Codes of Conduct in Subcontracting Networks: A Labour Law Perspective

In the past ten years, many European companies organised into subcontracting networks have decided to adopt codes of conduct to regulate labour relations and to ensure the respect of fundamental social rights. This paper first determines the context and the issues to be addressed by codes of conduct within networks of companies, and second analyses the terms under which they can be implemented. The paper argues that codes of conduct can complement the standards developed by States, the European Union or the social partners, but that steps should be taken in order to avoid that these texts replace the existing labour law.     

Quality Competition and Social Welfare in Markets with Partial Coverage: New Results*

We use a vertical product differentiation model under partial market coverage to study the social welfare optimum and duopoly equilibrium when convex costs of quality provision are either fixed or variable in terms of production. We show the following new results. First, under fixed costs, the social planner charges a uniform price for the single variant that just covers costs of quality provision. Like the duopoly equilibrium, this socially optimal pricing entails a partially uncovered market, but a smaller share of the market is served compared with the duopoly equilibrium. Second, for the variable cost case, it is socially optimal to provide both high‐ and low‐quality variants, but market shares need not be equal. This differs from the result in fully covered markets. Third, in the duopoly equilibrium, the quality spread is too wide under variable costs relative to the social optimum. Under fixed costs, the duopoly produces two variants, but quality is too low relative to the social optimum, which has only one variant.     

A new continuous distribution and two new families of distributions based on the exponential

Recent work on social status led to derivation of a new continuous distribution based on the exponential. The new variate, termed the ring(2)-exponential, in turn leads to derivation of two closely related new families of continuous distributions, the mirror-exponential and the ring-exponential. Both the standard exponential and the ring(2)-exponential are special cases of both the new families. In this paper, we first focus on the ring(2)-exponential, describing its derivation and examining its properties, and next introduce the two new families, describing their derivation and initiating exploration of their properties. The mirror-exponential arises naturally in the study of status; the ring-exponential arises from the mathematical structure of the ring(2)-exponential. Both have the potential for broad application in diverse contexts across science and engineering. Within sociobehavioral contexts, the new mirror-exponential may have application to the problem of approximating the form and inequality of the wage distribution.     

SA8000与人本经济

本文深入探讨了SA8000的产生背景、思想本质及其科学性和局限性，通过与我国科学发展观的比较分析，澄清了目前我国对SA8000的误解和偏见。同时进一步指出，科学的发展观要求我国企业不仅应自觉满足SA8000的要求，而且应承担更广泛的社会责任。     

新形势下开拓和发展农村市场的思考

当前,内需不足尤其是农村市场启而未动已成为我国经济持续快速增长的主要制约因素.文章在分析了我国市场机制形成过程中农村市场的现状、问题的基础上,提出了开拓和发展农村市场、促进农村经济社会发展的对策建议.     

房地产投资信托基金的产品优势分析

对REITs产品与相似产品，与股票及债券的收益风险特性的比较分析表明，REITs产品具有不可替代的独特优势，在我国有发展REITs产品的必要性。     

发展旅游业--新疆社会经济发展的必然选择

旅游是一种具有重大经济与文化意义的活动,它的产生和发展紧随社会前进的步伐。近年来,随着人们收入的增长和消费水平的提高,节假日外出旅游成为时尚。目前,旅游业是我国的重要产业。在我国的很多地区,旅游业已成为增加经济收入、改善产业结构、提高人们的现代意识、推动区域经济和社会进步的重要产业。新疆地区少数民族众多、地域辽阔,加上历史文化悠久,孕育了丰富的自然旅游资源及人文旅游资源,在全国具有旅游资源的比较优势,因此发展旅游业必将带动新疆地区社会经济的全面发展。     

论企业的社会责任

企业社会责任的本质是在经济全球化背景下企业对其自身经济行为的道德约束,它既是企业的宗旨和经营理念,又是企业用来约束企业内部包括供应商生产经营行为的一套管理和评估体系。企业在追求利润最优化、充分考虑利益相关者的利益的同时,必须从整体上考虑“价值更大化”的问题,“价值更大化”应是企业发展的总目标,更应是企业共同的信念和追求。     

会计诚信契约的理论框架与实现机制研究

会计诚信是一项非正式制度安排，一种隐含契约，也是企业契约主体之间的信任关系表现。按信任的来源分类，会计诚信可以分为基于制度的会计诚信、基于契约的会计诚信与基于信誉的会计诚信三种。提高会计信息质量必须从制度、契约和信誉三方面加强会计诚信契约的履约机制建设。     

天津市社会保障体系现状问题与对策研究

社会保障作为公民抵抗风险与危机的重要手段．是社会群体的社会安全网和保护伞。近年来天津市在建立完善的社会保障制度方面做了许多工作．取得了很大的进展。但目前所建立的社会保障体系还不完善。要完善天津市的社会保障体系，一要增强企事业单位和个人依法参保的意识。二要加强养老保险制度条例的执法力度，三要加强政府机关对医疗机构的管理。四要进一步完善最低生活保障制度。五要重视全社会的统筹协调。