国际大石油技术服务公司发展特点剖析

哈里伯顿、斯伦贝谢、贝克休斯三大国际综合石油技术服务公司和威德福、CGG、DGC、Parker四大专业技术服务公司在长期的发展实践中积累了许多宝贵的经验,呈现出九大发展特点：其一,重视战略研究与管理,制定切实可行的战略目标与发展战略;其二,建立合适的组织结构和核心业务结构,并适时进行调整优化;其三,重视技术创新、开发与推广应用,科技投入比例高;其四,加强与石油公司的战略合作,建立战略联盟,实现甲乙双方的共赢;其五,把购并作为企业扩大规模和实力的最佳手段;其六,一体化与专业化业务结构相互借鉴 ,扬长避短,其七,重视市场研究和分析,合理选择市场进入、维持、退出策略,提高服务质量;其八,强调资源优化配置,控制成本,提高设备利用率;其九,注重经济、环境和社会的协调发展,重视QHSE工作以及自身形象建设.     

基于企业竞争力视角的物流金融服务研究

作为顺应市场发展、实现多方共赢的创新型物流服务,物流金融不仅有利于中小企业融资和银行金融业务的创新,也是提高物流企业竞争力的重要方式。本文以我国物流企业的未来竞争力为视角,对发展物流金融服务的具体策略和路径进行深入探讨,指出物流金融服务必将推动物流企业的管理创新和业务发展,成为我国物流企业决胜未来和物流产业迅猛发展的重要手段。     

Implementing Technologies for Financial Service Innovations in Base of the Pyramid Markets

This study examines how information communications technologies (ICTs) can be implemented effectively to provide financial service innovations to the poor who live in developing countries, a market collectively known as the “Base of the Pyramid” or BOP. The BOP needs—but commonly lacks—basic financial services, a situation that perpetuates poverty. With a dearth of formal banks especially in rural areas of developing countries, the BOP has almost no access to savings accounts, credit lines, and other necessary services. However, ICTs have the potential to overcome cost, infrastructure, and other barriers to service delivery, and are being used to offer new financial services such as mobile phone banking to the BOP. The purpose of this study is to determine ways of successfully implementing these technology‐enabled service innovations. The study draws on the Socio‐Technical View for theoretical girding, and uses case method to examine multiple ICT implementation projects in five sub‐Saharan African countries (Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Uganda). The projects, which were carried out by a leading microfinance banking organization named Opportunity International, provided mobile banks, point‐of‐service, and mobile phone banking services to the BOP. Several techniques were applied to gather data in the field over a two‐year period: depth interviews, direct observations, and internal document and data analysis. Multiple forms of evidence were triangulated against one another, and analyzed across cases until themes emerged and converged. In doing so, two specific forms of analysis, explanation building and cross‐case synthesis, were employed to make sense of the data. The findings, summarized as research propositions, collectively conclude that implementation is effective when the unique socio‐human, governmental‐regulatory, and market conditions of the BOP are accounted for, such that fit is achieved between the technologies and environments they are situated in. More specifically, effectiveness comes when implementation (1) addresses customer and agent limits with the technologies, and is accepted and supported by trained staff who monitor technology use and make responsive system adjustments; (2) exploits and promotes supportive governmental regulations and actions, as well as leverages sound electronic fund transfer (EFT) switches, whether government or bank established; and (3) accounts for low business capabilities and evolving market competition, along with the underdeveloped financial sector and financial literacy of the population. In sum, there are multiple factors that should be considered in the design and installation activities surrounding these technologies to ensure they provide cost‐effective, quality financial services to the poor.     

现代生产性服务业在金融危机形势下的现状及对策探讨

随着全球金融危机对实体经济影响的进一步加深,中国经济也面临着本世纪以来最为严峻的困难和挑战,及时改善产业比重,调整产业结构,提升企业技术创新能力和竞争优势,是促使中国经济成功转型,应对当前危机的有效途径。通过对浙江省的经济状况和现代生产性服务业现状的分析,提出了发展现代生产性服务业的对策建议。     

中国电信服务业的市场化演进

本文对中国电信分拆后中国电信业市场新格局的变化，研究和分析了今后3－5年中国电信业市场化进程的走势，并对电信公司资产的多元化、民营资本的进入、打破行政性垄断，建立市场化垄断等问题进行了较深入的研究，提出了相应的对策。     

Office Rent Determinants in the Chicago Area

This paper analyzes 1990 office asking rents in the Chicago metropolitan area. It carefully specifies a measure of the present value of a lease, taking account of important properties of rent offers. This present value is the dependent variable in the statistical analysis. The sample data analyzed pertain to 543 offices that contain about 80% of the office space in the metropolitan area. The present value of asking rents is related to many building characteristics and to each building's location. The analysis demonstrates that asking rents depend on about fifteen characteristics of the building and on a careful specification of its location.     

