发改委四大举措拓展电商发展空间

国家发改委8月15日发布消息称,将从完善物流支撑体系、完善服务平台、推动跨境贸易与完善电子商务发展环境四大方面,拓宽电子商务发展空间。首先,要完善电子商务物流支撑体系,加快电子商务向二三线城市的渗透。具体包括建设智能物流信息平台,构建全国性的智能物流和仓储体系,以进一步统筹推进智能物流基础设施建设布局,实现物流快递的智能调配,提     

物流支撑体系建设中的政府职能及实施对策研究

分析了物流产业在经济发展中的重要地位和我国物流支撑体系的现状，研究了政府在物流支撑体系建设中的战略地位和作用，提出了规划和建设我国物流产业支撑体系的政策建议。     

新形势下B2C电子商务物流优化研究

指出物流产业的滞后严重地制约了B2C电子商务的发展,新形势下B2C电子商务物流优化成为电子商务产业继续发展必须解决的问题,同时这也是物流产业调整和升级的机遇之一.并从B2C电子商务发展的趋势和物流产业的现状出发,结合新的形势要求,对物流优化问题进行了方向性的建议和思考.     

货运物流运输网络中的配送装载业务优化

电子商务竞争日趋激烈的环境下,物流市场的抢占已成为当前产业竞争的关键环节。随着我国物流行业的迅猛发展,第三方物流与非物流企业以及消费者之间的联系越来越密切,尤其是近10年来,我国物流基建设施的不断完善、国家推动物流企业健康发展的相关政策相继出台及物流信息化建设与电子商务环境的融合等,均给现代物流企业注入了新的动力,同时也对物资运输中的配送等环节提出了更为严格的要求,机遇与挑战共存是当前物流企业所面临的问题。     

基于电子商务背景的逆向物流管理模式优化策略

如今,各大电商在蓬勃发展的过程中,推动市场向电子商务的方向发展,而电子商务的发展必然要依赖于一定的物流运输体系,从而使电商产品到达消费者的手中,这在无形中拓展了逆向物流产业的整合发展,并使得逆向物流与电子商务平台的高度融合成为可能。论文在电子商务的总体背景下,通过阐述物流管理优化及逆向物流管理模式的基本内涵,提出目前逆向物流管理模式的不足之处,进而分析了具有问题针对性的逆向物流管理模式优化策略。     

生态供应链环境下的废旧家电回收体系及其绿色度研究

在电子商务和国家政策的带动下,近年来我国家电产业保持持续快速发展。随着相关法律的颁布实施以及人们环境保护意识的不断提高,家电产业逆向物流进入一个新的阶段。本文以废旧家电回收利用为主线,探讨了逆向物流的动因及其与生态供应链的关系;分析了国内外废旧家电逆向物流的现状,并建立了基于生态供应链的家电逆向物流体系;建立了基于改进数据包络分析法的家电企业逆向物流绿色度评价模型,并以实例验证。     

浅谈电子商务对物流服务的影响

通过对目前电子商务环境下我国物流服务存在的问题及电子商务环境新形式下对现代物流产业的新要求分析,总结出电子商务对物流服务的各种影响,以期能够推动相关企事业单位的发展。     

跨境电子商务与物流融合发展研究

跨境电子商务具有优化资源配置,扩大贸易渠道,改善贸易结构的功能,对外贸和现代服务业发展具有重要意义。鉴于跨境物流瓶颈的存在,跨境电子商务需要与物流融合发展。通过融合,不但可以发挥各自在资源、资金、品牌和运营管理等方面的优势,提升双方在国内和国际市场上的影响力,还可以提升客户服务能力和水平,增加买家的信任和购买力。文章分析了跨境电子商务与物流融合发展的必要性、难点及其路径选择;指出跨境电子商务与物流的融合发展,需要整合境内物流、境外物流、跨境电子商务的各项营运机制,优化利益分配政策。具体可以从业务整合、平台集成、流程优化、业务创新、利益分配几个方面进行。     

建设国际化城市现代物流支撑体系对策研究——以青岛市为例

现代物流支撑体系是经济发展和物流产业的载体和支撑,是国民经济的骨架和脉络。文章通过对青岛市建设国际化城市过程中的物流支撑体系的研究,分析了物流要素的集成机制和物流资源的配置方式,得出要推动青岛市面向东北亚的国际化城市建设,急需加强对物流支撑体系的研究以及出台相关对策,从而实现青岛市跨越式的发展。     

我国物流高成本运营的制度因素分析与创新研究

社会物流总费用居高不下,物流行业面临高成本运行环境下的产业升级压力。然而现有的产业政策体系尚未充分考虑高成本运行环境,且缺乏全国统一的指导物流产业发展的战略政策和相关制度。应当通过政府制度创新,完善现代物流产业发展的相关制度与管理体制;制定物流产业发展的统一政策;通过政府购买社会服务,发挥行业协会的作用等路径促进现代物流业持续发展。     

