Social Networks and Business Success

A bstract .   The main objective of this paper is to illuminate social and cultural preconditions for networking and success in business in an African context. By in-depth studies of small-scale entrepreneurs in the wood business in Tanzania, we find that people belonging to an Asian subculture probably have a better standing for entering and thriving in business, due to group cohesion, mobility, and level of education. Through high-quality social networks, characterized by a high number and variety of relations, certain groups seem to be in a better position to enact their business environment and raise entrepreneurial resources such as motivation and ideas, information, capital, and trust. To reduce social discontent and inter-ethnic and religious conflicts in this area, we suggest that policy measures be taken to enhance levels of education and access to information for all citizens to create a "level playing field" in economic affairs.     

Business,trust and environmental information: Perceptions from consumers and retailers

This paper explores how business sees its role as a provider of information to the public about products marketed with environmental claims. This revolves around issues of depersonalised advice to customers, education of the wider public and, most crucially, justification of company activities. The author demonstrates how people criticise this information because of the way that they perceive the motives of business to colour it, rather than because of the facts it conveys. People distrust aspects of business, especially its environmental information, for these reasons but the perceived expertise of business in comparison with the lack of expertise of the public means that they have little choice but to trust the more general system of information provision. The balance of trust to doubt is precarious and an overall loss of public trust has implications for the regulation of business because self-regulation will no longer be seen as accountable and pressure may build for increasing government intervention, e.g. in eco-labelling. These issues are addressed through the use of qualitative data from in-depth interviews with green consumers and retailers.     

Business incomes in rural Nicaragua: the role of household resources,location, experience and trust

This paper analyses the determinants of business income for rural households in Nicaragua. A sample of 1030 households was studied in order to assess the importance of material and behavioural factors that influence income from business activity. The households are involved in manufacturing, trade, services or have a mixture of businesses. They generally have a low income and asset value. Households supplement their income from wages and agricultural activities. To estimate non-farm business income per employed person we analyse the impact of resources, location, entrepreneurial experience and trust. Our results show that household resources and entrepreneurial experience are significant determinants for business income in all sectors. Trust is also important, particularly generalized trust. The contribution of other forms of trust, such as institutional trust, depends on the sector in which households participate.     

供应链金融信任机制研究

首先简单阐述了供应链金融的概念、接着从合作企业之间需要信任和银行需要信任企业两个方面介绍了供应链金融中信任的内涵,然后论述了供应链金融存在缺乏完全的信任机制、供应链中合作企业缺乏信任、银行对供应链企业缺乏信任等信任问题：最后就如何建立信任机制做了四点建议：促进供应链信任的外部机制、加强供应链金融文化建设,形成共同的价值观、加强对其他企业的了解,促进彼此间的信任、培养核心企业。     

Placing the Effect? Gleaning Insights into the Relationship between Citizens’ Use of E-Government and Trust in Government

The effects of e-government on citizens’ trust in government are unclear. This study intends to address this lack of clarity by proposing a novel conceptual framework that can be used to explicate the processes tying e-government use to trust in government. This framework is centred upon citizens’ propensity to trust, perceptions of public sector performance, and trust in government. Citizens’ use of e-government is then argued to strengthen relationships in this framework. The validity of this framework is tested using data collected in 2012 from citizens of Seoul, South Korea. In general, the results offer partial support for the proposed framework. However, the strength of e-government’s influence decreases with more frequent use of information coming from government websites. Implications for effective practice are discussed.     

必须捍卫中国商业底线

乳业风波,中国商业道德与责任新起点? 2008,中国改革开放30年。谁也不能否认,企业是推动30年发展居功至伟的组织形式,企业家是30年发展中最令人难忘的社会角色崛起,然而,就在这纪念性时刻,问题奶粉事件骤然间严重损害了社会与公众对企业特别是大企业的信任与信心。     

Business model innovation in a knowledge revolution: An evolutionary theory perspective

For knowledge‐intensive industries, a need remains to increase clarity on the dynamics through which business model innovation occurs. Progress has been limited owing to complexities in these industries and to the underlying ontology of the business model concept itself. Through a conceptual methodology, our findings expose impediments to current business model theory and propose economic evolutionary theory as a useful alternative lens through which to address these limitations. This research contributes to the literature by broadening the traditional scope of the economic evolutionary view as relevant for business model innovation research and by offering a corresponding framework for future research.     