Determinants of Innovative Durables Adoption

This research uses innovation characteristics to assess product potential at two points in time. The two phases of the study consist of: (1) proposing and estimating purchase intention models and (2) reconciling predicted success with actual product performance. The investigation focuses on the impact of perceived product attributes, environmental variables, and consumer traits on the purchase intention of actual innovations within several technologically intensive product categories. Differences in model specification and parameter values are noted across product types. Results indicate consistency in the impact of product attributes across categories on an innovation's acceptability, but suggest differences in model specification with respect to environmental variables and consumer traits. The existence of a generic-to-specialized innovation continuum is a possible cause of the heterogeneity in results across products. An ex post analysis of the innovations indicates that, while success can be predicted quite accurately using perceived product attribute ratings, consumer and environmental variables should not be ignored for particular categories. The study has implications for the early screening of innovative durables, specifically with respect to forecasting model potential, determining product design and positioning, and developing promotional messages.     

The Determinants of Participatory Management

This paper analyses self-reported participatory management data from a survey of over 900 private-sector employees in Australia and New Zealand. We test for causal linkages between employee desires for participation, while distinguishing between participation at the shop-floor and at higher managerial levels. At higher levels, where there is a significant excess demand for participation, firms often respond to employee desires with formal programmes which in turn create de facto participation at this level. At the shop-floor level, employee desires are more often met through the informal provision of de facto participation. Participation also changes employee desires, with participation at higher levels increasing employee demands for it and participation at lower levels reducing demands for high-level participation. We conclude that shop-floor programmes may favour managerial interests while higher-level co-operative programmes may favour employee interests.     

Determinants of Industrial Property Value

This paper examines the determinants of industrial properly value. We use the factor-analytic linear structural relations (LISREL) model to confront measurement problems associated with related work. A simultaneous test of the effects on property value of factors summarizing physical property, national market, local market, interest rate and location variables is performed. Findings indicate that the value of industrial buildings during 1987–1991 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area is primarily related to local market effects and to physical characteristics and location of the property.     

Determinants of Success in the Development of Applications Software

In this article, the third in the trio of software innovation articles, Chris Voss outlines the key factors that determine whether a new software development is likely to be successful. His research draws on an innovation framework that has emerged from previous research. His results are similar to those of the earlier studies and suggest that the software innovation process has many demands that are common to innovation in other product areas.     

Alternative Approaches to the Production Programming Problem

The paper examines the economic feasibility of a robot installation in a metal industry located In the mid-west. The different viewpoints were considered: (1) the company's viewpoint and (it) the government's viewpoint. The results of the economic analysis indicated that the robot installation, though desirable from the company's viewpoint, 1b not always attractive to the government, especially if it leads to permanent unemployment of the displaced employees. However, when the displaced employees are relocated, with or without retraining, the robot installation becomes economically desirable from both viewpoints. The Impact of robot installations on employment displacement and the CNP is discussed and certain policy changes are suggested to make robotization of work places beneficial to all concerned.     

“一带一路”背景下中国金融服务贸易国际竞争研究

随着世界经济复苏,我国提出建设"一带一路",致力于将丝绸之路经济带与海上丝绸之路相结合形成一个容纳多方力量共同发展的大经济圈,依靠我国和周边国家已有的多边机制,建立行之有效经济区域合作平台,应对不断变化的国际经济新形势。本文以"一带一路"为背景研究了中国金融服务贸易国际竞争。     

正确解读财务报表信息的重要性 搞好财务报表分析和财务决策

作为企业管理者,如果对会计提供的以财务报告为主的经济信息,能正确理解其重要性,从而进行很好的财务报表分析,用以指导企业经营决策,就能有效地调配企业资源,从而谋取更大的经济效益。为此,就要细心解读资产负债表、利润表、现金流量表所提供信息的重要性,根据企业发展的现状和趋势,及时调整企业的资产结构、资本结构、现金流量,设法降低费用,增加利润。     

Determinants of customer loyalty in the wireless telecommunications industry

This paper reports the results of research investigating the determinants of the propensity to switch wireless service providers. A model generated from the data rather than from a priori theory is presented, and it is found to uphold the strong relationship between customer satisfaction and customer loyalty exhibited in prior studies. In sharp contrast to the prevailing industry practice of ‘locking in’ customers by means of restrictive contracts, this research suggests that wireless service providers are better off improving customer satisfaction in order to minimize customer defection. This would imply shifting scarce resources to customer retention through improved service, saving costs of expensive customer acquisition campaigns. The paper also proposes two methodological innovations. First, the research employs the ‘Tetrad methodology’ as an exploratory technique prior to building a Structural Equation Model (SEM) making it possible to identify drivers of loyalty—direct or indirect—when it might not be known a priori what these drivers might be. Secondly, the paper proposes an approach to estimating moderator effects on the relationship between satisfaction and customer loyalty.     

推进整体财务管理模式全面提升财务管理水平

“十五”以来,中国航天科工防御技术研究院科研生产任务异常繁重,但在各级领导的正确指引下,全院财务工作通过不断规范基础,整体式财务管理模式日渐形成,为保障军品科研生产任     

On the Determinants of Mandatory Works Councils in Germany

German works councils are often thought of as operating in all firms that exceed the basic size threshold (of five permanent employees) established under law. Drawing on a new large-scale, representative German data set, we report that only one-fifth of firms in our sample have works councils even if such firms do account for almost three-fourths of employment. The principal factors behind works council presence emerge as fairly conventional: firm size, firm age, branch plant status, the gender composition of the work force, and certain working arrangements. There are also signs of a close relation between workplace union density and council presence. However, some controversial causal links suggested in an earlier econometric literature receive little support.