Mean squared error efficient estimators of the variance components

Summary Pseudo Bayesian estimators for the variance components based on Jeffrey’s Rule are derived for the mixed balanced incomplete block design and are compared with the usual analysis of variance estimators in terms of mean squared error (MSE) efficiency. Numerical results show that Pseudo-Bayesian estimators are more efficient in numerical results.     

基于生态视角下的城市交通生态规划探讨

针对现代城市的交通现状及所遇到的问题,并结合现代城市逐渐趋向建设生态城市的形势,探讨城市交通的生态规划,并对城市交通生态规划的原则与实施进行研究。     

钢结构资产的抵押潜能:枣庄案例

枣庄市创新开办钢结构资产抵押贷款新业务,挖掘和提高了中小企业自身抵押担保能力,突破了钢结构厂房资产动产性质认定的瓶颈,符合政银企各方利益诉求,具有较强的可操作性、易复制性,对破解中小企业融资困局具有推广价值。     

基于公平视角的买方垄断市场信任机制实证研究——以发电市场为例

以纵向一体化分离改革后的发电市场为例,依据湖南200家电厂数据。实证结果表明,在买方处于垄断地位,决定卖方经营允许权的情况下,公平行为是建立完善信任机制的前提,其通过影响满意、价值感知的中介作用最终影响信任。据此买方垄断企业应建立完善客户关系信任机制,监管机构建立公平制度和相应平台,维护市场程序。     

预测与对策:未来中国房地产价格走势分析——以成都市为例

全球金融危机对中国房地产价格影响很大,通过对一系列影响因素的分析,发现这一时期人们的心理预期是所有影响因素中最为敏感的因素,能严重影响中国房地产价格。研究表明,四川省成都市的房地产价格走势与全国房地产价格走势接近,因而能够以该城市的房地产价格作为研究样本,在各种心理预期量化的基础上,预测出未来三年中国房地产价格并提出了相应的政策建议。     

Professional Ethics in a Virtual World: The Impact of the Internet on Traditional Notions of Professionalism

Numerous articles in the popular press together with an examination of websites associated with the medical, legal, engineering, financial, and other professions leave no doubt that the role of professions has been impacted by the Internet. While offering the promise of the democratization of expertise – expertise made available to the public at convenient times and locations and at an affordable cost – the Internet is also driving a reexamination of the concept of professional identity and related claims of expertise and standards of integrity.This paper begins with a presentation of case studies illustrating the ease by which impostors infiltrate the ranks of professionals. Reports of individuals masquerading as professionals via the Internet often reveal that these imposters cause harm to the unwary victims who rely on assertions of professional expertise. Such reports motivated the authors to examine the origins and evolution of the traditional roles of professions and professionals in today’s society, as well as question how, or whether, the standards for professional practice have been adapted to the challenges posed by technology, i.e., do statements of professional ethics provide a ‘guiding light’ for practitioners and their clients in the cyber age? The authors challenge the professions to consider the notion that technology forces a confrontation between the guild-like aspects of a profession that have served, on the one hand, to protect a profession from encroachment and, on the other hand, have purportedly protected the public.The authors conclude by presenting an examination of websites that show recognition of the challenges that the Internet poses to professionalism, as we have known it. Detailed discussion of the websites of two professions illustrates different approaches to responding to these challenges.     

Target‐Setting,Pay for Performance,and Quality Improvement: A Case Study of Ontario Hospitals’ Quality‐Improvement Plans

This study examines whether difficult targets and quality indicators in executives' pay‐for‐performance (P4P) plans affect performance. The impact of target‐setting and P4P plans on quality improvement in the public sector is unclear. The Ontario government initiated the Quality Improvement Plan (QIP), which requires hospitals to set targets for quality indicators annually and link executive pay to target achievement since 2011. Analyzing Health Quality Ontario's database and hospitals' 2012–2013 QIPs, this study shows greater quality improvement in hospitals with difficult targets than hospitals with easy targets or without assigned targets; however, the positive impact disappears for high‐performance hospitals relative to their peers. We find no significant effect of the use of quality indicators in executives' P4P plans on quality improvement. Copyright © 2018 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Dialectical mind can be sweet toward crisis‐associated products/brands

Consumers’ thinking style (e.g., dialectical thinking), which is fundamental to cognition, has been paid inadequate attention in the consumer literature. This research explores the impact of dialectical thinking on Chinese consumer responses toward crisis‐associated products/brands. Findings in three experimental studies indicate that, in comparison to those primed with nondialectical thinking, consumers primed with dialectical thinking report higher levels of purchase intention and trust for a crisis‐associated product/brand. This is the case not just for products with Chinese cultural background, but also for products with western cultural background. Consumers’ perceived severity of crises moderates the impact of dialectical thinking, with a stronger impact in a highly severe crisis situation than in a less severe one. A survey study indicates a similar pattern. These findings are important in suggesting ways of encouraging Chinese consumers to be insistent on quality standard in order to better protect their consumer rights, and moreover, for multinational corporations on how best to respond and formulate strategies of handling product‐harm crises in the Chinese market.     

中国零售业“走出去”如何对接“一带一路”——一个理论模型

“一带一路”是我国在新的形势下提出的国家战略。共建“一带一路”的核心是以“五通”为主要内容的合作,这为我国包括零售业在内的企业“走出去”提供了巨大的空间选择和市场机遇。我国零售业海外目标市场选择、市场进入以及海外投资风险管理等关键的战略决策,与“一带一路”战略规划在理念上高度契合,在内容上高度重叠。为此,应该积极探索中国零售业“走出去”与“一带一路”两个战略的联动发展问题。文章基于零售业国际化的文献分析,结合“一带一路”建设的具体内容,构建中国零售业“走出去”对接“一带一路”的理论模型可以从融入途径、融入模式、融入战略、融入策略以及融入保障等方面来加以考虑。     

山西省装备制造业集群企业合作与创新之间关系的经验分析

利用山西省装备制造业集群企业的数据,实证分析了集群企业的纵向合作和横向合作对综合创新、产品创新和流程创新的作用。结果表明:纵向合作是影响山西省装备制造业集群创新的重要因素,横向合作对产品创新的影响较为显著。