Warehouse location problems for air freight forwarders: a challenge created by the airport relocation

The move of Hong Kong International Airport from the city centre to a suburban area in July 1998 provided sufficient capacity to meet the increasing demand of passenger and air-cargo flows in Hong Kong in the foreseeable future. However, the move has adverse side effects such as causing the readjustment of many existing systems and creating many imminent strategic problems. One of such problems is the warehouse location of freight forwarders: they have to decide whether they should locate their warehouses in the new airport, in current locations, or in new locations somewhere in the city. This paper delineates the results of a survey conducted in the summer of 1997 before the airport was relocated. The survey asked what decisions the freight forwarders had made and how they evaluated some potential warehouse locations. The paper also considers two mathematical models, which explain and predict, respectively, the location pattern of freight forwarder warehouses before and after the relocation of the airport.     

福建食品安全监管体系先行先试研究

通过探讨食品质量安全标准与规范以及食品卫生监管问题,立足供应链,从政府、企业和消费者的角度,提出福建省食品安全监管体系先行先试的对策建议。     

“十二五”战略定位与地区发展因应:重庆证据

以重庆十二五规划总体思路研究为案例,构建地区发展定位的理论分析框架,分析影响和制约因素,详细阐述重庆未来发展的五大定位:经济上成为西部的重要增长极和商务之都;城市上建成西部最大最强的绿色城市群和基础设施网络;开放上建成西部对内对外开放的重要高地;生态上建成长江中上游最大的生态安全保障区之一;社会发展上建成全国统筹城乡改革发展示范区。基于市情分析、发展阶段判断以及战略定位,重庆十二五战略目标可概括为三个率先,即率先在西部地区实现全面建设小康社会,率先在西部地区转变发展方式,率先在西部地区实现城乡统筹。     

The assignment of call option rights between partners in international joint ventures

We examine call option rights as a contractual clause in international joint ventures (IJVs) and propose that the assignment of the call option right in an IJV is determined by certain ex ante asymmetries between the partners. Results show that between the two partners in an IJV, the firm with greater complementarity with the venture and greater prior IJV experience is more likely to hold the call option right; in addition, the firm's contractual choice on the call option right and its ownership choice on a greater initial equity stake are substitutive. Our focus on explicit call options advances the real options theory of collaborative agreements, and our results also highlight that option rights be considered an important part of alliance design. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Understanding Business Relationship Management in China： A Power and Leverage Perspective

This paper examines whether a power and leverage perspective, successfully applied to analyse extended buyer-supplier relationships in a western context, can be used to analyse business relationships in China. A single embedded case study is presented in this paper and a power and leverage approach is used to analyse business relationships. The power and leverage perspective is applicable for investigating buyer-supplier relationships in a Chinese cultural context. However, in this context using power as coercion is an extremely counterproductive relationship management strategy, which can draw both buyers and suppliers in to a ＂no-win＂ or negative sum situation. The findings are based upon a single case, which makes drawing generalisable conclusions more difficult. In addition, although every effort was made to limit the subjectivity of the power and relationship analysis, researcher interpretation of the data was required. In the Chinese business context, it may not be advisable to manage any relationships in an arms-length manner. Chinese business networks are centred on less explicit or formal power relationships and therefore companies that have learnt the rules of the game of exchange in the west need to modify their approach in China. This work extends the understanding of buyer-supplier relationships and provides additional empirical evidence validating a power and leverage perspective. In addition, the paper provides the first assessment of whether this approach can be used in a non-western context without significant modification.     

政府向NGO购买服务对慈善事业发展的影响

NGO的存在,对以中华慈善总会为主体的官方救助体系形成有利的补充。NGO自身的特质也决定其在为弱势群体提供服务时更便捷、更专业。因此,在NGO行业中引入＂竞争＂的经济学概念,改变原先由政府全方位提供社会救助的模式,形成由政府主导、NGO参与、政府择优购买NGO提供服务这样的自由竞争市场,使得政府由原先＂制定者＂、＂实施者＂逐渐转变为＂主导者＂、＂购买者＂的角色,可以极大地调动NGO的积极性,激活市场动力,并且通过自发的市场调节,形成对有限行政资源配置的最佳效果,同时推动中国的慈善组织蓬勃发展,使社会救助事业取得跨越式进步。     

林业发展建设的问题

从林业行政能力角度浅谈林业发展建设的问题。     

专业英语教学现状与发展策略

在专业英语教学过程中,应转变观念,培养学生的专业英语学习意识,改进课堂教学模式;加强教材与师资队伍建设。     

闽台食品供应链标章与规范整合研究

闽台食品供应链标章与规范及其监管路径和制度存在较大差距.探讨闽台食品及农产品标准对接和供应链标章与规范整合的可行路径,有助于推动闽台农业经贸一体化愿景的实现.     

TESTING FOR AFFILIATION IN FIRST‐PRICE AUCTIONS USING ENTRY BEHAVIOR*

In this article, we show that affiliation among potential bidders' private information (either private signals or entry costs) leads to affiliation among their entry decisions. We propose a test for affiliation among potential bidders' private information based on the implication of affiliation on the entry behavior, which is general and widely applicable to various scenarios. The test is implemented using the simulation based method. We then apply our method to timber sales in the Oregon Department of Forestry and find a small but strongly significant level of affiliation among all timber companies.