Entrepreneur’s creativity and firm-level innovation performance: bricolage as a mediator

Prior literature focuses on the direct influence of entrepreneur’s creativity on firm-level innovation performance, but it ignores the intermediate mechanism of how. This study examines the role of bricolage in mediating the relationship between entrepreneur’s creativity and innovation performance. We propose that in SMEs, entrepreneur’s creativity can facilitate bricolage, which in turn influences innovation performance. Furthermore, the extent to which entrepreneur’s creativity can influence bricolage depends on firm age. Survey data from 249 SMEs indicate that bricolage functions as a mediator in the relationship between entrepreneur’s creativity and innovation performance. Entrepreneur’s creativity has a stronger effect on bricolage for young firms than for old firms.     

Are remittances good for economic growth? The role of political institutions

Within a sample of 109 developing countries for the period 1975–2014 and controlling for country and time-fixed effects, this article presents evidence that workers’ remittances are more effective in promoting growth in developing countries with strong democratic institutions. The evidence is robust to alternative samples and different measures of democratic institutions.     

公民参与下的网络公共领域运行机制

近年来,伴随互联网的发展与普及,中国社会主义民主政治也出现了一些新变化,公民网络政治参与已经发展为一种普遍的政治现象,随着政府主动积极地构建各种制度化的公民参政与政府反馈机制,一种独具中国特色的网络公共领域形态逐渐孕育和发展起来。目前中国网络公共领域尚处于不成熟的发展阶段,与现实政治过程有较强的互动性,对其进行具体的理论考察,揭示这种新型民主形态的实践过程与内在逻辑,不仅对中国公民社会的有序、健康发展起到重要的推动作用,而且为中国民主政治的发展寻求了一条有效途径。     

质量规制有效性和消费者信任的市场均衡效应

产品质量规制有效性和消费者信任对市场均衡具有重要影响,引入预期产品质量水平和能够检测出假冒高质量产品概率两个变量,分别表示消费者对产品质量信任状况和产品质量规制有效性,研究产品质量规制有效性和消费者对产品质量信任对产品均衡价格和数量的影响.结果表明无论是国内市场还是出口市场,消费者对产品质量信任状况对高质量产品市场均衡价格和均衡数量都有正向影响;而质量规制有效性对高质量产品市场均衡价格有正向影响,对均衡数量有负向影响.     

中央政府意愿、财政能力与文化发展政策选择

十七届六中全会将文化发展上升到战略的高度.然而,从建国以来中国关于实施文化产业政策的选择历程上看,这不仅仅由中央政府独立决定.理论界曾就区域发展提出了国家意愿与财政能力共同决定区域发展政策选择的分析框架,文章在此基础上,将分析视野扩展到文化产业政策选择的层面,阐述了文化体制改革前后在中央政府意志、财政能力搭配下文化产业政策的演进和绩效.此过程同样依循文化市场发展轨迹,即由文化产品市场、文化服务市场向文化资本市场的演进.     

世界经济失衡与资本失衡:基于《资本论》的视角

当今世界经济处于失衡之中,而在众多关于世界经济失衡的解释中,只有马克思主义的观点才真正抓住了失衡的本质。文章以马克思的《资本论》为基础,从探讨资本失衡导致世界经济失衡的过程出发,对资本在全球的积累、配置、流动、竞争和要素分配进行了分析,认为资本的失衡是世界经济失衡的本质原因,资本在全球的积累、配置、流动、竞争和要素分配的失衡导致了世界经济的失衡,从而勾勒出资本失衡导致世界经济失衡的全过程。     

经营性房屋租赁承祖人权益研究——以承租人权益的特殊保护为重心

经营性房屋租凭是房屋租赁的一种特殊类型,与居住性房屋租赁存在诸多区别,而我国有关于房屋租赁的法律主要立足于后者采取一体立法的模式,忽略了经营性房屋租赁的特殊性。一般租赁基本规则难以完全适用于经营性房屋租赁．导致了经营性房屋租赁承租人权益处于保护不利的局面,因此有必要在租赁用途、租赁权续展、租赁权转让方面给予特殊规制。     

Managers’ exploration activities and individual unlearning: the mediating role of learning orientation and reflection

Abstract

The main goal of this study was to investigate the effects of managers’ exploration activities on learning orientation, reflection, and unlearning of team members. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 115 employees in 23 teams from a Japanese pharmaceutical company. The results of multi-level analyses suggest that managers’ exploration activities had a direct influence on team members’ learning orientations, which subsequently had a positive influence on their unlearning, with and without the mediation of reflection. These findings suggest that a subordinate’s unlearning is driven by managers’ activities through motivational and cognitive processes. The theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.     

Returns to women’s education using optimal IV selection

This paper investigates returns to women’s education by applying an optimal IV selection approach, post-Lasso IV estimation, which improves the first-stage predictive relationship between an endogenous regressor and instruments. Using the 2010 American Community Survey, we find that an extra year of education increases married women’s own income by $4,480 and spouse income by $8,822. Our findings indicate that 53% of the increase in women’s consumption by education is attributed to the marriage market, and thus, we conclude that the marriage market is the primary channel through which education improves women’s well-being. The results demonstrate the advantages of the post-Lasso approach: The resulting two-stage least squares estimator maintains efficiency without increasing finite sample bias and is less subject to the inconsistency problem when some instruments are invalid; This differs from the results using the instrument of birth quarters only, which is mostly applied in studies on returns to education.