我国第三方物流发展对策研究

随着我国市场经济的发展,企业物流服务社会化的基本模式已经形成,越来越多的企业接受了第三方物流这种物流服务形式。本文在分析我国第三方物流发展现状及影响和制约我国第三方物流市场因素的基础上,就加快发展第三方物流提出了对策建议。     

第三方物流企业的关系营销策略

随着国外第三方物流进入中国市场,国内第三方物流也不断地发展起来,但是物流企业提供产品的相似性使得企业发展困难,第三方物流企业该如何在激烈的竞争中求得生存与发展已经变成物流企业考虑的首要问题。在这种激烈的竞争环境下,采取以顾客为中心的关系营销,提高我国国内第三方物流企业的竞争能力已经成为物流企业管理的重点。     

黑龙江省发展第三方物流的对策思考

目前,我国的第三方物流这种新的物流形态已经开始初步发展,越来越多的企业纷纷选择了这种新兴的形态。但黑龙江省的第三方物流发展却严重滞后,第三方物流企业多为传统的物流企业,不是真正意义上的现代物流企业。发展黑龙江省的第三方物流需要政府和企业的共同努力,政府应提供政策上的支持,第三方物流企业应从加强观念、资源、信息等方面的建设入手提高其自身竞争力。     

基于电子商务的第三方物流发展探析

电子商务作为商务活动的新形式,对于全面提高物流服务质量极其重要。它的发展带来了第三方物流需求,提出了它的发展是实现第三方物流的基础,提出了第三方物流与电子商务的整合模式及电子商务环境下第三方物流的前景及策略。利用第三方物流已经逐渐成为企业缩减成本、节省物流费用的必然选择。电子商务在我国的蓬勃发展,扩大了企业的销售范围,改变了企业传统销售模式及消费者的购买方式,我国的第三方物流也因此得到发展。     

第三方物流“路在何方”

作为一个新兴的行业,现代物流在我国蕴藏着巨大的发展潜力,而第三方物流作为物流业的中坚力量,已经受到了越来越多企业的重视。但目前在我国第三方物流的发展仍有许多问题需要解决,本文在分析我国第三方物流市场环境的基础上,提出我国第三方物流的发展对策。     

浅析电子商务下的第三方物流

随着我国经济的飞速发展,电子商务已经走了我们的日常生活,并且逐步改变着我国的购物方式,第三方物流企业就成为联系消费者和电子商务企业中间的纽带。而我国第三方物流企业作为全新的服务模式,面临着前所未有的机遇和挑战。本文通过分析电子商务条件下第三方物流企业发展的背景,总结了电子商务与第三方物流之间的关系,在此基础上分析了电子商务下第三方物流发展现状,指出了第三方物流企业在现代化信息技术使用,服务意识及水平,人才的贮备及选拔方面都存在一定的问题,提出了通过发挥现代信息技术在物流管理中的作用、积极进行服务与技术创新,满足不同客户的需求等措施为第三方物流企业实现跨越式发展和提高企业竞争力提供了新思路,也为我国物流业的发展提供了新方向。     

黑龙江省发展第三方物流的对策思考

目前,我国的第三方物流这种新的物流形态已经开始初步发展，越业越多的企业纷纷选择了这种新兴的形态。但黑龙江省的第三方物流发展却严重滞后，第三方物流企业多为传统的物流企业，不是真正意义上的现代物流企业。发展黑龙江省的第在方物流需要政府和企业的共同努力，政府应提供政策上的支持，第三方物流企业应从加强观念、资源、信息等方面的建设入手提高其自身竞争力。     

第三方物流业"路在何方"

作为一个新兴的行业,现代物流在我国蕴藏着巨大的发展潜力,而第三方物流作为物流业的中坚力量,已经受到了越来越多企业的重视.但目前在我国第三方物流的发展仍有许多问题需要解决,本文在分析我国第三方物流市场环境的基础上,提出我国第三方物流的发展对策.     

