黄文仔：敬畏土地，才能融天下于精细

中国房地产只走了短短的20年，却诞生了一大批性格各异的房地产企业家。而提到“苋文仔”，“对品质几乎苛刻的黄文仔”——这个形象被永远定格在中国房地产发展的历史进程中，这也是为什么在中国房地产市场不明郎之时，我们重提黄文仔和星河湾的主要原因。     

施工用临时支架结构中支撑作用分析

施工支架是施工中常见的临时结构形式,目前我国常用的施工支架形式有扣件式,门式和碗扣式。随着建筑形式的变化,施工中高、大支架结构的使用日益广泛。由于支架是临时结构,长期以来,它的研究并没有引起人们的高度重视,其设计理论也还有很多不成熟的地方,加上工地现场管理的问题,致使在我国发生的建筑施工事故中有四分之一与支架的失效有关,造成了巨大的人身财产损失。本文利用有限元分析软件ANSYS建立了门式钢管支架的计算模型,通过对比不同支撑搭设方式下支架的极限承载力,对门式支架结构体系中支撑的作用进行了研究。研究表明支架的极限承载力与其失稳模态有关,而失稳模态是由竖向斜撑的设置方式决定的。通过改变竖向斜撑的设置,可以提高支架结构的稳定极限承载力。     

IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENT MANAGEMENT

Despite important advances in recent years, no agreement exists concerning what constitutes management excellence. Specific knowledge of how managerial behaviour is perceived and evaluated by others will help to resolve unsettled questions about what is meant by management excellence and improve the actual decisions of managers. This article examines the determinants of managerial excellence as perceived by corporate CEOs, directors, and financial analysts in Fortune magazine's annual survey of the best-managed American firms in 33 industries. While the firms perceived to be best managed are more profitable and less risky, and grow faster and reward their stockholders more than less well-managed firms, these variables explain only about 30 per cent of the variance in management ratings. the firms perceived to be best managed have more involvement in international markets and research and development, while large firm size and firm diversification reflect negatively upon perceived managerial quality. the relative inability of conventional financial measures of firm performance to explain perceptions of managerial excellence underlines the complex nature both of these perceptions and strategic behaviour. the results support Varadarajan and Ramanujam's conclusion that excellent management depends upon a diverse set of competencies and values, as well as Chakravarthy's contention that the most important characteristic of firm performance is management's ability to transform the firm and adapt to a rapidly changing environment. By contrast, little support is found for the maximization of stockholder wealth criterion of Rappaport.     

IN PRAISE OF IDEOLOGICAL OPENNESS

One's ideological views – that is, the pattern of positions one tends to take on important public‐policy issues – run deep and change little. Inevitably they involve commitments and judgments about the most important things. Just as we value disclosure of vested interests, we value disclosure of one's ideological tendencies. This article elaborates some virtues of ideological openness.     

中小企业中知识型员工的激励

一、知识型员工的特点 1、创造性强.他们主要依靠自己对新知识的探索和领悟,从而产生对新事物创造的欲望,推动生产的发展、技术的更新,产品的换代,从而使知识资本增值.     

曹志伟：房子仍有30年升值空间

房子作为现代货币的重要载体之一，其保存成本低，保值增值空间大。此外流通性变强也使得大量资金进入房地产行业，使其不仅是一个居住产品，更是一个金融工具。     

广州市保障房项目建设情况

2009年开工项目及竣工时间广氮天河区车陂路地段,总建筑面积31.03万平方米。建廉租房1800套、经适房2628套,2012年3-4月竣工。这个＂巨无霸＂项目是广州首个把廉租房和经适房分开规划的保障房小区,     

VARIETY OF METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH IN ECONOMICS

Abstract.  It has been argued by some that the distinction between orthodox economics and heterodox economics does not fit the growing variety in economic theory, unified by a common methodological approach. On the other hand, it remains a central characteristic of heterodox economics that it does not share this methodological approach, but rather represents a range of alternative methodological approaches. The paper explores the evidence, and arguments, for variety in economics at different levels, and a range of issues which arise. This requires in turn a discussion of the meaning of variety in economics at the different levels of reality, methodology, method and theory. It is concluded that there is scope for more, rather than less, variety in economic methodologies, as well as within methodologies. Further, if variety is not to take the form of 'anything goes', then critical discussion by economists of different approaches to economics, and of variety itself, is required.     

DECISION-MAKING IN CONDITIONS OF EXTREME UNCERTAINTY

In the last few years management has been forced to take decisions in conditions of extreme uncertainty. One consequence of this has been an increase in the use of formal methods of analysis in major decision problems. This paper describes some observations on how companies were handling decision-making under uncertainty, made during a S.S.R.C. sponsored research project on the influence of computer methods in planning and decision-making, viz.

• 1 Managers were consciously handling uncertainty by evaluating their major decisions in the light of several possible alternative forecasts.
• 2 Statistical decision theory was not used because, though in theory it was ideally suited for this situation, in practice management had the following objections to the use of this technique: (a) It assumed an accuracy of subjective probability estimates which was unrealistic in real life. (b) It required the use of artificial criteria of choice which were totally unacceptable to senior management. (c) It over-simplified the decision-making process.
• 3 In the thirty-two companies visited, management was using a systems analysis approach to decision-making involving the use of decision trees to structure the decision. Thereafter, instead of carrying out a probalistic analysis, a full evaluation to determine the quantitative and qualitative results would be carried out for each feasible path though the tree. This would be followed by an iterative elimination process.
• 4 Management were also endeavouring to cope with uncertainty by being more adaptive and flexible in their decision-making and are developing contingency or ‘fall-back’ strategies. Plans were not looked on as rigid blue-prints, but more as loosely linked frameworks of decision trees with the actual path through the decision tree dependent on future events.

     

FORMS OF MARKET ORIENTATION IN UK COMPANIES

Despite the importance of market orientation in the marketing and strategic management literature, it has been the subject of few conceptual and empirical studies. Also, the latter have addressed only the degree of market orientation and not its nature or form. the empirical study reported in this article focuses on the form of market orientation. Five different forms of market orientation were identified, along with three factors that discriminate between them. Although there are some performance differences between the forms of market orientation, the market environments that they are associated with are not significantly different. As well as providing additional empirical evidence, the results provide empirical support to, and extensions of, the conceptualization of market orientation given in the literature.     

THE REVIVAL OF CULTURAL EXPLANATION IN ECONOMICS

Cultural explanations of economic change were largely dropped for a generation, as economists rejected their inconclusiveness and other social scientists labelled them as politically incorrect. Peter Bauer, however, expressed disquiet at the way deep influences like culture were being ignored in economic analysis. This paper discusses why high-profile attention has now turned back to culture. It does not find the expositions offered to be very persuasive but nevertheless agrees that Bauer's unease was understandable and describes other recent academic studies that are more promising.