Potential Spatial Labor and Human Capital Mobility in China: Evidence from College Admissions Under the National College Entrance Examination System

Abstract:

Higher education in China plays an important role in promoting labor and human capital mobility. In this paper, I empirically address the issue of regional disparities, college admissions under the National College Entrance Examination (CEE) system, and potential interregional labor and human capital mobility in China. The results show that examinees from western provinces have a strong preference for coastal universities, compared with examinees from central provinces. College admissions in China then seem to have a stronger effect on potential labor and human capital movement from the western to the coastal regions than from the central to the coastal regions.     

Reconfiguring supplier relationships between local and global: History matters

Small and medium-sized companies are increasingly facing international markets as part of their processes of growth and development. A great deal of literature deals with different patterns of growth and international development that are specific to SMEs with respect to large companies. Fewer studies have been conducted on the reconfiguration of company supplier relationships involved in these processes. This paper focuses on the role played by the consolidated set of company supplier relationships when the firm faces some critical stages in its process of development, i.e., growth from small to mid-sized and the implementation of new ventures abroad accessing new business relationships with international suppliers. A multiple and longitudinal case study shows how the local set of supplier relationships of four mid-sized Italian mechanical companies acting in industrial districts has played an important role in shaping the emerging set of supplier relationships and addressing companies' actions in their growth and internationalization processes.     

Accelerators as start-up infrastructure for entrepreneurial clusters

ABSTRACT

Infrastructure is commonly conceptualized as a set of facilities that play a critical role in facilitating activities by individuals and organizations. Conventionally, infrastructure is tightly linked to publicly funded projects that facilitate access to key resources and enable diverse activities. Within entrepreneurial clusters research, infrastructure includes universities, research institutions and telecommunication technologies that facilitate entrepreneurial activities. These capital-intensive investments seek to facilitate start-ups emergence by aiding access to markets and development of ideas. Accelerators facilitate the same activities and have only recently been conceptualized as start-up infrastructure. This study builds upon this research stream by elaborating on how accelerators can play this meaningful role at the cluster level. Specifically, and by relying on the analysis of empirical evidence from three distinct studies, we uncover how accelerators provide tangible and intangible dimensions of start-up infrastructure to form a positively reinforcing cycle of entrepreneurial activities. Additionally, our findings allow us to push further the idea that start-up infrastructure development can be an endogenous process involving multiple actors within the cluster. Our empirical findings and the theoretical insights derived from them have meaningful implications for the aforementioned literature, as well as start-up practitioners and policymakers linked to the funding of entrepreneurial clusters.     

第三方物流服务项目的开发与实施方案

优质物流服务是物流企业取得成功的关键。我国大多数物流企业物流服务项目单一、传统,不能根据市场需求,不断开发新的物流服务项目,用专业化服务满足个性化需求,提高服务质量,以满足市场上不断增长的物流需求。面对我国第三方物流服务项目开发的落后现状,通过实际的市场调研,分析物流服务构成要素,制定物流服务项目开发与实施方案,从而帮助广大物流企业更好的做好物流服务工作。     

新兴产业中的中小企业发展战略分析

本文界定了中小企业的概念,并研究了新兴产业中中小企业的发展障碍和战略选择。指出中小企业的发展障碍主要是原材料、零部件、资金与其他供给的不足,顾客的困惑与等待观望和被替代产品的反应。相应地,企业应选择的战略为塑造产业结构,正确对待产业发展的外在性,注意产业机会与障碍的转变和选择适当的进入时机与领域。     

软环境建设在城市经济发展中的作用

作者根据长春市的实践 ,从三个方面探讨软环境建设在城市经济发展中的地位和作用。     

The relationship between brokers’ influence, strength of ties and NPD project outcomes in innovation-driven horizontal networks

This paper examines the impact of a broker's perceived use of power – position (i.e., coercive, reward and legitimate) and personal (i.e., expert, information and referent) – on strength of ties between network members and new product development (NPD) project outcomes. Our sample consists of 100 individuals drawn from 42 organizations that were involved in different innovation-driven horizontal networks. The results of structural equation modeling suggest that the perceived use of both personal power bases and position power bases by the broker are positively related to the strength of ties between members. Strength of ties, on the other hand, is positively related to NPD project outcomes of design performance and development time. Finally, results show that the relationships between a broker's use of different power bases and NPD project outcomes are fully mediated by the strength of ties between networks members. Implications for research, theory, and practice are discussed.     

广西国有高峰林场人才资源现状及发展对策

近年来,广西国有高峰林场根据生产经营需要积极引进各类人才,但由于历史等原因,林场人才资源现状不容乐观,难以满足林场改革发展新形势的需求。文章分析了广西国有高峰林场人才资源现状并时令后发展对策进行探讨。     

中国服务业发展悖论——基于“两波”发展模式的研究

本文借鉴最新文献对服务业发展规律的测度方法,用中国1952—2010年的地区面板数据对我国服务业比重变化的长期规律和阶段性特征进行了测度,结果认为:宏观国家层面上,我国服务业比重的变化确实有悖于世界经济整体服务化的趋势;但在地区层面上,我国服务业比重与人均GDP的关系基本符合"服务业比重随经济发展不断上升"的普遍规律,所谓经济服务化的"中国悖论"在地区层面上并不存在;对服务业发展的阶段性特征和地区差异进行分析发现,我国大部分地区仍然处于以传统服务业为主的第一波发展阶段,只有少数地区进入了以现代服务业发展为主导的第二波。文章最后对我国服务业发展规律的成因进行了一般分析和实证检验。     

论中国智库产业与国际接轨的挑战

现代意义的智库是一种以政策研究为核心的非营利性社会机构,有一定的社会公共属性,且与是否官办机构无关。在当今快速变化的世界中,智库具有前瞻性的科学决策方案,可为一个国家、社会、民族发展提供决策储备,实现与国际接轨的科学化功能系统。中国下一阶段的改革,需要智库产业独立性的涵养与真正确立。