外资企业在中国环境责任的实证研究——基于对污染产业进入程度研究的视角

随着中国改革开放的深化和融入全球经济一体化进程的加快,中国已经成为跨国公司全球战略中的重要区域,跨国公司经营也成为在华企业的重要组成部分,同时外资企业社会责任问题备受关注。本文在大量数据分析的前提下,运用实证分析的研究方法,基于对污染产业进入程度的视角研究外资企业环境责任问题。     

提高大学英语听力的新策略

大学英语四级考试新题型中听力部分比重增加,随着这一改革,听力理解的难度无疑大大提高。如何让学生适应大学英语四级考试的新题型,高校英语教师应及时调整大学英语听力教学的策略,从六个方面培养学生正确的听力学习习惯,增强学生的听力理解能力。     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

高校薪酬制度的国际比较及其对我国研究型高校薪酬制度改革的启示

随着我国高等教育体制特别是高校人事制度的深化改革,研究型高校的薪酬制度再设计颇受各方关注。本文首先剖析了当前我国高校薪酬制度存在的主要问题,然后通过对美国、法国、德国、印度等国家高校薪酬体系的比较分析,提出我国研究型高校薪酬制度改革的若干建议。     

中外基础研究创新团队资助管理机制比较研究

科技创新需要基础研究引领与支撑，提振基础研究是新时期国家创新行动的重点，国家在创新驱动发展战略层面，越来越重视基础研究发展及创新人才与团队培养。选取中国、日本、德国与加拿大基础研究创新团队的典型项目——“创新研究群体项目”、“世界一流国际研究中心资助项目”、“合作研究与培训经历项目”、“中心和重大资助项目”与“合作研究中心项目”，从目标定位、申请方式、资助对象、资助年限、资助金额、团队规模、管理办法、考核方式等资助管理机制的诸多方面展开比较分析，借鉴国外经验，获得体制机制调整与变革启示，并提出相应的政策建议。     

变革性研究:定义、特征与资助机制

变革性研究(Transformative Research)是美国科学研究资助机构提出的科技政策概念,也是我国科技部门将于"十三五"期间重点开展的资助工作。深入分析了变革性研究的定义和特征,系统研究了以美国国家科学基金会(NSF)为代表的科学资助机构在促进变革性研究方面的机制创新和政策经验,结合我国科学研究实际,构建了适应国情的加强变革性研究的资助机制。     

A critique of “Response Bias” in the tourism,travel and hospitality research

Measurement accuracy of respondents' opinions, perceptions, attitudes and behaviors is vital for better managerial suggestions, theoretical conclusions and advancement of science. There is a growing concern, voiced frequently in other disciplines that a high rate of response bias exists and this casts serious doubts on generalizability of conclusions. Based on limited research on the topic, this paper examines the extent to which response bias is acknowledged as a limitation in tourism, travel and hospitality research. Additional analyses were carried out to explore i) researchers' attentiveness to cautions when citing a biased study and ii) editorial policies of journals against bias. The results revealed that i) acknowledgement of response bias was low, ii) that researchers’ negligence to reported response bias limitations was high, and iii) that editorial policies of the examined journals were far from encouraging authors to discuss and include response bias related limitations. Implications were discussed.     

Contextualizing international business research: Enhancing rigor and relevance

Context differentiates international business (IB) from traditional Business research. Along with many IB scholars, we argue that context should be much more adequately emphasized in IB research. Location differences are commonly ignored; complexity and polycomplexity--and other levels of analysis issues--are rarely acknowledged; and the relevance of models and theory developed in Western contexts is not adequately questioned or explored. This paper suggests contextualization guidelines for scholars to enhance the rigor of their research and to make their IB research more relevant for practitioners. In conclusion we suggest solutions for closing rigor and relevance gaps in IB research by enhancing contextualization.     

Effects of public funding on firm innovation: transforming or reinforcing a weak innovation pattern?

ABSTRACT

This paper adds to the ongoing debate on the effects of public funding programmes on business innovation. This policy instrument, based upon a simple but a robust rationale, has been applied in an almost homogeneous manner in different contexts, but evidence from such experiences is far from shown homogeneous effects. The main contribution of this paper is that it shows the limitations faced by public funding instruments in affecting a traditionally low innovative pattern. Using panel data techniques, we find heterogeneous effects of public funding on the innovation behaviour of Uruguayan firms between 2001 and 2015. Our results show that, after a strong public policy effort, the critical mass of innovative firms has hardly changed. Input additionality effects of public funding in private innovation investment are found, but only for innovation activities based on the acquisition of embodied knowledge. Moreover, we obtain some evidence of behavioural additionality in process and organizational innovation leading to higher productivity levels, but we find no effects on interaction for innovation.     

Fair bilateral pricing under funding costs and exogenous collateralization

Bielecki and Rutkowski introduced and studied a generic nonlinear market model, which includes several risky assets, multiple funding accounts, and margin accounts. In this paper, we examine the pricing and hedging of contract from the perspective of both the hedger and the counterparty with arbitrary initial endowments. We derive inequalities for unilateral prices and we study the range of fair bilateral prices. We also examine the positive homogeneity and monotonicity of unilateral prices with respect to the initial endowments. Our study hinges on results from Nie and Rutkowski for backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) driven by continuous martingales, but we also derive the pricing partial differential equations (PDEs) for path‐independent contingent claims of a European style in a Markovian framework.