Development of educational program for production manager leading new perspectives on manufacturing technology

In this paper, we consider the problems associated with the development and management of an educational program for manufacturing managers in leadership roles who are making contributions towards the creation of customer delight as well as customer satisfaction using manufacturing technology. The basic concept combines an intelligent knowledge-based approach with the kaizen activity program within the framework of value creation and comparative advantage models based on a network referred to as Academia, Business, Consultancy, and Government (ABC-G). This educational program, which reflects the characteristics of manufacturing technologies and practices in the Hokuriku District of Japan, was developed in 2005–2006 and the trial education was developed in 2005 and 2006, and a trial run of this program was conducted in 2006 and 2007 in close collaboration with local manufacturing companies and their employees. The results are informative of the effects of educating manufacturing managers in Japan and the problems that will have to be overcome for the continuous improvement of the program.     

Southeast Asian capitalism: History,institutions, states,and firms

This paper examines the structures of capitalism in Southeast Asia. Following the lead of Gordon Redding and others, it argues that parallel to varieties of capitalism elsewhere, there are distinctive features to the Southeast Asian business system, but that institutions play a relatively large role compared to firm specific resources or industry structures. Historically, with the exception of Thailand all the countries in the region are former colonies. All including Thailand share a distinctive style of nationalism, and partly as a result of this, all are governed by states that claim to be strong and lay wide claims but whose capacities are low. Typical features of the region, particularly the roles of large business groups and the Chinese minority, also can be interpreted as a result of this history. One of the outcomes of the analysis is an extension of the varieties of capitalism approach along the dimensions of state capacity and state direction, and of the approach to the internationalizing firm along the dimensions of dynamic capacity and control of subsidiaries. A further outcome is a questioning of the traditional picture of indigenous Southeast Asian business people as lacking in entrepreneurial skills, or more broadly of Southeast Asian nations as lacking in entrepreneurial values. Rather, the past history of these countries has resulted in a set of structures that militate against successful entrepreneurial activity.

Knowledge diversity and coordination: The effect of intrafirm inventor task networks on absorption speed

Research Summary: We combine the absorptive capacity and social network theory approaches to predict how intrafirm “whole” network characteristics affect the firm's speed of absorption of external knowledge to produce inventions. We start from the widely accepted view that distant, externally‐developed knowledge is difficult to absorb into the focal firm's own knowledge production. We suggest that high levels of intrafirm inventor task network diversity and task network density are essential for a diversity of knowledge inputs and coordinated actions regarding knowledge transfer, which in turn, reduces problems related to the absorption of knowledge—especially in the case of knowledge that is distant from the focal firm. The results of an event history study of 113 pharmaceutical firms that engaged in technology in‐licensing from 1986 to 2003 provide general support for our hypotheses. Managerial Summary: Firms keen to keep up with an uncertain and ever‐changing industry environment, can benefit from the speedy introduction of inventions. We examine how firms absorb licensed‐in technologies to nurture the rapid development of own related inventions. We show that a firm's absorption speed depends on the characteristics of the internal collaboration networks among the firm's inventor employees. More specifically, technologically diverse and well‐connected inventor networks improve the firm's ability to absorb external technologies quickly. This applies especially to externally acquired technologies that are unfamiliar to the firm. Depending on the distance of the acquired technology from the focal firm combined with speed‐inducing inventor network characteristics, our estimates suggest that firms can reduce the time needed for absorption by several months.     

下承式钢桁拱桥极限承载力分析

极限承载力分析对于拱桥的设计具有十分重要的意义,理想线弹性结构的理论屈服强度通常采用特征值屈曲分析法得到,但结构材料非线性和几何非线性却使得结构通常无法达到其理论强度极值。利用大型有限元软件ANSYS,同时采用3种分析极限承载力的方法(特征值屈曲法、几何非线性法与同时考虑几何非线性和材料非线性法),对宁波城庄大桥主跨部分进行极限承载力计算分析。分析结果表明,在计算桁式拱桥极限承载力时考虑双重非线性方法求解极限承载力得出的结果比线性方法更符合实际的工程情况。     

Global Banks and Synthetic Funding: The Benefits of Foreign Relatives

This paper examines the effect of dislocations in foreign currency (FX) swap markets (“CIP deviations”) on bank lending. Using data from UK banks we show that when the cost of obtaining swap-based funds in a particular foreign currency increases, banks reduce the supply of cross-border credit in that currency. This effect is increasing in the degree of banks' reliance on swap-based FX funding. Access to foreign relatives matters as banks employ internal capital markets to shield their cross-border FX lending supply from the described channel. Partial substitution occurs from banks outside the UK not affected by changes in synthetic funding costs.     

基于产业集群升级的创新网络核心节点能力传递研究

在集群创新网络中,核心节点企业的创新能力较其他企业更强,研究核心节点企业创新能力传递对于集群升级至关重要。本文提出创新网络核心节点企业创新能力传递强度概念,并构建其概念模型。通过实证研究发现,创新网络核心节点企业创新能力传递强度对集群升级具有显著的正向影响,其中,创新能力传递速度和创新能力传递深度对集群升级促进作用显著;集群其他节点企业创新吸收能力调节了创新网络核心节点企业创新能力传递强度与集群升级的关系,并指出了研究结论的实践意义。     

区域农村水利保障能力的评价方法及实证研究

水利作为农村的经济命脉,不仅关系到”防洪安全、供水安全、粮食安全”,也是”经济安全、 生态安全、国家安全”的重要支撑,但农村水利基础设施建设滞后、水利管理机制弱化、农村水利供给不 足等问题相当突出,一定程度上制约了农村地区经济社会的发展,着力开展区域农村水利保障能力研究尤 为重要。为此,该文在构建了区域农村水利保障能力评价指标体系的基础上,利用层次分析法、极差变换 法和线性评价模型构建了区域农村水利保障能力综合评价方法,并以湖北省为例,选取2000～2010年各项 指标的基础数据对上述评价方法进行了实证检验。     

我国商业银行全面成本管理中存在的问题及其对策探讨

商业银行实施全面成本管理是转换经营机制、优化业务结构,建立节约性社会的有力举措。文章针对我国商业银行成本管理中存在的问题进行分析,就构建我国商业银行全面成本管理体系、推行商业银行全面成本管理的方法和措施进行了探讨,并提出了有针对性的建议和对策。     

预钻式旁压试验在哈尔滨地铁一期工程中的应用

本文通过哈尔滨地铁一期工程的实例,介绍了预钻式旁压试验在工程中的现场操作,成果分析及应用。     

多点支撑加固坦拱桥技术研究

矢跨比较小的坦拱桥,受力形式带有梁式桥的倾向,水平推力较陡拱大,受载弯矩集中于主拱拱顶至3/8、5/8区段,因此造成对此种桥型加固难度增大。有必要提出有效措施进行加固整治。本文结合公路坦拱桥加固工程实例,较为详细地介绍了多点支撑加固坦拱的设计、施工技术。实践证明,该加固增强技术可有效提高坦拱桥的承载能力且安全可靠,具有较大的技术、经济和社会效益,应用前景广阔。