Development in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics

This paper outlines the ICT statistical developments that the ABS has undertaken over recent years. These developments have been on both the supply side (ICT industry) and the demand side (use of IT by sector). The content of ABS ICT surveys has changed significantly over the last few years and are expected to develop further in line with industry changes and emerging policy needs.
Recent developments in household collections have been the inclusion of IT use questions in the 2001 Census of Population and Housing and in various ABS social surveys such as Children's Participation in Culture and Leisure Activities. Annual business IT use surveys are now conducted and include topics such as Internet commerce and IT security. Biennial ICT industry surveys are conducted to provide data on ICT production, imports and exports, ICT industry employment, performance and structure information. An Internet activity survey is run every six months and provides regional Internet access details and infrastructure details on Internet service providers.
A major development for 2002–03 will be the compilation of an ICT satellite account. ABS intends to produce an ICT Information Development Plan to guide its future statistical development work in the ICT field.     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis

Several US counties and local governments have recently considered a novel solution to the foreclosure crisis. They plan to use eminent domain to compel the owners of mortgage debt—and specifically of private‐label mortgage‐backed securities—to sell the debt to the government at a price reflecting the loan's market value. The government would then restructure the debt and resell it to new investors. The plans are striking because—in contrast to both development‐driven eminent domain and the federal subprime bank bailout—they would force investors to assume asset devaluation and increased long‐term risk. Notably, the plans have emerged as an instance of financialization‐focused politics in suburbs and suburban cities of color, specifically majority‐black and ‐Latino/a suburbs. Local support for the plans, we argue, is rooted in the long‐term disinvestment of these ‘suburbs of exception', which became targets of subprime lending and eventually sites where the ‘financial exception' has been localized. But these demographic shifts, fragmentation and fiscal pressures have at the same time created a suburban political terrain in which the plans have gained their strongest political support.     

Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization

Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role in the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the importance of serendipity and identified important individual- and organizational-level antecedents. However, the literature has been dispersed and the boundaries of the concept have been blurry, leading to a lack of conceptual clarity and structure, and thus limiting validity and managerial actionability. Based on a systematic literature review, I synthesize existing management-related research on serendipity and explicate the emergence and composition of serendipity in the organizational context. I first identify three necessary conditions that differentiate serendipity from related concepts such as luck or targeted innovation: agency, surprise, and value. Then, I draw from the literature on sensemaking, event-based theorizing, and quantum-based approaches to management to conceptualize the process of cultivating serendipity in the organizational context as a process of enabling potentiality and materialization, and develop a multi-level theory of (cultivating) serendipity. This conceptualization contributes to our collective understanding of how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) organizations can leverage the value in the unexpected, which opens up fruitful avenues for further research.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh A critical overview

NGOs in Bangladesh have been recognized as effective change agents in the socio-economic arena throughout the world. Their contributions in micro credit, non-formal education and primary health care are widely known. NGOs play a significant role in society. NGO accountability, as a result, has become a critical issue. NGO accountability in Bangladesh has been examined here in relation to patrons, clients and themselves. Of the three relationships only accountability to patrons is in a near satisfactory state. Accountability to clients is handicapped by lack of opportunities of beneficiaries to participate meaningfully in NGO policy making. Accountability to themselves is adversely affected due to the adherence to a strictly hierarchical system and the influence of founding and charismatic NGO leaders.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

Towards an Asian model of human resource management? A comparative analysis of China,Japan and South Korea

There has been much discussion regarding the possible decline and weakening of national systems of human resource management (HRM). Yet, culture and institutions are often cited as the major stumbling blocks to this outcome. Such constraints may dissipate in the analysis, particularly if ‘regional clusters’ are considered where geographic and cultural closeness and ‘openness’ to similar economic pressures exist. In such cases, it might be postulated that convergence in HRM will occur. We argue that China, Japan and South Korea represent such a cluster. This article examines these countries, to see if a degree of convergence is taking place and if it is towards an identifiable ‘Asian’ model of HRM. A model of change is presented that distinguishes between levels of occurrence and acceptance. Details of the development and practice of HRM in each country are then set out. The article ends with a discussion and implications section and a brief conclusion.     

The Early History of the Cumulants and the Gram-Charlier Series

The early history of the Gram-Charlier series is discussed from three points of view: (1) a generalization of Laplace's central limit theorem, (2) a least squares approximation to a continuous function by means of Chebyshev-Hermite polynomials, (3) a generalization of Gauss's normal distribution to a system of skew distributions. Thiele defined the cumulants in terms of the moments, first by a recursion formula and later by an expansion of the logarithm of the moment generating function. He devised a differential operator which adjusts any cumulant to a desired value. His little known 1899 paper in Danish on the properties of the cumulants is translated into English in the Appendix.