Some Determinants of Core Competencies: Evidence from a Binary-Logit Analysis

Despite the increasing recognition of the salience of core competencies in the process of competition, the notion of core competencies has remained largely ambiguous in the literature. Neither is it clear what strategies, institutions, and resources are necessary for developing and sustaining core competencies. This paper uses the binary-logit model to explore the determinants of core competencies, and identifies investment in intangible assets, marketing/promotional activities and firm size as significant determinants of core competencies. An evaluation of the technology strategies of two competence-seeking firms also points to the increasing salience of intangible assets, decentralization/globalization of the R&D function, and the intensive search for knowledge and capabilities.     

企业级信息系统实施中的用户参与研究

随着企业利用企业级信息系统实现管理创新，信息系统实施成为重要的技术管理问题。用户参与一直被认为是影响信息系统成功的重要因素，但在企业级信息系统实施情境中，传统的用户参与研究存在理论缺口。本文基于ERP项目的案例研究来探讨新IT情境中的用户参与问题，发现企业级信息系统实施中的用户参与包括承担总体责任、用户-顾问协作关系、从事具体工作、用户跨部门沟通及推动组织变革五个维度，其发挥作用的中介机制是促进用户对系统的接受，提升关系质量及保证解决方案质量。     

百年老矿推行绩效管理方式的研究

结合开滦唐山矿业公司开采133年的实际,阐述了公司绩效管理概况以及改进的思路。文章重点论述绩效管理的意义,推行绩效管理的方法、运作方式,对老企业振兴,提高效益具有推广意义。     

色彩管理技术的研究与实践

随着数字印刷的发展,色彩管理变得越来越重要。在此研究了色彩管理的流程,探讨了色彩管理在实践中的具体应用,并阐述了色彩管理在印刷过程中的重要性。     

网页设计中的十大方面（英文）

随着互联网的飞速发展,网络上每时每刻都有大量的网页流量。因此,网页设计是否得体,是否迎合用户需求,逐渐成为了互联网的一个重要问题。本文中提到设计员在设计网页时需要注意的十个方面,以吸引更多的用户和保证更多的流量。这十个方面包括：搜索引擎,链接颜色,可浏览性,统一的设计结构和风格,弹出式窗口,网页灵活性,广告,更新,视频动画和联系信息。     

Embedding consumer culture in health and social care education – a university office's perspective

Health and social care services are changing – and this change is radical. Service user and carer involvement has been a key aspect of health and social care policy for a number of years. In terms of the National Health Service (NHS), this has been significantly strengthened by the report ‘High Quality Care for All’. The NHS will no longer be a monolith dictating what services it offers. It is beginning to take seriously the views of its consumers: the patients, service users and carers. The NHS is starting to put the patient experience at the centre of everything it does, and its regulators are asking for evidence of public and patient involvement. This process may yet prove to be one of the NHS' greatest challenges as it transforms to prioritize the consumer viewpoint. Social care, though further down the line in relation to involvement, is now responding to the relatively new personalization agenda. This paper will consider what the university sector can do to embed the consumer and service culture within the education of health and social care professionals. It looks at the challenges of involvement and required culture change, highlighting the key points to address in the early and middle stages of involvement from a university office's perspective. It includes examples of consumer involvement in teaching, assessment and the selection of students and how their input is starting to make a difference. Finally, the paper outlines what is needed in a development office to establish and support effective service user and carer involvement on health and social care courses in higher education. The article concludes by acknowledging that there is much more work that needs to be done in this field to embed the work of a development office, but that early steps have been promising.     

社交网络与企业人才选拔

企业如果通过社交网络这个关系平台选拔招聘人才,不但能迅速招聘到合适的人才,还能够为企业尽可能多的节约选拔人才的成本,从而提高企业的经济效益。了解社交网络的发展现状、发展趋势、对于企业人才的选拔有着十分重要的意义。     

Consumer self‐construal and trust as determinants of the reactance to a recommender advice

Commercial recommendation agents (RAs) represent an important type of the decision support systems (DSSs) that are widely used by online retailers and firms. To date, little is known about the factors that shape the user's decision making and reactance toward the recommendations of these agents. Building on theories from psychology and information systems domains, this research proposes that a user's self‐construal and trust are two relevant factors that interact to shape the behavior toward the RA advice. Two studies, the first conducted using potential online customers and the second conducted at a behavioral laboratory, provided support to this proposition. The first study considered RA trust and showed that activating the interdependent self leads users with low (high) trust to exhibit high reactance behavior toward the RA advice. The second study variated trust using trust cues and corroborated the latter finding, while showing no important impact for the psychological reactance trait. As expected, in both studies the reactance behavior of independent users was not affected by trust. These results contribute by underscoring that social interdependence extends to RAs because the role of trust becomes salient when the interdependent self is activated for a user.     

A comparative study of human resource management practices in international joint ventures: the impact of national origin

This paper presents a comparative study of the effects of national origin, a company's strategic orientation and its investment profile on preference for the application of human resource management (HRM) practices as conducted in international joint ventures (IJVs). The approach extends understanding by offering a broader exploration of how national differences generate additional barriers that impact on specific HRM practices. The evidence from the study presented suggests that there is little support for national origin being a major independent influence. National distinctiveness does define the types of integration between parent companies and IJVs, but these collaborations do not necessarily reflect any specific national institutional bias. Examination of eighty-seven IJVs suggests that IJV management has a high degree of organizational autonomy in the implementation of a company's task-related inputs regardless of the national background of the foreign partner. The presence of a company's task-related effects on HRM practices plays a significant contextual role where the major attributes are the technology, management development and the compatible use of an IJV's resources. The results confirm that there is little evidence to suggest that partner-related influences derived from the partners' complementary resources and competences in the field of HRM development that are national origin specific have had significant influence over HRM development in the IJVs studied.     

Attitudes toward the use of designated versus non‐designated urban recreation space

Interviews were conducted in Kitchener‐Waterloo, Ontario, at eight different recreation areas. These were classified as either designated or nondesignated recreation areas. The interview was designed to obtain information regarding demographic characteristics of the user, attitudes toward the use of urban recreation areas (both playgrounds and areas that are not designated as recreational in character), reasons for choosing a particular recreation site and what users considered to be part of an ideal recreation area. Information gathered by the interview method was supplemented by a series of observations. Results indicated a significant difference between age and reasons for nonattendance at designated play areas. Differences in use by sex were, however, not significant.