LINKAGES: DO FOREIGN FIRMS BUY LOCALLY IN TAIWAN?*

Linkages are important potential impacts of DFI upon host economies. Since these potentialities are not necessarily realized, we must separate the potential (ex ante) and actual (ex post) results of these effects. Empirical data for Taiwan in the 1970s show that DFI may tend to concentrate in industries with strong backward linkages. More significantly, DFI located in EPZs or controlled by non-Chinese investors had a clear tendency to import more and, hence, to form enclaves. However, this group of firms greatly improved its procurement policies over time. Thus, while discernible in the short run, the enclavistic phenomenon linked to DFI becomes insignificant in the long run, as shown by Taiwan's experience. Needless to say, the gradual rise of the local content rate of foreign firms is in line with successful development of the local material industries in Taiwan in the 1970s (Schive, forthcoming). In addition to the time factor, several firms specific factors such as foreign ownership structure, export propensity, status as a producer of either final or intermediate goods, status as a “neighboring” or “distant” investor, and the scale of operation all have a bearing on foreign firms' local purchasing behavior. To determine whether these findings pertain to Taiwan only, further country comparative studies are needed.     

城市政府“服务型管理”模式研究

城市管理水平的提高是城市"质"、"量"发展的必然要求,论文从城市管理的公共服务属性出发,提出了城市政府"服务型管理"的基本理念,并从城市管理的目标系统、组织体系、管理方法、控制机制四个模块对"服务型管理"模式的构建展开研究.最后,论文还对"服务型管理"的原则进行了探讨.     

Bringing Political Skill into Social Networks: Findings from a Field Study of Entrepreneurs

The authors integrate the entrepreneurship literature's sociological and behavioural perspectives and examine the processes through which entrepreneurs first build social networks and then use the network resources for enhancing venture performance. Field interviews of entrepreneurs during a six‐month period reveal that political skill is an important individual‐level factor that influences the construction and use of social networks. Theoretical and practical implications of the major findings are discussed.     

Effects of dominance transitions on advice adherence in professional service conversations

For many professional services, advice adherence is a necessary condition for achieving service success for both customers and service providers. Despite their pivotal roles in value co-creation, typical conversational interactions often lead to low adherence. We propose that enabling a “dominance transition,” from provider dominance in the pre-advice stage to customer dominance in the post-advice stage, enhances advice adherence because it increases customers’ perceived common ground. Furthermore, providers’ consultation focus, customers’ prior knowledge, and customers’ perceived adherence effort moderate this process. Using mixed methods, including both empirical modeling and controlled and field experiments, we validate the proposed model in various contexts (healthcare, financial services, and fitness and wellness counseling). The findings establish several theoretical contributions and offer managerial implications for improving advice adherence by managing dominance transitions in conversational interactions more effectively through training service providers or even programming AI chatbots.

     

国家视角下的目的地形象模型——基于来华国际游客的实证研究

国家形象和目的地形象因其对消费者行为和决策的重要影响,分别发展成为国际商务领域和旅游营销领域的重要概念和研究热点,虽然两者具有十分密切的内在联系,但学界对它们的研究却相对独立,缺少交叉研究.该研究在对两个领域的文献和理论模型进行整理后,将目的地形象放置到国家尺度下重新审视,试图揭示一个国家的综合国家形象与其作为旅游目的地的形象之间的互动机制,并尝试引入“熟悉度”等概念建立整合模型.最后以中国大陆为案例地,以来华国际游客为调查对象,通过结构方程模型进行实证检验和修正.结论指出:(1)熟悉度对目的地形象有正向影响;(2)国家形象与目的地形象之间具有双向且正向的影响;(3)国家形象通过目的地形象对游客的忠诚度产生间接影响.     

低学历的竞争

三年前，高考落榜后我来到这座城市。可是奔波了数日，仅有高中文凭的我，却怎么也找不到合意的工作。     

Nonlinear Taylor rules in Central Eastern European countries

This study applies sequential panel selection method (SPSM), proposed by Chortareas and Kapetanios (2009) Chortareas, G., and G. Kapetanios. 2009. “Getting PPP Right: Identifying Mean-Reverting Real Exchange Rates in Panels.” Journal of Banking and Finance 33: 390–404.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], to investigate to test the validity of Taylor rules to assess the nonstationary properties of the convergence of the real exchange rates for 10 Central Eastern European countries. The SPSM can be used to decompose a panel of real exchange rate series into two groups: a group of stationary series and a group of nonstationary series. We identify the stationary processes in the panel and demonstrate that Taylor rules holds for 7 of the 10 countries studied. These results imply that the choices and effectiveness of the monetary policies in Central Eastern European economies are highly influenced by external factors originating from the United States. Additionally, our findings highlight that their real exchange rate convergence is a mean reversion toward equilibrium values of Taylor rules in a nonlinear manner.     

论高等教育消费的可持续性

从上个世纪90年代以来,我国高等教育消费已经呈现出不断上升的势头.学术界对于如何保持高等教育消费的这一势头,促进高等教育消费可持续发展的问题倍加关注.笔者拟从我国家庭或受教育者个人在接受高等教育期间缴纳学费及生活和购买学习用品等方面发生的变化这一侧面,对高等教育消费的可持续性发展问题,作一粗浅的探讨.     

加入WTO对我国银行业监管工作的挑战

加入世贸组织后,我国金融业所面临的是全方位对外开放的新格局,外资银行的进入速度将不断加快,与中资银行展开全方位的竞争,这不仅对我国银行业是一个巨大的挑战,而且对我国中央银行的监管工作也提出了前所未有的挑战。因此,如何正视我国中央银行在监管工作中存在的差距和问题,从不断提高银行监管工作水平、促进银行业长期稳定发展出发,深入研究建立既符合我国国情,又适应现代银行业发展要求,且与国际金融监管惯例和规则接轨的现代金融监管体系,是目前我国银行监管工作迫切需要解决的一个现实问题。一、我国银行监管的现状、存在的主要问题…     

机电系统虚实结合实验教学平台设计

为了解决传统实验实践教学环节中的实验资源紧缺、实验设备维护成本高以及存在安全隐患等问题,设计了一种虚实结合的实验教学平台。首先以实际实验教学设备为基础,应用虚拟仿真技术,搭建具有与实物设备同样功能、属性的虚拟教学设备的机械结构及检测装置,其次通过连接物理PLC控制实验教学系统接口及编程环境,最后实现了虚拟教学设备与现实控制系统的结合。设计结果表明,平台较大程度地提高了实验设备机械执行部分在编程控制教学过程中的可验证性、容错能力及安全性,降低了实验设备采购及维护成本,提供了系统的VR仿真的运行环境,学生获得了真实的实验教学体验。所设计的机电系统虚实结合实验教学平台可应用在高校机械相关专业的实验与实训课程中,所利用的虚拟建模技术可为建立虚拟工厂和虚拟实验平台提供参考。