Managerial mindset as the mechanism of the country-of-origin effect: evidence from Chinese multinational enterprises’ approach to employer associations

The country-of-origin effect (COE) on employment practices in multinational enterprises (MNEs) has become an important area of international human resource management research. However, research on the mechanisms of the COE, a fundamental and critical aspect of the country-of-origin phenomenon, is scant. This study seeks to empirically explore the mechanisms through which country-of-origin influences Chinese MNEs’ approach to host-country employer associations. Analysis of qualitative data from 13 Chinese MNEs revealed that country of origin affected the approach of Chinese MNEs to host-country employer associations in the form of transfer of managerial norms. It also revealed that it was the mindset of those home-country nationals who were key decision-makers at subsidiaries that enabled the COE in Chinese MNEs. This paper highlights the importance for future studies of international strategic human resources management to pay attention to micro-foundations of cross-border practice transfer and to incorporate analyses of managerial cognition in the investigation of MNEs’ management practices.     

基于模糊层次分析法的房地产投资决策研究

房地产投资项目本身具有一定的模糊性,采用模糊层次分析法,建立模糊一致矩阵,判断各方案在各指标下的权重,然后进行排序,为企业的投资决策提供参考。文章以陕西省某房地产企业选址投资为例,验证了此模型的合理性与可行性。     

浅谈作业成本法在水泥包装机械中的应用

随着高新科技时代的到来和市场竞争的加剧,先进的生产制造技术和管理办法开始被广泛采用,制造环境发生了很大变化。随着企业生产方式的变化,导致产品成本结构的重大变化,直接材料、直接人工的成本所占比重下降,而制造费用的比例却大幅度的上升。传统的成本计算方法会导致产品成本的扭曲,这对企业的成本管理会产生很多的误区。文章针对水泥包装机产品进行作业成本法运用的探讨,为企业降低成本寻找一种新思路,改变传统方法带来的计算方法不适应性、成本核算内容的局限性和成本控制的无效性等问题,使产品成本发生的歪曲降低并为企业经营决策的正确性提供指导作用。     

基于模糊层次分析法的房地产投资决策研究

房地产投资项目本身具有一定的模糊性,采用模糊层次分析法,建立模糊一致矩阵,判断各方案在各指标下的权重,然后进行排序,为企业的投资决策提供参考。文章以陕西省某房地产企业选址投资为例,验证了此模型的合理性与可行性。     

组织决策的理性限制及其修正——兼谈员工参与决策对组织绩效的影响

本文分析了高效的组织绩效对组织决策的理性要求及这种理性要求的现实可行性 ,指出由于人类的理性有限及组织决策依赖于决策的制定者和实施者 ,所以组织决策也有其理性限制 ,要求完全理性的决策是不现实的。并在分析的基础上提出 ,可以通过扩大组织决策的理性边界及其可实现性来提高组织绩效。最后 ,对员工参与决策的实现提出了可操作性的建议。     

论"试用期"条款的理解和适用

正确认识和理解我国《劳动合同法》中试用期的相关法律条款,有助于规范用人单位与劳动者自身的行为,减少不必要的劳动争议,对于构建和谐的劳动关系具有重要的现实意义。     

我国农村公共服务政策回顾与评价

我国现有农村公共服务政策是在特定的经济、政治、文化和国际环境背景下形成的.新世纪以来出台的一号文件及涉农决定凸显了政府提供农村公共服务的内涵,标志着全新的执政理念和政府职责的确立,其政策效果已经和正在发生巨大作用.但要构建一个适应社会主义市场经济体制要求的农村公共服务体系还有很长一段路要走.     

Rejoinder to Peltzman

Since 2008, the U.S. economy has been mired in the second worst economic crisis in its history. Conceivably, massive government spending could bring the economy out of this slump as massive war spending ultimately ended the Great Depression of the 1930s. However, a far superior strategy exists: guaranteeing employment accompanied by retraining to enable all unemployed workers to become absorbed into the regular work force. Beyond ending the crisis, the superiority of this strategy is that it would institutionalize a procedure for insuring that, in an increasingly technologically dynamic and open economy, workers would possess the necessary skills for available jobs. Guaranteeing employment would also eliminate the ecological costs associated with the need to seek growth to generate employment at practically any cost. Finally, it would establish a new moral social contract, whereby everyone is granted the dignity that accompanies being a productive member of society. Welfare for those able to work could disappear, along with the degradation and humiliation accompanying it.     

The power of market mood — Evidence from an emerging market

This article focuses on investor behavior and, consequently, the mood in the market. By using a self-organizing network we develop a model which tries to capture the market mood and serves as an indicator of the reasonableness of selling or purchasing securities. In this sense, the final result of this model is the same as in the model-type prediction of future stock prices, with the only exception being that one is not required to know the concrete future values of the selected security. This will indirectly support the hypothesis that psychological factors are an important (if not key) market driving force.