Does price reflect emotional,structural or performance quality?

Three denim jeans products from the same manufacturer with differentiated pricing and labels (antiqued, sandblasted, and stonewashed) were used to determine the relationship between price and quality. Both qualitative and quantitative procedures were used to analyse the garments. All three jeans were made of twill weave with 3 × 1 repeat. Both structural and performance characteristics were compared using standardized tests. Analysis of variance was used to compare the selected structural and performance characteristics among the three jeans products. Tukey’s HSD tests were used for post hoc multiple comparisons for three jeans. The findings revealed that despite the fact that all three jeans products were from the same store, and that the fabrics used the same weave, degree and direction of twist, the jeans differed significantly for several structural and performance characteristics. Several possibilities for future research were explored.     

Are Consumers Willing to Pay for Local Chicken Breasts and Pork Chops?

Consumer definitions of and demand for locally produced meat were collected via an online survey of 625 U.S. residents. Consumer choice experiments were utilised to elicit willingness to pay for locally produced chicken breasts and pork chops. Younger respondents, respondents without a college degree, participants in hunting and fishing and those who have altered their total meat consumption in the past 3 years due to food safety or animal welfare concerns more frequently report that local food is produced within 10 or 20 miles of their home. Results indicate that respondents are willing to pay a positive amount (at the mean) for verified local production of chicken breasts but not pork chops.     

Exposure to the new wave of offshoring: An unemployment perspective

This paper examines the impact of increasing service offshoring in a two‐sector economy. We find that it leads to lower domestic unemployment if the marginal task‐specific offshoring cost in the service sector is sufficiently large. Under this condition, the jobs created due to enhanced productivity outweigh the jobs that are destroyed. The reduction in unemployment increases the cost of hiring domestic workers, thus encouraging firms in the manufacturing sector to increase their offshoring scale and productivity. This, in turn, increases their cost savings and may lead to a further decrease in unemployment. Hence, complementarity between two sectors’ offshoring activities may emerge. We calibrate the model using economic parameters from Belgium, and the calibration results predict varied unemployment trends and impacts on manufacturing‐sector offshoring activities with different task‐specific offshoring cost schedules.     

物品特性与产权效率的决定

界定清晰的产权并不意味着一定是高效率的产权。从物品属性的视角提供一个决定产权效率的逻辑框架,全面分析产权效率的运作空间。研究认为:物品的可分性与有价性程度决定了该物品产权主体所承担的成本及可能获得的收益,不同属性的物品对产权效率的激励结构不同。如此,选择与物品特性相适的产权是产权效率的关键。     

近几年国内可视化管理研究

现代信息技术和计算机技术的发展,可视化管理日益受到公司和研究机构的重视,使可视化管理这一新的管理方法和技术的实现成为可能。文章分析了近几年国内可视化管理的研究领域,包括相关理论探讨、实现技术、实际应用,接着指出可视化管理发展所面临的问题,最后提出可视化管理的未来展望。     

Why and how should SHE make her way into the family business boardroom?

The most successful and longest-enduring family firms are progressively encouraging the active presence of women on their corporate boards. Why is the presence of women on boards so important for family firms? And how can policy makers and controlling owners encourage the active presence of women on family business corporate boards? By integrating the literature on women in governance and the goals of family businesses, we take a step toward increasing shareholder awareness of the economic and noneconomic benefits that women can bring to the family business boardroom. Using theory and empirical evidence, we show that the presence of women on corporate boards can be instrumental for the controlling owners of a family business to achieve prosperity and success, to preserve family cohesion, and to improve the reputation of the family and business simultaneously. Furthermore, we discuss the socioemotional and economic ramifications of excluding women from the family business board of directors. We conclude with four practical recommendations for encouraging the active presence of women on family business boards.     

A study on the attributes involved in the hedonic pricing of Brazilian clothing

The objective of this study is to identify the weighted importance of intrinsic and extrinsic attributes. Intrinsic attributes are defined as the specific features of products. Extrinsic attributes refer to other characteristics that are also important for price composition, such as brand, store layout and services, and purchasing experiences. In a survey with 1,923 collected responses, it was possible to identify and quantify intrinsic and extrinsic influencing factors beyond price strategy in the Brazilian fashion market for blue jeans. The statistical analysis was based on the hedonic price method. The idea of expressing the price based on a series of intrinsic and extrinsic variables avoids the problem of using the regression technique. In this research, multiple linear regression and quantile regression were applied. The results show that extrinsic attributes have greater influence than intrinsic features on explaining the final market prices using log-linear and quantile regression statistical methods.     

