Workforce drug testing: a critique and reframing

This article aims to stimulate re‐engagement with workforce drug testing as a current managerial technology emerging in UK organisations and not solely confined to the US. Drawing on sociological, labour process and wider organization studies literature, it reconceptualises assumptions about managerial ideology, employee agency and drug user's subjectivity.     

松散耦合系统与高新区“再创业”发展模式——以我国生物医药产业园为例

在国家一系列的科技发展规划和自主创新战略指导下，经过了17年发展的高新区已进入“再创业”发展阶段。通过引入松散耦合系统理论，本文设计了其基本分析框架。从“生物群落”这一“次系统”层次分析了我国高新区初创期和再创业期的松散耦合要素、形态、纽带、强度、动力和政策，同时探讨了这一转型的实现手段与方式，并以生物医药产业园区的实践介绍了这种转型的建设经验。     

The Revenue–Expenditure Nexus: The Experience of 13 African Countries

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to investigate the causal relationship between government revenue and government expenditure for 13 African countries within a multivariate framework using a modified version of the Granger causality test due to Toda and Yamamoto (1995) . The empirical evidence suggests that there was a bi‐directional causality running between expenditure and revenue for Mauritius, Swaziland and Zimbabwe; no causality in any direction for Botswana, Burundi and Rwanda; unidirectional causality running from revenue to expenditure for Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Mali and Zambia; and a uni‐directional causality running from expenditure to revenue for Burkina Faso only.     

中国工业部门垂直专业化与国内技术含量的关系研究

本文在借鉴国内外关于垂直专业化研究文献的基础上,计算了中国19个工业部门在1992～2003年期间的国内销售产品和出口贸易的垂直专业化程度。结果发现各行业的两个垂直专业化的平均比率都在1～10%之间,且数值比较接近,绝大多数行业的垂直专业化程度随着时间的推移而逐步提高。此外,本文还计算了分行业的产品国内技术含量,并通过计量检验考察了它与垂直专业化程度之间的关系,结果表明,在其他条件不变的前提下,工业行业的产品国内技术含量越低,其垂直专业化程度越高。     

GB/T19580卓越绩效评价准则的问题分析

文章结合美国质量奖评定标准,从GB/T19580卓越绩效评价准则实施的目的、标准的内容和标准的修订期限等方面,对其存在的问题进行了分析,认为有关部门应尽快对GB/T19580卓越绩效评价准则进行修订,以推动我国企业管理水平的提高。     

Exporting and Economic Performance: Firm‐level Evidence of Spanish Manufacturing

In a previous paper, Delgado, Fariñas and Ruano (2002) report TFP differences between exporters and non‐exporters on the basis of a sample of Spanish manufacturing firms. In this paper, we extend the previous analysis in three directions using a similar data set. First, we investigate additional economic performance differences between exporters and non‐exporters. Second, we measure TFP differences estimating production functions that control for unobserved heterogeneity and simultaneity bias. Third, we explore the self‐selection and learning‐by‐exporting hypothesis as explanations for the greater performance of exporters. With respect to the results, we confirm that many indicators of economic performance such as productivity, size, wages and innovation are greater in exporting firms. Furthermore, TFP differences between exporters and non‐exporters estimated with parametric methods are remarkably similar to those estimated using index numbers. Finally, performance differences and transition patterns between the export market and the domestic market indicate higher performance for entering exporters with respect to non‐exporters at the moment of entry. We find evidence of selection in the entry and the exit side of the export market. One of the basic results that we obtain indicates that after controlling for self‐selection, the productivity growth of entering exporters does not significantly change with respect to non‐exporters. As the evidence we find indicates no systematic changes in performance between non‐exporters and exporters after entry takes place, we do not confirm the learning‐by‐exporting hypothesis.     

A 3D theoretical model for green management：a case study of Chinese enterprises

Companies that not only abide by environmental regulations, but also discover new techniques and adopt newmanagement methods to reduce negative environmental impacts often have positive effects on corporate profitability. Inorder to meet the needs of sustainability of enterprises and protect environment, the concept of green management isdeveloped and regarded as an important direction of management theory of the 21st century. Though there are manytheories and practices about green management in western countries, they are built based on the developed marketeconomy, which are not suitable for Chinese enterprises absolutely. By analyzing the viewpoints and models of theoverseas and domestic experts and scholars, combining characteristic of China＇s market economy, this paper points outthe real connotation of enterprise green management - the combination of ecological harmony （harmony between humanand nature） with human harmony （harmony among people）, establishes a 3D theoretical model, points out the defects ofenterprise＇s green management in China, reanalyzes and redesigned enterprise green management, which paves the wayfor the deeper and broader development of green management.     

Argentina: Macroeconomic Crisis and Household Vulnerability*

Using panel data from the Argentine Permanent Household Survey, this paper analyzes which households were more vulnerable to the Argentine macroeconomic crisis during 1999–2002. Results suggest that the impact of the crisis was not uniform across households, which differed in their ability to cope with shocks. In particular, households with more children, and whose head was male, less educated, and employed in the private sector were the most vulnerable, suffering larger than average declines in income. Shocks to labor income were significant, with both unemployment rates and unemployment spells increasing throughout the period, particularly during the peak of the crisis towards the end of 2001. Individuals with low levels of human capital (proxied by education and experience), males, and self‐employed were more likely to lose their jobs. Public sector employees, in contrast, were more protected from the impact of the crisis on employment.     

市场营销中的逆向思维

逆向思维是一种从相反的方向来考察事物,或者干脆把思考对象颠倒过来进行思考的方法。它有悖于人们通常的思维习惯,而正是这一特点,使得许多靠正常思维不能或是难于解决的问题迎刃而解。通过市场营销中成功运用逆向思维的一些案例,弄清逆向思维的思维特点,证实了逆向思维在市场营销中的作用。