Risk Awareness of Interpersonal Trust and Entrepreneurship in China: Evidence from Survey Data

This paper aims to build a theoretical framework for the influence of risk awareness of interpersonal trust (RAIT) on entrepreneurship, and explores the influence of RAIT on entrepreneurship with the micro survey data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) 2010–2013. The study found that, individuals with higher level of RAIT, their probability of starting new business will increase significantly, and with every increase of RAIT level, the probability of business venturing increase almost 4.0%. No mediation effects of information screening and cooperative mechanism are found in the relationship between RAIT and entrepreneurship. Moreover, during the venturing process, risks accompanying interpersonal trust cannot be reduced by social input; the reduction occurs only in eastern China where the economic system and the industrial development standards are more comprehensive and mature. This paper contributes to the literatures in the following two areas: it provides new evidence on how to deal with risks in the entrepreneurship process that accompanying interpersonal trust; meanwhile, it provides an explanatory mechanism on how the risk awareness affects business venturing.     

从非对称降息看利率市场化对商业银行的挑战

非对称降息对进一步推进利率市场化进程有着重要意义,而利率市场化给商业银行带来了全方位的挑战.本文针对2014年11月22日央行非对称降息的举措,指出了其对利率市场化的推进作用,分析了商业银行在利率市场化进程中面临的挑战,提出了商业银行应对利率市场化的对策.     

新加坡收入分配的变化及其启示

目前,中国的社会收入分配格局出现失衡态势,反映收入差距的基尼系数已超过国际警戒线。尽管中国与新加坡的国情相差较大,收入分配制度也迥然不同,但新加坡解决社会收入分配问题的经验仍值得借鉴。     

Robust scheduling for multi-objective flexible job-shop problems with random machine breakdowns

This study addresses robust scheduling for a flexible job-shop scheduling problem with random machine breakdowns. Two objectives – makespan and robustness – are simultaneously considered. Robustness is indicated by the expected value of the relative difference between the deterministic and actual makespan. Utilizing the available information about machine breakdowns, two surrogate measures for robustness are developed. Specifically, the first suggested surrogate measure considers the probability of machine breakdowns, while the second surrogate measure considers the location of float times and machine breakdowns. To address this problem, a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm is presented in this paper. The experimental results indicate that, compared with several other existing surrogate measures, the first suggested surrogate measure performs better for small cases, while the second surrogate measure performs better for both small and relatively large cases.     

How does growth need strength influence employee outcomes? The roles of hope,leadership, and cultural value

Abstract

Strong growth need is essential if an employee is to be motivated to complete complex and challenging jobs. It is important for organizations to attract employees with high growth need strength and help them achieve positive outcomes. However, limited research has been conducted to examine the mechanism underlying growth need strength’s positive effect on employee outcomes. Based on hope theory, we hypothesized that hope mediates the effect of growth need strength on job performance and affective commitment by transforming employees’ general desire for personal growth into goal-related cognitive thinking, comprising both ‘will’ and ‘ways’. We further hypothesized the moderating effect of transformational leadership, and the joint moderating effect of transformational leadership and individual power distance on the relationship between growth need strength and hope. We tested our hypotheses with data from a sample of 265 subordinate–supervisor dyads from China. Data analysis results supported the mediating role of hope. We found that growth need strength has a stronger effect on hope when transformational leadership is higher, and this effect is the strongest when both transformational leadership and individual power distance are simultaneously higher. The implications of these findings for human resource management research and practice are discussed.     

燃气管道防雷设计的基本原则和方法

本文首先分析了燃气管道可能遭受雷击的主要通道,然后提出了堵塞这些主要危害通道的基本思路和基本技术要求,并对燃气管道防雷设计的基本原则和方法作了详尽的论述,为燃气管道的防雷设计提供了实践依据。     

浅析数控曲轴连杆轴颈车床夹具设计的有效改进

数控曲轴连杆颈车床用来加工一般四拐曲轴的连杆颈,该夹具已使用多年,但随着近年来新产品开发数量的增多,已远不能满足使用要求,本文就CF-702数控曲轴连杆轴颈车床的夹具设计,进行有效的改进,具有一定的参考价值。     

金融危机理论演进与发展研究

随着我国金融开放的深度和广度的不断提高,旧有风险进一步暴露,新的风险进一步产生。我国经济受全球经济波动的影响越来越大,发生金融危机的可能性也在增大。由于金融危机的最大特征就是货币的急剧贬值,关于货币危机的研究也最为成熟,目前已形成四代理论模型。而银行业危机理论和外债危机理论的研究比较分散,还没有形成像货币危机理论那样完善的体系。