Explaining employee turnover in an Asian context

Employee turnover is giving sleepless nights to HR managers in many countries in Asia. A widely‐held belief in these countries is that employees have developed ‘bad’ attitudes due to the labour shortage. Employees are believed to job‐hop for no reason, or even for fun. Unfortunately, despite employee turnover being such a serious problem in Asia, there is a dearth of studies investigating it; in particular studies using a comprehensive set of variables are rare. This study examines three sets of antecedents of turnover intention in companies in Singapore: demographic, controllable and uncontrollable. Singapore companies provide an appropriate setting as their turnover rates are among the highest in Asia. Findings of the study suggest that organisational commitment, procedural justice and a job‐hopping attitude were three main factors associated with turnover intention in Singapore companies.     

福建省粮食物流公共信息平台构建研究

粮食作为关系国计民生的重要商品，其流通及安全问题也一直是国内学者研究和讨论的焦点。文中首先分析福建省粮食流通现状并指出其在发展中存在的问题，在此基础上提出福建省粮食物流信息平台的架构设计方案和运营保障设计方案，并以东北大米为例描述设计方案的具体运行流程，力求为福建省粮食流通效率的提高和粮食安全的保障服务。     

The Effectiveness of Two Online Persuasion Claims: Limited Product Availability and Product Popularity

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of two online persuasion claims: limited product availability (e.g., only 3 items left) and product popularity (e.g., 94% of consumers bought this product after viewing this site). The popularity claim appeared to enhance quality perception, particularly among highly risk-averse consumers, and purchase intention. We attribute these findings to the quality signaling effect and the bandwagon effect of the claim. On the other hand, the limited availability claim exerted no influence: low message credibility and the lack of psychological reactance are deemed to be possible reasons for the insignificant effect of the claim.     

我国纳米压印光刻技术专利态势分析

由于具有高分辨率、高产量、低成本等特点,纳米压印光刻技术被IC业界认为是最具发展前景的下一代光刻技术之一。本文旨在通过对纳米压印光刻技术中国专利申请进行统计分析,为我国进行具有自主知识产权的纳米压印光刻技术研发和制定有效的专利战略提供参考。     

基于产业集群的区域品牌建设——以锦州华昌光伏科技有限公司单晶硅太阳能电池片生产为例

近年来，辽宁省以单晶硅太阳能电池片生产为代表的光伏产业取得快速增长和重大技术突破，但是，由于缺乏领先技术和足够的经济竞争力，辽宁省光伏产业面临着国内市场竞争加剧的压力以及市场支撑不足的困扰。本文通过对锦州华昌光伏科技有限公司单晶硅太阳能电池片生产的深入分析，进一步揭示辽宁省光伏产业存在的问题及应作出的发展路径选择。     

Has the IASB Been Successful in Making Accounting Earnings More Useful for Prediction and Valuation? UK Evidence

When producing International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), one of the main goals of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) was to create a set of standards which were more useful to investors as a predictive tool. We assess the success of the IASB in achieving this goal by investigating the effects of the introduction of IFRS on the relative information content of reported earnings and forecasted earnings under UK generally accepted accounting practices (GAAP) and IFRS. Results indicate that the value relevance of forecasted earnings is significantly lower under IFRS while the value relevance of reported earnings is significantly larger. These findings suggest that IFRS substitutes price‐relevant information previously provided to the market in the form of analyst forecasts with information encoded by companies in their reported earnings. This implies that the IASB was indeed successful in its stated goal and points towards IFRS forecasts being more accurate and less dispersed than UK GAAP forecasts. This, in turn, implies that analysts are able to provide more informative forecasts under IFRS than under pre‐IFRS regimes and that the aforementioned substitution effect is not a consequence of any decrease in the quality of forecasts under the new regime.     

Money and Crime in a Cash‐In‐Advance Model

A cash‐in‐advance model, in which holding money is risky, is constructed to study the coexistence of multiple means of payment and monetary policy implications. In steady‐state equilibrium, the marginal rate of substitution of cash goods for credit goods depends on the crime rate as well as the nominal interest rate. Credit may be in use, although the return on money is not positive. With theft, a money injection reduces the crime rate and makes cash more preferable for a greater variety of goods. Inflation improves welfare. However, without theft, inflation makes credit more preferable and decreases welfare. In general, the Friedman rule is not optimal.     

Adolescents' body‐tanning behaviours: influences of gender,body mass index,sociocultural attitudes towards appearance and body satisfaction

The goal of this study was to identify and examine the various factors affecting adolescents' body‐tanning behaviours. Gender, body mass index (BMI), sociocultural attitudes towards appearance (SATA) and body satisfaction were examined in order to determine how these variables influence both outdoor sun‐tanning and indoor tanning‐bed use. Self‐administered survey data were collected from 155 adolescent boys and 202 adolescent girls with an average age of 14.3. Multivariate analysis of variance and multiple regression methods were used to analyse the data. Adolescent girls tended to engage in both outdoor and indoor tanning. Overall, adolescents' SATA significantly affected their body‐tanning behaviours. However, BMI and body satisfaction revealed a significant effect only on indoor tanning behaviour. Implications for the design of interventions and overall health promotion towards adolescents are discussed with suggestions for future research.     

燃油税实施效果评价及税制完善的建议

我国燃油税改革正式实施已满两年,其积极的效果和存在的弊端初步显现。本文在对我国燃油税改善的实施效果进行评价的基础上,借鉴典型国家燃油税税制的设立经验,提出完善我国燃油税税制的建议。     

日本汽车产业的发展及其对我国的启示

日本汽车产业经历了起步、形成、战后恢复、迅速发展和走向国际化5个阶段．致使其迅速崛起的原因是：政府的保护与支持；走“引进技术-消化吸收-自主创新”的技术路线；产业内高效的协作分工体系；成功的企业文化与先进的管理方式．借鉴日本汽车产业发展的成功经验，加强政府的规划和调控、通过整合技术资源打造优秀民族品牌、充分发挥集群经济效应、采用先进的管理方式，是我国汽车产业健康发展的对策选择。