一种简单快速的GPS信号捕获方法

结合一般的GPS信号捕获算法,提出了一种更为简单快速的GPS信号捕获方法。此方法在1023个码片时间约1ms,可以完成一颗卫星在一个多普勒频移下的全码捕获检测。FPGA仿真表明,与传统的捕获方法相比,所提方法减少了资源消耗与时间消耗,同时保证了能在一个C/A码周期内获取一个多普勒频移下的C/A码相位,捕获更简单快速。     

Modelling Perceived Quality in Fruit Products

Abstract

Quality is in the eye of the beholder. Therefore, the firm's marketing strategy must be carried out by taking into consideration not only the consumers' objectively measurable needs and expectations but also their subjective perceptions as to what actually constitutes a quality product. Turning to Olson and Jacoby's distinction regarding the difference between a product's intrinsic and extrinsic attributes, the authors performed the estimation of structural equation models in order to assess the contribution of fruit product attributes to the Spanish consumers' perception of quality. In this article, the authors demonstrate that: (a) perceived quality in fruit products is a multidimensional concept depending on both intrinsic and extrinsic attributes; (b) intrinsic attributes exert a greater influence on perceived quality in fruit products than do extrinsic attributes; and (c) a very limited number of attributes (only seven out of twenty) stand out as being statistically significant to the consumers' perception of quality in fruit products. Finally, they provide statistical estimates pertaining to the relative contribution of the most significant intrinsic and extrinsic attributes to perceived quality in fruit products.     

Teaching Business Ethics: Targeted Outputs

Business ethics is once again a hot topic as examples of improper business practices that violate commonly accepted ethical norms are brought to our attention. With the increasing number of scandals business schools find themselves on the defensive in explaining what they are doing to help respond to the call to teach ‘‘more’’ business ethics. This paper focuses on two issues germane to business ethics teaching efforts: the ‘‘targeted output’’ goals of teaching business ethics and when in the curriculum business ethics should be taught.     

广东与东盟农产品贸易的竞争性与互补性分析

文章运用出口相似性指数、贸易互补性指数对广东与东盟农产品贸易的竞争性和互补性进行的分析表明:在世界市场上,广东和东盟存在着激烈的竞争关系,从时间序列来看,最近几年竞争程度有所减弱;广东出口与东盟进口的贸易互补性在不断减弱,而广东进口与东盟国家出口的互补性在不断增强,广东与东盟农产品贸易之间存在一定的互补性.     

The impact of word-of-mouth communication on attribute evaluation

Wright and Lynch (1995) propose that the medium that best communicates the type of attributes is the one most congruent with that type of information. This paper extends on this media congruence hypothesis by examining the impact of word-of-mouth (WOM) communication on the WOM recipient's ratings of search and credence attributes in two different service contexts. Results from two experiments suggest that negative WOM (but not positive WOM) is more effective in changing the evaluation of credence attributes than that of search attributes for unfamiliar brands. This finding implies that marketers of such unfamiliar brands need to have different approaches to deal with the impact of negative WOM on different attribute types.     

中韩两国经贸互补性的分析

韩国是中国重要的贸易伙伴和外国直接投资来源国。中韩两国经贸的迅猛发展,为双方带来了实实在在的经济利益。中韩两国经贸发展既存在互补性,同时也存在着竞争。本文对影响中韩两国经贸发展的互补性和竞争因素进行了剖析,特别是对两国的技术差距及其影响做了较深入的分析。     

物流目标和战略的选择

20世纪90年代,物流在国外已经成为一个重要的经济增长点,而在中国才刚刚起步。物流建设必须了解物流目标的内容,分别为快速响应、最低库存、集中运输、最小变异、质量以及生命周期支持等。并对物流战略进行选择,以不断寻求提高物流管理效率有效途径,降低企业物流成本,提升市场竞争能力。