An Integrative Framework for Measuring the Extent to which Organizational Variables Influence the Success of Process Improvement Programmes

abstract    Studies on the three types of process improvement programmes (Continuous Improvement, Reengineering and Benchmarking) have appeared many times in the literature. These studies suggest that certain organizational variables act as enablers and their presence or absence can significantly influence success rates. Such studies have tended to examine companies where a single programme has been implemented. In contrast, this paper examines a sample of companies who have experienced all three programmes. Our aim is to compare and contrast each programme's impact on firm performance and identify which organizational variables are common and which are programme-specific enablers of success. We build and test an integrative framework to support our analysis. Our study found that: (1) Reengineering delivered the greatest impact on performance; (2) executive commitment was needed to make this happen; (3) strategic alignment was the major influence on the success rate of Reengineering and Continuous Improvement programmes; and (4) employee empowerment was necessary for each programme to work effectively.     

Pseudo empirical likelihood method in the presence of missing data

In this paper, we propose an estimator for the population mean when some observations on the study and auxiliary variables are missing from the sample. The proposed estimator is valid for any unequal probability sampling design, and is based upon the pseudo empirical likelihood method. The proposed estimator is compared with other estimators in a simulation study.     

甘肃省高新技术产业发展的约束条件与对策研究

培育和扶持高新技术产业早已成为各个国家和地区促进经济可持续发展的重要举措。文章从甘肃省高新技术产业的发展现状入手，试图寻找约束甘肃高新技术产业发展的影响因素，并针对发展过程中存在的问题提出相应的政策建议。     

我国公办高校实行股份制改革的法律思考

股份制作为一种新型的高等教育办学模式,有助于解决我国高等教育经费短缺与教育资源不足等问题。本文在分析了我国高等学校特别是公办高校实行股份制的政策和法律依据的基础上,从高校产权界定、教育公益性和资本寻利性的关系、高校法人治理结构等角度,探究了对公办高校股份制改革进行法律规制应注意的问题以及相应的解决办法。     

水中锑的测定方法探讨

该文介绍了孔雀绿分光光度法测定水中锑的改进研究。实验结果表明：改进后的孔雀绿分光光度法稳定、可靠，灵敏度高，其工作曲线相关系数≥0．9998。加标回收率为90．6％-104．0％，最低检出浓度达到0．001mg／l。同时提出了改进后的分析方法及注意事项。     

收入分配差距与市场化改革

改革开放以来，我国收入分配差距出现不断扩大的趋势，总体贫富差距、城乡居民收入差距、地区收入差距、行业收入差距都在扩大。收入差距不断扩大的根本原因，是市场化改革的不彻底，缺乏以效率为基础的公平制度，权力市场化以及社会保障制度存在缺陷。因此，要缩小收入差距，就必须深化改革，实现真正的市场化：建立以效率为基础的公平制度；充分发挥市场机制作用，严格限制权力参与社会分配；引入竞争机制打破垄断局面；运用经济手段调整收入分配；制定和完善法律法规；完善社会保障制度。     

股票市场的货币政策传导分析

货币政策的传导机制不是唯一的，金融市场的种种特征造成了货币政策传导的多样性，股票市场中的货币政策传导就具有独特的规律，在不与银行信贷的创造机制相连的前提下，信贷资金和股市资金的沟通是合理的，目前中国信贷市场和股票市场之间千丝万缕的关系，并没有为货币政策传导创造更加有效的机制基础，股票市场还不能成为货币政策的有效传导渠道。     

An application of the extended cross impact method to generating scenarios of social change in Japan

Scenarios of Japanese society in 2000 are obtained by applying an extended correlational cross impact analysis. Since the scope of the scenarios is extensive, a procedure is developed to generate the scenarios that consists of a preprocessing of the events of interest and a step-by-step application of a cross impact method. Three scenarios are described, based on a workshop where the procedure was applied.     

浅析山西农民的社会保障问题

社会保障是一个重要的经济和社会问题。由于历史的原因,与城市的社会保障制度相比,山西省农民的养老、医疗和失地等社会保障制度都不健全,影响到小康的实现及和谐社会的建设。我们要通过建立农村最低生活保障制度、对农民提供医疗、失地农民保险及帮助农民筹措社保资金等措施,解决山西农民的社会保障问题。