适应全球商业环境的挑战:对中美经济关系的启示

本文批评了贸易保护主义的观点,认为由于美国已经不再有许多制造业,必须依赖进口,所以改变人民币与美元的汇率,或者对中国产品征收关税对解决美国的贸易赤字问题没有帮助。事实上美国的贸易赤字主要是因为美国的财政赤字引起的。在全球化的背景下,中国要增大亲市场改革的力度,才能不落后于其他迅速发展的国家。同时公司和市场的全球化正在模糊国内和国际经济的边界,使得保护主义成为落后的观点和措施。总之,美国和中国只有加强合作,才能发挥正面的拉动作用。     

‘Poor children on Tinder’ and their Barbie Saviours: towards a feminist political economy of volunteer tourism

Barbie Saviours is a satirical Instagram account and linked Facebook page that depict white western Barbies volunteering in Africa with the bio, ‘Jesus. Adventures. Africa. Two worlds. One love. Babies. Beauty. Not qualified. Called. 20 years old. It’s not about me… but it kind of is’. Drawing on emerging theories of feminist political economy, we address the growing backlash against volunteer tourism in the popular media and argue that critiques against these images reflect an anti-hegemonic project that highlights the role of sentimental colonialism in contemporary forms of international popular humanitarianism. Widely described as a critique against the ‘White Saviour Complex’, Barbie Saviour is used to popularise a negative image of western female volunteer tourists which currently comprise more than 75% of the industry. These critiques question the morality and legitimacy of female volunteer tourists as well as related spaces of western forms of development in the global south. These satires shine a spotlight on the neocolonial aura of the practice. However, we argue that while this critique is a productive reminder of the symbolic violence of racialised inequality, the critique itself also, albeit inadvertently, perpetuates the ahistorical and apolitical racial, ethnic, gender and class-based binary thinking that it seeks to condemn.     

Impact of US market access on local labour markets in Vietnam

This paper examines the impact of US market access on local labour markets in a developing country, Vietnam. Following the implementation of the Vietnam–United States bilateral trade agreement (BTA) in December 2001, manufacturing employment increased in provinces that were more exposed to US tariff cuts. In those provinces, employment also increased in many service sectors, reflecting strong spillovers of job gains. Among three potential channels of local job gain spillovers, namely, demand, production and real estate, the demand channel is the most important. The BTA is also found to reduce employment gaps, especially in manufacturing, between females and males, rural and urban, and poor and rich households.     

The pursuit of HR outsourcing in an emerging economy: The effects of HRM strategy on HR labour costs

The study examines the relationships among six types of HRM strategies with three categories of outsourcing HR activities to reduce HR labour costs. The data were gathered from a survey questionnaire of 232 manufacturing organizations of which 113 organizations engaged with HR outsourcing. We found that no organization outsourced transformational HR functions and that organizations that espouse cost efficiency, commitment, and conventional HRM strategies tend to outsource traditional HR functions, whereas quality conscious and commitment HRM strategies tend to outsource transactional HR functions. Transactional and traditional HR functions show a significant relationship with a reduction in HR labour costs. Copyright © 2016 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The moderating roles of status of B2B evaluator and dependence in the switching costs – switching intentions – performance causal chain in Korea

Switching intentions in the business-to-business (B2B) relationship context have a powerful impact on a firm’s performance and are often considered in relation to perceived switching costs. This factor has also been considered as a good predictor of actual turnover behaviour resulting in reduced market share and profitability of firms. However, despite the importance of switching intentions in B2B relationships, there is still no evidence either to support linkages to switching costs as a key driver of decision-making or to demonstrate interrelationships with firm performance. The author empirically examines the theoretical process of the cognitive assessment – behavioural intentions – performance linkage that explains a firm’s likelihood of terminating B2B relationships using three moderating variables. The results suggest that the switching intentions are driven by switching costs and their similarity to the direct effect on firm performance. Meanwhile, personal relationship loss costs, rather than other types of switching costs, serve an important role in determining the reduction of switching intentions. Finally, the author discusses insights about the present results and suggests future research directions.     

2008 financial crisis and income distribution in Turkey

Quality & Quantity - This study provides some new evidence for the 2008–2009 Global Financial Crisis on income inequality in Turkey. Two methodologies were used in the study. The first...     

Integrating education and training,and their implications in NGOs’ disaster management: the case of Korea

This paper examines the education and training provided by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in disaster management. The research presented was prompted as a result of serious errors made by both staff and volunteers involved in recent disaster recoveries in South Korea, for example following the sinking of a ferry and the outbreak of MERS. This paper presents important lessons for international NGOs, as well as for national and regional NGOs.