Business service firms,service space and the management of change

The growth of business service firms represents the latest stage in a continuing twentieth century process of technological and organizational restructuring of production and labour skills. It is associated with the rising information intensiveness of production and the development of an economy of signs. Business service activities located in service spaces drive innóva.tions both in production technology and in management systems. The co-presence of business service firms with their clients as well as other business service firms shapes the possibilities of trust between them. A detailed case study of the way in which large client firms utilize the services of independent business service companies is provided. This is followed by an examination of the relationship between small firms and business service expertise. A dual information economy may be developing in which large firms are able to search for specialist business service expertise irrespective of its location, while SMEs are tied into local providers of more generalist expertise.     

电子商务信任研究综述

信任在企业界和理论界受到日益广泛的关注,信任的研究涉及到信任的概念、特征、分类以及信任源。从这四个方面对传统信任理论研究和电子商务信任理论研究作了比较分析;然后,对电子商务信任模型研究进行了梳理归纳;最后,指出了今后有关电子商务信任问题的研究方向。     

浅谈信托风险成因与种类——《以吉林泛亚信托破产为视角》

随着近几年庆泰、金新、金信、泛亚等信托公司纷遭查办,特别是"新两规"的颁布修订,一时间风生水起,一场信托业的大变革的讨论再次拉开了序幕。可以说,信托业曲折坎坷的发展证明着中国社会对信托的认知、认同有待深化,同时也体现着信托业内部制度治理存在着严重不利的坏境,以及在这种生存坏境下,信托公司自身存在的发育不足,主营业务缺乏和风险控制水平低下的尴尬现实。从这个意义上说,信托公司风险控制的深入研究就显得十分重要和紧迫。     

国际贸易商务协同环境下业务执行模式研究

结合国际贸易商务协同环境的基本情况,分析商务协同机制的特点,并在此基础上研究国际贸易业务执行模式现状和商务协同环境下业务执行模式的特点。     

关于我国家族企业传承问题的研究综述

由于受中国传统文化的影响子承父业的现象是普遍存在的。当代中国家族企业之所以是"子承父业",并不单单是由感情上的偏好造成的,而更重要的是由传统伦理、市场环境、产权属性等多种因素决定的。"子承父业"模式是家族企业可持续发展的主流途径,是基于家族信任的角度。     

The structural,social, and strategic factors associated with successful business networks

Business networks, formal arrangements between independent businesses established to enhance member success, are generally accepted as an important strategy to help small businesses survive and prosper, and to promote regional economic development. However, knowledge about what contributes to the success of business networks themselves is less extensive and based primarily on case studies or reports of network directors. The purpose of this paper is to partially address this shortcoming. We consider the structural and social features identified in previous studies as likely correlates of business network success. Using a social constructionist definition of network success, we distinguish successful from less successful networks from among a sample of 29 industry and community business networks in the USA. Findings from interviews with 1122 members and 29 network leaders suggest that trust is central to understanding network success. Structural features have complex positive and negative indirect effects on success through trust and resource exchanges. The findings highlight the fact that business networks, while offering great potential as a way to enhance economic vitality of regions and industries, cannot be viewed as a simple remedy.     

建筑企业有效激励机制的建立

我国建筑业、特别国有建筑企业普遍缺乏完善有效的激励机制和配套制度，导致人才流失，造成人力资源浪费，使企业处于不利的局面，文章分析了其中的一些原因，根据激励的有关原理，针对建筑企业如何建立有效的激励机制提出了一些方法。     

Risky Businesses? Young People in Informal Self‐Employment in Sofia

This article studies how perceptions of the risks associated with informal self‐employment depend on the interplay between the institutional, structural (network) and cultural embeddedness of economic action. Informal self‐employment should create at least three types of risk. The first concerns the possible legal and social sanctions that stem from the illegal character of the entrepreneurial action. The second is related to the complete lack of social security protection among those for whom informal self‐employment is their sole employment. The third is connected with the lack of guarantees concerning contract enforcement, which may increase the probability of opportunistic behaviour by business partners and clients. On the basis of a qualitative study of young, highly educated, informally self‐employed workers in Bulgaria's capital Sofia, I argue that these risks are compensated by the specific network and cultural embeddedness of the economic action. This compensation takes the form of various types of insurance against risks. Its core is the replacement of the vacuum of institutional‐system trust with interpersonal trust. Thus, the specific constellation of institutional, network and cultural embeddedness is able to solve the problem of opportunism, as well as to create the perception that the informally self‐employed are faced with not much greater risks than registered self‐employed workers.     

