Moderating effects of the fit between service tangibilization and organizational performance

As the significance of service industry grows, its relationship to overall economic growth and organizational performance (OP) has also become an issue of prominence. Tangibilization is widely known as one of the means of overcoming the weaknesses of service intangibility and improving OP. This research explores the relationship between service tangibilization and OP. Furthermore, the moderating effect of the fit between service tangibilization and OP will also be discussed in the business context. Specifically, the Korean natural gas industry is selected to test the developed hypotheses. The managers who have experience with managing a service business in either the wholesale or retail sector of this industry were surveyed. The results imply that there exists a significant relationship between service tangibilization and OP, with the mental fit positively strengthening some of the relationships between these two constructs. It can be inferred from this that it is important for companies in the natural gas industry to attain the right fit of mental tangibilization in order to effectively deploy service tangibilization and maximize their OP.     

经济学的理性假设辨析

理性历来是经济学研究秉持的最基本的行为假设,然而自从其概念诞生以来,经济学家们对它的理解与解释却众说纷纭。理性的框架应界定为:利己性、最优化与偏好一致性。对理性假设应该采取秉持实证主义思想,维持理性假设的态度与措施;当理论与现实矛盾时,谨慎地适当地扩展理论模型或环境假设,扩展的底限是维持理性的内在一致性,上限则取决于理论的一般性与现实性的权衡。     

浅析新高等学校会计制度若干问题

为适应我国高等教育事业的发展,财政部对高等学校会计制度的改革力度不断加大,经过2009年和2010年两次意见稿后,新高等学校会计制度《高等学校会计制度》（财会〔2013〕30号）终于出台。新会计制度与原制度相比,有着较大的进步与创新,同时也存在着一些不足,本文主要对这些不足进行探讨并给出建议。     

CMS模型研究述评——基于期刊文献检索视角

恒定市场份额模型（CMS）发展至今已有半个多世纪,它是竞争力评价和出口增长因素分析的重要方法,国内学者对该模型的应用仅有十几年时间,仍处于初级研究阶段。本文基于期刊文献检索,从研究目标、研究内容和研究方法等方面对国内关于市场份额模型的文献进行了梳理和评价,最后提出展望。     

美国依赖评级的监管规则对评级风险的影响综述

1933年启用依赖评级的监管规则（RDRs）以来,学者研究了RDRs监管对评级风险的影响,结果表明,RDRs监管明显地助长了评级风险。今后,监管当局应弱化金融监管对评级的依赖,通过取消NRSRO或类似指定、允许适度的评级竞争,有限使用发行人付费模型,并限制发行人付费模型下发行人对评级机构的选择权,强化评级机构法律和社会责任等方式,减轻RDRs监管的负面影响。     

农民工市民化难点与新型城镇化战略

刘易斯模型、托达罗模型等宏观经济学理论能够解释中国农民工向城市流动的动力问题,但无法揭示我国农民工市民化的障碍根源问题.城乡之间、区域之间的劳动生产率差距和收入差距,引导农村人口向城市流动,但同时也给农民工市民化造成障碍,国民经济中劳动收入占比的不断下降不利于农民工获取市民化的个人成本.因此在以市民化为核心的新型城镇化进程中,要把握城市群战略、产业转型战略、土地流转管理机制等关键规划的实施,促进和推动农民工顺利市民化.     

不同国籍航班对首都国际机场空气质量影响的研究

[目的]研究不同国籍航班旅客对首都国际机场空气质量的影响,为机场的空气质量监测工作提供科学依据。[方法]采用自然沉降法对2个国际航班所使用的廊桥和行李提取区旅客到达后空气中细菌总数、霉菌总数进行监测,并应用t检验进行比较;挑取可疑菌落培养、鉴定,比较2个国际航班细菌微生物的差异。[结果]2个国际航班使用的廊桥和行李提取区在旅客入境后,细菌总数、霉菌总数结果无显著性差异,但检出的细菌种类有所不同。[结论]首都国际机场不同国籍航班入境旅客给环境带来不同影响,口岸卫生部门应对不同国籍航班的空气质量给予关注,更好地控制疫病疫情的传入。     

Entrepreneurial firms’ network competence,technological capability,and new product development performance

Successfully developing new products is critical to an entrepreneurial firm’s continued success. Based on the resource management model, this study aims to answer the key research question: how entrepreneurial firms leverage network competence and technological capability to enhance their new product development (NPD) performance in a turbulent environment. Using data collected from 134 entrepreneurial firms in China, we investigate the performance effects of network competence and technological capability, and the moderating effects of technological turbulence and market turbulence. Our findings show that network competence has a positive impact on NPD performance and technological capability plays a mediating role between network competence and NPD performance. Technological turbulence enhances the performance effects of network competence and technological capability; market turbulence advances the performance effect of network competence, but fails to exert significant negative impact on that of technological capability. We discuss managerial implications of our findings and offer directions for future research.     

Buyer Alliances as Countervailing Power in WIC Infant-Formula Auctions

State agencies in infant-formula procurement auctions receive lower bids when they are in buyer alliances than when they are unallied. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) uses an auction to procure infant formula. Manufacturers bid on the right to be an agency’s sole supplier by offering a rebate on formula sold through WIC. Agencies frequently join together in buyer alliances. An empirical estimation shows that bids are lower to alliances and that lower prices result because alliances are heterogeneous. Results suggest that when heterogeneity is not controlled, bids decline with alliance size, which has policy implications because Congress recently limited alliance size.