Integrating the Ethical Dimension into the Analytical Framework for the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises in China's Socialist Market Economy: A Proposal

The discussions about the reform of state-owned enterprises are so far dominated by economic and legal considerations while the ethical dimension of this highly complex problem is being barely addressed explicitly, much less developed systematically and integrated into a broader analytical framework for companies in China. This paper is a proposal to introduce this kind of ethical considerations. First, the main features of the reform of state-owned enterprises are briefly summarized and a number of critical issues are identified. Second, the "balanced concept of the firm" is presented and compared with other approaches to corporate ethics in chiefly Western literature (discussions on "corporate social responsibility", the stakeholder approach, and social contract theories). Finally, the relevance of this "balanced concept of the firm" for the reform of state-owned enterprises is briefly discussed.     

企业并购估值中的威斯通模型扩展研究

威斯通模型是企业并购估值贴现现金流模型中具有代表性的研究。在威斯通固定增长模型的基础上,建立了考虑未来经营失败概率的估值模型;对威斯通超常增长而后无增长模型进行了修正,探讨了企业在超常增长期采取不同投资策略对其价值的影响,建立了一个更为简明的估值模型,并给出隐含超常增长期限的一种计算方法。     

技术性贸易壁垒政策择优:一个局部均衡的分析框架

技术性贸易壁垒由于其维护国家安全、保护人类和动植物安全和健康、保证产品质量以及保护环境等方面的正当理由 ,成为了贸易保护主义的庇护所。各进口国频繁使用技术性贸易壁垒来保护本国产业和市场 ,有时候保护的成本是很高的 ,甚至超过了保护的收益所得。本文用一个单一产品市场局部均衡的分析框架 ,演示利用成本收益分析对SPS措施进行政策择优的过程 ,该方法提供了分析不同收益和成本以及贸易限制、价格和福利关系的框架。结论是 ,进口国应该权衡成本和收益 ,技术性贸易壁垒政策的实施要考虑经济效率 ,经济学的分析可以为此提供理论依据。     

公司估价中股权自由现金流折现模型分析

自由现金流量折现估值法是企业价值评估理论中最为成熟的模型。运用由自由现金流量定义衍生出的股权自由现金流量折现方法作为研究对象,选取3家上市公司进行案例分析,通过对永续增长模型、两阶段增长模型、三阶段增长模型在企业价值评估中具体应用的比较,并与真实市值对比,其结果表明,股权自由现金流折现法下采用永续模型和两阶段模型得到的估算值能够最好的拟合上市公司的流通市值。股权自由现金折现流模型对于我国A股市场中一些成熟行业且发展稳定公司的价值评估是比较准确的,从而一定程度上能为投融资双方、收购企业和目标企业的决策者提供参考。     

Pricing Options On Risky Assets In A Stochastic Interest Rate Economy1

This paper studies contingent claim valuation of risky assets in a stochastic interest rate economy. the model employed generalizes the approach utilized by Heath, Jarrow, and Morton (1992) by imbedding their stochastic interest rate economy into one containing an arbitrary number of additional risky assets. We derive closed form formulae for certain types of European options in this context, notably call and put options on risky assets, forward contracts, and futures contracts. We also value American contingent claims whose payoffs are permitted to be general functions of both the term structure and asset prices generalizing Bensoussan (1984) and Karatzas (1988) in this regard. Here, we provide an example where an American call's value is well defined, yet there does not exist an optimal trading strategy which attains this value. Furthermore, this example is not pathological as it is a generalization of Roll's (1977) formula for a call option on a stock that pays discrete dividends.     

TNC Motives for Signing International Framework Agreements: A Continuous Bargaining Model of Stakeholder Pressure

Over the past decade, discussion has flourished among practitioners and academics regarding workers’ rights in developing countries. The lack of enforcement of national labour laws and the limited protection of workers’ rights in developing countries have led workers’ rights representatives to attempt to establish transnational industrial relations systems to complement existing national systems. In practice, these attempts have mainly been operationalised in unilateral codes of conduct; recently, however, negotiated international framework agreements (IFAs) have been proposed as an alternative. Despite their growing importance, few studies have empirically studied IFAs. This paper starts to fill this gap by studying why corporations adopt IFAs, based on a qualitative study of the process leading to the signing of a recent IFA. The study’s findings complement existing research into why corporations adopt IFAs, codes of conduct, and CSR policies by demonstrating that corporate motives can be linked to a desire to retain a trusting relationship with the labour union movement. In addition, the findings indicate that the discrete campaign model of stakeholder pressure dominant in previous research should be complemented by a continuous bargaining model of stakeholder pressure. The paper concludes by discussing differences between these conceptual models of stakeholder pressure and avenues for future research.

