Retraction Note: Analyzing of innovations influence on economic growth by fuzzy system

Quality & Quantity - The Editor-in-Chief has retracted this article (Mladenovi? et al. 2017) because validity of the content of this article cannot be verified. This article showed...     

供应链融资模式下核心企业的运作策略

供应链融资业务的参与方有金融机构、核心企业、中小融资企业、物流企业等;其中各参与方当中起到供应链融资能否实施的决定性作用的是以银行为代表的金融机构及与中小融资企业有贸易来往的核心企业。文中以核心企业为视角,首先分析了核心企业在供应链融资中的作用,然后梳理了核心企业参与供应链融资运作的必要条件,最后阐明了供应链融资中核心企业的运作策略。     

Urban Responses to The Economic Crisis: Confirmation of Urban Policies as Crisis Management in Malmö

It is common knowledge that crisis also signifies opportunity and opens spaces for change. When responding to the current economic crisis, is urban planning seizing this opportunity? This article investigates the case of the Swedish city of Malmö and explores its responses to the crisis by looking dialectically at the crisis, municipal planning policy and real‐estate capital. In this article, the local state and urban planning are regarded as social relations, with the aim of going beyond traditional formulations that oppose market (neoliberal) and state intervention (Keynesianism) as the main focus for crisis management. Against this background, the article shows that the 2008 crisis was met in Malmö by an active municipality that confirmed the existing visions and tendencies, rather than exploiting the crisis as a moment for changes and transformation. The article seeks to explain this by looking at the social relations that have constituted the urban policies in Malmö for the past two decades.     

Discussion

I thoroughly enjoyed reading the article by Bhadra et. al. (2020) and convey my congratulations to the authors for providing a comprehensive and coherent review of horseshoe-based regularization approaches for machine learning models. I am thankful to the editors for providing this opportunity to write a discussion on this useful article, which I expect will turn out to be a good guide in the future for statisticians and practitioners alike. It is quite amazing to see the rapid progress and the magnitude of work advancing the horseshoe regularization approach since the seminal paper by Carvalho et al. (2010). The current review article is a testimony for this. While I have been primarily working with continuous spike and slab priors for high-dimensional Bayesian modeling, I have been following the literature on horseshoe regularization with a keen interest. For my comments on this article, I will focus on some comparisons between these two approaches particularly in terms of model building and methodology and some computational considerations. I would like to first provide some comments on performing valid inference based on the horsheshoe prior framework.     

Managing Complex Governance Systems: Dynamics,Self-Organization and Coevolution in Public Investments

ABSTRACT

This article investigates the substitution and complementarity effect that organizational social capital generates between two different types of performance information: nonroutine and routine performance information. The study of this topic is important since it offers a better understanding of how public managers inform their decision-making. Using department level data from 57 counties in Florida, this article finds that departments with higher levels of organizational social capital are more likely to complement the use of both routine and nonroutine performance information. Thus, the article reinforces the role and importance that organizational social capital plays into well-established and consolidated managerial practices.     

信息不对称条件下无形资产减值测度研究(Ⅲ)——无形资产减值测度理论模型的构建

本文在分析无形资产减值测度与无形资产评估关系的基础上,提出改进无形资产评估收益现值法与构建无形资产减值测度的理论模型,并通过实例介绍如何运用模型,为无形资产个别存在形式的减值测度奠定理论基础。     

Money donations,volunteering and organizational efficiency

The purpose of this article is to explain the cross-sectional variation in money donations to charities at the organizational level. Using a unique data base which includes volunteer labor data, this article tests the hypotheses that money donations are positively related to volunteering and the technical efficiency of the firm. Technical efficiency is measured by a number of non-parametric indices. The empirical results indicateinter alia that the more technically efficient the charity, the more money donations it is able to raise. Moreoer, at least for one model, money donations and volunteering are found to be complementary at the organizational level. In addition, the results in this article are not consistent with the well-known hypothesis that government financing crowds out private donations.     

