When Research Meets Development: Antecedents and Implications of Transfer Speed

This paper focuses on the organization of new product development in large, R&D‐intensive firms. In these firms, research and development activities are often separated. Research is conducted in dedicated research projects at specialized research labs. Once research results are achieved by research projects, they are transferred to business units for further development and commercialization. We investigate the speed whereby research projects transfer their first research results to business units (hereafter: transfer speed). In particular, we analyze the antecedents and performance implications of transfer speed. Based on data of 503 research projects from a European R&D intensive manufacturing firm, our results suggest that a fast transfer speed (as measured by the time it takes for a research project to develop and transfer its first research result to business units) is associated with a better research performance (as measured by the total number of transfers the research project generates). Moreover, we find that different types of external R&D partners—science‐based and market‐based partners—play distinct roles in speeding up project first research transfers. While market‐based partnerships (i.e., customers and suppliers) generally contribute to a faster transfer of first research results, science‐based partnerships (i.e., universities and research institutions) only speed up first research transfers of technologically very complex projects. Our results also show that early patent filings by research projects accelerate first research transfers.     

Financial investor sentiment and the boom/bust in oil prices during 2003–2008

From both theoretical and policy perspectives, it is important to understand if financial speculation contributes to the boom/bust in oil prices during 2003–2008. In this paper, we disentangle the effects of financial speculation from those of economic fundamentals by focusing on exogenous changes of financial speculation in oil markets identified by changes in financial investor sentiment. Furthermore, we focus on a quasi-experiment setting, and investigate both sentiment-driven overvaluation of oil prices and subsequent mispricing correction. Our findings suggest that financial speculation might have contributed to the 2003–2008 boom/bust in oil prices.     

Factors influencing theme park visitor brand-switching behaviour as based on visitor perception

With the development of theme parks, which represent a multi-million-pound industry worldwide, research investigating the factors affecting theme park visitor brand-switching behaviour is an important method for improving theme park competitiveness. In the present work, models and research hypothesis are constructed based on visitor perception, and the survey data are collected and analysed to assess the hypothesis and to revise the conceptual model in this paper. The results indicate that there are seven factors influencing visitor brand-switching behaviour: ‘visitor variety-seeking', ‘visitor satisfaction', ‘switching cost', ‘perceived value', ‘competitor attraction', ‘theme park image' and ‘visitor involvement'. The perceived value and visitor satisfaction strongly influence brand-switching behaviour as intermediate variables. Visitor variety-seeking and competitor attraction are positively related to visitor brand switching behaviour, whereas the other five factors are negatively related to visitor brand-switching behaviour.     

旅行社供应链管理初探

在旅游业转型时期,旅行社为主体的供应链模式将发生变化。尤其在电子商务的冲击下,以旅行社为代表的旅游代理商面临着极大的挑战,以单个企业运作的旅游企业再也不能适应时代的要求,基于供应链管理的旅游业管理模式便应运而生。目前大多数旅行社在供应链管理中存在企业对建立旅行社供应链管理模式的重要性认识不足、供应链上各企业缺乏合作、没有形成整体合力、信息系统不完善、供应链上的各企业对市场环境变化不敏感等问题。应采取注重旅行社供应链管理模式下的合作伙伴关系、提高对建立旅行社供应链管理模式的重要性的认识、完善管理信息系统、加强供应链上各企业信息技术标准的规范化建设、旅行社的集团化发展、实行跨文化管理等措施来解决旅行社供应链管理中的瓶颈问题。     

泛长三角地区产品专业化分工实证——基于产品互补模式的研究

泛长三角区域发展分工合作是目前区域经济研究的一个热点问题。本文依据产业经济学中产业优势理论，基于产品互补模型运用产品专业化系数测算的方法，对泛长三角区域四省一市的产业结构进行了实证分析，根据得出的结论提出了分工合作建议。     

我国房地产上市公司并购绩效问题及对策探究

本文针对房地产上市公司并购中出现的问题,结合当前的经济政策分别从政府角度、行业角度、房地产上市公司自身角度提出相应的对策。     

如何提高企业思想政治工作的实效性

随着企业的发展和形势的变化,如何才能把新形势下企业思想政治工作做到家,做到位,做到实处,有效地发挥思想政治工作生命线的作用,已成为摆在我们面前亟待解决的问题.本文就此浅谈几点看法.     

直觉对科学创造的重要性分析

本文探讨了直觉与科学创造的重要性,论述了直觉与灵感产生的关系,强调老师在教学过程中应该重视学生直觉思维的培养。     

中国卷烟行业竞争态势分析

我国卷烟企业长期存在生产规模小、分布范围散、销售区域性强等的特点,卷烟行业始终处于一种"优不胜、劣不汰"的低水平均衡。本文从博弈的角度解释了这种现象的产生原因,并分析了我国卷烟行业的市场竞争类型,提出建立寡头垄断市场是重组卷烟企业的目标。     

家族控制与企业债务融资：基于我国上市公司的实证分析

以2017年1647家上市家族企业为研究对象,从企业控制人持有公司控制权比例对上市家族企业债务融资的影响切入,引入债务代理成本,运用中介效应模型,分析家族控制对企业债务融资变动的解释能力。研究发现家族企业家族控制水平对于上市家族企业债务融资具有负面影响,家族控制权的提高会提升企业的债务代理成本,而债务代理成本对家族控制权与企业债务融资的关系具有完全中介效应。