Machismo in Organizations: Individual Predictors & Context-Dependent Outcomes

Two studies were conducted to examine possible predictors of machismo value endorsement and to test the possibility that machismo’s effects on job-related outcomes may be stronger in “family-oriented” than in “team-oriented” organizations. A total of 178 students were recruited from upper-level management and MBA classes at a large university in the Southwestern U.S. In Study 1, participant gender, familism values, and femininity predicted machismo values. Unexpectedly, ethnicity did not predict machismo values. Study 2 replicated results for predictors of machismo values, except that femininity did not emerge as a significant predictor. Additionally, Study 2 results indicated that machismo’s effects were dependent on the extent to which the company was viewed as family-oriented. Results suggest that machismo values: (a) may be relevant for both Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites, (b) are related, yet somewhat distinct from theoretically related variables like gender role endorsement and familism, and (c) are especially likely to affect expectations and behaviors when the organization’s culture includes elements (e.g., family orientation) that evoke a connection to those values. One of the most prominent recent demographic trends to emerge in the U.S. workforce is the rapid increase in workers of Hispanic descent. Organizations should expect an accompanying wave of employee values, attitudes, beliefs, and behavioral expectations influenced by aspects of Hispanic culture. Further, it would be of considerable applied value to identify ways to strategically harness positive effects of machismo values while mitigating potentially negative effects.     

中美军队财务会计报告目标比较与借鉴

近年来中国军队后勤改革,使中关两国军队所面临的军事经济环境逐渐趋同。本文通过对两国军队财务会计报告的比较,分析了异同点及原因,提出了借鉴美国军队经验改进中国军队财务会计报告的思路。     

Phase transition in the S&P stock market

We analyze the returns of stocks contained in the Standard & Poor’s 500 index from 1987 until 2011. We use covariance matrices of the firms’ returns determined in a time windows of several years. We find that the eigenvector belonging to the leading eigenvalue (the market) exhibits a phase transition. The market is in an ordered state from 1995 to 2005 and in a disordered state after 2005. We can relate this transition to an order parameter derived from the stocks’ beta and the trading volume. This order parameter can also be interpreted within an agent-based model.     

Sense,nonsense and the S&P500

The theory of financial markets is well developed, but before any of it can be applied there are statistical questions to be answered: Are the hypotheses of proposed models reasonably consistent with what data show? If so, how should we infer parameter values from data? How do we quantify the error in our conclusions? This paper examines these questions in the context of the two main areas of quantitative finance, portfolio selection and derivative pricing. By looking at these two contexts, we get a very clear understanding of the viability of the two main statistical paradigms, classical (frequentist) statistics and Bayesian statistics.     

会计信息呈报格式的决策价值研究述评——基于权变理论的视角

基于国外近几十年的相关文献,从权变理论的视角出发,应用结构化的程序和方法对图表呈报格式相关研究的内容和现状进行了梳理与评估,展示了这一研究领域的历史发展脉络和研究现状,同时进一步提出了关于图表呈报格式研究的未来发展方向,以期为实务和行为会计的相关研究提供建议与启示。     

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2022年,工信部将着力提振制造业投资。对"十四五"规划已确定的工业和信息化领域重点工程项目,具备条件的尽早启动实施。鼓励支持企业加大投入,引导金融机构加大对企业数字化、绿色化改造的支持力度。——日前,工业和信息化部部长肖亚庆接受记者采访时表示。     

On the R&D/marketing interface in knowledge intensive entrepreneurial firms

In this paper we focus on the performance impact associated with whether R&D or marketing takes the lead in product innovations and/or product development. We examine empirically the performance of a sample of entrepreneurial firms across 10 European Union countries for which we can identify alternative regimes in which R&D, or in which marketing, is viewed as being relatively more important in creating and sustaining the firm’s competitive advantage. We find that when R&D is the dominant strategy, firms realize greater growth in sales, other factors held constant.