Employment Systems in Japan's Financial Industry: Globalization,Growing Divergence and Institutional Change

This article examines growing divergence and change in the employment systems of Japan's financial industry from the early 1990s until shortly after the so‐called Lehman Shock. This was a period which saw accelerated deregulation and globalization strongly impact the country's financial markets, leading to intensified competition over human resources. Foreign multinational corporations introduced into Japan's local product and labour markets new global ‘rules of the game’; in response, some native firms were forced to alter core aspects of a traditional employment model. The result was the emergence of diverging patterns of employment. The present study will demonstrate that the interaction of two key factors — national ownership and variation among core products and services offered — is shaping employment diversification, mediated by firms’ individual policies and practices. This research contributes to the debate on the effects of globalization on the divergence and change of employment systems.     

DQ5030型斗轮机回转轴承的更换

斗轮机是一种大型的机械设备,当其仅是回转轴承需要检修更换以及检修时间紧迫时,我们采取了把回转以上部分整体顶起更换轴承的简便办法。 1.斗轮机简介 斗轮机型号DQ5030,连续取料500t/h,回转半径30m,总高14.925m,如图1所示。回转轴承以上部分重量152t。 回转支承装置的大型交叉滚子轴承如图2所示,其齿圈(外圈)3用52个M36×330mm的螺栓与门架上的固定平台相联,内圈1用36个M36×330mm的螺栓与回转平台相联,回转轴承重7.2t。     

张掖市甘州区土地利用的时空结构分异研究

土地利用变化时空分异在很大程度上都反映于土地利用结构的时空分异,描述土地类型空间结构分异最常用的方法就是比较分析不同土地利用类型在空间方位上的差异。但考虑到此方法的一些缺陷,本文在上述方法的基础上,引入了年均变化强度指数指标来描述土地利用的时空结构分异特征。为了便于比较某一研究时期土地利用变化的强弱或趋势,可计算各空间单元的年均变化强度指数,它实质就是用各空间单元的土地面积来对其年均变化速度进行标准化处理,使其具有可比性,得出各不同用地类型的时空结构分异情况,对出现这种情况的原因进行综合分析评价,从而达到全面把握土地变化规律的目的。     

Science,practice and the System of Rice Intensification in Indian agriculture

The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is claimed to be a novel approach to rice cultivation that is both more productive and more sustainable than conventional methods. Such claims have been challenged or dismissed by many rice scientists, however. Despite the lack of clear and unequivocal endorsement by science, SRI seems to have spread widely and rather quickly to many rice-growing regions, including various areas of India. This paper discusses how and considers why SRI seems to have attracted the support of diverse stakeholders in Indian rice farming. As such, the SRI phenomenon should be taken seriously. Nevertheless, many scientific questions remain to be answered, concerning the biophysical mechanisms involved in SRI and their effects on plant performance and crop yields, the true spread of SRI practices among farmers and the system’s impacts on farm livelihoods, rice production and resource use. Indian enthusiasm for SRI implies a level of dissatisfaction with conventional approaches to rice intensification and a demand for new methods that can address the perceived problems and challenges of agriculture in the future.     

Interpenetration of organization and market : Japan's firm and market in comparison with the U.S.

Resource allocation mechanisms used in the market and within the firm are quite often a mixture of the pure market principle and the pure organization principle. Market principles penetrate into the firm's resource allocation and organization principles creep into the market allocation. Interpenetration occurs to remedy the failure of pure principles other in the market or in the organization. After presenting this new perspective, we analyze resource allocation mechanisms in Japan and the U.S. One conclusion is that interpenetration patterns are rather different between the two countries due to institutional, economic and societal differences. We also analyze the ways in which these differences affect Japanese and American corporate behavior in such areas as diversification strategy, corporate financing, and innovation and venture business activity.     

Developing Japan's R & D staff: in search of a new personnel management?

The traditional system of managing corporate manpower resources in Japan has fostered incremental innovation, diversification and organic growth. The establishment of R & D labs for frontier research has brought debate about the need to reform, or even abandon, traditional methods. The evidence to date suggests marginal rather than wholesale change.     

It's Been A Hard Day's Night: The Concentration and Intensification of Work in Late Twentieth‐Century Britain

This paper presents evidence on trends in work pressure in late twentieth‐century Britain. The main findings are: (1) Average hours of work levelled off at the start of the 1980s, following a long historic fall, but have not increased since. However, the dispersion of hours has increased, and working hours have been concentrated into fewer households. (2) Work effort has been intensified since 1981. Intensification was greatest in manufacturing during the 1980s, and in the public sector during the 1990s. (3) Between 1986 and 1997 there have been substantial increases in the number of sources of pressure inducing hard work from employees.     

电力企业文化：在变革中重塑

随着改革开放进一步深入发展,尤其是党中央提出“三个代表”和“科学发展观”以后,企业文化建设受到了企业的广泛关注。越来越多的企业意识到企业文化建设对企业的生存发展,尤其是可持续发展有着极其重要的影响。以先进的企业文化促使企业提高管理水平,增强凝聚力和打造核心竞争力,已经成为当前我国企业重要的战略举措之一。在此形势下,面对日趋激烈的市场竞争,电力企业要获得不竭的发展动力,打造长青基业,企业文化建设和重塑是不可或缺的关键环节。文化是国家和民族的灵魂,同时也是企业的灵魂,集中体现着国家和民族的品格,同时也体现出一个…     

商业模式的理论模型:要素及其关系

在商业模式竞争成为趋势的时代,如何辨识和设计商业模式成为重要实践问题,而发现可靠的商业模式的一般性、基础性理论模型是解决问题的关键。但迄今发展的这类模型在要素认知方面仍有很多歧义,特别是始终未能厘清要素之间的理论关系,因此难以用来有效解决实践问题。本文运用扎根研究方法,深入案例企业获得原始调查数据,抽象出商业模式的基本要素,揭示了其理论联系机制,从而首次发展了一个具有确切理论关系的商业模式一般性理论模型,深化了人们对企业价值创造一般机制的认识,由此为解决商业模式辨识和设计的实践问题发展了更具有可操作性的理论工具,并为企业整合管理提供了新思路。     

Leadership and Its Consequences: Technical Change in the Longshore Industry

The leadership of the two U.S. longshore unions used different strategies when faced with technical change during the period 1959–89. One union used its market power to maintain membership and increase wages and benefits; the other concentrated on wages, benefits, and adjustment mechanisms. The first strategy was economically superior in the short run, but led to reduced wages and employment in the long run.