编辑劳动的创造性与编辑能力的培养

编辑劳动贯穿于编辑工作的全过程,编辑劳动的创造性也同样体现在编辑过程的始终。编辑工作者在每个环节上都要耗费巨大的精力,运用创造性思维,进行艰苦的劳动。正是由于编辑劳动的创造性,决定了从事出版工作的编辑必须具有较高的能力素质。在社会经济迅速发展的今天,现代编辑人员要进一步加强学习,注重综合素质的提高与业务能力的培养,为构建社会主义和谐文化贡献自己的力量。     

Forum Selection in International Business Contracts: Home Bias Portfolio Puzzle and Managerial Moral Hazard

We provide an economic analysis of forum selection in international business contracts. International business contracts or multi-state transactions within federally structured countries might be subject to more than one sovereign adjudication system. In case of conflict between the transacting parties, the appropriate tribunal must be identified. We examine the question of business firms' optimal choice of the forums to adjudicate future business disputes. We extend the investment model approach to litigation by applying a portfolio theory type analysis. We show that firms that prefer higher expected income and lower income volatility are better off diversifying the forums under which they litigate business disputes. This stands in contrast to real-world business practice that consistently shows a clear preference to selecting the home court and legal system to settle international business disputes. In a fraction of the cases, both parties gain by selecting a certain forum, because of specialization for example, and it becomes optimal to ignore diversification. In most cases, however, the relevant factors that affect forum selection are zero sum and priced ex ante, court bias, for example. Once priced, there is no incentive to disregard diversification. We hypothesize that, in addition to specialization, factors such as managerial moral hazard explain the real-world behavior of firms: managers are less likely to be blamed, ex post, for choosing the home court. We suggest that, as international barriers decline and international trade grows, firms will diversify the forums in which they adjudicate international business disputes.     

The Case for Accounting Education Research

Pressures on the unit of resources within higher education are noted and the possible implications for assessment practice considered. There is a tension between low-cost and high-quality assessments, yet assessment appears to drive the students' agenda and requires careful thought if the programme design is to lead to high-quality learning outcomes. A theoretical framework is presented with the purpose of developing an assessment strategy which will enhance the quality of learning by the student. A case study of an introductory accounting module is described and issues of teaching, learning and assessment are explored. A message of hope is signalled; it may be possible to foster deep learning through assessments which engage the student actively with the subject, despite the apparent constraints acting upon academics.     

信贷调控力度加强背景下商业银行经营的新特点

该文分析了2010年以来在信贷调控力度加强的背景下,国内商业银行经营出现的新特点,指出信贷调控政策的变化在促进商业银行调整信贷投向结构、转变经营方式的同时,也对商业银行完善经营管理水平提出了新的要求。下一阶段,商业银行在优化资产结构、提高贷款定价水平和发展中间业务等方面还有待提高。     

美国混合合并反垄断法规制研究

关于混合合并的问题,美国在不同历史时期的态度是不同的,甚至是互相矛盾的。因此,美国的混合合并经历了合法—非法—基本上合法的一个过程。在这个过程中,尤其是美国视混合合并为非法的时期内,通过一系列的具体案件,美国混合合并理论得到了蓬勃发展。我国应当借鉴美国的经验,在反垄断法的实施过程中来具体分析混合合并行为,从而促进我国反垄断法的发展。     

Ritual legitimation, de-coupling and the budgetary process: managing organizational hypocrisies in a multinational company

The study of participation in the budgetary cycle has formed a prominent part of the research literature concerned with the budgetary process. More recently there has emerged a body of literature concerned with exploring the political and symbolic nature of the budgetary process. The paper reports upon the outcomes of an empirical study of the introduction of `budgetary participation' in a division of a European subsidiary of a large North American car manufacturer. We detail the long process of consultation and negotiation within the subsidiary, and between it and the European Headquarters. The study provides a revealing instance of the roles of formal budget participation as a ritual of control and legitimation without the substantive involvement of middle managers and suggested to us the introduction of de-coupling and organizational hypocrisy alongside the introduction of budget participation. The study pays close attention to the contingent effects of the wider political context of the division and the relationships between the division, its organizational context and organizational environment, and how this context played upon the budgetary process in the division. The outcomes that we analyse at `Delta' reflect the de-coupling strategies and organizational hypocrisies commonly found in public sector organizations. In this wider setting the corporation persists with the ritual of `tight' budget negotiation and target setting and apparent underachievement in performance. Yet we conclude that the complex technological and political context to the formation and siting of Delta continued and may continue to support its existence.$g0