Factors affecting couples' decisions to jointly shop

This paper explores the factors that influence individuals' decisions to jointly shop. Drawing from qualitative interviews and relevant theories, the researchers present a model of couple's likelihood of joint shopping. The model includes utilitarian motives (product purchase relevance and perceived financial risk), hedonic motives (expected shopping pleasure with one's partner), and a situational motive (time availability), along with two moderators (gender and relationship length). Online survey respondents answer questions relative to an experimental scenario involving the purchase of furniture or electronics. Results indicate that while all variables studied are influential, expected shopping pleasure and relevance of the purchase to both parties are the most influential aspects in the decision to shop together. Additionally, for males perceived financial risk has a stronger effect on their decision to jointly shop than it does for females.     

An Examination of Frontline Cross-functional Integration during Retail Transactions

This research investigates cross-functional integration in contexts where customers interact with multiple frontline functions during a retail transaction. Specifically, this study: (1) proposes and empirically tests a framework for frontline cross-functional integration, (2) shows that joint reward valence alters the effects of other integration mechanisms in ways that can sometimes be detrimental, and (3) demonstrates the effects of cross-functional integration on individual sales performance and job satisfaction. The proposed framework is empirically tested in the automobile sales context with sales and finance as the frontline functions. Results indicate that cross-functional training and cohesion influence quality of communication, which in turns leads to more effective relationships. As joint reward valence increases, the positive impact of cross-functional training on communication quality is enhanced; however, the positive impact of cohesion on communication quality is reduced. Similarly, as joint reward valence increases, relationship effectiveness leads to higher individual sales performance but the positive benefits of relationship effectiveness on job satisfaction diminish. Thus, this study improves the understanding of frontline cross-functional integration and the process by which integration mechanisms influence employee outcomes.     

The joint replenishment and freight consolidation of a warehouse in a supply chain

We have developed joint replenishment and consolidated freight delivery policies for a third party warehouse that handles multiple items, which have deterministic demand rates in a supply chain. Two policies are proposed and mathematical models are developed to obtain the optimal parameters for the proposed policies. Four efficient algorithms are presented to solve the mathematical models for the two policies. The performances of the two policies with the parameters obtained from the proposed algorithms are then compared with the common cycle approach for 1600 randomly generated problems. The results show the robust performance of the proposed algorithm for both policies.     

Think London,Think China

The China-UK relationship has a long history and is one of the most important contemporary China-European ties. The UK was the first western country to recognize the People＇s Republic of China after it was founded in 1949. Later, the two sides reached an agreement to exchange Charges d＇Affairs in 1954, and 1972.     

从联系的视角看东西方合资企业中的组织学习

合资企业通过组织学习来实现知识转移,提高组织效能与竞争力的问题已引起理论界越来越多的关注。在东西方合资企业中,合资双方在资源、技术能力方面的差异导致了合作伙伴权力的不对称性,给学习与合作关系带来了不利影响。本文提出,为了把握合资企业组织学习与伙伴关系的动态性,合资双方应超越“掌握知识和技能”的局限性,从联系的视角理解构成学习过程的关系和情绪问题。     

The effects of joint taxation of married couples on labor supply and non-wage income

The United States changed its tax treatment of married couples in 1948, from a system in which each spouse paid taxes on his or her own income to a system in which a married couple is taxed as a unit. The switch from separate to joint taxation changed incentives for labor supply and asset ownership. This paper investigates the effects of the conversion to joint taxation, taking advantage of a natural experiment created by cross-state variation in property laws. Married individuals in states with community property laws had always been taxed as if each spouse had earned half of the couple's income, and thus were unaffected by the 1948 legal change. Comparing the behavior of highly-educated taxpayers in affected and unaffected states indicates that the tax change is associated with a decline of approximately 2 percentage points in the employment rate of married women, consistent with the higher first-dollar tax rates they faced after 1948. Women married to self-employed men were also less likely to have non-wage income after 1948, reflecting pre-1948 allocation of family assets to wives for tax purposes. The effects of joint taxation on married men's labor force participation and non-wage income holding are generally not statistically significant.     

Profit sharing in unique Nash equilibrium: Characterization in the two-agent case

Two agents jointly operate a decreasing marginal returns technology to produce a private good. We characterize the class of output-sharing rules for which the labor-supply game has a unique Nash equilibrium. It consists of two families: rules of the serial type which protect a small user from the negative externality imposed by a large user, and rules of the reverse serial type, where one agent effectively employs the other agent's labor. Exactly two rules satisfy symmetry; a result in sharp contrast with Moulin and Shenker's characterization of their serial mechanism as the unique cost-sharing rule satisfying the same incentives property [Moulin, H., Shenker, S., 1992. Serial cost sharing. Econometrica 60 (5), 1009–1037]. We also show that the familiar stand-alone test characterizes the class of fixed-path methods under our incentives criterion [Friedman, E.J., 2004. Strong monotonicity in surplus sharing. Econ. Theory 23, 643–658].     

论上市公司董事对公司债权人的连带责任

上市公司董事是否应该对公司债权人承担连带责任,在我国还有争议.无论从公司的历史发展、公司内部运行机制、平衡公司各利益主体之间的关系、各国公司立法的实践以及我国公司立法的过程来看,我国都有进一步明确董事对公司债权人承担连带责任的必要.明确董事对公司债权人的连带责任,有利于完善我国公司治理结构,对我国社会主义市场经济建设有重要意义.     

创业学习互动导向对新创企业绩效的作用机制研究

随着互联网和高科技的快速发展,创业活动面临着更高程度的不确定性,企业与顾客的互动、学习愈发成为影响创业成效的关键要素。以新创企业为研究对象,整合互动导向、创业学习与不确定性等理论,利用217份样本数据验证了互动导向对新创企业绩效的促进作用、创业学习的中介作用以及感知不确定性的调节作用,阐释了互动导向转化为新创企业绩效的机理,并针对创业实践者提出行动建议。     

新创企业创新驱动对企业绩效的影响机制

通过对253份新创企业的问卷调查,讨论了创新驱动对新创企业绩效的直接影响,并分析了创业拼凑在创新驱动与新创企业绩效中的作用路径以及创业学习在该影响过程中的调节效应。实证和经验数据表明：新创企业创新驱动对企业绩效具有显著正向影响;创新驱动对创业拼凑具有显著正向影响;创业拼凑对企业绩效具有显著正向影响;创业拼凑在创新驱动和企业绩效的影响中发挥部分中介作用;创业学习正向调节创新驱动对创业拼凑以及创业拼凑对企业绩效的作用。