Charisma and Compassion – Cheng Yen and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement by Huang,C. J.

The authors investigate the relationship between board ethnic diversity, ethnicity and market, and book measures of firm financial performance using Malaysian data. This represents a departure from prior studies that focused on White countries whose people remain culturally indistinct. Ethnic diversity is measured by the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index; ethnicity is the largest representation of a single race. Controlling for firm- and board-specific attributes, the authors find a significant positive relationship between ethnic diversity and firm financial performance and that financial performance of companies differ between ethnicities. The results suggest that despite modernization and homogenization, corporate Malaysia is still divided along racial lines.     

Theoretical Perspectives on Corporate Social and Environmental Disclosure: Evidence From China

Using a data set of top 56 corporate social and environmental reporting (CSER) disclosing firms with 112 observations on the H-share and Red-chip lists of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, results suggest that charitable donations, firm size, and the Songhua River incident response are positively related to the CSER disclosure, whereas debt–equity ratio, profit margin, and firm age revealed counterdirectional relationships. Other variables including media attention and market risk were found to have no impact. Findings imply that the Chinese government and its agencies need to prescribe CSER guidelines and make them mandatory for listed firms.     

Towards the Latin American Regiocentric Corporation

Abstract

Globalization and regionalism are emerging with force in Latin America and a new breed of Latin American corporations is making its mark in response to this new reality. These corporations are exploiting technology, low costs, and their in-depth understanding of the region's intricate cultural fabric to compete with global firms and become regional players in niches neglected by these powerful rivals. Using the integration-responsiveness framework, this paper describes the evolution and characteristics of regional strategies in selected Latin American companies and speculates on the potential reversal of these strategies as Latin American economies attempt to insulate themselves from the recent international financial crisis.     

Corporate Portals for Supply Chain Collaboration

ABSTRACT

This article reviews the technological capabilities offered by the portal industry's key software vendors to support inter-firm design collaboration and supply chain integration. An analysis of the technology coverage and gaps is presented, with a focus on the opportunities available for portal software improvement. Challenges for collaboration and supply chain software, including security, external access and capabilities, bandwidth and communication standards are discussed, particularly in context with the demands of portal software users. As well, a picture of the current and future state of the marketplace is developed from an analysis of the market position and product direction of a selection of eight enterprise portal vendors.     

融资约束、区域金融发展与成长期企业并购——理论分析与经验证据

成长期企业并购对金融支持的依赖性高。通过建立信息经济学模型,可较好刻画成长期企业在并购过程中因为信息不对称和抵押物不足而面临的融资约束,同时在模型中引入区域金融发展因素,可以较好缓解融资约束,促进成长期企业并购。在理论分析基础上,以2012-2018年的上市公司及其并购数据为对象开展实证分析,实证结果同样显示成长期上市公司并购过程中存在明显的融资约束现象;同时区域金融发展能够缓解融资约束,进而提升成长期上市公司并购概率。理论分析和经验证据相互印证,揭示了区域金融发展通过缓解融资约束以支持成长期企业并购的机理和路径。     

高新技术企业并购的动因及协同效应分析 ——以天泽信息并购深圳有棵树为例

横向并购已经成为企业扩大规模的一项重要举措,众多企业并购的目的之一在于快速获得协同效应,促进企业发展壮大.目前对于企业并购所产生的协同效应,多集中于大样本的实证研究,研究企业也多为制造业.本文基于高新技术企业天泽信息并购深圳有棵树,进行个案分析.     

企业社会责任履行的动力机制研究

近年来,随着食品安全、社会环境和道德伦理问题的日益严重,企业社会责任已经受到企业管理者与学术研究者的普遍关注。从企业的外部压力和自我认知视角分析企业社会责任履行的主要影响因素包括利益相关者压力、制度压力和伦理领导。实证结果表明,利益相关者压力和制度压力对企业社会责任履行均具有显著的正向影响。在伦理领导方面,变革型领导对社会责任履行具有显著的正向影响,而事务型领导对社会责任履行并不具有显著影响,企业规模调节了利益相关者压力和制度压力对企业社会责任履行的影响作用。     

The British Airways Heritage Collection: an ethnographic ‘history’

This article develops an ethnographic account of the development and history of the British Airways Heritage Centre (BAHC). Responding to several observations throughout the literature, we report on our experiences of engagement with British Airways’ archives over a 25-year period. In doing so our focus is on the much-neglected history of archives as powerful influences on how corporate histories are written. The ethnographic account is rooted in ANTi-History, an approach to historiography, that focuses on the production of history as knowledge of the past by following a number of human (e.g. archive volunteers) and non-human (e.g. airline artefacts) actors to reassemble the elements that constitute an archive at a point in time. To that end, we trace the inter-relationships between histories of British Airways and the development of the BAHC. We conclude that a focus on the various human and non-human relationships that constitute an archive can help the researcher to identify the hidden influences on the production of history that can otherwise serve to enrol him or her.     

The development of integrated marketing communications at the British General Post Office, 1931–39

In the 1930s, the General Post Office (GPO) in Britain became one of the nation’s most innovative pioneers of marketing communication. Following criticism of the organisation in the 1920s for its conservative use of publicity, the GPO embarked upon a series of creative publicity campaigns that applied, amongst other methods, advertising, public relations, promotions, cinema, events and artistic posters. Through an overview of its publicity, and through a narrative of three case-studies, this article argues that one of the most important innovations of the GPO was its integration of marketing communication, both in terms of techniques used and in relation to its emphasis in promoting the organisation and the services it provided.     

A decade of hybrid reporting and accountabilities of the Hanyeping Company (1909–1919)

Using a model of hybrid reporting and accountabilities, this article considers the reporting and accountability of the Hanyeping Company in the Beiyang era. The results of the study suggest that the Hanyeping Company attempted to provide comprehensive accounts of its activities to satisfy the needs of a plethora of domestic and foreign stakeholders through a combination of detailed Western and Chinese accounts. In keeping with Western and indigenous Chinese expectations of accounting, the Hanyeping Company prepared accounts that demonstrated characteristics of Auyeung’s demonstrated features of nineteenth-century Westernised reporting and the traditional reporting model. This suggests that the period between 1909 and 1919 experienced a decade of reporting hybridisation in direct contrast to the so-called period of accounting stagnation of the late Qing Dynasty.