The Challenge of Adaptive Capability in Public Organizations

Abstract

This article describes an attempt within the Danish Crime Prevention Council to improve adaptive capability. The article applies a complex adaptive system perspective and analyses the organizational identities of the Council to determine how processes of integration, differentiation and fragmentation influence adaptive capability. The findings emphasize the importance of path dependency in actor's attempts to adapt. Based on this finding, the article suggests that the complex adaptive system perspective can be enriched by an institutional theory.     

Top finance journals: Do they add value?

This paper develops a methodology for determining the value added by journals to articles they publish and uses this methodology to study five leading finance journals in the period 1990 through 2002. The quality of an article is disaggregated into two components—a component inherent to the article and a component added by the journal. Inherent article quality is proxied by author reputation and the reputation of the author's school, while journal value added is proxied by editorial board quality, journal age, and journal readership characteristics. Our Tobit regression analysis results show that theJournal of Finance, theJournal of Financial Economics, and theReview of Financial Studies add significant value over and above inherent article quality.     

On the linear combinations of stochastic variables

Summary In this article we give a general distribution of the linear combinations of independent non-negative stochastic variables. This result generalizes a class of distributions of the linear combinations of independent non-negative variates and further a number of other particular cases can be obtained from the general distribution discussed in this article. In deriving the general distribution we used the properties of the most generalized special function, namely, the H-function ofFox [1961] andBraaksma [1964].     

基于流程节点的知识集成方法研究

提出了一种基于流程节点的知识集成方法,并对该方法的现实意义进行了分析。在对流程节点进行界定的基础上,构建业务流程模型;并对知识分类与表示进行了研究并构建了知识集成模型。     

The best way to conduct intervention research: methodological considerations

This article is a theoretical contribution to the debate about which qualitative intervention methodology is best suited to building stronger partnerships between researchers and practitioners in educational research. In the first part of this article, two types of intervention methodologies gaining impact in the field are contrasted in light of Yrjö Engeström’s criticism. This discussion lays the groundwork for the main claim in the second part of this article that dialogical work between researchers and practitioners focusing on ‘contradictions’ and the ‘object of activity,’ can provide analytical tools to improve understanding of challenges in intervention research.     

The impact of guanxi networks on the employment relations of rural migrant women in contemporary China

Based on qualitative data collected from Beijing, Shantou and 30 villages in Hebei and Henan with rural women migrants, their family members and employers, this article examines how guanxi networks influence rural migrant women's employment relations, and how they are exploited by their employers through guanxi. Research on guanxi often demonstrates its positive side, whereas this article examines the other side of guanxi—the abuse of such connections in the process of employment relations.     

沥青砼路面接缝的处理方法探讨

沥青砼路面施工接缝处理是施工控制的技术难题之一,也是直接影响路面平整度的一个重要环节。笔者根据工作中的施工经验,就施工中容易出现的实际问题,并针对这些问题提出了一些解决方法。下面就把在工作中接缝的处理经验作一介绍。     

Reconceptualizing public and private in urban regime theory: governance in AIDS politics

Based on life-stories, in-depth interviews and informal conversations, this article focuses on the lived experiences of the inhabitants of a slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The first part of the article explores the political-economic context of deepening marginalization of the slum population in contemporary Argentina, paying special attention to the mutually reinforcing processes of massification of under- and unemployment, impoverishment and state retrenchment. The second part of the article analyses the impact of such increasing marginalization on the lived experiences of slum-dwellers in Villa Paraiso. In particular, it focuses on (a) the dominant antagonisms that divide the residents of this destitute neighbourhood; and (b) the feeling of social isolation and abandonment that pervades much of the reality of slum-dwellers. The article finds some experiential similarities between slum-dwellers in Argentina and residents of other enclaves of urban poverty in advanced societies. A partir d'histoires de vie, des entrevues en profondeur et des conversations informelles, cet article a pour objet les expériences vécues des habitants des taudis de Buenos-Aires en Argentine. La première partie de l'article explore le contexte socio-politique de marginalisation croissante des habitants des taudis dans l'Argentine contemporaine, attirant particulièrement l'attention sur les processus de massification, de sous-emploi et de chômage, d'appauvrissement et de retrait de l'état qui se renforcent mutuellement. La seconde partie de l'article analyse l'impact que cette marginalisation grandissante a sur l'expérience des habitants des taudis de Villa Paraiso. Il examine en particulier (a) les antagonismes dominants qui divisent les résidents de ce quartier sans ressources et (b) l'impression d'isolation sociale et d'abandonnement qui imprègne une bonne part de la réalité des habitants de taudis. L'article met en evidence certaines similarités entre les expériences des habitants de taudis en Argentine et les résidents d'autres enclaves de pauvreté urbaine dans les sociétés avancées.     

