Expatriate pay satisfaction: the role of organizational inequities,assignment stressors and perceived assignment value

Using equity, stress and buffer theories, we investigate the role played by organizational inequities (organizational justice and provision of benefits) and assignment stressors (work adjustment and role novelty) in predicting expatriate pay satisfaction. We also assess the role of perceived assignment value as an important buffer that moderates the above relationships. With a sample of 78 expatriates from nine nationalities working in Hong Kong, we find that organizational justice and work adjustment are both positively related to expatriate pay satisfaction. We also find that perceived assignment value strengthens the provision of benefits–pay satisfaction and work adjustment–pay satisfaction relationships. Limitations and managerial implications are discussed.     

Experimental evidence of bank runs as pure coordination failures

We investigate how coordination requirement, measured by the coordination parameter, affects the occurrence of miscoordination-based bank runs in controlled laboratory environments. We identify an indeterminacy region of the coordination parameter such that games with the parameter within the region have varying coordination outcomes and exhibit persistent path dependence. Experimental economies with the parameter above (below) the region stay close or converge to the run (non-run) equilibrium. Switches between the two equilibria occur even with fixed economic fundamentals. The experimental results are well accounted for by a version of the evolutionary algorithm that uses experimentation rates estimated from the experimental data.     

On the effects of incentive framing on bribery: evidence from an experiment in Burkina Faso

While incentive framing has been shown to promote workers’ effort, little is known about how it affects other dimensions of the employer-employee relationship. This paper examines whether incentive framing can also influence workers propensity to engage in an activity disloyal to their employer: corruption. To do so, we conducted an experiment in which graders are offered a bribe to report a better grade. Three treatments are conducted by framing economically equivalent contracts as menus of bonuses, penalties, or bonuses and penalties. We find that graders are more corrupt when incentives are framed as a combination of bonuses and penalties, while no difference is found between the bonus and the penalty contracts. These results are inconsistent with both standard economic theory and labor reciprocity.     

液压支架立柱动态性能仿真研究

通过对液压支架立柱的动态特性进行仿真,研究了立柱活柱腔的压力变化特征,为液压支架立柱防冲击系统研究提供必要的理论基础。     

On the assignment of students to topics: A Variable Neighborhood Search approach

This article presents a study of a practical assignment problem found in teaching within higher education. Here, students are assigned to scientific topics for which written papers must be submitted. Often, preferences across topics exist among other side constraints that should be considered in solving the problem of interest. Characterizing attributes of real-world problems were studied for scientific departments in Economics and Business Administration at German universities by sending out 800 questionnaires, and analyzing the 203 responses.Based on earlier studies, a Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) approach was formulated to solve the resulting assignment problem. Several neighborhood search operators were tested, and numerical results are reported for a range of problem scenarios taken from real-world cases. It was observed that VNS leads to superior results vs. single operator local search approaches. Furthermore, we were able to show that in the studied problem, the effectiveness of certain neighborhoods was, to a large extent, dependent on the structures of the underlying problem.An extension of the problem was formulated by integrating a second objective function, which simultaneously balances the workload of staff members while maximizing student utility. The VNS approach was implemented in a computer system, available free of charge, providing decision support for selected other institutions within higher education.     

Experimental evidence of gender effects in arbitration decisions

The study investigates arbitrator gender and arbitrator-grievant gender effects on the decisions of 146 arbitrators rendered on a hypothetical sexual harassment case. Gender was not found to have a statistically significant effect on the decisions examined. However, other characteristics of the arbitrator—level of experience and level of education—were found to influence the arbitral decision.     

The effects of match uncertainty and bargaining on labor market outcomes: evidence from firm and worker specific estimates

In this paper we examine wage dispersion in labor markets across currently employed workers. We argue that differences in the potential productivity of a match (typically assumed to be known in the previous literature) generates a surplus between the minimum wage the worker is willing to accept and the maximum wage the firm is willing to offer for the job. Existence of this surplus leads to wage dispersion due to negotiating over the amounts extracted by each agent. Our objective is to estimate the surplus extracted by each firm-worker pair and the effect of the net extracted surplus on the wage, for each firm-worker pair using the two-tier stochastic frontier model. An empirical application finds that, on average, firms paid workers less than their expected productivity. More specifically, at the mean, the net effect of productivity uncertainty leads to equilibrium wages which are 3.33% below the expected productivity of matches.

聚丙烯纤维网混凝土动力学性能试验研究

本文通过测定聚丙烯纤维网混凝土的抗击性和疲劳特性,对聚丙烯纤维网混凝土的动力学性能分析。结果表明聚丙烯纤维网掺入对提高混凝土抗折强度有显著作用,尤为突出的是其弯曲疲劳性能和冲击韧性大幅提高。     

常州装备制造业与生产性服务业动态匹配优化路径研究

装备制造业与生产性服务业动态匹配是二者之间密切互动的表现,也是二者协同发展互动升级的重要手段。通过对常州装备制造业与生产性服务业发展现状、动态匹配中存在的问题进行梳理和分析,进而从装备制造业与生产性服务业发展的中间组织的培育与促进、市场环境营造、匹配程度提升两个维度,九个方面,对两者动态匹配路径进行设计。     

