Debate on Neoliberalism in and after the Neoliberal Crisis

Social scientists have started to discuss the causes and consequences of the financial and economic crisis of 2007–09, and have also started debating the role of neoliberalism in and after the crisis. More generally, the crisis is often seen as a crisis of neoliberalism — and indeed it is. Neil Smith has observed that neoliberalism ‘has run out of ideas politically’ but remains dominant. The essays that make up this debate discuss what happened to neoliberalism during and after the global financial — or neoliberal — crisis, and how the heralded death and recovery of neoliberalism affects cities around the globe.     

金融危机对中小企业融资问题的影响与对策

文章分析了金融危机下中小企业融资难的现状及其问题产生的原因,并针对这些原因,探询解决中小企业融资难问题的有效对策.     

全球金融危机对中国物流行业的影响及对策研究

由2007年美国次贷危机导致的全球性金融危机,并逐步向实体经济渗透,引发了全球性的经济危机。这次全球金融危机对我国快速发展的物流业的影响很大,由于现在金融危机致使全球经济不景气而对物流产业产生的负面影响和从这次金融危机的产生原因来总结出我国物流产业应怎样避免类似的问题,对将来物流业的发展敲响了警钟。文中根据官方及行业协会提供的大量资料,结合深入的市场调查,分析了当前金融危机对物流行业的影响,并对未来中国物流行业发展的整体环境及发展趋势进行探讨和研究,在分析、预测的基础上,制定了物流行业今后的发展策略。     

全球金融危机下我国石油企业SWOT分析及应对策略

随着全球金融危机的蔓延,石油企业的经营环境发生了重大变化,其经营效益也受到了严重影响。本文运用SWOT矩阵分析法,对我国石油企业在金融危机背景下的优势、劣势、机会、威胁进行了全面分析,得出我国石油企业应加强国际合作与海外并购、调整优化产业结构、坚持技术进步和管理创新、积极争取国家的配套政策支持、提高可持续发展的能力,从而化危为机,以期在新一轮经济大发展中脱颖而出。     

The Financial Crisis and the Hegemony of Urban Neoliberalism: Lessons from Frankfurt am Main

In view of debates among critical urban scholars regarding the relationship between the current economic crisis and the stability of neoliberal hegemony on the urban scale, this article analyzes (1) the impact of the economic recession on the city of Frankfurt am Main, and (2) whether urban politics in the German financial center will witness a new phase of post‐neoliberalization. Statistical analyses of the local labor and property markets and of municipal budget trends reveal that the implications of the current crisis are relatively limited, especially when compared to the dot.com crisis in the early 2000s. Furthermore, a discourse analysis of the debates in the Frankfurt City Council between 2008 and 2010, supplemented by interviews with local political elites, shows that neoliberal hegemony remains stable and powerful regardless of the deep economic decline and a short period of uncertainty and intensive hegemonic struggles. In my analysis I focus on the power of neoliberal subjectivity and knowledge production in order to try and explain the deepening of the general consensus among local elites by demonstrating that a broad majority of actors from different political parties interprets the crisis within a neoliberal rationality.     

Financial constraints and corporate investments during the current financial and economic crisis: The credit crunch and investment decisions of Slovenian firms

We investigate the effect of financial constraints on the investment decisions of Slovenian firms during the current financial and economic crisis. By estimating the error-correction model and the Euler-equation specification, we found that corporate investments were significantly affected by financial constraints during the crisis. The effect of financial constraints intensified in 2009 and alleviated slightly in 2010, although still being significantly more intense than before the crisis hit the economy. By estimating a switching regression model with unknown sample separation that enabled us to address the problem of judgemental sample separation, we were also able to estimate the error-correction model separately for financially constrained and financially unconstrained firms. The results indicate that financial constraints have a significant effect on both financially constrained and financially unconstrained firms, although corporate investments were more severely affected in financially constrained firms.     

我国钢铁工业利用外商直接投资的现状和对策

本文对我国钢铁工业利用外商直接投资的现状和存在的问题进行了剖析,提出了利于钢铁工业利用外商直接投资健康有序发展的几点思考和建议。     

金融危机背景下看我国中小企业自主创新的重要性

由美国房产市场泡沫促成的金融危机导致全球的经济不景气,恶化了我国中小企业的外贸发展环境。因此我国中小企业旨在通过自主创新开拓经济发展道路。我国企业在自主创新方面既有优势,也面临着问题和困扰。通过分析我国企业自主创新的现状及存在问题,探求提高中小企业自主创新能力的途径,引导其走上自主创新的轨道。     

Organizational leadership practices in MNCs: the effect of the HRs value as a competitive factor and the FDI structure

The main goal of the paper is to present the research results on the impact that the value ascribed to human resources (HRs) as a strategic competitive factor of a company and the structure of FDI may exert on the advancement level of organizational leadership practices (as one of the HRM subfunctions) in multinational companies (MNCs). The structure of FDI covered: legal form of the foreign entities, type of investment, i.e., brownfield vs. greenfield, and four indices, i.e., internationalization index (II), geographical spread index (GSI), country’s economic development index (EDC), and culture distance index (CDI). The research sample was composed of 200 headquarters of MNCs located in Poland. All in all, three variables seem to have the most visible impact on the activities in the area of organizational leadership development practices, i.e., ownership structure, centralization vs. decentralization practices and cultural distance. Less important, but identifiable influences come from the GS index, EDC index and the smallest one from II index.     

The Dark Side of Urban Informality in the Global North: Housing Illegality and Organized Crime in Northern Italy

This article deals with housing illegality/informality in Italy, where it represents an established aspect of urban development. It presents a case study focused on Desio, a town close to Milan in northern Italy. Here housing illegality occurs by virtue of the well‐established presence of a mafia‐type criminal organization (the ‘Ndrangheta). Three examples of illegal construction in Desio are analysed, forming the basis for a discussion on the distinctive features of illegal house‐building in Italy. In particular, institutional incentives encouraging illegal housing are investigated, with reference to both formal institutions (e.g. planning laws, rules preventing unauthorized housing and building amnesties) and informal institutions (e.g. organized crime). The case of illegal housing in Italy contributes significantly to the wider international debate on urban informality, highlighting the critical need for research along avenues as yet only partially explored (e.g. informal housing in Western countries and the role of criminal activities and actors in the spread of informality) and challenging some common assumptions such as the geographical dualism (‘global North’ versus ‘global South’) which, implicitly, results from the international literature.     

多重目标下的跨国银行FDI动机和区位选择——基于跨国银行面板数据变截距固定效应模型的检验

依据1986年-2008年期间以外国金融直接投资的形式在我国设立商业存在的跨国银行数据、运用Panel Data变截距固定效应模型GLS估算方法,检验了跨国银行进入我国的动机和区位选择的影响因素.结果发现,跨国银行进入我国"追求利润"的动机比"客户追随"的动机更加强烈;而制度质量上接近的程度则是跨国银行进行区位选择的决定性因素.