Value creation in the relationship life cycle: A quasi-longitudinal analysis

Among the growing literature on value creation in collaborative buyer-seller relationships, most researchers examine relationship value at a single point in time. In the present research, we explore whether different stages of the relationship life cycle moderate the relative importance of value-creating dimensions. To shed light on the dynamic nature of value in B2B relationships, we present the results of a survey among purchasing managers using a quasi-longitudinal research design. Our findings confirm the moderating role of the relationship life cycle in value creation. More precisely, our results indicate that a key supplier's potential for value creation in customer's operations increases in relative importance as relationships move through the life cycle. In turn, supplier's capabilities to create superior value at the level of the customer's sourcing process display a decreasing role over the life cycle of a business relationship. No significant link was found in the present study between value creation through a supplier's core offering and different stages of a buyer-seller relationship.     

经济转型发展中科技人才分型与协同作用机制研究

立足我国经济发展转型诉求,提出基于创新链视角的科技人才新分型思路。在深入分析各类科技人才创新协同机制的基础上,重点剖析创新要素集成流动及创新价值传递转换机理。最后,系统地给出了适应我国经济转型发展要求的科技制度及政策配给调整建议。     

信息化视角下优化企业会计核算流程的方法分析

信息化时代,为了满足日益发展的会计信息时效性和准确性需求,财务会计工作由传统的手工记账方式转变成使用各财务软件进行企业财务会计核算工作。通过记账方式的改变,能有效提升会计信息的准确性,提高会计核算工作的效率和效果。然而,从较多企业使用情况来看,仅仅使用财务软件进行一般的会计账务处理,财务会计信息的核算时效性仍旧存在不足,对业务活动的监督容易存在漏洞,尤其是对于发展到一定规模的企业来说,进一步优化整个财务会计工作流程,使会计工作更加高效,尤为重要。因此,本文先分析了优化企业会计核算流程的必要性,又探究了企业会计核算流程的优化理念,最后详细研究了信息化时代优化企业会计核算流程的措施,使用ERP系统对企业会计工作的促进作用,希望能对企业会计的信息化建设提供参考。     

Technology evaluation in Taiwan's technology industries: Strategies, trajectories, and innovations

Technology evaluation, as an organizational process, is the essential ability to comprehend the values of technologies very soon after they emerge. Meanwhile, the technology evaluation process is inevitably influenced by the firm's industrial context, such as its technological trajectory. This study defines technology evaluation strategy in terms of the processes, methods, and participants involved, and uses this definition as a taxonomy to explore different types of technology evaluation strategies. A survey on the technological industries is conducted to explore types of technology evaluation strategies and their relationships with the advantages of different types of innovation under the effects of different technological trajectories. The survey identifies four types of technology evaluation strategies, namely, those of the flexible executive strategist, the emergent executive intuitionist, the deliberate quantitative strategist, and the deliberate consensual strategist, are identified. This study has found that certain types of technology evaluation strategies have better innovation performances than the others. The patterns of technological trajectories are also found to influence a firm's technology evaluation strategy and the advantages of certain types of innovations. The established explanations of the relationships among the technological trajectory, innovation type, and technology evaluation strategies may guide technology businesses to develop a better technology evaluation capability. The theoretical framework developed in this research enriches the strategic management literature with a new taxonomy for technology evaluation strategies.     

Has bank consolidation in Korea lessened competition?

This paper examines market concentration and competition in the Korean commercial banking market for the period of 1992–2004. While market concentration decreased due to financial regulation before the Asian financial crisis, the Korean banking industry has become increasingly concentrated in the process of restructuring and consolidation since the crisis. Contrary to a growing concern over market power in Korean banking, this study finds that increased concentration has not lessened competition. The H statistic of the Panzar–Rosse model indicates that the Korean commercial banking market was monopolistically competitive during the pre-crisis period and the post-crisis period with temporary deviation to the level of perfect competition during the crisis period.     

芬兰科技创新之路及对我国西部大开发的启示

在全球信息科技革命浪潮中,芬兰通过重视发展教育和对科技人才的培养、加大研发投入对科技自主创新的支持,迅速地从上世纪初落后的农业国而快速发展成为1960年代经济、科技高度发达的高福利制国家,同时在2003年之后又超过美国成为世界最具竞争力的经济体,被誉为"芬兰奇迹".当前,我国西部地区与芬兰经济腾飞前有许多相似之处.文章主要分析了芬兰走科技创新之路的前提,阐述了其高科技发展战略及相应举措,重点探讨了主要科技创新领域的发展现状,最后,结合我国当前的西部大开发提出了一些启示.     

A dyadic approach to the impact of differences in organizational culture on relationship performance

The authors extend previous research on relationship management by investigating the potential effect of differences in organizational culture on relationship performance among 124 dyads. Theory suggests that partner similarity may improve the feeling of we-ness thereby contributing to the perceived success of inter-firm cooperation. The findings reveal that differences in organizational culture are larger in less successful inter-firm relationships, but do not influence the perceived relationship success significantly. Our results suggest that relationship managers should not confuse compatibility with similarity; personal chemistry is important for relationship atmosphere but does not solely depend on similarities. Future research in this area may wish to concentrate on a more complete measure of organizational (sub)culture(s), the different levels of analysis (personal, organizational, dyad), relationship life cycles (stage models) and the role of organizational identity.     

Effects of distribution channel structure in markets with vertically differentiated products

This study examines how the structure of distribution channels may influence firms’ quality and price strategies and how they may in turn affect consumer welfare. It treats product quality as a decision variable so that the degree of product substitution becomes endogenous rather than exogenous as in previous studies. We find that, with vertically differentiated firms, the changes in channel structure have asymmetric effects depending on whether they occur in the high-quality channel or in the low-quality channel. The product quality of the high-quality channel decreases when it decentralizes unilaterally. However, product quality of the low-quality channel would increase when it decentralizes. The high-quality manufacturer and its channel suffer more from decentralization in comparison with their low-quality counterparts, and the low-quality manufacturer actually receives greater profits when both channels are decentralized. An important driver behind these asymmetries is the interaction between firms’ pricing incentives in integrated versus decentralized channels and what consumer segments they serve. Our analysis indicates that decentralization may reduce consumer welfare, but decentralization in the high-quality channel hurts consumers more than that in the low-quality channel. Therefore in a competitive environment where firms make both quality and price decisions, channel integration would have significant welfare enhancement effects through the elimination of double marginalization, especially if it happens in the high-quality channel. Moreover, we demonstrate that once quality is endogenized, integration is the only equilibrium of channel structure choices. This suggests that the private incentives of firms may actually benefit consumers but do not have to be in line with the general preference of industry regulation for decentralization.     

广州南沙港发展现代物流业的SWOT分析及对策研究

本文用SWOT分析法时广州南沙港发展现代物流业的优劣势以及面临的机遇和挑战进行了综合分析，并就如何做强南沙港物流业提出了相关对策。     

探析吴越文化对江南民间宗教信仰的影响

吴越文化的生成与变迁,受地理环境、经济条件、政治形势、移民结构的规定和影响。吴越文化有着独特的区域特征,对江南民间宗教信仰产生深刻的影响。江南地区先秦以来传承不息的迷信鬼神文化传统奠定了江南民间宗教信仰的社会心理底蕴;吴越文化的开放性与包容性促使佛教、道教鬼神观念向民间鬼神信仰渗透,丰富了江南民间宗教信仰的内容;吴越文化的多元性特征促使多种民间宗教之间相互融合、相互渗透。