Marketing education without borders: Exploiting the new information technologies

The recent literature on management education has been highly critical of the provision and delivery of educational offerings. In particular, by the failure of educators to address the international dimensions. This article outlines and evaluates a collaborative attempt to address these issues via the use of the new information technologies.     

Virtual Community

Abstract

While previous marketing activities were primarily focused on increasing market shares in terms of a mass marketing based on single transactions, the past few years saw a paradigmatic shift towards relationship management. In this respect, virtual communities are becoming increasingly significant for online customer relationship management. A major aspect of virtual communities is the concept of social capital. It will be shown that virtual communities that provide social capital are a key instrument to establish satisfaction, trust, and commitment within a business relationship.     

Virtual Waterless Ports

If there were not the economic crisis, Chinese economy were not affected, the market had stayed the same as two years ago or even earlier, economies in the eastern coastal areas had maintained strong. Midwestern economy had been a plant with plenty of shadow, inner land ports still fed eastern economy, maybe this unchanging condition will cause a visual fatigue.     

Virtual travel agencies

NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking -     

中俄边境互市贸易区海关管理问题初探

为了鼓励边境地区积极发展边境贸易与经济合作,我国政府近年来先后制定了一系列有关扶持、鼓励边境贸易和边境地区发展对外经济合作的政策措施.我国根据开展边境贸易的实际情况,参照国际通行规则,目前对我国边境贸易按边民互市贸易和边境小额贸易两种形式进行管理.     

E-Consulting in Virtual Negotiations

In the e-world where many of us live and work, virtual work arrangements will become increasingly commonplace. This paper reports on an exploratory study into the way in which consultants can ply their trade virtually with clients whom they never meet. US-located e-consultants provided advice to Hong Kong-located web site developers on the interface and content aspects of a website that was being developed for an international audience. Extensive analyses of the communication between the consultants and developers is undertaken, in parallel with an analysis of survey data obtained from the two sets of stakeholders. Lessons are drawn for future research and practice.     

隐性倾销研究

国际直接投资理论日益快速发展,其中资本的跨国流动对于东道国的影响一直是理论研究的重点之一.然而,一方面对于企业跨国经营的研究长期局限于国际直接投资理论的框架内;另一方面,对于倾销的研究大多是从法律规制的角度入手.文章首次将两者相结合并提出隐性倾销这一全新概念,利用计量经济学的方法及Eviews软件对跨国直接投资与我国企业的竞争力的关系进行定量分析,从而证明隐性倾销的存在,并给出实例加以佐证.希望以此对我国企业国际化战略的选择有所启示.     

Virtual Instant Global Entrepreneurship

International entrepreneurship must be hard, because so few firms attempt it. If true, perhaps it is hard because it requires knowledge about people and places far away. It is hard because it requires mastering processes to handle business across borders. And it is hard because it requires trust in the processes and eventually in the customers elsewhere. These three elements, knowledge, mastery and trust in international business are essential to the success of international entrepreneurship for SMEs.     

Intra-national versus international trade in the European Union: why do national borders matter?

The first objective of this paper is to estimate border effects among European Union countries. In this context, the specification of the gravity equation, together with the choice of the distance measure, are shown to be crucial for assessing the size of the border effect. The second objective is to evaluate the determinants of the cross-commodity variation in national border effects. Contrary to previous findings reported in the literature, we show that trade barriers do provide an explanation. In particular, technical barriers to trade, together with product-specific information costs, increase border effects, whereas non-tariff barriers are not significant. Our results further suggest that these barriers are not the only cause since the spatial clustering of firms is also found to matter.     

Transplanting corporate culture across international borders: Foreign direct investment and female employment in Japan

This paper examines the effect of foreign ownership on gender‐related employment outcomes and work practices in Japan. The data indicate that the proportion of females among workers, managers, directors and board members is higher in foreign affiliates than in domestic firms of comparable size operating in the same industry. Foreign affiliates are also more likely to offer flexible working arrangements, telecommuting and childcare subsidies as well as employ foreign workers. These effects are visible almost exclusively in older affiliates. The analysis of foreign acquisitions combining propensity score matching with a difference in differences suggests that increase in the female labour share takes place a few years after the ownership change. All these patterns are in line with the view that it takes time to transplant corporate culture to an overseas affiliate.     

农产品虚拟供应链管理及虚拟物流中心建构

农产品供应对现代供应链管理技术具有特殊依赖性,农产品虚拟物流中心是基于虚拟供应链管理技术,提升我国农产品市场竞争力的重要工具。农产品虚拟物流中心的构建应由政府搭建平台,企业实施运作,实现大规模并行处理,构建分布广泛、反应敏捷、功能强大的农产品物流网络。     

虚拟企业约束机制研究

当时间成为第一成功要素时,仅凭单个企业难以实现迅捷的资源聚集以抓住短暂的市场机遇,虚拟企业成为很好的解决方案。但对虚拟企业而言,运营风险并没有因组建虚拟企业而消失,只是由原来的单个企业承担变为多个企业承担;另外虚拟企业的关系风险因多利益体的原因而难以采用低成本的风险控制策略,更多的是强调协调。激励与约束是降低风险的一种更为有效的形式,因此有必要研究一些对虚拟企业有益的具体约束措施     

Virtual Reality and Innovation Potential

This article examines how companies can harness virtual reality (VR) technology to help make themselves more innovative. VR has some unique characteristics which, taken together, can help companies to develop three features common to many innovative organisations: a capacity to experiment in depth; involvement of all in the innovation process; and an ability to capture ideas generated in the innovation process. However, some obstacles need to be overcome before VR fulfils this potential.     

虚拟企业运作基础分析

虚拟企业被认为是2 1世纪企业的主要组织形式与管理模式之一,作为一种新的组织与管理模式,虚拟企业注重横向管理和企业间合作的网络型组织结构形式。虚拟企业要实现这种合作从而实现正常运行,必须使各个成员企业具有互补的核心能力,并在各成员企业之间形成完善的信息、知识、物流及契约网络     

虚拟团队集成化协作平台的设计

计算机技术的发展以及电子商务的兴起,对传统企业的团队协作方式产生了巨大影响。虚拟团队成为常用的协作方式。要对虚拟团队集成化协作平台的设计进行研究,从而提高工作效率,充分实现信息资源共事。     

关于虚拟经济几个重要问题的探讨

虚拟经济是经济全球化、信息化和金融自由化的产物,目前其总体规模已超过了实体经济.虚拟经济的发展在给世界经济带来了活力的同时又给世界经济体系特别是金融体系带来了极大的不确定性.因此,及时地研究虚拟经济的内涵、虚拟经济与现代信用、金融深化的关系及其正负效用有着重要的理论与现实意义.