Future negotiating skills: a development issue?

This paper examines some critical implications for those managers wishing to be effective negotiators in the future. It draws on the findings of two recent research projects conducted by the authors. These projects focus on the contribution of language to good negotiating practice and, in particular, to intended “Win–Win” outcomes. From the findings set out, it is argued that negotiators often pay an insufficient amount of attention to an appreciation of language-related influences in the negotiating process. It is contended that this lack of attention also extends to the typical training provided for managers in all types of organisations. It concludes with the view that meta language and other language forms need to be given considerably more attention if managers are to be able to behave effectively in the increasingly crucial field of negotiating.     

China-African relations: A new impulse in a changing continental landscape

The paper attempts an evaluation of China's current engagement in Africa and its consequences. This engagement cannot be ignored for a variety of reasons. Firstly, it gives Africa leverage in its relations with the North. Secondly, China's emergence onto the global stage compels African government and their counterparts in the South to reflect on and adopt initiatives that address the challenges of globalization. Thirdly, for African policy-makers, a more nuanced understanding regarding the varied impacts that China can have on their economies and on Africa's development path is needed. For pessimists China represents a terrifying threat while for optimists it is a tantalizing opportunity. The key question is whether China's engagements in Africa are purely extractive or have a developmental impact. The paper looks in some detail at these real and possible impacts.     

Future disassembly and recycling technology: results of a Delphi study

This article presents the results of a Delphi study that was carried out between November 1996 and March 1997. The subject of this study is future disassembly and recycling technology for the electronics and the automotive industry. The results reflect the opinions of a panel of about 70 specialists, preselected by the authors. Issues in this Delphi Study range from the possibilities for automatic disassembly and sophisticated material separation and sorting techniques to the development of recycling output prices. All issues were investigated for technological feasibility and for economic attractiveness. The main conclusion of this study shows that obstacles for future disassembly and recycling technology are of an economic rather than a technological nature. Automatic disassembly will probably gain importance in the next 25 years, but only for specific product categories. Sorting and separation techniques will become increasingly sophisticated.     

Dynamic relations of uncertainty expectations: a conditional assessment of implied volatility indices

This study examines the spillover effects in international financial markets with respect to implied volatility indices. The use of the latter as the basis of integration analysis means that we test market participants’ expectations and not the actual price fluctuations. The empirical analysis, which includes all publicly available implied volatility indices, employs the dynamic conditional correlation model of Engle (2002) and its findings suggest that there is significant integration of investors’ expectations about future uncertainty. Furthermore, by accounting for the dynamic volatility of implied volatility inter-dependencies, we are able to reveal possible shifts in conditional correlations of market expectations over time. More specifically, our findings show a slight increase in the conditional correlations for all the volatility indices under review over the years and prove that in periods of turbulence in the financial markets the conditional correlations across implied volatility indices increase.     

诺基亚:开创移动信息社会的未来

<正> 诺基亚是一家具有百年历史的公司,但诺基亚的快速发展却是近些年的事。80年代,诺基亚走的是多种经营的路,拥有各种业务、多种产品和市场。当时的战略是多面出击。1988年诺基亚发展成为欧洲第三大电视厂商和北欧最大的信息技术公司。90年代初,芬兰出现了严重的经济危机,当时电信和移动电话业务成了诺基亚赖以生存的支柱。在此次经济危机中诺基亚迅速调整并重新部署其业务,1992年作出决定,放弃非核心业务,专注电信业务。正是有了这样正确的决定,才使诺基亚发展成为今天世界领先的移动电话供应商和电信网络供应商。     

Metaphor as fundamental to future discourse

In a time of information overload, increasing invasiveness, and questionable strategic coherence for individuals and collectivities, the question is whether metaphors have an especially important role to play. Thinking and engaging otherwise through metaphor therefore merits particular consideration. The argument focuses on the possibility of a meta-strategy by reframing the interweaving of themes through emerging implications of “meta” and “para”. This should enable forms of self-reflexive dialogue in “parameta space” to be envisaged.     

未来的美国住房金融市场

曾经是被很多国家仿效的美国住房抵押贷款市场,特别是住房抵押贷款证券化市场,在本轮危机中备受指责。随着危机阴云的慢慢散去,美国人是如何反思这个市场的呢?2009年12月10日,美联储理事伊丽莎白A.杜克在芝加哥联邦储备银行的讲话向世人提供了一种思路。在这篇讲话中,他首先看重的是在一个健康的住房市场上,普通住房消费者的权利和利益如何得到保护的问题,详情请看本文。     

