Contemporary University Strategising: The Financial Imperative

This paper examines the financially focused strategies now evident amongst institutions competing for space in the global higher education system. In their search for increasing financial self‐sufficiency, universities and other higher education providers are examined for their primary competitive strategies. The study provides comprehensive evidence of their cost and operating efficiency strategies, facilitated by increasingly pervasive financial performance accountability systems. The primary operational strategies of teaching and research are found to have been transmogrified into strategies of customised education and research that is primarily focused upon and measured in terms of its funds generation. These trends contribute to complex performance management and accountability challenges as universities’ senior managers balance their internal financial ambitions with the expectations of external stakeholders, while simultaneously projecting sanitised imagery through corporate public relations strategies.     

聚氨酯塑胶跑道研究进展

介绍了传统聚氨酯塑胶跑道的危害及中国MDI型聚氨酯塑胶跑道的研究进展,给出了聚氨酯塑胶跑道的研究趋势,对铺设和使用聚氨酯塑胶跑道的问题提出了建议。     

近二十年来国内森林公园旅游研究综述

从森林公园基本理论问题、森林公园旅游者和旅游客体、旅游开发对森林公园的影响、森林公园旅游解说系统等方面对近二十年来国内有关森林公园旅游的研究作系统综述,并对此方向的研究进行了展望。     

资本结构行业差异及其影响因素的实证分析--来自我国上市公司的经验数据

通过对我国上市公司资本结构行业差异及其影响因素进行的实证分析发现,我国上市公司不同行业门类之间的资本结构具有显著性差异;同一行业的资本结构具有稳定性,资本结构行业间的差异具有稳定性;不同行业资本结构的影响因素是有差异的,同一因素对各行业的影响力度也不一样;从各假设条件的检验结果来看,有些假设在多数行业得到了证实,但也有一些假设被一定的经验数据所证伪或没有得到支持.     

我国银行业宏观审慎监管问题研究

国际金融危机爆发以后,防范系统性风险和维护金融稳定成为监管机构的主要任务,宏观审慎监管由此备受关注。本文对加强银行业宏观审慎监管的必要性进行了阐述,对现有微观审慎监管体制进行了反思,在此基础上,结合我国实际提出了建立与宏观经济部门的合作关系、调整监管机构内部职责、建立宏观审慎监管框架、完善系统性风险分析工具方法和培育宏观视野的监管人才等建议。     

Free‐riding in multi‐party alliances: The role of perceived alliance effectiveness and peers' collaboration in a research consortium

Research summary : Multi‐party alliances rely on partners' willingness to commit and pool their efforts in joint endeavors. However, partners face the dilemma of how much to commit to the alliance. We shed light on this issue by analyzing the relationship between partners' free‐riding—defined as their effort‐withholding—and their perceptions of alliance effectiveness and peers' collaboration. Specifically, we posit a U‐shaped relationship between partners' subjective evaluations of alliance effectiveness and their free‐riding. We also hypothesize a negative relation between partners' perceptions of the collaboration of peer organizations and their free‐riding. Results from a mixed‐method study—combining regression analysis of primary data on a major inter‐organizational research consortium and evidence from two experimental designs—support our hypotheses, bearing implications for the multi‐party alliances literature. Managerial summary : Free‐riding is a major concern in multi‐party alliances such as large research consortia, since the performance of these governance forms hinges on the joint contribution of multiple partners that often operate according to different logics (e.g., universities, firms, and government agencies). We show that, in such alliances, partners' perceptions have relevant implications for their willingness to contribute to the consortium's shared goals. Specifically, we find that partners free‐ride more—that is, contribute less—when they perceive the effectiveness of the overall alliance to be either very low or very high. Partners also gauge their commitment to the alliance on the perception of the effort of their peers—that is, other organizations similar to them. These findings provide managers of multi‐party alliances with additional levers to motivate partners to contribute fairly to such joint endeavor. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Some predictors of SMJ article impact

Article impact is becoming an increasingly popular metric for assessing a scholar's influence, yet little is known about its properties or the factors that affect it. This study tests whether author, article, and methodological attributes influence the impact of SMJ articles, defined as summed counts of article citations. Findings reveal that authors having fewer, more‐often cited articles tended to have SMJ articles that received the most citations. In addition, whether an article appears in a regular or a special issue is not a stable predictor of its impact. Moreover, empirical articles that test primary data, control for more threats to internal validity, and have higher statistical power tend to receive more citations. Further, an article's long‐term impact oftentimes becomes apparent shortly after its publication. Overall, the findings provide new insights into the determinants of impact and its temporal qualities and help explain some of the differences between high and average impact articles. The findings also underscore the need for transparency between author publication strategies (article volume, impact) and the requirements of his/her institution. Implications for authors, reviewers, editors, and administrative evaluation are offered. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

What makes a good case study? A positivist review of qualitative case research published in Industrial Marketing Management, 1971-2006

Business-to-business marketing research has a long tradition of using qualitative case studies. Industrial Marketing Management (IMM) has actively encouraged the use of case methods, resulting in many important theoretical advances in the field. However, debate still rages over what constitutes “good case research”. This article addresses this issue from a positivist standpoint. We examine the how authors address issues of quality in the 105 qualitative case studies published in IMM between 1971 and 2006. Four periods were identified: 1971-1979, 1980-1989, 1990-1999, and 2000-2006. Findings demonstrate that, from a positivist viewpoint, there has been a steady improvement in how authors addressed issues of research quality in published qualitative case studies. Suggestions for changes in data presentation, reviewer expectations, the IMM reviewer feedback form, and the use of web-based appendices containing data pertinent to reader judgments of research quality are suggested.     

干旱区农地流转影响因素的实证分析——基于新疆农户样本数据

我国干旱区的农村土地流转在全国来说相对较为缓慢。为研究其原因,本文以新疆北疆地区、东疆地区和南疆地区的389户农民的有效问卷数据为依据,通过建立Logit回归模型,对农地流转的影响因素进行了系统分析。结果表明,影响新疆农户农地转入意愿的主要因素是农业生产条件、家庭人口、农业收入、农业优惠政策等;影响转出意愿的主要因素是家庭人口、非农收入、农村劳动力转移、农村社会保障制度等。因此,要推进干旱区农地流转。必须从政策方面予以支持。     

基于DEA和BP神经网络的企业科技成果转化综合评价及实证分析

构建了企业科技成果转化综合评价指标体系,将数据包络分析（DEA）与BP神经网络两种评价方法有机结合,建立了DEA-BP神经网络综合评价模型,利用该模型对1998年至2009年间上海市规模以上企业的相关数据进行了实证分析,验证了本文所构建的评价模型具有较高的精确度和预测能力,并根据评价结果,提出了上海市促进科技成果转化的一系列建议。