韩国港口东亚战略的探析

近年来,随着中国沿海集装箱港口群的迅速崛起和日本超级中枢港计划的实施,对韩国港口的生存和发展空间带来了前所未有的压力。韩国政府基于物流立国战略,为巩固本国港口群的国际竞争力,顺利实现东亚物流中心的宏伟目标,展开了一系列重大举措。文中从港口经营管理和基础设施投资建设两个侧面探讨韩国集装箱港口的发展对东亚港口的影响。     

Strategic compensation in South Korea's publicly traded firms

This strategic compensation model based on contingency theory of organizations proposes that a fit between the organization's business environment and compensation system will affect the firm's performance (Rockmore, 1991; Rockmore and Scarpello, 1994). This proposition was tested with a set of Korean sample data of seventy-five publicly traded companies within thirty-four three-digit Standard Industrial Classification codes.

The cluster analysis applied to the 7-item task environment uncertainty components resulted in two group classifications that face relatively ‘more certain’ and ‘more uncertain’ environments. Principal component factor analysis of the 8-item compensation system components resulted in three compensation system factors and subsequent cluster analysis classified firm pay plans into two clusters, which we labelled ‘more traditional’ and ‘more innovative’. Discriminant analysis confirmed the resulting classifications of both task environment and compensation system types. With both ROA and EPS measures, significantly more ‘fits’ (firms in stable environment that use traditional compensation system or firms in uncertain environment that use innovative compensation system) showed financial gains compared with ‘nonfits’. This financial impact of the contingency was more salient for those firms that face uncertain environment. The same results were obtained when ANOVA was performed.     

The Neighbourhood in Pieces: The Fragmentation of Local Public Space in a Swedish Housing Area

In this article, we investigate the transformation of local public spaces in the ethnically and socially diverse housing area Norra Fäladen during 1970–2015. After being built, the area soon faced stigmatization and became known as a problem area. This was followed by a series of investments in local public spaces aiming for a stronger appropriation of the neighbourhood by its inhabitants. The production of a ‘neighbourhood spirit’ has, however, slowly deteriorated over the last two decades. Through the introduction of new areas, with large single‐family houses on the one hand, and a densification of the existing housing stock on the other, the inhabitants’ dependence on the existing (but now decreasing) public spaces within the area has been polarized. Local public spaces are also being increasingly relocated from central parts of the neighbourhood to the peripheries or outside the area. In this article, we investigate how this quite slow, yet steady, transformation has affected the local public spaces and the everyday life of the area.     

浅析沈阳地区的中韩贸易发展

随着区域经济一体化的蓬勃发展,中韩贸易发展迅速,贸易合作不断增加。沈阳作为东北最大的中心城市与文化交流中心,其优越的地理环境和文化背景又为中韩两国的贸易发展提供了便利条件。文中将以沈阳地区为例,全面阐述中韩两国的贸易关系与贸易政策,通过对中韩经济发展情况的研究,深入探讨中韩两国贸易的发展现状及前景,探究其在发展过程中存在的问题,并提出可行性促进方案和解决对策。     

面向日本、韩国的山东半岛区域物流系统空间结构优化

山东半岛与日韩的贸易往来在区域外经贸中占绝大部分比重,目前面向日韩的山东半岛物流系统的基础设施较好,但面对大规模的贸易额仍存在巨大的压力,且尚无针对日韩区域的专门物流规划。采用因子分析方法,对面向日韩的山东半岛主要城市物流业竞争力水平进行分析评价,确定青岛为一级节点城市,烟台、威海为二级节点城市,潍坊、淄博、东营、济南与日照为三级节点城市,并在此基础上确定面向日韩的外向型港口轴线、铁路公路连接东西轴线、中转辐射内陆轴线以及海运中转轴线四条物流发展轴线,最后划定鲁东、鲁中、鲁南三大物流发展区域。     

The liability of mimicry: Implementing “global human resource management standards” in United States and Indian subsidiaries of a South Korean multinational enterprise

There is increasing evidence that multinational enterprises (MNEs) from less dominant economies tend to mimic and disseminate human resource management (HRM) practices sourced from a dominant economy, usually the United States, to overcome their “liabilities of origin.” However, our understanding of the specific challenges involved in the implementation of such practices by firms across different national and subsidiary contexts remains limited. Drawing on evidence from a case study of a South Korean MNE, we examine the extent to which, and ways in which, global HRM policies mimicking U.S. practices are implemented across its sales, manufacturing, and research and development subsidiaries in the United States and India. We find discernible differences in the implementation of the global policies both between the two host country sites and across the three function-specific subsidiaries in each country, identifying a range of national and subsidiary-specific factors that inform these variable implementation outcomes. In addition to legitimacy challenges related to the source, appropriateness, and process of transfer, we note a unique form of legitimacy challenge—“the liability of mimicry”—whereby local actors can challenge head office policies on the basis of a claim to superior expertise in the dominant practices, as a particular concern of MNEs from emerging economies.