机构业务前景广阔--访中国建设银行机构业务部总经理江先周

机构业务比较理想的模式应该包括科学合理的业务组织架构,有效的市场营销机制,全面的风险管理体系三个方面的内容。     

县域金融是块沃土——访中国农业银行山东省分行行长刁钦义

作为我国农业大省的山东省,近年来县域经济发展非常迅速。在中国农业银行确定以县域市场为基础的市场定位以后,农行山东省分行在如何适应新的形势,做大做强县域市场,充分发挥县域商业性金融主渠道作用上有着切实的经验和体会。     

未来的世界:可预测的周期、趋势和未来

未来将会有许多为这些普通人做事的机会。企业家、商人和投资者将迎来重大的商业机遇。那些具有创造性而且有趣的工作岗位也会大量增加。问题是,这种机会会出现在哪些行业?如果你是一个考虑学习科学、商业或金融专业的学生,你应该关注哪些方面?如果你是一名熟练的企业家,在哪里你可以用很少的钱启动创业,并有机会让你的企业成为一个伟大的公司,甚至在相对较少的几年内,就得到初始投资1000倍的回报?或者,如果你是一个投资者,在未来的几十年里,哪些资产和哪些行业将是最有利可图的?如果你的时机和选择都很好,你完全可能在10年内获得10倍的回报.     

The institutionalisation of unaccountability: Loading the dice of Corporate Social Responsibility discourse

This paper reports on an in-depth empirical study into recent government-led Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives in Spain. It is found, based on interviews and document analysis, that processes of stakeholder consultation relating to these initiatives are characterised by debate and a plurality of different viewpoints. However, this polyphony can be contrasted sharply with the institutional outcomes of these processes. Institutional outcomes represent the viewpoints of only a subset of the actors involved in the stakeholder consultation processes. It is consequently inferred that stakeholder consultation processes serve problematic functions: on one level, these processes legitimise dominant discourses on CSR by giving the impression that the latter are the outcome of a democratic dialogue that is free from power relations; on another level, these processes themselves show to heretic social actors the futility of their heresy and thus encourage those actors to actively adopt the dominant discourse. We conclude that business capture of Corporate Social Responsibility is ingrained into institutional processes in that domain. This raises serious questions regarding the potential for civil society actors to engage with and move the signifier of Corporate Social Responsibility in a more challenging direction.     

Equilibrium relations in a capital asset market: A mean absolute deviation approach

We consider the equilibrium in a capital asset market where the risk is measured by the absolute deviation, instead of the standard deviation of the rate of return of the portfolio. It is shown that the equilibrium relations proved by Mossin for the mean variance (MV) model can also be proved for the mean absolute deviation (MAD) model under similar assumptions on the capital market. In particular, a sufficient condition is derived for the existence of a unique nonnegative equilibrium price vector and derive its explicit formula in terms of exogeneously determined variables. Also, we prove relations between the expected rate of return of individual assets and the market portfolio.     

International bank-industry relations: An empirical assessment

This paper examines the determinants of the provision of banking services in host countries of multinational companies, based on an empirical study of these relationships in the case of France. Factors evaluated include: the traditional banking relationships in the multinational's home country, the strengths and weaknesses of indigenous and foreign banks in the host environment, the specific nature of the banking service required, and the nature of bank reputation in the host country.     

Public discourse and cosmopolitan political identity: Imagining the European Union citizen

European Union citizenship has thus far been constructed largely in national and economic terms, which are unlikely to redeem the promise of a rich and vibrant political future in the wake of the EU constitution. Therefore, one of the central challenges facing scholars, political leaders and citizens is to fashion new argumentative spaces that enable citizens to forge cosmopolitan political identities that may help to fulfill the vision of alternative futures. This paper addresses the rhetorical dimensions of European Union citizenship as it focuses on public discourse as constitutive of new models of political participation and engagement. Tracing the idea of citizenship in the writings of Hannah Arendt, Immanuel Kant, and Giambattista Vico, discourse and imagination become necessary for a new dimension of European Union citizenship.¹     

券商较量在"脑力"--中信证券襄理程博明博士谈证券业竞争

在2001年市场环境不太理想的情况下,证券公司经营业绩出现了较大的分化,同时,加强和完善证券市场监管的措施不断推出,其中有相当一部分是针对证券公司规范运作的.     

上市公司必须充分尊重流通股东的话语权

记者:你从大学开始就一直致力于会计学的研究与学习,并在硕士就读期间就通过了ACCA全科的考试,成为一名高级会计师.你能否跟大家分享一下你的经历以及这么多年从事财务工作的心得体会?     

Automobile Usage in a Future Information Society

The Information society provides a challenge for the future of the automobile. This article, based on a two-year Swedish study as part of the MIT Future of the Automobile Programme, used four scenarios against which to predict the future of the car in Sweden. It concludes that, overall, information technologies will not substitute for travel, only for the information carried on paper; rather, future moves towards increasingly dispersed living will keep car usage high.