Workplace unionism under decentralised bargaining in France: a case study of the CGT in the car industry

Considering recent theoretical accounts on the trajectory of French unionism under localised bargaining, this article examines potential consequences for the country's traditionally largest radical union, Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT). Deploying a case study of CGT at PSA Peugeot Citroёn and Renault in the years since the 2008 automotive crisis, the article observes a persistent pattern of militant opposition within company and plant union sections. Company bargaining structure, interunion reformist collaboration and electoral considerations are identified as workplace mechanisms reinforcing CGT actions at this level.     

浅谈年所得的确定

本文根据我国税法的最新规定,结合今年纳税申报中遇到的实际问题,总结了年所得确定的三大原则:年所得是综合所得;年所得是毛收入额;年所得是含税收入。同时结合实例加以阐述,重点论述了今年纳税申报中遇到的突出问题——不含税收入如何转化为含税收入。     

IN THE SHADOW OF ‘THE CITY’ YET TO COME: Auroville,Developmentalism and the Social Effects of Cityness

This article focuses on the planned community of Auroville in Tamil Nadu, India, founded in 1968. Building on critical readings of the settlement that have drawn attention to the power imbalance in its relationships with surrounding villages, the article delineates the ways that a geographical imagination of cityness has been a key component of the settlement's development and the forms of neo-coloniality in which it has been implicated. Drawing on archival and published sources as well as ethnographic research, the article discusses three ways in which the settlement performs a sense of its own ‘cityness-to-come’: first, the architectural discourse and planning rationality central to Auroville's identity; second, its agonistic public sphere vis-à-vis architecture and planning, and third, its ethos of learning and evolution, and the settlement's developmental teleology. In so doing, the article shows how ‘the city’ conceived as a textual and spatial promise, as well as a utopian aspiration, works ideologically to constitute the settlement itself, but also to precipitate social effects and uneven power relationships with village communities in this region. To sum up, this article develops an argument about the neo-colonial social work done by ‘the city’ conceived as text.     

Is There Any Ethical and Moral Consideration in the Theory and Practice of Global Business Social Darwinism?

Abstract

This article has revisited the interchangeable meanings of morality and ethics in today's global business practices. This article argues that in the theory and practice of the global business Social Darwinism, there is no room for ethics and morality because the competitive international business ideology promotes the “survival of the fittest.” Furthermore, the purpose of this article is to first define the distinction between morality and ethics and their application in the real world of today's business; second, to analyze the ideological foundation of the international business practices of Social Darwinism in relation to global production, consumption, profitability, and efficacy.     

Organisational Supplying Behaviour: Understanding supplier needs,wants and preferences

The purpose of this article is to enhance understanding in the P&SM field of supplier behaviour by exploring their needs, wants and preferences. The characteristics of customers that suppliers need, want and prefer have been conceptualised as ‘Sources of Supplier Value’ (SOSV) and the article seeks to establish a vocabulary for describing supplier needs, wants and preferences and their impact on buyer attractiveness. To achieve this a pilot study was conducted using face-to-face interviews with key account managers and Managing Directors in 14 SMEs supplying UK supermarket buyers. The research identifies 49 elements in buyers’ purchase offerings, behaviours and characteristics that suppliers regard as important. The practical implication of this research is to improve the P&SM field's understanding of the behaviour of suppliers with a longer term view to improving the ability of all buyers to influence the behaviour of suppliers in ways that match the buyers’ requirements and preferences. Furthermore, in view of the current paucity of research and understanding in this subject area, the article presents a coherent theoretical framework, terminology and rationale for investigations into the phenomenon of Organisational Supplying Behaviour.