基于ADAMS下高铁弓网耦合动态性能仿真分析

利用三维几何建模proe软件进行建模,并在ADAMS下对弓网耦合的动态性能进行仿真,并对仿真结果进行分析验证,同时也验证了采用ADAMS软件对弓网耦合动态分析具有一定的有效性,对于弓网关系在ADAMS下进一步研究具有一定意义。     

基于灰色熵权聚类的物流上市公司绩效动态评价

选取沪、深两市A股市场66物流上市公司作为研究对象,通过计算2010-2012各年财务指标熵权,选取指标累计权重超过90%指标作为绩效评价指标集,计算相似关系矩阵,根据3年中样本上市公司的相似关联度排名,全面反映上市公司绩效,可为利益相关者提供决策参考。     

股权激励与企业绩效关系多样性的原因分析——基于系统动力学的视角

基于系统动力学理论,分析了股权激励系统动力学特征,对导致股权激励与企业绩效关系多样性的原因进行了探究。研究结果表明:以往的研究忽略了与股权激励相关的软变量;忽略了股权激励作用的延迟效应;忽略了股权激励系统中起主导作用回路的转移。并针对原因提出了一些建议和启示。     

The wage policy of firms: comparative evidence for the US and Germany from personnel data

The wage policy of a German firm and a US firm is subjected to a comparative analysis, focusing on the relation between wages and hierarchies. While previous studies have examined only one particular firm, this paper investigates two plants belonging to the same owners with similar production processes but in different institutional environments. Convex wage profiles over the hierarchy levels of both plants are found. The US plant shows considerably higher intensity of intra-firm competition in terms of higher intra-level wage inequality and annual promotion rate. In contrast, wages are more distinctly attached to hierarchy levels in the German firm, as shown by wage regressions. The results are discussed in relation to previous studies.     

Optimal selling mechanisms for multiproduct monopolists: incentive compatibility in the presence of budget constraints

We analyze the nonlinear pricing problem faced by an incomplete information monopolist operating in a market populated by agents with budget constraints. We show that if other goods are available and if the monopolist's goods are nonessential relative to other goods, then there exists an optimal, individually rational, and incentive compatible selling mechanism for the monopolist (Theorem 1). Moreover, we show that a solution to all such nonlinear pricing problems exists if and only if the monopolist's goods are nonessential (Theorem 2). In the absence of nonessentiality, we show that if the monopolist's profit function is independent of quantity (e.g., if all costs are fixed), then an optimal selling mechanism exists (Theorem 3). Finally, we show that if there is reporting (of types by agents) and partial recognition of types (by the monopolist), then an optimal selling mechanism exists, even in the absence of nonessentiality, provided agents' utility functions are affine and continuous in goods (Theorem 4).     

税收非对称性与银行风险监管关系研究

通过将银行收入税的非对称性引入模型,分析银行在存在风险的情况下如何确定最优贷款期限以及收入税将如何影响银行决策者的决策过程,然后采用一个动态博弈的框架来讨论最优的银行监管政策。结果表明,非对称性的收入税对银行的贷款风险大小产生影响,它使得银行开始关心并减少风险,为银行业的监管和减少不良贷款提供了一个思路。     

创业期企业动态能力构建及其对绩效影响研究

首先对创业期企业动态能力进行研究,定义了新创企业动态能力的概念;初步概括了创业期企业一般能力内容,给出了一般能力变革和动态能力发展的时机;提出创业型企业动态能力分析框架,详细分析了动态能力的建构对经营绩效的影响并提出了相关研究结论。     

Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Performance: A Meta‐Analytic Evaluation and Extension

We move the dynamic capabilities view (DCV) forward in two important ways by meta‐analysing prior empirical studies. First, we evaluate the two core theoretical tenets of the DCV: (1) Dynamic capabilities are positively related to performance, and (2) this relationship is stronger in industries with higher levels of technological dynamism. We find support for the former (r_c = 0.296) but not for the latter, though results suggest the existence of moderators. Second, we theorize and demonstrate empirically that higher‐order dynamic capabilities are more strongly related to performance than lower‐order dynamic capabilities, lower‐order dynamic capabilities partially mediate the relationship between higher‐order dynamic capabilities and performance, and dynamic capabilities contribute more to performance in developing economies than in developed economies. These findings illustrate how the nature of the dynamic capability and the economic context in which it is utilized shape its value, thus offering a more nuanced conceptualization of the dynamic capabilities‐performance relationship.     

企业动态能力对组织内部创新机制作用理论阐释

如何才能使我国企业更好地建立内部创业环境、制定内部创业规则以及激活内部创业活动,是在当前建设创新型社会的大背景下,对企业长远发展意义重大的问题之一。本文试从当前理论界比较前沿的企业动态能力的角度出发,理论探讨这一命题,以期得出一些可以借鉴的结论。     

发射器冲击载荷作用下土的动力性能分析

本文采用有限单元法,运用ANSYS软件对土体在发射器冲击荷载下的变形进行瞬态动力学分析,确定关中某地黄土在受冲击时的位移及应力分布规律。有限元模拟结果与工程实际冲击结果比较吻合,为发射器的后座冲击作用下土的动力性能分析奠定基础,此类研究鲜见发表,从而为发射器进行模态分析和瞬态动力学分析的地基动力参数提供理论依据。