企业本质新认识:基于资本裂变的视角

本文将现代西方企业理论的主流观点归纳为四种 ,对它们进行了总结性评论并指出其存在的逻辑悖论。在系统比较马克思企业制度理论与现代西方企业理论的基础上 ,以企业的契约性为逻辑起点 ,利用资本概念作为一种分析工具来研究企业本质问题 ,并将其界定为不完备要素使用权资本化交易合约履行的过程。不仅如此 ,本文基于现代企业资本范畴的演进逻辑 ,将财务资本、人力资本、组织资本与社会资本整合到一个逻辑一致的企业理论体系中 ,是对企业本质的新认识。     

EQUILIBRIUM STATE PRICES IN A STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY MODEL1

In a stochastic volatility model, the no-free-lunch assumption does not induce a unique arbitrage price because of market incompleteness. In this paper, we consider a contingent claim on the primitive asset, traded in zero net supply. Given a system of Arrow-Debreu state prices, we provide necessary and sufficient conditions for consistency with an intertemporal additive equilibrium model that we fully characterize. We show that the risk premia corresponding to the minimal martingale of Föllmer and Schweizer (1991) are consistent with logarithmic preferences, while the Hull and White model (1987) (volatility risk premium independent of the asset price) is consistent with a class of utility functions including constant relative risk aversion (CRRA) ones.     

Analysis of Social Performance in the Spanish Financial Industry Through Public Data. A Proposal

Banking firms are becoming increasingly aware that their clients’ management of environmental and social risks may in term threaten their own business as lenders and investors. In addition, stakeholders are requiring banks to improve their social performance. As a result, some banks are developing corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies and management systems to reduce potential risks and improve their performance. In the Spanish financial system, half of the banking firms are savings banks, most of which have always used some Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) criteria in their management. Private Banks have only recently started to integrate social aspects in their performance. However, no formal analysis has been carried out on the impact of CSR strategies. Various initiatives have been launched nationally and internationally to include the social dimension in management systems. The purpose of this research is to analyse the social performance of the main Spanish financial companies through public data such as social or sustainability reports and media sources. In order to do this, we need to determine which CSR criteria most greatly affect banking firms and to choose the most accurate quantitative and qualitative indicators to measure social performance.     

Russian Telecommunication Company MTS Goes to the CIS

SUMMARY

The article deals with the outward internationalization of Russia's telecommunication company Mobile TeleSystems (MTS). This research investigates both target foreign markets and entry strategies of the company. In 2002, MTS started with entries to Belarus and Ukraine, followed by expanding to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in 2004. The choice of CIS countries was determined by knowledge of business environment and practices which are similar to Russia, and by economic and political ties inherited from the past. The basic strategy was acquisition of local mobile operators with the exception of Belarus where a joint venture was established. The article suggests that new market entries are expected.     

Why Stakeholder And Stockholder Theories Are Not Necessarily Contradictory: A Knightian Insight

The normative foundations of the investor centered model of corporate governance, represented in mainstream economics by the nexus-of-contracts view of the firm, have come under attack, mainly by proponents of normative stakeholder theory. We argue that the nexusof- contracts view is static and limited due to its assumption of price-output certainty. We attempt a synthesis of the nexus-of-contracts and the Knightian views, which provides novel insights into the normative adequacy of the investor-centered firm. Implications for scholarship and management practice follow from our discussion. S. Ramakrishna (Rama) Velamuri is Assistant Professor at IESE Business School, where he teaches Entrepreneurship and Negotiation in the MBA and executive education programs. He is also a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business in India, the University of Saarland in Germany, and the University of Piura in Peru. His research has been published in both academic and practitioner outlets: Journal of Business Venturing, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures (forthcoming), Universia Business Review, Financial Times Mastering Management Series, The Hindu, Business Line, Actualidad Economica, La Vanguardia, and Diario Financiero (Chile). He has also contributed several book chapter on enterpreneurship and strategy. He received a B.Com. degree from the University of Madras, an MBA from IESE Business School, and a Ph.D. from the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia. Sankaran Venkataraman (Venkat) is the MasterCard Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business Adminstration, University of Virginia, where he teaches MBA and executive level courses in strategy and entrepreneurship. He also serves as the Director of Research of the Batten Institute and is the Editor of the Journal of Business Venturing. He consults with Fortune 500 firms as well as several small companies. He is advisor to firms, universities and government organizations. He is a speaker for and advisor to the Entrepreneurial Forum, a program of the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce aimed at promoting trade through entrepreneurship around the world. He received his M.A. in Economics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India; his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta); and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.     

Ordinary Jurisprudence and the Democratic Firm: A Response to David Ellerman

David Ellerman has proposed an argument for the democratic firm based on a principle of ordinary jurisprudence, the principle of responsibility. The responsibility principle says that people are to be held legally responsible for the results of their intentional deliberate actions. Ellerman contends that laborers ought to constitute the firm and appropriate its whole product, because production is the intentional deliberate action of laborers. The employment contract is thus invalid, and every firm ought to be reconstructed as a partnership of all those who work in the enterprise. This article argues that there are two flaws in his argument. The first flaw is Ellerman's focus on a distinction between people and things, rather than on the varying forms of participation in an action, including participating by contributing tools. An analogy with the concept of criminal accomplices shows that those who contribute capital to an enterprise could share responsibility for production along with laborers. The second flaw is that while responsibility is inalienable, when responsibility produces a property right, that property right is alienable. The employment contract could be reconceived as a type of futures contract, selling a claim on the eventual whole product in return for something like a fixed wage.     

