振兴物流业的当务之急

本文认为,振兴我国物流业,当务之急是做好十件事情:一要让更多的人认识物流;二要客观评价物流业现状和发展趋势;三要确定国家物流管理体系和有关政府部门之间的分工合作;四要加强物流市场建设与规范运作;五要研究物流企业兼并重组的方法和路径;六要综合规划我国的物流设施;七要提升物漉信息化水平;八要建立物流标准化体系;九要重视新技术的开发与应用;十要大力加强物流人才培养.     

农业产业集群信任治理模式的比较分析

农业产业集群作为一种网络组织,高效运作依赖于信任机制作用的发挥。通过分析信任治理在农业产业集群发展中的作用机理,探究农业产业集群成长中的声誉、关系与制度信任治理模式,并从特色定位、根植性培育、区域品牌塑造等方面,提出实现农业产业集群升级的建议。     

Better marketing to developing countries: Why and how

Managers have long understood the rationale for investing in new products. Now, however, they face an even more compelling need: to invest in targeting new markets, specifically those in less developed countries (LDCs). The argument presented in this article, for initiating or increasing marketing efforts in these nations, makes two related points. First, a healthy world economy requires consumers in developing nations—particularly China—to spend more, because trade imbalances between the United States and LDCs cannot be sustained. Second, in order to foster consumption in LDCs and to profit from it, marketing expertise in the developed world must refocus. Success will require devising, promoting, and distributing products that will overcome economic constraints in some markets, and in others will overcome an understandable reluctance to spend rather than save. We suggest that lessons may be gleaned from examples regarding recent efforts targeting LDCs by a pharmaceutical company (Pfizer) and a food supplement marketer (Procter & Gamble), as well as efforts pioneered in less developed countries themselves (including low-cost private schools and $2,500 automobiles).     

Why Financial Executives Do Bad Things: The Effects of the Slippery Slope and Tone at the Top on Misreporting Behavior

Journal of Business Ethics - While there is an extensive body of literature about the impact of sharing physical space on ethical consumption, and a growing body of literature that addresses the...     

Exploring Communication Activities in Online Communities: A Longitudinal Analysis in the Financial Services Industry

Online communities (OCs) are seen as important stimulus to electronic business. However, surprisingly little is known about how the communication activity of their participants develops and changes over time. A longitudinal study bears the potential to better elaborate the enabling and inhibiting factors of the participant's communication activity in OCs. To explore these phenomena, we aimed to develop a conceptual framework that serves as a foundation to guide an explorative data analysis of real OCs. We use the notions of common ground, information overload, interactivity, and social loafing to explain the communication activity of the participants in OCs. The empirically explored framework will help organizations to support the development of OCs and utilize them in an economically successful way.

Based on a literature review, we developed a first conceptual framework. Then, we apply it to describe the development of the communication activity and its determinants in an OC hosted by a German financial service provider. In this study, we examined over 33,000 participants and 1.03 million messages over a period of 3 years. We found a strong effect of external factors on the size of this OC. The size of the OC showed no direct influence on the communication activity of the participants. However, in reaction to the increasing information load, communication strategies changed and herewith influenced the communication activity. The heterogeneity of the participant's activity was growing over time, and a small minority of participants wrote more and more of the postings.     

互联网+制造业商业模式创新何以可能

互联网作为新的生产要素和技术创新不断渗透、融合传统行业,引发了生产方式、组织架构的重大变化,出现了新的业态、新的模式,变革着商业逻辑,倒逼制造业变革思维、创新价值创造模式。那么,"互联网+"大环境下究竟出现了哪些新的商业逻辑,倒逼制造业产业创新商业模式?互联网+制造业创新商业模式的理论基础和实践机制何在?本文基于互联网工具理性属性和产业互联网思维,回答了互联网+制造业创新商业模式的压力机制、理论可能空间和实践可行空间。     

提高金融产业竞争力 确保金融产业安全

本文认为,通过二十多年的金融改革,我国金融产业竞争力有了很大提高,银行业、证券业、保险业都取得长足发展,但我国金融业的国际竞争力还相对较低,主要表现为金融创新相对落后.提高金融产业竞争力是确保金融产业安全的重要举措.文章提出,金融业最终要提高国际竞争力,必须关注自身的发展.首先,要正确处理金融创新和金融监管的关系,既要充分发挥金融创新在提高金融效率、降低金融风险方面的作用,又要使金融监管合理、合法、适度、有效,切实防止过度投机.其次,要正确处理虚拟经济和实体经济的关系,大力发展银行业、证券业、保险业等虚拟经济.第三,要培养具有国际化视野、能够参与国际竞争的人才.第四,要尽快提高信息化水平,尤其要加强信用体系建设.第五.要注重引进能够在市场、技术、管理上对企业有所帮助的战略投资者.     

