identified, in terms of their marginal ability to pull the total economic activity. Critical sectors are also determined in terms of their ability to retain the interconnectivity and strengthen the stability of the whole economic system. It is argued that more synergies within and among the activity clusters, through the creation of integrated value chains, would allow better coordination of policies, more efficient allocation of resources and enhanced diffusion of knowledge.     

『信用管理』--企业诚信经营之要

从现代商业实践角度讲,信用是一种建立在信任基础上的能力,不用立即付款就可获取资金、物资、服务等的能力。这种能力受到一个条件的约束,即受益方在其应允的时间期限内为昕获得的资金、物资、服务而付款或还款。     

办公环境改造的可持续性研究

“两型社会”建设的不断推进对能源与环境提出了更高的要求,办公环境作为一种重要的建筑空间类型,对于能源和生态环境的保护更是责无旁贷。文中从分析办公环境的现状展开,提出了其可持续性改造构想。     

城市客运交通的发展与能源消费——分析与情景模拟

随着我国城市化水平不断提高,居民出行数量与质量要求增加,城市的机动交通活动更加频繁,由此引发的能源消费增加和污染等问题愈加严重.通过对不同类型城市的交通调查数据与统计资料的分析,讨论城市交通的能源消费现状,以补充现有交通统计的不足.并利用AIM/Enduse模型对未来进行耗能情景模拟,为政策制定提供依据.     

城市化指标体系的实证分析

一个国家城市化水平能直接反映该国社会进步、经济发展的水平 ,是衡量城市化的重要标准。它与工业化共同构成现代化的基本特征 ,只有实现工业化和城市化才能实现现代化。因此 ,一套高效、合理的指标体系 ,评价某地区、某国家城市化水平 ,引导该地区、该国家走健康、有序的城市化道路就成为我们面临的一项重大课题。目前使用最广泛的用来反映一个地区、一个国家城市化水平的指标是 :非农业人口或城镇人口占总人口的比重。应该说 ,采用该指标来衡量城市化水平同其他单个指标相比 ,较确实且简单易行。但是 ,非农业人口的多少更多地受制于一个地…     

日光灯照明集中控制系统关键技术分析

文章在分析日光灯照明相关技术基础之上,提出集中供电照明系统的两种设计方案,并重点指出直流400V集中供电方案,并提出了详细的设计方案。     

山东省能源效率评价分析

为提高山东省能源效率,实现节能目标,需要把握当前的能源利用状况、能源效率变动的趋势以及能源效率变化的影响因素。本文基于能源效率的内涵,在分析借鉴国内外现有的能源效率指标体系的基础上,结合山东省的能源环境实际情况与特点,构建了山东省能源效率评价指标体系,运用因子分析方法,对山东省能源效率进行分析并做出综合评价。     

Leaving studies because of lack of interest: an analysis of the risk factors of school dropouts in Pakistan

Quality & Quantity - Among all the students dropping out of school for different reasons in Pakistan in 2017, nearly 23% of the students dropped out because they were not...     

Asset values and the sustainability of peace prospects

Continuous violent conflict is a central cause of economic stagnation in many of the world's poorest countries. Given that attempts to achieve peace in these countries often remain elusive, it is important to identify mechanisms which reveal the sustainability of peace over time. We argue that long-term financial asset values reflect the sustainability of peace prospects because the expectation of continued peace will result in higher long-term asset prices. Equity index prices from Sri Lanka are used to test this theory. Also considered are the accuracy of equity prices versus other predictors of sustainable peace, including exchange rates and survey responses. The main conclusion is that long-term financial asset prices indicate the likelihood of conflict or peace and can inform policies as they relate to conflict-torn areas.