CAFTA框架下证券市场完善之路

截至2006年底,CAFTA成员国已积累8.5万亿美元国内金融部门资产.企业融资需求和对金融服务要求逐渐扩大,凸显了高效金融中介的重要性,而作为重要金融中介的CAFTA证券市场还有很大改善的空间.提高证券市场的流动性、大力发展公司债券、各国证券市场的合作、共同的证券市场监管机制的建立将使CAFTA的证券市场更加完善.     

基于时间维度的物流外包演进理论分析框架研究

本文以时间维度对物流外包实践演进的阶段进行了划分,并对其构成内容进行了归纳和比较;通过对国内外物流外包理论相关文献的梳理,构建了一个与实践活动演进相支撑的理论分析框架;通过追踪国内外的最新研究,讨论未来物流外包实践演进以及理论研究的方向。     

Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Loyalty and Valuation of Services

The study of corporate social responsibility has been the object of much research in recent decades, although there is a need to continue investigating its benefits as a marketing tool. In the current work we adopt a multi-dimensional perspective of social responsibility, and we carry out market research to determine the perceptions of users of mobile telephone services about economic, legal, ethical and social aspects of their operating companies. With these data we determine the structure and components of the concept of social responsibility. Subsequently, this is related with the overall evaluation of the service and loyalty by means of a model of structural equations, in order to determine the influence of corporate social responsibility on these concepts, and hence its benefits as a commercial tool. Dr. Ma del Mar García de los Salmones is Professor of Marketing at the University of Cantabria (Spain). Her current research interests include corporate social responsibility, brand image and consumer behaviour. She received her Ph.D. in Business Administration in 2002 with her work “Corporate Image as a Key Variable in Firm Choice: Identity and Positioning of Mobile Phone Business”. Dr. ángel Herrero is Professor of Marketing at the University of Cantabria (Spain). His current research interests include consumer behaviour, e-commerce and corporate social responsibility. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cantabria in 2002 for his work on “The Process of Adoption of a New Sales System: An Application to B2C e-commerce”. Dr. Ignacio Rodríguez del Bosque Rodríguez is Professor of Marketing at the University of Cantabria (Spain). His areas of research include business communication, relationship marketing and distribution channels. His works have previously been published in the several international journals, like Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Tourism Management and Industrial Marketing Management.     

加拿大CoCo委员会内部控制框架述评

加拿大CoCo委员会的内部控制框架是目前世界上最具影响力的内部控制理论框架之一。目的、承诺、能力、监控和学习四个基本内部控制要素以及在此基础上衍生出的20条核心原则是COCo委员会内部控制框架的主要特色。此外,coC0委员会还在内部控制的定义、内部控制与管理活动的关系以及内部控制的作用等方面有着独到的见解。     

浅析工程量清单计价模式存在的问题

工程量清单计价作为一种新的计价模式被引入到建设工程造价领域,使建设工程造价计价方式从定额计价模式向清单计价模式转变,推动了建筑市场的健康、有序发展。但在推行工程量清单计价的过程中也存在《计价规范》分类不全、计价依据缺位、评标方法不合理等问题,文章提出了相应的解决对策。     

经营者人力资本与企业所有权安排

经营者人力资本的特性影响企业所有权安排,将企业所有权安排给经营者是企业本质的要求,最优的企业所有权安排具体化为剩余索取权和剩余控制权的对称性安排,所以经营者享有剩余索取权优化了企业所有权安排,体现了经营者人力资本的价值。     

PRICING CALLABLE BONDS BY MEANS OF GREEN'S FUNCTION1

This paper derives a closed-form solutin for the price of the European and semi-Amirican callable bond for two popular one-factor models of the term structure of interest rates which have been proposed by Vasicek as well as Cox, Ingersoll, and Ross. the price is derived by means of repeated use of Green's function, which, in turn, is derived from a series solution of the partial differential equation to value a discount bond. the boundary conditions which lead to the well-known formulae for the price of a discount bond are also identified. the algorithm to implement the explicit solution relies on numerical quadrature involving Green's function. It offers both higher accuracy and higher speed of computation than finite difference methods, which suffer from numerical instabilites due to discontinuous boundary values. For suitably small time steps, the proposed algorithm can also be applied to American callable bonds or to any American-type option with Green's function being explicitly known.     

Organizational Assimilation of Web Services Technology: A Research Framework

Web services is an extremely promising technology that has the potential to revolutionize many aspects of information systems. Web services facilitates vendor-, platform-, and language-independent, loosely coupled, inexpensive integration of both internal and external systems. Although there is a general agreement that Web services will have a significant impact on applications of information technology in organizations, there is a disagreement regarding the speed and spread of assimilation due to a multitude of inhibitors. In this article, we identify 3 areas of assimilation of Web services in organizations: information systems departmental assimilation, intraorganizational assimilation, and interorganizational assimilation. We propose a research framework for investigating various issues related to organizational assimilation of Web services. In addition, we developed a projection of the assimilation patterns for the 3 areas of organizational assimilation of Web services. Based on the proposed framework, we outline a research agenda on the organizational assimilation of Web services.