Balancing social and political strategies in emerging markets: Evidence from India

This article explores the substitution and complementary effects between political and social strategies on firm performance in the context of an emerging market (EM). Using in‐depth, historical case‐study approach, the article investigates how companies integrate political and social resources in this market. Corporate performance includes traditional measures, such as accounting performance and nonfinancial measures like the ease of doing business. The study finds that social strategies are stronger enablers of firm long‐term performance than political strategies. The latter have a short‐term impact on performance, but their success over time is limited. The main drawback of reliance on political resources in EMs is the lack of political stability, fragmented polity, and weak political coalitions. We identify rather limited evidence of firms using these two strategies as complements. Thus, we suggest that firms should employ both these strategies in the EM.     

Building relationship innovation in global collaborative partnerships: big data analytics and traditional organizational powers

This study examines how relationship innovation can be developed in global collaborative partnerships (alliances, joint ventures, mergers, and acquisitions). The recently emerging theory of big data analytics linked with traditional organizational powers has attracted a growing interest, but surprisingly little research has been devoted to this important and complex topic. Therefore, after developing the theoretical foundations, our study empirically quantifies the links between the theoretical constructs based on the data collected from chief executive officers, managing directors, and heads of departments who work in contemporary global data‐and‐information driven collaborative partnerships. The results from structural equation modeling indicate that the relationship innovation depends on the power of big data analytics and non‐mediated powers (NMP, expert and referent). The power of big data analytics also mediates the correlation between NMP and relationship innovation. However, mediated powers (coercive and manipulative) negatively affect the power of big data analytics and relationship innovation. The interaction effects further depict that analytically powered partnerships have better relationship innovation compared with those which focus less on the analytical power. Consequently, the contributions of this study provide a deeper understanding of mechanisms of how modern collaborative partnerships can use big data analytics and traditional organizational powers to co‐create relationship innovation.     

改进原料气取样方法 提高丙烯含量分析结果平行性

分析了目前原料气罐车三次取样丙烯含量极差较大的问题,阐述了如何改进原料气取样方法,提高丙烯含量分析结果平行性。     

基于单片机的艺术彩灯系统设计

本文设计了一种新型的艺术彩灯控制系统,该系统使用单片机作为控制核心,采用了PWM脉宽调制技术。在系统硬件电路中增加了过零检测,利用三极管电路控制彩灯颜色的变化和组合。改进了传统艺术彩灯制作工艺要求严格,色彩变化单一的缺点。通过实验,该系统运行稳定,易于扩展。     

May’s theorem in an infinite setting

We generalize May’s theorem to an infinite setting, preserving the elementary character of the original theorem. We define voting scenarios and generalized voting scenarios, and prove appropriate versions of May’s theorem. The case of generalized voting scenarios specialized to a countably infinite set of voters and the collections of all coalitions that have asymptotic density, shows that majority rule is the only aggregation rule that satisfies neutrality, irrelevance of null coalitions, anonymity, and positive responsiveness.     

低碳时代餐饮企业实施绿色管理与清洁生产研究

文章结合餐饮企业生产流程及排污特点,按照清洁生产原理,从提高资源利用率和减少环境污染出发,提出餐饮企业应强化绿色管理理念,实施全过程、全方位、全员参与的绿色管理,对餐饮企业实施清洁生产在生产设备、资源能源利用、环境管理方面提出技术要求。     

Productivity and Trade During the Softwood Lumber Dispute

The gap in total factor productivity in sawmills and wood preservation between the US and Canada generally increased from 1958 to 2005. The present paper examines the effects of the various phases of the softwood lumber dispute, including relatively free trade, Canadian export taxes, and low and high countervailing duties, on this productivity gap. Exogenous control variables include US housing demand, the exchange rate, softwood lumber prices, and ratios of capital and nonproduction labor to labor. The effects of phases of the dispute on US imports from Canada are also examined.     

论中美时间观之差异及其成因

时间具有非语言意义,了解不同文化中时间观的差异有助于跨文化交际的有效进行.文章讨论了中美两国主流文化中时间观的差异、在现实中的体现及其形成的原因.     

美国清洁能源与安全法案概览及对中国的影响

由于美国是世界主要的温室气体排放上的重要国家,所以美国在应对气候变化上面的政策举措和立法备受瞩目。本文从多个角度全面的介绍了美国众议院于2009年6月通过的美国清洁能源与安全法案。着重反映了该法案的立法过程、主要内容、争议焦点以及各方对此法案的反响。并在此基础上,结合中国的目前的实际,总结美国在此立法上的得失,提出了中国可以借鉴的内容。同时也为中国将来采取何种减排措施作了分析,给出了相应的建议。     

A hierarchical utility model for the dynamic acquisition of heterogeneous items

This paper develops a model for situations in marketing and elsewhere in which an individual decision maker acquires multiattributed items that belong to several classes over time. The model captures the dynamic acquisition of heterogeneous items. Measurement and parameter estimation methods are described and illustrated with a small set of experiment data involving the acquisition of durable goods by households. Future research steps are also outlined.