The Head, The Heart, and Business Virtues

In Section I, I criticize the view, implied by the concept of rational economic man, that feelings are inherently opposed to rationality. I attempt to show that emotions or feelings are essential to the proper functioning of reason, rational objectivity, and practical rationality or rational decision making. In addition, I argue that emotions can help to resolve certain ethical dilemmas. In Section II, I consider business writers who criticize business for overemphasizing the head at the expense of feelings or the heart. In Section III, I discuss the connection between material self-interest (as manifested in trade) – a concept of rational economic man – and business virtues.     

以质量求生存 以质量求发展

"以质量求生存,以质量求发展,以质量求效益",这是2015年质量月活动的宣传口号,一个企业的发展首先企业员工和管理者必须有创新意识,其次是不断改进产品质量,以"创新提升质量,品牌促进发展",质量和信誉是企业的生命,企业以质量求生存,同时也以信誉促发展。     

The Environmental Commitment of Consumer Organizations in Denmark, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Belgium

Consumer organizations have traditionally been concerned with protecting, informing, and educating the "weak" consumers. These policies were deemed necessary because of the unequal power balance and conflicts of interests between consumers and producers. Since there are also conflicts between the interests of nature on the one hand, and consumers and producers on the other, this article discusses the rationale of consumer organizations' involvement in environmental issues while considering their original objectives. More specifically, it is aimed at identifying the commitment of several European consumer organizations with respect to environmental issues during the past two decades in order to assess whether and how environmental issues are internalized in consumer policy across time.     

困难、机遇、优势

今天,我想谈三个观点。第一、根据我们几年研究下来,2006年是上海商业发展中最困难的一年。商业的产业地位被弱化现象已充分显露,这包括政府管理部门的弱化,上海商业在整个上海经济中的地位被弱化,企业运行质量发生偏差、尤其在超商板块,前几年处在领头羊地位已被外省市内资连锁企业赶超。     

Taiwan, The Treasure of China

The island of Taiwan lies some 120 kilometers off the southeastern coast of mainland China, across the Taiwan Strait, and has an area of 35,801 km^2 （13,822.8 sq mi）. The East China Sea lies to the north, the Philippine Sea to the east, the Luzon Strait directly to the south and the South China Sea to the southwest.     

The past,present, and future of brand research

Marketing Letters - This article discusses the past, present, and future of brand research. We begin by reviewing three historical eras of branding development in the past: the information,...     

The past,present, and future of innovation research

Marketing Letters - The goal of a business is to enhance profitable revenue. Often this mission is accomplished by innovation, commonly by the process of bringing new products or services to...     

The past,present, and future of marketing strategy

Marketing Letters - This article provides a high-level overview of marketing strategy research and offers a number of suggestions of areas ripe for future research. We discuss the most fundamental...     

The past,present, and future of consumer research

Marketing Letters - In this article, we document the evolution of research trends (concepts, methods, and aims) within the field of consumer behavior, from the time of its early development to the...     

The Dynamics of Currency,Savings, and Investment Rates

This paper examines the dynamic relations among foreign exchange rates, savings, and investment ratio for a sample of 25 countries from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. We find that the savings rate and the investment rate are cointegrated of order (1, −1). This result is consistent with the literature on the savings–investment relations and therefore confirms the validity of the Feldstein–Horioka puzzle. Using country‐specific and longitudinal panel vector autoregressive models, we show that historical savings–investment differentials do not help explain foreign exchange rates. We demonstrate, however, that foreign exchange rates and trade balance ratio impact the difference between savings and investments. Specifically, depreciation in the domestic currency would cause the savings–investment difference to widen.     

The past,present, and future of customer management

Marketing Letters - For decades, researchers in customer management have demonstrated the business importance of firm-customer relationships, developed models for understanding customer behavior...     

The Margin,Currency, and the Price of Oil

One of Alfred Marshall's most important contributions was that the marginal buyer in the marginal market ultimately determines the price of a good. However, until recently, little attention has been paid to the fact that the location of the marginal buyer is not fixed. In the case of oil, the marginal market has shifted several times in the postwar period. This has created a number of complications in the analysis of market behavior. This paper describes these shifts, the reasons behind them, and their implications for the future.     

The Who,Where, and When of Social Marketing

Social marketing has experienced substantial growth over the last 3 decades and its utilization has spread into various areas of social and public life. However, certain barriers to its expansion do still remain. Thus, a systematic overview of studies on this field will contribute towards a better understanding of the subject and its progress thus far. This study presents the results of bibliometric analysis of the social marketing field defining the academic area subject to study, along with its respective bibliographical sources, based on publication counts, citation, co-citation, and co-word analysis. This study enables researchers new to the field to proceed in their work aware of core findings, their authors and journals, as well as identifying those conferences and institutions most closely related to this subject.     

The nature,extent, causes,and consequences of problematic debt situations

The paper reports on the most important and salient results of an investigation which was carried out in the Netherlands in 1980/1981. The object of the research was to establish the actual number of borrowers with a problematic debt situation and to provide an answer to the question of how the problems have arisen and what their consequences are for the borrowers and their families. The research was divided into two parts:

--an investigation of the nature, extent, and causes of problematic debt situations (the survey part)

--an investigation of their consequences (the qualitative part).

In the explanation of how a problematic debt situation comes about, institutional, socioeconomic, personality, and decision-behaviour factors were taken into account. The results of both investigations provide an impetus for policy-makers to modify their policies aimed at preventing problematic debt situations from arising. Some starting points for such a re-orientation are discussed in this paper. The first point relates to the predictability of problematic debt situations and the implementation of an early warning system; the second point relates to the acceptance policy of financial institutions, in particular the use and functioning of credit score systems; the third point suggests restraint in the granting of additional credit to borrowers who have already taken out one or more credit; the fourth point relates to advice which could be provided to improve borrowers' (information-seeking) behaviour and level of knowledge.     

世界顶级海湾豪宅 典藏全球豪华享受

从西方到东方,从海外到中国,世界名人独爱湾岸豪宅,对于他们来说,这种湾岸海岛生活处处彰显国际化生活高度,是精神驰     

The Big Five,happiness, and shopping

This study assessed the relationships between the Big Five dimensions of personality and individual happiness with three indicators of shopping and spending for non-grocery items using a sample of 660 U.S. adults. The data from an online survey showed that all five of the Big Five traits correlated positively with self-reported happiness, even controlling for the effects of age and gender. Regression analysis showed, however, that the positive relationships between happiness and Agreeableness and Openness to Experience were no longer significant, indicating that they are real, but redundant to the other traits. The correlations also showed that happiness, Openness to Experience, and Extraversion correlated positively with the three shopping indicators. Finally, happiness appears to have a direct effect with shopping and mediates the influence of Emotional Stability, Agreeableness, and Extraversion on happiness.