Enhancing corporate social responsibility through market orientation practices in bottom of pyramid markets: with special reference to microcredit institutions

Market-oriented organizations are committed to understanding and serving customer needs. Customers become socially conscious, so market-oriented firms need to carry out ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ (CSR) initiatives. The main aim of this study was to investigate the influence of market orientation on CSR among microcredit institutions. The findings of this study are useful for microcredit institutions and marketers operating in bottom of pyramid (BOP) market to enhance their CSR through market orientation practices. The sample comprised 250 managers of microcredit institutions operating in the rural areas of Sri Lanka. The surveys were administered for data collection. All the three components of market orientation, that is, customer orientation, competitor orientation, and inter-functional coordination significantly and positively influenced the CSR involvement. Adaptation to BOP Market Culture enhanced the positive influences of both customer orientation and inter-functional coordination, on CSR. From these findings, implications for theory and practice have been discussed.     

商业智能国际研究前沿与主题演进

商业智能作为企业数据整合和决策支持的信息系统,受到了理论和实践的广泛关注.然而目前还没有针对商业智能研究前沿和主题演进规律的研究.为了揭示商业智能研究主题和演进趋势,为未来的研究工作提供思路、奠定基础,本文基于文献计量方法梳理和评述近30年(1990—2020年)Web of Science中商业智能领域的理论研究.结果表明,商业智能研究文献数量处于快速成长期,研究潜力较大.美国处于商业智能研究前沿,中国的相关研究在国际中影响力不足.目前商业智能主要聚焦于管理信息系统方向,未来商业智能的研究将主要聚焦于商业智能与大数据、商业智能的风险与挑战、商业智能与创新、商业智能与预测性分析等主题.     

区域优势产业发展分析——基于区位熵的实证分析

深化产业结构调整,制定有针对性的、能最大限度发挥区域产业优势的产业政策,对于巩固改革成果,加快经济建设具有重大的现实意义。本文通过对陕西省产业结构区位熵的计算,明确了四大优势产业集群,分析了陕西产业结构发展过程中存在的问题及其对经济社会发展的影响,探讨了陕西产业结构调整的方向,为进一步推动优势产业发展、加快经济发展步伐提供了参考。     

在思想政治教育中加强对学生的情商培养

在思想政治教育中忽视情商培养,对学生本人、学生家庭以及国家和社会的危害都很大。在思想政治教育中加强学生情商培养,就要有意识地拓展情商培养内容,加强对学生进行情商辅导,与家长共同关注学生的情商发展状况,还要把情商作为重要素质和能力进行严格考核。     

中国旅游就业区位商时空结构研究

基于区位商模型,从总就业与第三产业就业视角分析中国旅游就业的区位商时空结构,发现中国旅游就业区位商的时空结构特点:东部沿海省区是旅游就业主要集聚区,但中西部省区的旅游就业区位商在不断提高,并且中西部省区旅游就业在第三产业中的潜在优势明显。     

人本主义理念下的员工情绪管理

人本主义理念下的情绪管理是指在尊重人、无条件积极关注人、培养自我实现感的条件下,不断观察员工的情绪变化,不否认不压抑真实情绪,分析负面情绪产生的原因,从组织层面和员工层面采取措施,增强情绪管理,从而营造一个和谐、向上的组织氛围,提高员工工作的积极性,激发员工工作潜能,最终达到企业效率的提升。     

高职院校图书馆为企业开展竞争情报服务新探

当前,企业竞争情报存在着一些问题,严重制约了企业的发展。与此同时,高职院校图书馆虽具有信息资源、技术和人才等方面的优势,但是在企业竞争情报系统中却没有发挥应有的作用。高职院校图书馆利用自己的优势为企业开展竞争情报服务,是加强校企合作、产学结合的有效措施。为拓展高职院校图书馆信息服务的范围和领域,提高其社会效益及经济效益,从而有效地发挥图书馆的社会职能,更好地为经济建设服务提供了宝贵的发展思路。     

The Methodological Progress of Tourism Demand Forecasting: A Review of Related Literature

Research on modeling the estimation and forecasting of tourism demand has evolved with increasing sophistication and improved quality. In this study, 155 research papers published between 1995 and 2009 were identified and were classified into three main groups according to the methods and techniques adopted—an econometric-based approach, time series techniques, and artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods. It appears that the more advanced methods such as cointegration, error correction model, time varying parameter model, and their combinations with systems of equations produce better results in terms of forecasting accuracy. We also discuss the implications and suggest future directions of tourism research techniques and methods.     

Schumpeter,Schumacher and the Greening of Technology

We propose a semantic patent claim analysis that can examine patents for possible infringements and identify which needs to be manually perused. So far, numerous approaches have been devised to systemise this burden, but have not been useful in practice because of a lack of consideration of semi-structure of patent claim data and claim element-based procedure of adjudicating patent infringement. At the heart of our method is a hierarchical keyword vector for representing the dependency relationships among claim elements (as well as unstructured textual information) and a tree matching algorithm for comparing claim elements of patents. A case study of the patents about DNA chip technology shows our method has considerable advantages in terms of accuracy and significance. We believe the suggested method could be employed in various research areas and serve as a starting point for developing more general models.     

Developing a model to evaluate the impacts of science,technology and innovation foresight on policy-making

Technology foresight as a policy intelligence tool can offer vital inputs for policy-making in various domains. The relationship between foresight and policy-making has been presented in the literature by the policy-related functions of foresight, but the literature reflects a theoretical gap with the systematic evaluation model for the impact of foresight on policy-making. This research seeks to bridge the existing gap and uses the mixed method for this purpose. The mixed method approach used in this paper is the sequential exploratory design. First, the conceptual model is developed in the qualitative part of this research by using meta-synthesis and constant comparative method (CCM) of analysis. Second, in the quantitative part, quantitative tests are used to evaluate the dimensions and components of the developed theoretical model. The data collection tool is a questionnaire. The results confirm the proposed dimensions of the evaluation model.