Non-maximizing output behavior for firms with a cost-constrained technology

In many public service industries, firms are constrained by a cost (budget) and characterized by non-maximizing output behavior, due to bureaucratic behavior, for instance. This paper proposes a model based on the assumption that firms with a cost constraint do not maximize service levels due to resource preferences. It derives the exact relationships between services delivered, (shadow) input prices, cost constraints, and optimal input quantities. From these relationships, allocative efficiencies, technical efficiencies, output ray elasticities, and marginal cost can easily be derived.      

邻近营业线施工既有桥梁自动化监测及费用分析

通过邻近营业线施工中对既有线桥梁进行影响分析,建立三维有限元模型分析不同线间距和不同施工阶段情况下既有线桥梁位移变形情况,对既有线桥梁进行实时监测和数据分析,用于指导现场施工,同时对传统人工监测方法和自动化监测费用分析对比,为后续类似工程施工积累相应的施工经验.     

股票流动性会影响公司商业信用融资吗？——基于A股上市公司的实证研究

商业信用作为企业短期外部融资的重要渠道,日渐成为学术界关注的重要话题。基于A股上市公司2007—2020年数据,实证检验股票流动性对上市公司商业信用融资的影响。研究发现：股票流动性与商业信用融资规模显著正相关,即流动性越好,商业信用融资规模越大。异质性分析结果表明：在融资约束大、行业竞争激烈以及地区市场化程度高的公司中作用更明显。机制分析结果表明,股票流动性通过降低第一类代理成本、提高信息透明度来增加商业信用融资。最后,采用工具变量法、地区固定效应以及替换关键变量等一系列稳健性检验后,结果依然存在且稳健。研究从市场微观结构角度,探索企业商业信用融资的影响因素,拓展了流动性治理相关研究,同时为缓解上市公司融资约束提供了新的经验证据。     

金融业统一监管的成本与收益分析

近年来一些国家相继实行了金融业统一监管,业界对此存在着不同看法,一些人主张进行金融业的统一监管,即将所有的监管机构统一到一个组织结构进行统一监管,而另一些人则对此持反对意见,主张继续实行多边监管,即分业监管。文章试图从统一监管成本与收益的角度来分析金融业实行统一监管的可行性。     

Identification and Trust in Public Organizations: A communicative approach

Abstract

Little empirical research has examined the link between organizational identification and organizational trust. Identification presupposes a level of consistency in its object, and this study proposes that trust can reduce uncertainty between organization and employee, enabling a bond between the two to form. Secondly, this research looks at how interaction with various organizational groups may affect organizational trust, thereby indirectly encouraging identification. It is thus proposed that organizational trust should be understood as an important mechanism mediating the relationship between interaction with employees at different levels of the organizational hierarchy and identification with the organization as a whole.     

Estimating the impact of enterprise resource planning project management decisions on post-implementation maintenance costs: a case study using simulation modelling

Organisations often make implementation decisions with little consideration for the maintenance phase of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, resulting in significant recurring maintenance costs. Poor cost estimations are likely related to the lack of an appropriate framework for enterprise-wide pre-packaged software maintenance, which requires an ongoing relationship with the software vendor (Markus, M.L., Tanis, C., and Fenema, P.C., 2000 Markus, M. L., Tanis, C. and Fenema, P. C. 2000. Multisite ERP implementation. CACM, 43(4): 42–46. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]. Multisite ERP implementation. CACM, 43 (4), 42–46). The end result is that critical project decisions are made with little empirical data, resulting in substantial long-term cost impacts. The product of this research is a formal dynamic simulation model that enables theory testing, scenario exploration and policy analysis. The simulation model ERPMAINT1 was developed by combining and extending existing frameworks in several research domains, and by incorporating quantitative and qualitative case study data. The ERPMAINT1 model evaluates tradeoffs between different ERP project management decisions and their impact on post-implementation total cost of ownership (TCO). Through model simulations a variety of dynamic insights were revealed that could assist ERP project managers. Major findings from the simulation show that upfront investments in mentoring and system exposure translate to long-term cost savings. The findings also indicate that in addition to customisations, add-ons have a significant impact on TCO.     

Supply chain decisions under asymmetric information with cost and fairness concern

ABSTRACT

The two-echelon supply chain including single supplier and single retailer is set, and we study the compact of asymmetric information on the decisions in the supply chain when the both supplier’s private cost information and retailer’s private fairness-concern information are asymmetry between the supply chain members, so as to study the effect of misreporting behavior and fairness concern on the supply chain. By mathematical model derivation and numerical analysis, we prove that the misreporting behavior of supplier will intensify the unfair distribution of supply chain and thus make the supply chain operation further deviate from the optimal condition.     

An empirical study of the dimensionality of organizational justice and its relationship with organizational citizenship behaviour in the Indian context

Cross-cultural research shows that while the concerns about organizational justice may be universal, operationalization of justice standards is highly particularistic (Greenberg 2001). The present study explores the dimensionality of organizational justice in the Indian context. Apart from procedural justice, interpersonal justice and informational justice, another justice dimension, labelled as empowerment justice, emerged during the study. Next, the study tests the relationships between justice dimensions and Organ's (1988) 5-factor conceptualization of organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB), namely helping, compliance, sportsmanship, courtesy and civic virtue behaviours. The perception of empowerment justice influences helping, compliance, sportsmanship, and civic virtue dimensions of OCB. Interpersonal justice significantly predicts courtesy behaviour. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.     

Employees' concerns about change and commitment to change among Italian organizations: the moderating role of innovative work behavior

Despite being regarded as a critical psychological process influencing the effectiveness of change initiatives, concerns about change have not received empirical attention in the organizational change literature. The present study addresses this issue by examining the relationships among employees' concerns about change (conceptualized as including concerns about the contents and benefits of change, and concerns about mastering the change), commitment to change and innovative work behavior. First, in a hospital undergoing a major administrative change (N = 435), concerns about change were generally found to be negatively related to affective and normative commitment to change and positively related to continuance commitment to change. These results were replicated in a chemical and pharmaceutical company undergoing a technological change (N = 113), except that concerns about change were unrelated to normative commitment to change. In addition, employees' innovative work behavior moderated the relationship of concerns about change to affective commitment to change such that the relationship was negative when innovative behavior was low but nonsignificant when innovative behavior was high. This study provides scholars and practitioners with a theoretically and empirically grounded framework for assessing employees' concerns about change, and moves research a step forward into identifying the behaviors that organizations should support to counteract this psychological threat.