信息、信任、认知冲突与董事会治理——基于问卷调查

一直以来,公司治理研究偏重董事会结构特征与公司绩效之间的关系,忽略了董事会行为过程影响。文章就董事会行为过程中一系列关键要素如信息获取、努力水平、信任关系和认知冲突对治理有效性的影响进行理论分析,构造了一个行为心理〖CD*2〗治理有效性结构方程模型。利用问卷调查数据,就上述过程变量对治理效率的影响进行实证分析。研究发现,董事会信息获取及其与管理层相互信任状况对治理效率产生显著积极影响;会议频率对战略和服务职能发挥产生显著积极作用;会议出席率、群体认知冲突等因素影响不显著。研究为改善和提高董事会治理效率提供了新的经验证据。     

国家转型语境下社会责任报告的行业意义——引导行业实现更有质量的增长

2011年6月28日,在中国纺织工业协会主办的2011中国纺织服装行业社会责任年会上,中国纺织工业协会连续第五年发布了它的行业性社会责任年度报告——《2010-2011中国纺织服装行业社会责任报告》,系统、开放、透明地向社会各界披露了行业一年来社会责任建设推广工作的实践,并传达了行业社会责任建设的新理念、新规划。半月之后的7月13日,广东省房协联合万科、碧桂园     

公司治理机制与财务业绩:效率还是盈利

本文基于杜邦分析体系(DuPontAnalysis),以我国资本市场在2002-2004年期间的上市公司年度数据为研究样本,实证检验了公司治理水平的提高对促进企业绩效增长的实现路径。研究表明,上市公司的治理水平越高,高管人员也就越加重视通过公司内部资源整合、完善营销策略和客户管理等方式提高资产营运效率。而且公司治理水平对改善企业绩效的影响并没有突出体现在努力提高主营业务收入或降低生产成本环节,而主要是通过加强资产管理和提高营运效率来实现的。     

Top Executive Pay in the United Kingdom: A Corporate Governance Dilemma

This study represents a first attempt in the UK literature to split total pay into salary, annual bonus and share options for the purpose of empirically verifying how each is related to executive performance. As predicted from earlier studies on total pay, salaries were found primarily determined by firm size. Contarary to prior research, however, our findings suggest a pronounced link does exist between performance and pay over both the short- and long-term. This is manifested particularly by the magnitude of the coefficient estimates found between changes in shareholders return and changes in executive share options. This finding strongly suggests that the leverage executives achieve, on average, in their rewards as share prices increase may well be substantial; a finding that has not been captured in previous research on executive remuneration and which is of considerable relevance to the current corporate governance debates.     

Ethical Challenges in the Two Main Segments of the Insurance Industry: Key Considerations in the Evolving Financial Services Marketplace

Based on the findings of several research studies of professionals in both the property-liability insurance industry and the life insurance industry, the paper makes and supports several important points. First, ethical challenges in the insurance industry involve not only a series of ethical dilemmas frequently faced by those working in the business, but also a variety of factors that hinder those working in the industry as they seek to resolve the ethical dilemmas encountered in the course of their work. Both of these two components of ethical challenges must be understood by those in the financial services industry who will deal with insurance operations in the future. Second, whereas the life insurance business and the property-liability insurance business have traditionally been viewed as being quite different from one another and still are in terms of operations and regulation, the research findings show that they are no longer very different in terms of the key ethical challenges faced by those working in the two segments of the industry. The paper shows how during the past decade the ethical challenges in the property-liability insurance industry have become quite similar to those in the more troubled life insurance industry.     

银行业金融创新与金融安全

本文认为,金融创新是"双刃"工具,风险与收益并存,银行业经营发展应坚持审慎原则.文章提出,中国银行业金融创新应始终坚持"成本可算、风险可控、信息充分披露"的基本准则,以科学发展观为指导,按照国民经济持续、健康发展的总体要求开展金融创新,持续提高针对金融创新活动的全面风险管理能力,加强投资者教育,提升金融消费者对创新产品的认知能力.     

Organizational Governance and Ethical Systems: A Covenantal Approach to Building Trust

American businesses and corporate executives are faced with a serious problem the loss of public confidence. Public criticism, increased government controls, and growing expectations for improved financial performance and accountability have accompanied this decline in trust. Traditional approaches to corporate governance, typified by agency theory and stakeholder theory, have been expensive to direct and have focused on short-term profits and organizational systems that fail to achieve desired results. We explain why the organizational governance theories are fundamentally, inadequate to build trust. We advance a conceptual framework based on stewardship theory characterized by “covenantal relationships” and argue that design of governance mechanisms using a covenantal approach is more effective in building trust in organizations. A covenantal relationship is a specialized form of a relational contract between an employee and his or her organization. We argue that regardless of incentives and control mechanisms carefully designed through contractual mechanisms, in the absence of covenantal relationships it is extremely difficult to build trust within organizations. We propose that organizations are more likely to build trust – both at the organizational level and at the interpersonal level – when they create reinforcing and integrated systems that honor implied duties of “covenantal relationships.”     

Work in the Financial Services Industry and Worker Monitoring: A Study of the Union Bank of Australia in the 1920s

This paper explores a part of the systems used by the British-owned Union Bank of Australia in managing its labour force in the 1920s. The particular concerns addressed here focus on the opportunities presented to workers to ‘cheat’ arising from the nature of the tasks undertaken, which meant that both output and effort were difficult to observe, and from the large amount of securities and cash in the branch. Workers could behave opportunistically. Workers discovered ‘cheating’ were subject to punishments ranging from prosecution in the courts, dismissal, demotion, delayed promotion and pay cuts. The Union Bank used a complex multi-layered system of checks to monitor the efforts made by workers and their honesty in handling cash and securities. The effectiveness of monitoring was increased by the organisation of work into small specialist departments whose supervisors possessed comprehensive knowledge of the tasks carried out by workers and the established norm of work rates.     

我国运输服务贸易逆差及其国际竞争力

运输服务贸易逆差被认为是我国运输服务贸易缺乏国际竞争力的标志。本文研究了我国运输服务贸易的现状和逆差产生的原因,对我国运输服务贸易的贸易专业化系数和显性比较优势指数进行了比较分析,认为我国运输服务贸易逆差的产生源自于运输服务的产能不足,统计数据的分析难以得出我国运输服务贸易缺乏国际竞争力的结论。