浅析电子商务环境下第三方物流企业的业务模式

随着我国电子商务的不断发展,促使第三方物流企业也随之发展起来。很多企业原有的物流资源已经远远不能满足当前的需要,因此,第三方物流企业成为了电子商务的必然选择。     

第三方物流“路在何方”

作为一个新兴的行业，现代物流在我国蕴藏着巨大的发展潜力，而第三方物流作为物流业的中坚力量，已经受到了越来越多企业的重视。但目前在我国第三方物流的发展仍有许多问题需要解决，本文在分析我国第三方物流市场环境的基础上，提出我国第三方物流的发展对策。     

Organics: marketplace icon

This essay explores and debates the status of organics as a marketplace icon. Organic products are somewhat unique in having a place in both mainstream and niche markets. The breadth of organic products and sales continue to rise, and certification processes have become more sophisticated, stringent and successful. Organics are loved and loathed by consumers, and loved and loathed (and often parodied) in popular culture. The market is both friend and enemy of organic products and organic consumers. What organics mean is complicated and confusing, and their benefits for both the natural environment and human health are contested. Scrutiny of organics allows us to explore how the relationship between regulations, the market and popular culture contribute to the development of an icon, firmly rooted in the marketplace, while also maintaining its status as ambivalent commodity. I conclude that organics are indeed marketplace icons – but decline to offer advice on whether or not I recommend becoming an organic consumer (despite my own avid purchase of all things organic).     

How the Netherlands became a bicycle nation: Users,firms and intermediaries, 1860–1940

In 1925, the Netherlands was a country of cyclists and cycle producers, as all classes cycled and almost all cycles were produced domestically. The bicycle was not a Dutch invention and the country had an open economy, and this raises the question ‘how did the Netherlands become a bicycle nation?’ This article investigates the interactions of users, firms and intermediaries from 1860 to 1940 and how these impacted the bicycle, its production and its use. Furthermore, it analyses knowledge flows and the roles of intermediaries. It illustrates changes in activities and the relevance of interactions between users, firms and intermediaries, and the effects of World War I. It shows how user organisations created an infrastructure and culture which made cycling Dutch. Firms created a cartel which produced bicycles that were wanted and used by all Dutch, as they were made in the Netherlands.     

Strengthening Globalization’s Invisible Hand: What Matters Most?

In this paper, we investigate what matters most to sustaining strong economic growth in today’s more globalized, knowledge economy. An examination of 2005- 2006 statistical and survey data across 52 countries reveals that economic growth is driven mainly by developed and trustworthy financial markets, a well-educated and skilled workforce, and access to information and communications technologies. Moreover, we find that creditworthy financial markets are strengthened by free and open economies based on the rule of law and legal protections. Our findings support the notion that innovative ideas and entrepreneurship are at the heart of economic growth. However, these ideas need support from institutional policies and practices that create and sustain growth by providing needed protections and a market in which to finance them. JEL Classification F02, F16     

Mapping symbolic (anti-) consumption

Rejection is at the heart of anti-consumption and is therefore key to some of the central relationships in symbolic consumption. However, researchers find rejection difficult to study because of the lack of material traces. This article draws on earlier frameworks to develop a new integrated and expanded conceptualization in order to achieve a more nuanced view of how rejection operates within symbolic consumption; and also to initiate research directions for investigating and theorizing rejection in anti-consumption. The focus on anti-consumption incorporates the interaction between avoidance, aversion and abandonment, and the relationship between distastes and the undesired self (mediated by the marketing, social and individual environments). A series of interrelationships and illustrations suggest how the expanded conceptualization is useful for theorizing and investigating anti-consumption.     

Striking a Balance Between Rules and Principles-based Approaches for Effective Governance: A Risks-based Approach

