农产品纵向一体化运作模式初探

通过对国内外农产品运作的简要了解与分析,并结合中国广大农村的劣势分析与农产品的特性及其物流的特点,以及对我国农产品现有的供应链思想做了简单的探讨与分析,认为“小而精”的思想不适合农产品运作,提出了农产品“产加销一体化”这样的纵向一体化运作模式可能更符合中国国情,从而为农产品的有效运作提供一种新的思路。     

大跨度钢箱梁顶推施工计算分析

本文以武汉市江汉六桥顶推施工为背景,利用有限元软件对大跨度钢箱梁桥顶推施工过程中主梁以及导梁的受力和变形进行了研究,并提出了相关建议,为同类钢箱梁桥梁顶推施工提供参考。     

互通立交跨线箱梁支架设计及验算

本文对高速公路互通立交跨线桥的现浇箱梁支架设计方案及验算进行了阐述,主要包括支架布置、支架计算、结果分析等。利用大型有限元分析软件Midas Civil建立模型,对支架的受力、变形及稳定性进行了分析验算,为施工提供了可行依据。     

大吨位宽幅转体现浇箱梁支架设计与施工

桥梁水平转体施工技术日趋成熟,大跨度、大吨位等技术指标不断突破,转体法施工优势得到充分发挥。本文根据桥梁分段现浇、一次整体转体到位的特点,结合转体法施工工况,论述了软弱地基条件下大吨位宽幅转体现浇梁支架设计与施工技术。     

The relationship between employee performance management and civil servants’ turnover intentions: a test of the mediating roles of system satisfaction and affective commitment

In search of maximizing efficiency, public organizations found solace in the adoption of employee performance management (EPM) systems. While research supports that managing employees’ performance has favourable outcomes, it is still unclear why and under which conditions. Moreover, EPM systems might even create additional pressures and therefore increase turnover intentions and undermine public organization’s quest to maximize efficiency. We argue that when EPM systems are carried out consistently (i.e. internal consistency) and when they link civil servants’ individual goals to the organization’s strategic goals (i.e. vertical alignment), civil servants will be less likely to leave the organization. Hierarchical linear regression analysis shows that internal consistency relates to increased satisfaction with the EPM system and affective commitment to the organization. Vertical alignment relates to lower levels of turnover intentions. This relationship was mediated by EPM system satisfaction and affective commitment. These findings that contribute to our understanding of EPM systems can lead to favourable outcomes.     

The High‐Rise Home: Verticality as Practice in London

This article investigates the relationship between verticality and home. It develops the idea of ‘verticality as practice'. This appreciates verticality not as something that takes place in three‐dimensional landscapes, but as the outcome of everyday practical activity. Examining a modernist high‐rise estate, the Aylesbury Estate in London, the article identifies and examines a range of vertical practices, illustrating how they are intertwined with home. Vertical practices, such as those associated with the view, help to make a unique and special home, becoming intensely meaningful to residents. However, they also unmake dimensions of home when they interact with the estate's marginality.     

Cooperation In R&D With Spillovers And Delegation Of Sales ∗

Cooperation in several phases of the innovation process is viewed by antitrust authorities with suspicion. They face the dilemma between providing the right incentives for the appro-priability of returns to R&D and the risks of diminishing product market competition. The current legislation in the European Union and the United States gives special treatment to cooperation in R&D and the joint exploitation of results (extended cooperation).

We study several collusive regimes for a class of examples in which vertical relations are explicitly introduced. Regarding antitrust policy implications we fmd that: a) there is an ana-lytical justification to a ‘rule of reason’ treatment for extended cooperation in research joint ventures and, b) individual exemptions, though restrictive of competition, might be welfare improving.     

Product innovation and firms’ ownership

This paper explores (i) the incentives for an incumbent firm to acquire an entrant willing to sell a product innovation rather than openly competing with this entrant, and (ii) in case of acquisition, the incentives to sell simultaneously both the existing products and the new one rather than specializing on a single variant. We prove that, in some circumstances, an incumbent firm can find it profitable to make an acquisition proposal to the entrant. Nevertheless, in this acquisition scenario, a product proliferation strategy is never observed at equilibrium. Furthermore, while being available for sale, sometimes the innovation simply remains unexploited.     

Cost structures of banks grouped by strategic conduct

The hypothesis that the banking system consists of firms that use the same production technology is tested and rejected in this study. Six groupings of the population of commercial banks are identified using cluster analysis. The banks are grouped to reflect similar production technologies within groups but different technologies across groups as defined by the strategic conduct (i.e., activities) of the banks. The results suggest that banks in different clusters employ production processes that feature different degrees of substitutability between factors of production, and that the estimates of input substitutability for those groups look quite different from those estimated based on the full population of commercial banks. The impact of the homogeneity production technology assumption on the measurement of cost efficiency is also assessed. The results show that partitioning the industry by strategic conduct reduces the average inefficiency in the industry. These results support those found by others who used similar partitioning criteria but a more narrowly defined sample of banks.     

“束发型”审计实践教学初探

审计作为经济管理的一种重要的工具,近年来其经济管理地位得到了大幅度地提升。社会也越来越强烈地需要具有实践能力的高校审计专业毕业生。因此加快审计实践教学改革具有重要意义。从目前审计实践教学存在的问题入手,提出了＂束发型＂审计实践教学模式,以提高审计实践教学质量,增强学生的实践能力。