Business Choice of Enterprises＇ Diversification

The strategy of diversification has become an important approach to enterprise development A successful diversification strategy depends mainly on the correct business choice. Before choosing a new business, we must identify the core competeneies of the enterprise and research the attraction and criticai success factors of the target business. Then we should make sure whether the core competencies match the critical success factors or not.The new business should be useful for cuitivating sustainable competitive advantage.     

The Research on the Socialization Identification Models of Private Enterprises＇ Business Culture

In the development process of private enterprises, their business culture is formed in the process of the society＇s identification. Using the analytical method： CMM （Capability Maturity Model for Software）, we can divide the process into five levels： initial, internalized, extended, balanced and optimizing. For the sake of the sound development of the private enterprises, the enterprises＇ culture should be cultivated by the society standard.     

Study on Business Process Reengineering for Chinese Traditional Logistics Enterprises

In this paper, after analyzing the predicaments that Chinese traditional logistics enterprises face while launching modem logistics services, the theory of reforming Chinese traditional logistics enterprises with Business Process Reengineering （BPR） is put forward. Then the basic implementation principles are discussed, and the steps of BPR are also analyzed for Chinese logistics enterprises. Moreover, five relevant measures of ensuring the success of BPR for them are concept reengineering, system reengineering, organization reengineering, culture reengineering and technology reengineering.     

Rethinking the Role of State-owned Enterprises in China’s Rise

The massive overseas expansion of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is a central aspect of China’s ‘rise’ to great-power status. There is significant disagreement, however, over how to interpret SOEs’ role. Are they instruments of Chinese statecraft, being directed purposefully from Beijing as part of a ‘grand strategy’? Or are they relatively autonomous, profit-maximising businesses, their free-wheeling behaviour often undermining Chinese foreign policy? Finding that there is evidence for both theses, we provide a framework to explain this. We propose theorising party-state/SOEs relations using the concepts of state transformation and regulatory statehood. We show that the Chinese state’s fragmentation, decentralisation and internationalisation since the late 1970s has substantially increased SOE autonomy and weakened but also transformed the executive’s control, reconfiguring it towards a regulatory mode of governance. Party-state/SOEs relations are thus characterised not by direct command and control but weak oversight and ongoing struggles within the party-state. We illustrate this using a case study of China Power Investment Corporation and its Myitsone hydropower dam project in Myanmar. Here, a central SOE clearly defied and subverted central regulations, profoundly damaging Sino-Myanmar state-to-state relations. Party-state authorities are now struggling to rein in this and other central SOEs.     

Stock Market： Comparisons of the Achievements of China＇s State-owned Enterprises and Private-owned Enterprises

With China taking its reform and opening policy, the private economy has been developed rapidly now, especially going public. It is discovered that there are two ways of entering China＇s stock market： one is direct listing; the other is indirect listing. Private enterprise studied in this paper excludes state-owned economy. Since 1996 in China, a number of private listing corporations have been going increased year by year, and indirect listing has become the main form of private enterprises＇ access to stock market. In the paper, the author made a substantial evidence analysis on the 53 private corporations, which have entered China＇s stock market by the end of 1998. By means of the SHAZAM regression test analysis, the author draws a surprising conclusion： as far as private listing companies are concerned, state-ownership enterprise＇s efficiency is more satisfied than private ones. This indicates that improving the management of private enterprise has already been on the agenda.     

The Study on the Impact of Bibcock Enterprise Business Model to Technology Innovation Case of the Jmei＇ s Bibcock Enterprises of Automobile-engineering Machinery Industry

龙头企业商业模式对技术创新具有重要影响,但既往文献中甚少提及,且未深入研究。以厦门汽车—工程机械产业龙头企业为例,从商业模式的构成要素与技术创新的影响因素间的交叉部分入手,分析龙头企业商业模式对于技术创新的影响。研究发现：在龙头企业商业模式中,价值定位决定技术创新起点,价值实现影响技术创新成果,价值保持促进技术创新实现。因此,从企业发展的全局出发,突破现有商业模式,重视企业技术创新,确定龙头企业创新主体地位,营造良好集群创新氛围,应成为产业集群乃至区域经济发展的重要战略选择。     

The Effect of Consumers’ Real-World Choice Sets on Inferences from Stated Preference Surveys

For stated preference (SP) studies, we develop a model that assesses the influence of choice set misspecification arising from the omission of perceived substitutes among real-world alternatives in the same class of goods. This problem is most likely to be present when individuals are allowed to select a “no purchase” option instead of being forced to choose from an explicit set of SP alternatives with hypothetical attribute levels. A convenient feature of our model is that researchers do not need to know exactly which omitted real substitute the individual most prefers, only the set of real substitutes that exists. In our empirical illustration, a comparison of rival models suggests researchers who overlook the presence of perceived real alternatives related to an SP experiment can end up with noticeably biased welfare estimates. Our more-general model suggests that it may be prudent for future SP researchers to anticipate, then test and possibly correct for, distortions in utility parameter estimates that result from this problem.      

Study on Ecological Strategy of Enterprises＇ Competition

The ecolotogical research of enterprises＇ competition is the front line of current research of enterprises ＇ competition strategy ： This text applies the competition principle of living creature in ecology to research enterprises＇ competition problems .explains the ecological characterisiics of enterprises＇ competition, such as non-symmetry, crowded effect, density effect. competition-rejective effect, suitable resources niche and red queen effect etc., deduces the ecological model of enterprise＇ competition, and further analyzes enterprises＇ competition strategy; strategy R and strategy K. on the basis of enterprises＇ practices, Therefore enterprises＇ competition ecosystem theories have further been deepened and enriched.     

