A NOTE ON PRICING OF PRODUCT QUALITY FOR STATUS CONCERNS

The paper analyses the optimal pricing of the product quality scheme when concerns for relative standing exist among consumers. We demonstrate that if the proportion of high‐value consumers is over (respectively, under) 1/2 of the total consumers, a firm has an incentive to select a large (respectively, small) quality gap among products. Therefore, there exists a cut‐off level for status concerns, which eliminates quality differences, and the firm assigns the same quality to all the consumers. These results indicate that consumers’ qualities will reflect distortions at the top and bottom. Accordingly, the firm's profit depends on which consumer category is larger.     

无边界职业生涯时代不同代际员工组织承诺的影响因素

基于无边界职业生涯的理论视角,采用问卷调查法,考察了影响新生代员工和传统代员工组织承诺的关键性因素,并通过优势分析确定其相对权重.结果表明:(1)在无边界职业生涯时代,企业员工具有较高的无边界心智模式和适度的组织流动性偏好,新生代员工的无边界心智模式显著高于传统代员工,但组织流动性偏好在不同代际之间的差异不显著.(2)组织流动性偏好显著地负向预测组织承诺,无边界心智模式对组织承诺的预测作用均不显著,组织发展性支持和感知的职业机会显著地正向预测组织承诺.(3)组织承诺影响因素的相对重要性存在代际差异,组织中的职业机会是影响新生代员工组织承诺的最重要因素,组织的发展性支持是影响传统代员工组织承诺的最重要因素.     

Relevance of the disposition effect on the options market: New evidence

A moneyness‐based propensity to sell (MPS) measure, at the aggregate level, determines the propensity of option holders to exercise their winning relative to losing positions. Using data on individual stock and S&P 500 Index options, we find that the MPS measure has significant predictive power over the cross section of delta‐hedged option returns. We test the disposition effect in the options market based on a long–short strategy that exploits price distortions induced by the disposition bias. More pronounced evidence of the disposition bias is found for individual at‐the‐money call options than put options where the significance of abnormal returns remains robust across different subsamples even after we control for the portfolio option greeks and market‐based risk factors. The profitability of the long–short strategy is related to limit‐to‐arbitrage proxies suggesting that behavioral explanations help explain the positive relation between the MPS measure and delta‐hedged option returns.     

Social entrepreneurship as an essentially contested concept: Opening a new avenue for systematic future research

Social entrepreneurship has emerged as an active area of practice and research within the last three decades. Nevertheless, in spite of its growing popularity, scholars and practitioners are far from reaching a consensus as to what social entrepreneurship actually means. This has resulted in a number of different definitions and approaches within the field of social entrepreneurship. The purpose of this article is to shed light on the ongoing contestation of social entrepreneurship and to offer a novel conceptual understanding of the concept that can facilitate the development of systematic and structured future research. To this end, we analyze social entrepreneurship on the basis of the theory of essentially contested concepts, which was proposed by Walter Bryce Gallie in 1956. Building upon this theory, this article shows that social entrepreneurship can be regarded as an essentially contested concept and that a universal definition that would be accepted among contestant parties is hardly possible. Responding to this recognition, the article proposes the conceptualization of social entrepreneurship as a cluster concept, which can serve as a conceptual tool to help advancing social entrepreneurship as a coherent field of research despite its contested nature.     

The relationship between multinationality and performance: Knowledge-intensive vs. capital-intensive service micro-multinational enterprises

This research explores the relationship between multinationality and firm performance (M-P) in the context of micro-multinational enterprises (mMNEs) within the service sector. We examine the moderating effects of industry characteristics using a data set of 1082 Spanish service mMNEs over an eight-year period. The empirical results provide statistical evidence that knowledge-intensive service mMNEs exhibit an inverted U-shaped M-P relationship, while capital-intensive service mMNEs present a U-shaped relationship. Our findings demonstrate that knowledge-intensive service mMNEs increase their performance in the initial stage of multinationality, encounter a threshold of internationalization at relatively low levels of multinationality and have a propensity to over-internationalize. By comparison, capital-intensive service mMNEs experience negative performance effects at low levels of multinationality and positive ones as they further internationalize. Given that their operations are scale-sensitive, they tend to expand internationally by concentrating their operations in few foreign markets as a means to overcome the liabilities of internationalization and smallness. We contribute to the literatures on multinationality research in the service sector and on SME internationalization by showing that the effects of multinationality on the performance of mMNEs depend on industry characteristics and that such contextual factors provide a better understanding of the M-P relationship.     

