使企业光芒四射的若干思考

杭州民生药业集团有限公司近几年来 ,面对经济全球化的快速推进 ,在医药市场竞争激烈 ,大浪淘沙的历史背景下 ,我们审时度势、抢抓机遇、加快调整、推进改革、开拓创新 ,使企业逐步摆脱困境 ,走上持续快速发展的轨道。1抓好调整规范管理摆脱困境迎接挑战民生作为一个老牌国有企业 ,由于受传统计划经济的束缚 ,长期以来 ,存在着资产质量差、产品结构老化、企业冗员多、历史包袱沉重、发展步履维艰等重重困难。为此 ,我们把狠抓企业内部的资产结构、产品结构和人员结构三大调整 ,规范财务预算和GMP两大管理作为突破口 ,为企业改革和发展夯实…     

CSR,rationality and the ethical preferences of investors in a laboratory experiment

This experimental study aims to clarify to what extent and in which direction investors react to CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) initiatives meant to upgrade the ethical standards of firms beyond the minimal requirements of law. Subjects in the laboratory were invited to invest their endowment in a portfolio of financial assets. We provided information on the expected returns of each stock and on its inclusion in an ethical index, or exclusion from it. Our findings show that subjects’ behavior appears to be a function not only of their individual pay-offs but also of the information on the ethical standards of the firms issuing stocks. Most of them, however, did not show a fully irrational behavior as they consistently correlated the share of stocks with their expected returns. We may conclude that the sizeable reaction of our investors to the inclusion of a stock in the ethical index, or its exclusion from it, is the fruit of a deliberate choice.     

Patient as center of the health care universe: a closer look at patient-centered care

We need to consider how the health care system should revolve around the patient, rather than the patient rotating around the hospital. Considering a patient-centric point of view when implementing and optimizing the use of health information technology (HIT) provides new perspectives on the meaning of "integrated" health care. ot only do we need to give patients the opportunities to participate as true partners in their health care, we must convince them why this partnership makes sense. We should not be naive and believe all patients want this involvement in their care today and are ready to do all their health care transactions electronically. But considering and using these practices are important steps in the health care reform journey to improve quality and decrease cost. Many patients will benefit by our working with them to demystify the health care experience through patient-centric practices and the use of HIT.     

When too little is as good as nothing at all: Rationing a disposable good among satiable people with acceptance thresholds

We study the problem of rationing a divisible good among a group of people. Each person?s preferences are characterized by an ideal amount that he would prefer to receive and a minimum quantity that he will accept: any amount less than this threshold is just as good as receiving nothing at all. Any amount beyond his ideal quantity has no effect on his welfare.We search for Pareto-efficient, strategy-proof, and envy-free rules. The definitions of these axioms carry through from the more commonly studied problem without disposability or acceptance thresholds. However, these are not compatible in the model that we study. We adapt the equal-division lower bound axiom and propose another fairness axiom called awardee-envy-freeness. Unfortunately, these are also incompatible with strategy-proofness. We characterize all of the Pareto-efficient rules that satisfy these two properties. We also characterize all Pareto-efficient, strategy-proof, and non-bossy rules.     

Relative concerns at the workplace: on the design of the firm as a social space

This paper analyzes firm organization when social comparisons pervade the setting. We consider a firm employing two types of workers associated with different earnings. We assume that inter-group comparisons impinge significantly on the workers’ sense of wellbeing and on their behavior. Thereby we allow both relative deprivation as well as relative satisfaction sensed from (un)favorable income comparisons to coworkers to affect an individual’s utility and, in turn, skill acquisition. The consideration of relative concerns has several implications for the firm. We find that, next to the skill distribution and the composition of the workforce, output and labor productivity depend on the social environment.