Market orientation practices enhancing corporate environmental performance via knowledge creation: Does environmental management system implementation matter?

The academic literature on environmental management has provided extensive insights into the determinants of corporate environmental performance. However, few empirical studies have explored whether and how three core components of corporate market orientation (i.e., customer orientation, competitor orientation, and interfunctional coordination) affect environmental performance. Building on institutional theory and the absorptive capacity perspective, this study investigates the relationships among market orientation, knowledge creation, and environmental performance, as well as the moderating effects of environmental management system implementation. On the basis of survey data from 237 Chinese manufacturing firms, we used hierarchical multiple regression analyses to test the hypotheses. The findings indicate that knowledge creation completely mediates the influence of competitor orientation on environmental performance and partially mediates the influence of customer orientation and interfunctional coordination on environmental performance. In addition, environmental management system implementation positively moderates the relationship between knowledge exchange and environmental performance.     

The impact of motivation,intention, and contextual factors on green purchasing behavior: New energy vehicles as an example

Green purchasing behavior is of great significance to the realization of carbon reduction goals. Through in-depth interviews, this study uses new energy vehicles to explore the driving factors of green purchase. It applies grounded theory for a qualitative analysis, the results of which show that behavior motivation, behavior intentions, residential characteristics, social norms, behavior ability, and institutional and technological context are the main factors of green purchase, albeit in inconsistent ways. It is found that behavior motivation indirectly affects green purchase through behavior intention; residents' characteristics, behavioral ability, social norms, and the institutional and technological context have moderating effects on the relationship between behavior intention and green purchase, indicating the existence of an “intention–behavior” gap. The study proposes the comprehensive model of Motivation–Intention–Context–Behavior to explain the driving factors for green purchase and provides policy implications on marketing strategy to companies producing green products.     

The challenge of using standard contracts in public–private partnerships

A call for an increased use of standard contracts in public–private partnerships (PPPs) for infrastructure development is noticeable in practice. These contracts are expected to simplify and improve procurement by creating opportunities for learning, lower transaction costs, and better competition. This paper delineates standard contracts in PPP as a new venue for research and unfolds their potential impact. Here lies an important challenge since the benefits of standardization are not as straightforward as they look at first sight, particularly when taking into account the tension between the powerful, control-oriented role of contracting authorities and the need for contingent, informal contracting.     

Solving the incomplete markets model with aggregate uncertainty using explicit aggregation

We propose a method to solve models with heterogeneous agents and aggregate uncertainty. The law of motion describing aggregate behavior is obtained by explicitly aggregating the individual policy rule. The algorithm is simpler and faster than existing algorithms that rely on parameterization of the cross-sectional distribution and/or a computationally intensive simulation step. Explicit aggregation establishes a link between the individual policy rule and the set of necessary aggregate state variables, an insight that can be helpful in determining what state variables to include in other algorithms as well.     

基于ESDA GWR的人口城镇化与土地城镇化协调度时空分异及影响因素研究*——以中原城市群为例

[目的]以中原城市群30个地市为研究对象,构建由经济、社会、投入、产出等维度组成的评价指标体系,探索人口—土地城镇化的耦合协调分异及影响因素,并提出适合区域实际的差别化管理政策,为扭转区域协调发展水平不平衡现状提供参考。[方法]采用ESDA、GWR、热点分析等空间分析方法,对1996年、2006年和2016年中原城市群30个地级单元两化协调发展的时空分异格局、空间相关性、演变趋势和影响因素进行分析。[结果]3年城镇化协调水平存在显著的空间分异,发展度逐步向南呈好转态势、耦合度普遍较高,呈扩散趋势,协调度差异程度日趋减小;城镇化质量和数量关系可划分为7种类型,形成以基本协调型为主,轻度超前型为辅的空间格局;城镇化协调度空间聚效应明显;动力因子对各地区协调度的影响具有明显的空间异质性,经济因子是主要影响因素,从东北到西南作用逐步增大,外来因子不够稳定,社会因子从西向北高值集聚区不断扩大。[结论]未来应抓住政策优势,打破地域隔阂,走精细化发展道路,缓解人地矛盾;依托区域优势,优化产业结构,提升经济因子驱动,促进经济均等化、一体化发展,减少核心城市对周围地市的虹吸效应,提高城镇化协调发展水平。     

Equilibrium Search with Continuous Productivity Dispersion: Theory and Nonparametric Estimation

In this article we develop an equilibrium search model with a continuous distribution of firm productivity types within a given labor market. We characterize equilibrium, derive expressions for the endogenous equilibrium wage distributions, and characterize the set of wage distributions that can be generated by the model. We develop a structural nonparametric estimation method for the productivity distribution. We estimate the model using French longitudinal survey data on labor supply, and we compare the results with those from a French panel data set of firms. The results are informative on the degree to which firms exploit search frictions.     

国外公用企业民营化进程中治理结构变革及经验借鉴

公用企业效率低下的问题,是一个世界范围内普遍存在的问题对我国公用企业治理结构的考察表明,尽管相当多的公用企业从形式上已经建立起了现代企业制度,但其各个职能机构却并没有发挥出应有的职能.本文以欧洲的 OECD 国家电信企业为主要研究对象,分析西方发达国家公用企业在民营化进程中治理结构方面所做出的变革措施,以期对完善我国公用企业的治理结构提供经验借鉴.     

人民银行分支机构绩效评估的困境及对策

当前人民银行分支机构绩效评估中的技术缺陷及形式主义行为来自于传统的人治理念与集权体制。立足现实、循序渐进是走出困境的理性选择。要坚持科学发展观,着力规范人行分支机构绩效评估中的内部关系,并推动公民有序参与。     

Anticipated growth and business cycles in matching models

In a business cycle model that incorporates a standard matching framework, employment increases in response to news shocks, even though the wealth effect associated with the increase in expected productivity reduces labor force participation. The reason is that the matching friction induces entrepreneurs to increase investment in new projects and vacancies early. If there is underinvestment in new projects in the competitive equilibrium, then the efficiency gains associated with an increase in employment make it possible that consumption, employment, output, as well as the investment in new and existing projects jointly increase long before the actual increase in productivity materializes. If there is no underinvestment, then investment in existing projects decreases, but total investment, consumption, employment, and output still jointly increase.     

我国技术产权交易市场存在的障碍因素及对策

技术产权交易市场是近年来出现的一种集技术交易、产权交易与资本市场诸多功能于一身的新型交易市场。本文基于我国技术产权交易市场形成的历史考察 ,深入剖析了技术产权交易市场存在的主要障碍因素 ,并提出了促进其良性发展的若干对策