CIOs' perspectives of critical success factors in ERP upgrade projects

Enterprise resource planning systems have required significant upgrades in the 21st century as many of the systems obtained prior to 2000 have become outdated due to vendor changes. SAP and Oracle have emerged as dominant vendors, and SAP has announced discontinuance of support in the future for its primary R/3 system. This study reports interviews with the chief information officers (CIOs) of 15 institutions that have undergone (or are undergoing) enterprise system upgrades, with focus on discussion of major critical success factors for ERP upgrade projects.     

IT与业务匹配中的信息化冲突探索

信息化冲突是企业信息技术(IT)与业务匹配中普遍存在的重要障碍之一。本文在对现有文献整理基础上,对IT与业务匹配中信息化冲突产生的原因进行了系统的分析,将信息化冲突划分为任务冲突和关系冲突两种类型,并对二者之间的关系进行了分析。从行为整合角度给出了解决信息化冲突的途径。     

下属潜能的开发——论企业人才从何而来

对企业而言,面对日益激烈的竞争,如何赢得或保住市场都是极为严峻的挑战。能够帮助企业迎接这一挑战的核心竞争力,便是来自高素质高技能的队伍——人才。企业缺乏合适的人才,如若采用挖墙脚方式虽可解救燃眉之急,但无法长期满足企业成长的需要,因此企业应着重于从内部培养。管理人员的一个最重要的职责就是有效地培育与发展下属,并激励团队成员为组织的目标全力以赴。从公司内部培养和提拔业务骨干和中层管理人员,对企业的长远发展来讲是一件非常重要的事情。公司的每位中、高级管理者都有培养下属的责任。但多数企业并没有下大力气实施人才培养,这其中有观念的问题也有实际的障碍。     

基于企业工程的企业信息文化及其建设模式研究

在探讨企业工程与企业信息文化内涵的基础上,提出企业信息文化是企业工程成功实施的关键:良好的企业信息文化是企业工程实施的保障,不良企业信息文化将成为企业工程的阻碍。根据企业工程实施的不同阶段与特点,从企业信息文化三要素入手,给出了构建与企业工程相适应的企业信息文化的三种模式:基于组织学习的建设模式、基于持续创新的建设模式和基于知识共享的建设模式。     

基于循环经济理论的企业信息化发展策略

当前市场环境变化频繁,资源严重浪费,发展基于循环经济的信息化已成为企业的重要战略之一。循环经济下企业信息化必须与环境要求、能源再利用要求相一致、相协调,才能为企业的资本配置作出贡献,减少自发环境污染、履行社会责任、提高企业可持续发展。因此,企业信息化强调发展经济和保护环境并重的目标导向。文章论述了发展循环经济对企业信息化建设造成的影响及提出的新要求,并针对该要求提出了信息化发展策略与发展过程中应该注意的若干问题。     

Russia: Firm entry and survival barriers

Why are there so few new firms in Russia? This paper provides further insights into the specific Russian business landscape and how it impacts the low level of new firm entry. As this paper indicates, internationally comparative data do not provide many clues, since in terms of purely formal constraints Russia fares comparatively well. However, a deeper analysis uncovers the informal impediments associated with the lack of rule of law, inconsistent enforcement of regulations, regional autonomy and pervasive corruption. These informal constraints form impediments not only for new firm creation but also for firm survival and firm exit.     

Health and political regimes: Evidence from quantile regression

This study investigates how political regimes affect health conditions such as infant and child mortality rates and life expectancy using data from 180 countries observed between 1960 and 2013. Panel quantile regression is used to examine the effects at different intervals throughout the distribution of health outcomes. The estimation results indicate that democracy has significant positive effects on health outcomes and that its impacts are greater when health outcomes are worse. These results are robust to different democracy and health indices. The effects of different types of democracies and dictatorships are also considered, that is parliamentary, mixed (semi-presidential) and presidential democracies, and civilian, military and royal dictatorships. The parliamentary form of democracy has the largest positive impact on health outcomes at the worst quantile of health outcomes, although the difference in the impacts of the three types of democracies is not necessarily large. Furthermore, all types of dictatorships have a negative impact on health outcomes, with military dictatorship having the worst outcome when health outcomes are worse. Finally, the effects of democratization on health outcomes are significantly positive when the health outcomes are worse.     

企业战略成本管理初探

当前大多数民营企业的成本管理还是传统型、短期型和战术型的,很难适应社会经济和全球经济发展的需要。因此,认真抓好企业战略成本管理,已成为当前民营企业管理创新的一项迫切任务。