COMPENDIA: Harmonizing Business Ownership Data Across Countries and Over Time

This paper presents a harmonized data set over the period 1972–2002, containing two-yearly data on the number of non-agricultural business owners and the size of the labour force for 23 OECD countries, as well as the quotient of these two variables which is called the business ownership rate of a country. The data set is called COMPENDIA, which means COMParative ENtrepreneurship Data for International Analysis. It has been constructed by EIM Business and Policy Research, using OECD statistics as well as other relevant sources. We make an attempt to make business ownership rates comparable across countries and over time.     

Sustainability Governance Across Time and Space: Connecting Environmental Stewardship in the Firm with the Global Community

To differentiate ecosystem management, three models of firm‐level environmental stewardship are paired with three types of trust, which serve as informal governance mechanisms. The interconnectedness of organizational fields and the influence of intertemporality and interspatiality (time and space) are key dynamics in developing decentralized networks as an approach for linking firms, organizational fields, and global sustainability efforts. Interviews with 18 firms, government agencies, and nonprofit‐making organizations from Japan and the USA are utilized to discuss the key concepts in the paper. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.     

“蚂蚁雄兵”登陆美国

1月8日,冯东明和他的美克国际家具股份有限公司（600337．SZ,以下简称“美克”）花费894万美元收购了美国一家具企业Schnadig。     

我国GDP增长率序列中趋势成分和周期成分的分解

本文使用H-P滤波、时间趋势平稳、ARMA趋势平稳和状态空间分解等趋势分解方法，对我国GDP增长率序列进行了趋势分解，并对各种周期成分进行了对比检验。我们发现，这些分解方法得到的周期成分具有类似的统计性质，但就残差序列的白噪声检验来说，双变量状态空间模型的分解效果最为显著，因此应该采用状态空间模型进一步分析我国的经济周期性质。     

惠普中国换帅：权力更迭的背后

应该说惠普中国区的高调换帅,惠普的全球新总裁马克·赫德起到了关键性的推动。孙振耀为人稳重,而符标榜的风格是务实、直接——后者更符合马克·赫德目前的中国市场目标     

BN周期成分的符号与我国GDP的真实周期

本文从理论上证明了以下的定理：当度量序列持久性的方差比大于1时,BN周期成分的符号应予反号,否则,不予反号。为验证定理,我们设计Monter-Carlo仿真实验,其结果也证实了理论定理。本文的理论结论和仿真结果,第一次从持久性的角度解释了文献中的“周期之谜”。在此基础上,我们应用BN周期分解方法和本文的理论结果,分解我国GDP的BN周期。结果显示,由于我国GDP的方差比为1.97,所以周期成分的符号应反号,由此形成我国GDP的真实周期。样本期内（2000Q2-2011Q4）我国共经历了六轮周期,这六轮周期不仅与我国实际经济增长的波动基本一致,而且与我国所遭遇的主要冲击相吻合;我国经济增长的周期具有波动幅度较大、持续时间又存在明显差异的特征。基于这些特征,本文认为,减弱我国经济增长的周期性波动,应成为宏观调控的重要内容。     

Social Power and Power Over Space: How the Bourgeoisie Reproduces itself in the City

Urban sociology has long ignored districts of wealth and privilege in cities because they harbor few ‘social problems’ and the class background of sociologists has not inclined them to venture there. In France after 1968, the continued attraction of Marxism and the sulfurous reputation of sociology conspired to make such investigation difficult. Pierre Bourdieu pioneered it with his landmark book on the bourgeoisie, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. This essay reports on two decades of research extending Bourdieu's model of social space to study the territories and strategies of the French high bourgeoisie and aristocracy. The dominant class lives in reserved upscale districts and this seclusion, resulting from the elective spatial aggregation of familial dynasties, is a fundamental characteristic of the group. Segregative isolation is strengthened by specific institutions, such as society balls and social clubs, entrusted with effecting class closure and perpetuation. But, in the greater Paris region, the best districts also attract businesses (corporate headquarters, luxury firms), and thus employment that prompts the established bourgeoisie to migrate westwards in an endless search for social exclusivity. In addition to their Paris homes, upper‐class dynasties possess family properties (a castle or a large manor house) in the provincial hinterland that serve as a basis for paternalistic forms of sociability, linking them to the local lower class via such institutions as riding to hounds. Spaces reserved by and for the high bourgeoisie are major vectors of social reproduction and, along with family and elite schools, help to train heirs suited to safeguarding and valorizing their inherited assets.     

