Entry mode choice in China's regional distribution markets: Institution vs. transaction costs perspectives

In this paper, we investigate the entry mode choice of a leading Taiwanese food company in setting up regional distributors in China's 312 sales districts. Our study shows that, in entry mode decisions, the institutional factors are more important than transaction cost considerations. Both formal and informal institutions are considered. Formal institutions refer to government prescribed institutions (laws and regulations), while informal institutions refer to rules prescribed by the industry and the society. Both institutions are shown to affect the entry mode choices but one important type of institution, professional norms, is conspicuously missing in China. Professional norms exert peer pressures on the practitioners in the same profession, forcing their behaviors to conform to a common pattern. In the absence of professional norms, the roles of network ties and mimetic behaviors are heightened and they become a proxy for professional norms. As a foreign enterprise operating in China's local markets, the Taiwanese food company attained legitimacy by forming alliances with local wholesalers and by following its predecessors in selecting organization forms.     

基于交易成本理论的工程合同类型与交易成本探讨

工程合同类型选择问题在工程实践中研究较为广泛,然而对于该问题的更深层次的探讨,特别是在经济学领域的探索却相对较少。在经济学理论影响社会显著发展的当今,应用经济学理论探讨社会经济问题是十分必要的。论文以新制度经济学中交易成本理论研究成果为基础,通过对交易成本的重新理解,分析其与不同合同类型问的联系,得到具有一定指导性的结论,有助于进一步研究和探索。     

长三角区域商务成本比较研究——以沪、苏、杭三城市为例

随着长江三角洲地区经济的高速发展和长三角各城市招商引资的竞争,如何科学地降低商务成本已经成为政府与学界越来越关心的问题。本文在查阅数据和实地考察的基础上,解释了什么是商务成本、商务成本的内涵与意义,并根据商务成本的不同科目对位于长三角地区的上海、苏州、杭州进行了商务成本分析和比较研究,并提出了对降低长三角区域商务成本的若干建议。     

中外全面预算管理比较

本文在分析中外全面预算管理相同点的基础上,着重论述了两者在预算目标定位、预算组织管理、人力资源配置、信息技术研发和应用及预算执行与评价等方面的不同点,并提出了适合于中国企业研究和借鉴的建议。     

人类形成合作关系的条件

大群体中的合作关系必须以利己主导型经济人为出发点来加以说明。大群体中出现合作的首要条件是净交往惠利大于零;第二个条件是信息和知识完全,即各方要有共同知识;第三个条件是存在着抑制人们背离合作的机会主义行为倾向的各种机制。     

关于建筑施工企业安全成本的思考

建筑施工企业的安全成本逐渐被重视,有效提高安全成本管理水平已成为现代建筑企业管理的重要内容。只有不断提高安全生产成本的管理水平,才能提高建筑企业的生产效率和经济效益。     

探析循环物流理念及其系统动力学机制

随着环境问题受到越来越多的关注,可持续发展的循环经济理念日益受到重视,与此同时循环物流应运而生.人们意识到在发展物流过程中应当注重节约资源和环境保护,开始从仅仅关注生产到消费的流通过程转向同时考虑从消费到再生产的流通过程,即逆向物流过程,而循环物流正是正向物流与逆向物流的有机结合.文章就循环物流的理念以及其动力学机制进行了深入分析,重点从分析循环物流的主要功能入手,阐述了循环物流的动力学机制,最后以家用电器逆向物流为例提出了发展循环物流的策略.     

Business process re-engineering in the logistics industry: a study of implementation,success factors,and performance

As business process re-engineering (BPR) is an important foundation to ensure the success of enterprise systems, this study would like to investigate the relationships among BPR implementation, BPR success factors, and business performance for logistics companies. Our empirical findings show that BPR companies outperformed non-BPR companies, not only on information processing, technology applications, organisational structure, and co-ordination, but also on all of the major logistics operations. Comparing the different perceptions of the success factors for BPR, non-BPR companies place greater emphasis on the importance of employee involvement while BPR companies are more concerned about the influence of risk management. Our findings also suggest that management attitude towards BPR success factors could affect performance with regard to technology applications and logistics operations. Logistics companies which have not yet implemented the BPR approach could refer to our findings to evaluate the advantages of such an undertaking and to take care of those BPR success factors affecting performance before conducting BPR projects.     

The adaptive approach for storage assignment by mining data of warehouse management system for distribution centres

Among distribution centre operations, order picking has been reported to be the most labour-intensive activity. Sophisticated storage assignment policies adopted to reduce the travel distance of order picking have been explored in the literature. Unfortunately, previous research has been devoted to locating entire products from scratch. Instead, this study intends to propose an adaptive approach, a Data Mining-based Storage Assignment approach (DMSA), to find the optimal storage assignment for newly delivered products that need to be put away when there is vacant shelf space in a distribution centre. In the DMSA, a new association index (AIX) is developed to evaluate the fitness between the put away products and the unassigned storage locations by applying association rule mining. With AIX, the storage location assignment problem (SLAP) can be formulated and solved as a binary integer programming. To evaluate the performance of DMSA, a real-world order database of a distribution centre is obtained and used to compare the results from DMSA with a random assignment approach. It turns out that DMSA outperforms random assignment as the number of put away products and the proportion of put away products with high turnover rates increase.