The impact of work‐life programs on firm productivity

This research examined the adoption of work‐life programs and the impact of work‐life programs on firm productivity. Human resource executives in a national sample of 658 organizations provided survey data on firm characteristics and work‐life programs. In these 658 organizations, the percentage of professionals and the percentage of women employed were positively related to the development of more extensive work‐life programs. Productivity data were obtained from CD Disclosure for 195 public, for‐profit firms. Significant interaction effects indicated that in these 195 firms work‐life programs had a stronger positive impact on productivity when women comprised a larger percentage of the workforce and when a higher percentage of professionals were employed. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

我国建筑业HSE管理体系分析

健康、安全与环境管理（HSE管理）已在国外工程项目中推广应用,但在我国建筑行业中仍然是薄弱环节。通过介绍了国外成功经验,从管理理念、技术手段、政府定位和市场环境等方面分析目前我国建筑企业HSE管理的现状与不足,论述了HSE管理体系与质量、进度和成本控制的相互关系,并提出了加强我国HSE管理的建议。     

探索价值管理在工程采购中的应用

本文架构了一个能够满足业主价值需求的工程项目采购模式,并且介绍了价值管理在新采购模式中各个环节的应用。     

深圳市消费支出影响因素的定量分析

利用扩展的线性支出系统模型,对深圳市各种商品消费支出的边际消费倾向、消费乘数、消费需求及弹性等方面进行量化和实证分析。考虑到收入等级因素和时间因素对消费支出的影响,进一步建立了面板数据模型(Pane l Data),并对深圳的消费数据进行了实证分析。     

中国情境下产品众筹的商业模式研究

在中国的众筹实践中,产品众筹是众筹的主要表现形式,但在实际操作中存在众筹成功率低、融资额度较少、缺乏持续性等问题。造成这些问题的主要原因,在于缺乏完整的产品众筹商业模式的研究。在产品众筹相关研究和商业模式理论的基础上,归纳出产品众筹商业模式的一般结构,并以小牛电动车的典型成功案例对该模型进行了验证,而后将产品众筹的商业模式拓展到了不同生命周期的企业,并根据不同时期企业的特征对模型进行了修正。研究发现,产品众筹不仅适合新创企业,还可以应用于成长型企业和成熟期企业之中。     

Worth the Risk? The Behavioural Path to Well‐Being

There is increasing interest in the ‘economics of happiness’, reflected in the volume of articles appearing in mainstream economics journals exploring the major determinants of self‐reported well‐being. We contribute by exploring the factors influencing how satisfied farmers are with their quality of life. We find that farm income, subjective perceptions relating to the adequacy of household income, debt, health and personal characteristics such as age and relationship status are significantly associated with farmers’ self‐reported life satisfaction. While significantly associated with farm income, farm structural variables such as farm size, farm type and the presence of a farm successor were not found to be significantly related with life satisfaction. Our results also suggest that farmers who are more risk averse enjoy significantly lower levels of both life satisfaction and farm income than their more risk seeking or risk neutral counterparts. We suggest that, in the same way that risk aversion inhibits farmers from making choices that could lead to an increase in their income, it may also constrain farmers (and the wider public at large) from engaging in certain types of behaviours that could lead to an increase in their self‐reported quality of life. Finally, we find that while farm income is significantly related to self‐reported life satisfaction, the direct correlation between these variables is weak, suggesting that farmer life satisfaction can be distinct from business success.     

Evolution of tourism in a flagship protected area of China

Nature-based tourism in protected areas, which is growing worldwide, offers much potential to enhance biodiversity conservation, poverty alleviation, and ultimately sustainable development. Understanding the evolution of protected areas as tourism destinations and the causes and consequences of changing supply and demand elements is an essential step toward sustainably managing tourism in these critical ecosystems. This research applied the Tourism Area Life Cycle (TALC) model to illustrate and analyze the 30-year evolution of tourism in Wolong Nature Reserve. Being inscribed in UNESCO Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage programmes, Wolong is a flagship protected area in China. We showed that the Reserve experienced exploration, involvement, and development stages of the TALC before tourism growth was completely halted by the Wenchuan Earthquake in 2008. We systematically investigated the changes related to the evolution of tourism and identified various internal and external driving forces. We examined the dynamics of politics, economy, and tourism growth that might propel the Reserve through the life cycle and identified significant tourism governance structural changes through the stages. The results have implications for sustainable tourism development in China's protected areas and also contribute to a broader and general understanding of the complex relationships between protected areas, sustainable tourism, and community development.     

三江源区藏族移民的生态补偿研究——基于生命周期视角下的生态足迹方法

基于问卷调查数据,采用生态足迹方法研究计算了三江源区藏族牧民生命周期内消耗的草地生态足迹及其补偿标准,并结合研究区退化草地面积对移民的适宜数量进行了分析。结果显示,维持一个牧民一生饮食消耗所需的草地面积为2.44 hm~2,维持基本收入所需草地面积为3.88 hm~2,二者总计为6.32 hm~2。人均补偿标准应该为(人均寿命-现实年龄)×草地单价×6.32。以退化草地面积为核算依据,长江、黄河和澜沧江源区需要搬迁的移民数量总计为3.70万人,所需资金总量约为39.35亿元。     

建立农村居民最低生活保障制度的经济学分析

最低生活保障制度的存在是为了维护全体公民的基本生存权利。相比较城市的最低生活保障制度而言,中国农村的最低生活保障制度还处于刚刚起步阶段,同时学者们对于我国全面建立农村最低生活保障制度的经济可行性问题持有不同意见。通过对农村最低生活保障制度的需求面进行供给面经济学分析,可以证明中国建立和完善农村最低生活保障制度是确实可行的。     

保险营销员自我效能感等与心理健康关系研究

以保险公司员工为测试对象的研究表明：福建省内保险营销人员自我效能感的整体水平比较高,其自我效能感与他们的性别、工作岗位没有明显关联;他们的生活满意度相对偏低,这种满意程度与其性别显著相关;却与各自的工作岗位关联甚弱。省内保险营销人员的心理健康状况还存在提升的较大空间;公司外勤人员的心理健康水平明显高于内勤人员,但性别上的差异未表现在心理健康状况上。保险营销人员的自我效能感与他们的生活满意度、心理健康状况均呈现显著正相关。因此,可以通过提高保险营销人员的自我效能感,生活满意度,从而提升他们的心理健康水平。