加拿大商学院管理类课程教学方法的实证分析

商学院主要培养应用型专业人才,这些人才需要具备很强的职业能力,比如公众演讲能力、语言表达能力、独立决策能力、以及团队合作能力。加拿大一些顶级商学院在培养这种应用型专业人才方面有很多成功的经验。本文就以加拿大的一所商学院为例初步分析了该学院管理类主干课程的授课方法,并且通过对这些课的《课程简介》中的数据进行分析发现了不同的教学方法在培养学生的不同能力方面所起的不同作用。最后借鉴该学院先进的教学方法对我国商学院教学提出几点建议。     

中小企业如何推动物流信息化

信息化的重要内容之一是中小企业物流信息化.目前中小企业开展物流信息化的特点是＂三求四缺＂.因此,要实现物流信息化,切实可行的方法主要包括战各上规划实施、结成物流联盟、加强信息化平台建设、积极和应用服务提供商合作、重视物流人才培养、适时采用先进的信息管理技术、选择合适的合作伙伴、营造良好的物流发展环境等八个方面.     

商务英语在企业管理中的应用及其重要性

在经济全球化趋势的带动下,中国与世界各国的贸易往来日益频繁。随着我国外资企业数量不断增多,商务英语的作用就不再局限于对外交流合作中,在企业内部的管理中,商务英语也发挥着重要作用。本文主要分析商务英语在企业管理中的应用以及其重要性。     

数据挖掘的商务应用前景

数据挖掘已经成为许多商业领域的一个热门话题。数据挖掘已经成为许多企业在国际市场上赢 得竞争优势的重要的竞争工具之一。国内外早期的研究集中在算法的研究上。其实很多时候技术不是主要 的问题。如何实现从技术到商业的应用才是困扰业界的主要难题。本文试图在这方面有所贡献。本文试图 分别从实践和理论两个角度来阐释数据挖掘的现实的实用性和战略的重要性。本文以一个零售行业的数据 挖掘案例探讨了数据挖掘的商务应用;从技术和商业需求两个方面分别研究了数据挖掘商务应用的可行 性,并指出因竞争战略的细化导致了对数据挖掘的商业需求;最后根据实践经验讨论了数据挖掘在几个典型 行业的应用,希望能拓展我们对数据挖掘的理论和实践的认识。     

家族企业工匠精神传承的涓滴效应模型:一个纵向单案例分析

在我国经济由高速增长向高质量发展转变的关键时期,工匠精神作为个体价值取向和企业发展的重要支撑,因其提质增效的功能而备受社会各界的广泛关注。家族企业为工匠精神的研究提供了难得的考察对象,工匠精神以技艺和商业秘密为标识,成为家族企业代际传承的一项重要议题,能否顺利传承事关家族企业的可持续发展与基业长青。然而,现有研究聚焦于探讨工匠精神内涵和传承方式,以及在家族企业中的存在形态和重要作用等,缺少对家族企业工匠精神特性和传承机理的分析。为此,本文以越窑青瓷有限公司为案例,采用扎根分析,探索家族企业工匠精神的传承过程。研究结论:(1)家族企业工匠精神包括个体的技艺精神和价值取向,主要表现为对技艺、家族、产业的特殊情感和认知。(2)工匠精神经历播种期、培育期、绽放期,每个阶段根据涓滴主体不同,净化、渗透和吸收的过程和效果存在差异。(3)家族企业工匠精神在"父-子"传承模式受阻时,依靠引入外部师傅资源,在"师带徒"模式中得以保留和传递。研究结论不仅明晰了家族企业工匠精神的内涵,而且为工匠精神的传递提供了涓滴理论解释,对于工匠型家族企业继承人的策略性培育具有实践启示。