Several recent studies and initiatives have emphasized the importance of a strong ethical organizational DNA (ODNA) to create and promote an effective corporate governance culture of trust, integrity and intellectual honesty. This paper highlights the drawbacks of an excessively heavy reliance on rules-based approaches that increase the cost of doing business, overshadow essential elements of good corporate governance, create a culture of dependency, and can result in legal absolutism. The paper makes the case that the way forward for effective corporate governance is to strike an optimal balance between rules-based and principles-based approaches. The recent corporate scandals have demonstrated that the ethical ODNA is critical to the driving force and basis of legal and regulatory requirements. Effective governance means adhering to ethical principles, not merely complying with rules, and is a crucial guardian of a firm’s reputation and integrity. It is through an effective corporate governance program (that is, one that optimally captures and integrates the appropriate aspects of rules-based and principles-based approaches, and identifies and assesses the related risks) that an organization can reconfigure its ODNA for improved performance. Focusing on the ethical ODNA as the basis of new governance measures provides an opportunity to develop a competitive advantage as it represents a potential source of differentiation, strengthens the relationship with all stakeholders of the organization by building a culture of trust and integrity, and re-instills investor confidence. This paper employs dialectical reasoning that links the ODNA through principles-driven rules in developing a risks-based approach. A comparison from a risk assessment perspective between rules-based and principles-based approaches is presented. Although there have been few applications employing dialectical reasoning in business research, this methodology can be extremely useful in isolating ethical issues and integrating them into the business process. The risks-based approach captures the benefits of both rules-based and principles-based approaches, and incorporates trust-based principles such␣as solidarity, subsidiarity and covenantal relationships.Sundera Arjoon is a Senior Lecturer in Ethics at the Department of Management Studies, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad, He has served as Head of Department (2002–2005) and as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences (1996–2002). His publications have appeared in the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Markets and Morality, Global Development Studies, Social and Economic Studies, Applied Financial Economics, and the Journal of Eastern Carribean Studies. His current teaching and research interests include ethical decision-making, corporate governance, virtue ethics and familial ethics.     

Price and Quality Strategies for Services:

Developing effective price and service quality strategies requires an understanding of the effect of price and service quality on buyers' attitudes, intentions and purchase decisions. Consumer Involvement is an important variable that may interact with price and service quality, and is the focus of this research. This paper examines the influence of involvement, price and service quality on attitudes and intention to purchase automobile insurance and long-distance telephone services.     

Factors Associated with Opinion Seeking

Abstract

This study examines the relationship between opinion seeking and cultural values and individual characteristics in the context of electronic products by surveying cosmopolitan adults of 15 nationalities, namely, American, Australian, British, Dutch, Filipino, German, Hong Konger, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Malaysian, New Zealander, Singaporean, Swedish, and Thai. It finds (i) positive correlation between opinion seeking and power distance, category knowledge, category purchase intention, category innovativeness, opinion giving, market maven, brand loyalty, and susceptibility to interpersonal influence, (ii) negative correlation between opinion seeking and the masculinity and uncertainty avoidance cultural dimensions, category ownership, self-esteem, education, and age, and (iii) no correlation between opinion seeking and individualism, long-term orientation, and risk taking. It then discusses the managerial implications of the findings.     

Knowledge and training in family firms of the European periphery: Spain in the eighteenth to twentieth centuries

This article is a first attempt to explore the relationship between training and entrepreneurship in Spanish family firms. It examines changes and continuities over time, and relates the evolution of the training practices of Spanish family firms to the technical and economic conditions of the first and second industrial revolutions. The article demonstrates the interaction betweeen technical and educational ideas, the creative adaptation to the entrepreneurial needs of regions and economic sectors, and institutional conditions. It is organised in three main sections. The first briefly introduces new institutional and sociological theories applied to the study of the formation of business groups. The second summarises existing literature and research that deals with knowledge transference and business training in Spanish family firms, and provides a general survey of informal and formal business education in eighteenth to twentieth-century Spain. The third presents case studies of changing training practices in big and old family firms, and relates this evidence with theoretical and institutional insights.     

Traditional Sushi for Modern Consumers: A Comparison Between Sushi Consumption Behavior in Japan and Norway

This study focused on differences between uses and users of sushi and sashimi in Norway and Japan. The study was based on a consumer survey that was completed by a representative sample of 902 participants from Norway and 897 participants from Japan. The survey included questions about food consumption frequency, ways of sourcing sushi and sashimi and situational factors related to consumption. Participants also reported their knowledge about, attitudes toward, and ambivalence related to sushi and sashimi, social acceptability of sushi and sashimi consumption, domain-specific innovativeness, and social and demographic characteristics. Differences in sushi consumption behavior between Japanese and Norwegian consumers considering the situational parameters surrounding sushi and sashimi consumption were revealed. Considerations for future research and implications on export strategy development were discussed.