Further Evidence on the Statistical Properties of Real GNP*

The well‐known lack of power of unit‐root tests has often been attributed to the short length of macroeconomic variables and also to data‐generating processes (DGPs) departing from the I(1)–I(0) models. This paper shows that by using long spans of annual real gross national product (GNP) and GNP per capita (133 years), high power can be achieved, leading to the rejection of both the unit‐root and the trend‐stationary hypothesis. More flexible representations are then considered, namely, processes containing structural breaks (SB) and fractional orders of integration (FI). Economic justification for the presence of these features in GNP is provided. It is shown that both FI and SB formulations are in general preferred to the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) [I(1) or I(0)] formulations. As a novelty in this literature, new techniques are applied to discriminate between FI and SB. It turns out that the FI specification is preferred, implying that GNP and GNP per capita are non‐stationary, highly persistent but mean‐reverting series. Finally, it is shown that the results are robust when breaks in the deterministic component are allowed for in the FI model. Some macroeconomic implications of these findings are also discussed.     

房地产企业融资模式的国际比较与启示

国外成熟房地产金融市场中,企业的融资渠道是多元化的,这就为企业的长期发展提供了强有力的资金支持。与此相比,中国房地产金融市场显现出极大的不完备性。     

中国人均GDP时间序列建模与相关分析

人均GDP是衡量一个国家和地区经济发展水平和综合经济实力的重要指标。本文在相关背景下收集了1978-2008年中国人均GDP时间序列数据,应用了SPSS软件进行数据分析并建立时间序列模型,利用模型预测了2009,2010年人均GDP数值,对制定相应的宏观调控政策有十分重要的意义。     

进出口贸易对地区生产总值增长贡献的实证研究——以镇江市为例

在推动经济增长的各种因素中,进出口贸易无疑是一个重要的因素。本文对近几年的镇江市生产总值和贸易发展展开了研究,并利用Eviews软件和SPSS软件,对镇江的生产总值、进口额和出口额进行了相关性分析和回归分析,最终得出两者之间存在正相关性,进而提出努力发展镇江市进出口的相关建议,以更好的发挥进出口贸易对经济增长的促进作用。     

结构与主体:城市空间生产中的双重逻辑及其正义考量

城市社会空间的演变是社会和空间相互作用的结果,除了资本、权力和文化等结构性力量,主体的情感、体验也是建构空间的有机组成要素。这种结构与主体双重逻辑相互缠绕并处于时刻不停的变迁之中,赋予空间以活力、开放性和无限可能性。空间正义就在于表征着弱势群体空间权益的"差异空间"是否可能,如何可能。     

The Road to Sustainability: Exploring the Process of Corporate Environmental Strategy Over Time

We explore corporate environmental strategy over time, investigating the patterns of evolving environmental investment decisions. Longitudinal case studies provide evidence that environmental strategy evolves through a feedback process, wherein outcomes of earlier decisions have an impact on subsequent decisions. Specifically, positive feedback from outcomes like innovation triggers higher goals, enhancing the undertaking of advanced investments, whereas negative feedback from outcomes, such as increased costs, decelerates the adoption of further investments. The study points to an emergent view of environmental strategy, where capabilities that are gradually developed in concomitance with environmental outcomes lead to an upgrading of environmental goals, thus triggering the feedback process. The process eventually culminates in higher levels of environmental conduct, being more and more integrated with business strategy and competitive advantage. Managers' values and environmental attitudes influence environmental decisions and actions, affecting the acceleration of the feedback process and the magnitude of responses. Managerial implications are discussed. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

农村住宅功能构成与空间设计——以重庆为例

城乡经济社会发展一体化是当今时代的需求及发展目标。因此,加快农村改革发展是推进形成一体化新格局的必要基础,而改善农村住宅现况又是加快农村改革发展的重要一环。本文以重庆上个世纪改革开放以来建成的农村住宅为研究对象,以农民的日常生活习惯及需求为基础,浅要分析了其功能构成及布局,提出了一些空间设计要点。     

房地产开发项目与一般建设项目可行性研究的比较与分析

房地产开发项目与一般建设项目都属于建设项目，两者的可行性研究应具有共性。目前，两者的可行性研究在内容，总投资构成的分类方法，基本财务报表的具体内容，评价方法等方面都有差别。通过两者的比较与分析，在内容与格式统一，提高可行性研究水平等方面提出了一些建议和措施。     

突破时空界限的财务适时监控

文章通过揭示企业在信息化环境下财务监控存在的主要问题,构建了控制点适时监控和中心适时监控相结合的创新模式,这一新模式能促使财务监控理念的转换--突破时间和空间的界限,从定期控制转为适时控制,将业务管理与财务监控集成.