中国梦语境下的民生幸福探究

民生意指人民群众的生存、生计与生活。马克思的幸福思想成为中国梦的理论基础,中国梦成为马克思主义民生幸福理论中国化的重要内容。民生幸福则表达着中国梦"至善"的追求境界,成为中国梦的旨归,中国梦与民生幸福具有内在的统一性。追求民生幸福、实现中国梦的科学路径在于加强社会主义政治文明建设、经济建设、社会和谐建设、精神文化建设、生态文明建设,五位一体,实现中华民族的伟大复兴。     

RCEP框架下前海人民币国际化的先行先试

2018年以来,人民币国际化进入新的发展周期.自贸区作为实行税收优惠和特殊监管政策的多功能经济性特区,在跨境贸易结算便利、资本自由流动、离岸金融业务创新方面具备先行先试的优势.前海作为大湾区金融对外开放的总枢纽、国际经贸规则压力测试的承担者、跨境金融治理合作的试验田,需要抢抓RCEP重大发展机遇,积极探索开展离岸人民币金融业务,推动离岸和在岸市场的规则与国际接轨;服务RCEP和"一带一路"建设,联动香港建设全球离岸人民币业务枢纽;支持前海参与跨境支付清算新机制建设,提高人民币在贸易投资中的使用;顺应RCEP对金融领域开放的要求,率先探索贸易投资项下的便利化措施;利用前海建设法治先行示范区优势,建立与国际接轨的金融对外开放制度环境,为推进人民币国际化发挥更加关键的作用.     

Does context matter for sustainability disclosure? Institutional factors in Southeast Asia

Corporate sustainability is a dynamic, socially constructed concept. Relatedly, to understand the variations in the disclosure of corporate sustainability activities across countries, we need to inherently explore their underlying sociopolitical contexts. At present our understanding in this regard, is deficient. We respond to this extant research gap by adopting a multi‐country approach to investigate the relationship between countries' institutional environments and firms' sustainability disclosure (SD) practices, across six countries in the Southeast Asian region. Our findings reflect a common focus of Southeast Asian firms on community and human resources (HRs) related disclosures. Nevertheless, nuanced differences in their overall SD levels confirm the influence of differing legal, normative, and sociocultural systems in engendering greater disclosure and transparency at a national level. By quantifying the institutional environment and identifying external influencing factors, our study provides a useful framework grounded in neo‐institutional theory to widen the existing understanding of how institutional pressures can be measured and compared across different contexts.     

Offshoring and skill overlap: An empirical investigation

Conventional international trade theory predicts that bilateral offshoring flows will be highest when two countries have very different relative factor endowments. In contrast, the new trade theory contends that offshoring is more likely to exist when countries’ relative factor endowments are similar. This paper empirically tests the relationship between offshoring and relative factor endowments, measured by the skill overlap index between two countries and finds evidence that there is an inverted U‐shape relationship. Our empirical results predict that the rise in educational attainment in China will motivate U.S. multinationals to send their tasks to China in the short run; over the long run, however, U.S. multinationals will have fewer incentives to send their tasks to China. This finding sheds new light on the current trade tensions between the United States and China and has implications for trade policy.     

园林工程项目施工过程中的成本控制

施工过程中成本控制直接影响施工企业建设出来的建筑产品的质量,还会影响其在市场中的竞争和经济效益。本文将从几个方面谈谈施工过程中的成本控制与管理。首先介绍了成本控制的概念,然后分析了施工过程中成本控制的内容,最后对具体措施进行探讨。