Influences of Technological Attributes and Environmental Factors on Technology Commercialization

As part of a new focus on sustainability, this study examines the effects of technological attributes, market potential, and environmental factors on the commercialization of technologies. A survey was conducted on two of Taiwan’s promising sustainable high-tech industries—solar photovoltaic (PV) and light emitting diodes (LEDs). We found that if the technologies possess the specific attributes of innovativeness, genericness, simplicity, and compatibility, as required by the potential adopters, the level of market potential will be more favorable and technology commercialization (TC) probability will be higher. In addition, the results of regression analysis indicate that environmental requirements play moderating roles in affecting the relationships between market potential and TC probability. The empirical findings highlight the role of market potential as a mediator between technological attributes and the likelihood of commercialization. Furthermore, environmental factors moderate the influence of market potential on TC. The results of this study can provide firms’ operations with insights into resource allocation, sustainable development, and competitive advantages in an intensely competitive environment.     

师承古今的复仇——论东北沦陷区复仇主题文学对中国复仇思想的继承

本文通过对日伪统治时期东北沦陷区文学的考察,对东北作家文学创作中的复仇问题进行整理后,将东北沦陷区文学中与复仇相关的作品作为主要研究对象,对其文学的主要内涵从继承古代复仇文学与五.四新文学创作的角度进行阐释。     

关于钢琴即兴演奏技能的培养

钢琴即兴伴奏在音乐领域显示了其强大的实用价值,本文志在通过对钢琴即兴伴奏特点研究的基础上,从而得出提高钢琴即兴伴奏能力的一些途径,即要增强钢琴基础能力弹奏的水平、和声的合理配置、织体恰当的选择和旋律分析等综合能力,在最短的时间内掌握好钢琴即兴伴奏这一技能.     

加强企业财务管理的若干建议

随着现代企业制度的推行,企业财务管理成为企业管理的重要组成部分,企业财务管理直接关系到企业的生存与发展.本文就如何加强企业财务管理提出几点建议.     

Making unique choices or being like others: How priming self‐concepts influences advertising effectiveness

Two experiments tested the hypothesis that priming independent and interdependent self‐concepts affects responses to advertisements. In Experiment 1, for a privately consumed product, the influence of product assortment size on ad effectiveness was moderated by the accessibility of these self‐concepts. Experiment 2 replicated this finding for a publicly consumed product and also examined an additional ad feature, consensus information. Ad effectiveness was enhanced by larger product assortment only when the independent self‐concept was primed and by the presence of consensus information only when the interdependent self‐concept was primed. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Service quality gaps of business customers in the shipping industry

This paper extends the gaps model of [Zeithaml, V.A., Parasuraman, A., Berry, L. 1990. Delivering Quality Service: Balancing Customer Perceptions and Expectation. The Free Press, New York] from the service provider to the business customer side by examining two service quality (SQ) gaps. One is the SQ gap between types of business customers and the other is the SQ gap among employee statuses of business customers. Besides that, the five-factor SERVQUAL measure as the initial hypothesized model is also tested. The applicability of SERVQUAL to measuring the perceived SQ of customers in the shipping industry of Taiwan is rejected empirically. The existence of the two hypothesized gaps is verified by the method of MANOVA.     

Resolving the innovation puzzle of latecomers: the case of Taiwan

In the currently rapidly changing business world, innovation has not only become the key to survival and success, but also the defining challenge of organisations. For latecomer firms, however, because of their inherent resource constraints, innovation has become a far more complex undertaking, similar to a multidimensional puzzle. Although there have been an increasing number of practitioner-based surveys, a discrepancy still remains between academia and industry concerning the role and importance of R&D in innovation. Therefore, this study carried out an industry–university–institution survey of Taiwan, based on a multidimensional framework of the innovation puzzle: human, R&D, flow and connection. The results reveal several interesting clues and provide a better understanding of the innovation puzzle for latecomers, and more importantly, resolves the puzzle that could help latecomers identify where new opportunities lie and what weaknesses they must strengthen.     

Using patent analysis to establish technological position: Two different strategic approaches

Discussions on business strategy formation in the past 50 years can be separated into two categories: the inside-out and the outside-in approach. Technology is a critical factor when manager formulate their business strategy, and patents have served as an important indicator of technology. A patent portfolio can be used to understand the capabilities of a firm, as an inside resource pattern; and the patent citation of firms can be used to find the relationship of a firm, as an outside dependency. This study uses patent information to establish an effective model for the technological position of business methods. The 5 by 6 matrix was generated and four situations between firms were induced. Researchers and managers can use that matrix and situations to recognize the real competitors or cooperators, and formulate the technological strategies which include competition, cooperation, or complementary cooperation.     

探索中国“人本导向”的体制创新之路——《人本体制论—中国人的发展及体制安排研究》前言

[编者按] 本文是常修泽教授为其新著<人本体制论一中国人的发展及体制安排研究>一书写的<前言>.它既是对<人本体制论一中国人的发展及体制安排研究>的介绍,也是对探索中国"人本导向"的体制创新之路进行提纲挈领式的阐述.文章以"人本体制论"采统辖,全景式地展现了作者探索中国"人本导向"的体制创新的心路历程,是理解中国坚持以人的发展为核心进行改革不可多得的论文.本刊特安排在"人的发展经济学"栏目发表,以供进行人的发展经济学研究以及相关研究的读者参考.为使读者更好理解作者的观点,文章只根据本刊排版的需要做格式上的调整,基本上按原样发表.     

The impact of jump risks on nominal interest rates and foreign exchange rates

This article investigates the relationship between the nominal interest rate and inflation and also the forward exchange rate under a general specification of the underlying processes govering the foreign exchange rate. There are three distinct risks that affect the relation between the real rate of interest and the nominal rate namely, consumption risk, diffusion risk, and the existence of jump risks of inflation. Jump risks lower the nominal interest rate because of jump hedging of a nominal bond. The forward exchange rate depends on the expected depreciation of the domestic currency as well as these three risks. As the domestic jump risks increase, the domestic nominal interest rate decreases and the forward exchange rate decreases.