面向融通仓系统的物流企业选择优化研究

融通仓系统建立过程中的一个关键环节就是物流企业的选择,它直接关系到该系统能否稳定持续地运行。针对融通仓系统物流企业选择过程所面临的信息不完全性、复杂性、未确知性,本文引入修正熵权的未确知测度方法建立决策模型,该模型将专家确定的权重与熵权结合起来,得到综合考虑主客观因素的指标权重向量,从而提高权重确定的准确性和评价结果的可信度。最后通过案例分析论述了具体的应用过程,表明该模型的合理性和有效性,为融通仓系统物流企业的优化选择提供一套切实可行的方法。     

Setting people up for success: How the Portman Ritz‐Carlton hotel gets the best from its people

In China, where many multinational companies face a constant shortage of talent and high employee turnover, the Portman Ritz‐Carlton Hotel has been able to attract, develop, and retain high‐quality talent to deliver excellent customer service and ensure profitable growth. Under the leadership of Mark DeCocinis since 1998, the Portman Ritz‐Carlton has not only been named as the “Best Employer in Asia” by Hewitt Associates three consecutive times, but has also rated the highest in employee satisfaction among all of the Ritz‐Carlton's 59 hotels worldwide for five consecutive years. How can DeCocinis and his leadership team achieve such remarkable results? In his interview with Arthur Yeung, Mark DeCocinis, general manager of the Port‐man Ritz‐Carlton and regional vice president, Asia‐Pacific, of the Ritz‐Carlton Hotel Company, shares his philosophy and practices on talent management in China and elsewhere. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

The recession of 1990: An Austrian explanation

Conclusion Deficit spending and money-supply expansion do not eliminate recessions. Theycause recessions. This fact will never be understood unless economists and government policymakers stop trying to micro-manage the economy, and start studying what their actions are doing to the structure of production. Heavy inflation of the money supply followed by sharp cutbacks change the rules right in the middle of the game for millions of businesses in the economy. For the last 40 years, government expansionary policies have stimulated industries to create false and untenable investments. These policies are followed by government corrective actions that destroy those same projects—waste the billions of dollars invested in them, and throw millions out of work. Business cycles are not an essential feature of market capitalism. They are the result of government interference with the market. In the misdirection of labor and the distortion of the structure of production during past business cycles, it was fairly easy to point to the places where the excessive expansion had occurred because it was, on the whole, confined to the capital goods industries... In contrast, the present expansion of money, which has been brought about partly by means of bank credit expansion and partly through budget deficits, has been the result of a deliberate policy, and has gone through somewhat different channels... I do not doubt that in a sense we have today the same kind of phenomenon, but the over-expansion, the undue increase of labor employed in particular occupations, is not confined to a single, clearly defined block such as the capital-goods industries. It is now spread much more widely, and the distribution is much more difficult to describe. It is a field I would wish some statistically minded economist would investigate in order to show how the process operated in particular countries. Friedrich A. Hayek     

让小人物进入董事会

为什么公司真正的主人--股东--不能有提名董事会成员的权力呢?当董事会的管理能力与公司业绩受到广泛的质疑时,投资人有权提名新的董事候选人。     

A micro-econometric analysis of vacation behaviour

We present a micro-econometric limited dependent variable model, which simultaneously explains the decision whether to go on vacation or not, the choice of destination and the decision on the level of the vacation expenditures. The model has been estimated on the basis of a cross-section of Dutch households; we find a striking difference in income elasticity between domestic vacations and vacations abroad, and a large impact of owning certain durables (such as a boat) on the choice of destination. To illustrate the potential of the model, some simulations are performed.     

The New Palrave: For Readers Who Want to Know What Economists Think Port I: Description

The appearance of a new Palgrave *, nearly a century after the original Dictionary, is an outstanding event in economic publishing. In Part I of his review, Arthur Seldon describes the 4-volume 'New Palgrave'Dictionary of Economics and will assess it in Part II in the next issue.