Measuring the Impact of Regulation: A Study of Canadian Basic Cable Television

We evaluate the appropriateness of regulation within the Canadian cable television industry by applying both parametric and non-parametric approachesto measure scale efficiency. Although we begin with a sample offering adequatedegrees of freedom for parametric estimation, important policy issues lead us toconsider further estimation over sub-samples. Since some of these sub-samplesare small enough that parametric models cannot guarantee reliable estimates, weobtain production characteristics non-parametrically through data envelopmentanalysis. The nonparametric results for scale efficiency support the parametricresults. We find evidence against a natural monopoly argument that might havejustified continuation of the mandated monopolization of Canadian cable televisionservice. By the end of the sample period, there were no longer substantial economiesof scale in most relevant markets.     

打造招商新品牌

2003年9月8日下午,在第七届中国投资贸易洽谈会的举办地——厦门国际会展中心,山东省举办了“山东半岛制造业基地”新闻发布会,第一次正式向社会推出“半岛制造”这个品牌。 投洽会是由国家商务部主办的、目前国内惟一的全国性投资促进活动。参     

Professionalisation or incarceration? Household engineering, accounting and the domestic ideal

Social constructionist theories of gender are utilised to explore the relationship between household accounting and patriarchy during the early twentieth century in the USA and Britain. This period witnessed a reformulation of the ideology of domesticity founded on precepts derived from modish scientific management. It is argued that the suite of calculative techniques prescribed by ‘household engineers’ merely attempted to occupy middle class women in the domestic sphere. Rather than offering a source of professionalisation and liberation, the practice of financial management, costing, record keeping and time and motion study, contributed to a reassertion of private patriarchy, confirmed the gendered nature of spatiality, reinforced the role of woman as a consumer and diverted attention from career building outside the home.     

与时俱进 再绘深圳市容环卫新蓝图

深圳以荣膺国际"花园城市"称号为标志,其良好的城市环境与优美的城市形象已引起了世人的普遍关注,环境已成为推动深圳市经济发展的强劲动力之一,如何确定深圳市市容环境卫生发展战略,再绘深圳市容环卫新蓝图,把深圳市建成现代化中心城市、美丽的海滨旅游城市、高品味的文化和生态城市,便成为一个必须探讨的重要课题.     

ENTERPRISE WITHOUT UNIONS: THE MANAGEMENT OF EMPLOYEE RELATIONS IN NON-UNION FIRMS

Employee relations in non-union settings remain largely uninvestigated by industrial relations researchers. This article examines the management of employee relations in establishments in high technology industries in the Southeast of England - a sector and locality frequently identified with high levels of non-unionism. Moreover, high technology firms are frequently seen as exemplars of new human resource management techniques designed to substitute for unions. Our data from postal and interview surveys of 115 establishments suggests that HRM is only one, and by no means the dominant, approach to managing employee relations in high technology establishments.     

Advertising,Price and Quality in Self–regulating Professions: A Survey

This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between advertising, fees and quality in the self–regulating professions. Much of the literature is derived from the perspective of advertising as an information–enhancing device, helping to reduce the information asymmetry between professional and client. This is consistent with the majority of the empirical studies which suggest that advertising tends to have a downward effect on professional fees, with little if any adverse effect on quality. There are, however, important issues of method and measurement which may lessen the force of this conclusion     

我国商品物流配送中心发展战略的探讨

论述了建设配送中心的重要意义，介绍了我国配送中心发展的现状及存在问题，对我国今后配送中心的建设与发展提出了建设性意见。     

景新海：“洋海归”圆了软件梦

2003年10月19日,在大洋彼岸的加拿大里贾纳大学,代表该校最高荣誉的“荣誉法学博士”学位被授予了一位中国人。这是加拿大里贾纳大学继中国国家领导人万里、乔石之后,第三次将此荣誉授予中国大陆人士。 这个人就是中创软件公司董事长兼总裁景新海。