An Empirical Analysis of the Growth of IT Enterprises in China

The paper makes an empirical analysis on the main factors affecting IT corporate growth-human resource and R＆D. By using data of China＇s listed IT companies, we focus on the relationship among corporate value （net return of equity, ROE） or development of COl＇porate value （Tobin＇s Q） and manager＇s salary, R＆D fee, R＆D employee etc. The conclusion shows that development of corporate value （Tobin＇s Q） has correlativity positive with the plurality of board chairman and general manager, independent directors＇ proportion, R＆D fee, and R＆D employees while it is non-obvious positive with salary of superior managers, holding stocks of general manager, capital investment, and negative with corporate scale. The conclusion is accordant with the development status of Chinese IT corporate.     

Export Product Diversification and Public Revenue’s Dependence on Resource Revenue

ABSTRACT

This article tries to reconcile two major priorities for countries, notably resource-rich countries on the international development agenda: export product diversification with a view to helping them better integrate into the multilateral trading system and tax reforms with a view to reducing the dependence of total public revenue on resource revenue, and therefore developing a more sustainable stream of public revenue. The analysis therefore involves examining empirically the impact of export product diversification on countries’ overall public revenue dependence on resource revenue, this dependence being measured by the share of resource revenue in total public revenue. The empirical analysis shows that export product diversification exerts a negative and significant impact on resource revenue share of total public revenue, and therefore could help facilitate tax reforms towards lower resource revenue dependence. Hence, while tax policy is the main policy tool to conduct tax reforms, export product diversification would likely contribute to facilitating the implementation of these reforms.     

Choice of specialization: do peers matter?

Social influence is an important factor in learning and decision-making. We estimate peer influence on student choice of specialization using data on undergraduate students of a Russian university. Information about individual social ties has been gathered from a questionnaire survey. We show that specialization choice is significantly influenced by friends as well as by study partners. The strongest effect is produced by friends who are study partners and those who have similar academic achievements. Reciprocal friendship ties have a stronger influence on the choice than nonreciprocal ones. Also, the decision is affected by classmates with similar academic achievement. The results allow us to better understand the mechanisms of peer effects in the specialization choice.     

Dealing with Ignored Attributes in Choice Experiments on Valuation of Sweden’s Environmental Quality Objectives

Using a choice experiment, this paper investigates how Swedish citizens value three environmental quality objectives. In addition, a follow-up question is used to investigate whether respondents ignored any attributes when responding. The resulting information is used in model estimation by restricting the individual parameters for the ignored attributes to zero. When taking the shares of respondents who took both the environmental and the cost attributes (52–69% of the respondents) into account, then the WTP for each attribute changes if the respondents who ignored the attributes have a zero WTP. At the same time, we find evidence that not all respondents who claimed to have ignored an attribute really did. However, the most commonly ignored non-monetary attributes always have the lowest rankings in terms of WTP across all three environmental objectives. Thus, our results show that instead of ignoring attributes completely, respondents seem to put less weight on the attributes they claimed to have ignored.     

Diagnosis on the Problem of the Human Resources Management of State-owned Enterprises

With the reform of the state-owned enterprises, the level of the human resources management of a lot of state-owned enterprises has been gradually improved. However, because of the macroscopic system, history, culture and their own reasons, there are still a series of problems in the human resources management of state-owned enterprises. In order to promote the reform of state-owned enterprises and to improve the competitiveness of enterprises, we should critically research these urgent problems. The paper will take an example of one company which was investigated by state-owned enterprises will be listed and analysed. the author, and the common problems which exist in most state-owned enterprises will be listed and analysed.     

The Technical Innovation Mode of the Knowledge Enterprises and the Government Substitute——The Management Innovation of the Chinese Knowledge Enterprises

The Chinese economists believe that the government substitute has the positive external effect on the management of the knowledge enterprises. The mix innovation mode of the government substitute will improve the efficiency of the technical innovation mode of the knowledge enterprises. The knowledge enterprises of the developing country can use the mix innovation mode of the government substitute for reference.     

My Choice: Women’s Contraceptive-Use Autonomy in Bangladesh

ABSTRACT

Using a nationally representative household survey for two cohorts of married women, this study examines women’s contraceptive-use autonomy (CUA) incidence and correlates in Bangladesh, focusing on the role of education. Previous research has examined the incidence and correlates of contraceptive use and of several dimensions of female autonomy but only rarely the intersection of the two – that is, CUA. This study finds that women from the younger cohort are far more likely to have complete autonomy over contraceptive use than women from the older cohort. Detailed decompositions reveal that the improvement in education across cohorts is the main correlate of the improved generational CUA gap. Health knowledge, especially knowledge that the use of condoms can help avoid contracting HIV/AIDS, is part of the transmission mechanism between women’s education and women’s CUA but also exerts an additional influence on CUA.     

New Thought about the Marketing Orientation of Middle and Small-sized Enterprises of China

The reasonable marketing orientation is related to the survival and the development of the enterprises. According to the disadvantages and superiority of the middle and small sized enterprises of our country, this paper analyzes the new thought about the marketing orientation from the aspects of marketing product orientation, marketing way orientation, marketing target orientation, marketing strategy orientation and marketing idea orientation. It has great theoretical and practical significance.     

Does Intelligence Affect Economic Diversification?

This paper extends the growing literature on knowledge economy by investigating the effect of intelligence on economic diversification. Using a battery of estimation techniques that are robust to endogeneity, we find that human capital has positive correlations with export diversification, manufactured added value and export manufactures. This empirical evidence is based on a world sample of 170 countries for the year 2010. The findings have significant implications for the fight against the Dutch disease. In essence, investing in human capital could bring economic diversity and therefore dampen negative external shocks related to resource‐dependence. Other knowledge‐economy implications are discussed.