Improvising resilience: The unfolding of resilient leadership in COVID-19 times

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy has had disastrous effects on the national economy. The hospitality sector has experienced a significant impact from the crisis: starting from March 2020 it has literally collapsed. Experts believe it will take three years for the sector to recover. Confronted with a dramatic uncertainty, which imposed rapid action, hospitality leaders need to nurture resilience. To enrich current understanding of the way resilient leadership unfolds to respond to jolts, we draw on an exploratory qualitative research involving Italian hotel managers. Following in-depth interviews, we show that resilient leadership and improvisation are deeply interconnected. Their interdependence entails two practices, namely gardening and learning. This suggests a paradoxical tension: to exercise resilience, leaders need to be at the same time in the system, by actively learning from events, and outside the system, by zooming out as they focus on ongoing planning for the next move.     

基于“钻石模型”下的江苏省纺织服装产业竞争优劣势浅析

在WTO和配额取消的双重背景下,江苏省纺织服装产业发展态势将会发生怎样的变化,本文运用迈克尔.波特的“钻石理论”从五个方面详细分析了目前江苏省纺织服装产业竞争优劣势。研究结果表明：江苏省纺织服装产业具有一定的比较优势,但竞争优势有逐年下降的隐患。为了有效促进该产业健康、长远发展,必须克服劣势,增强优势,实现比较优势向竞争优势的转化。     

Strategic complementarities and search market equilibrium

In this paper, we apply supermodular game theory to the equilibrium search literature with sequential search. We identify necessary and sufficient conditions for the pricing game to exhibit strategic complementarities and prove existence of equilibrium. We then show that price dispersion is inherently incompatible with strategic complementarities in the sense that the Diamond Paradox obtains when firms are identical and is robust within the class of search cost densities that are small near zero and support strategic complementarities. We also show that a major criticism of the literature, that agents act as if they know the distribution of prices, can be justified in the sense of convergent best response dynamics.     

GENDER AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL CHOICE: THE ROLE OF SITUATED AGENCY

Amartya Sen defends a rich conception of social choice theory against tendencies to limit social choice theory to the formal investigation of rules of collective decision-making. His understanding of social choice theory makes the field a natural candidate for exploring gender issues in the evaluation of democratic policy. Not surprisingly, Sen has applied the insights he developed from his study of social choice to the evaluation of gender inequality, in particular to women's well-being in the context of the family. I focus on Sen's distinction between well-being and agency, and argue that from the perspective of women's movements and related social movements, the role of agency has so far been unduly neglected in social choice theory.     

基于转型视角的内蒙古奶业竞争力研究

本文以传统奶业向现代奶业转型为视角,以钻石模型为理论框架,对内蒙古奶业竞争力进行了研究。结果表明,内蒙古奶业具有明显的比较优势和竞争优势;丰富的生产要素、巨大的市场潜力、良好的政策环境和产业间的互联互通为内蒙古奶业发展提供了机遇;但奶源紧缺、养殖规模小及奶农组织化程度低成为制约转型期内蒙古奶业竞争力提升的主要因素。     

我国主要城市文化产业竞争力比较研究

在廓清文化产业竞争力概念基础上,构建了一个由3个模块、12个竞争面、14个竞争力评价点共同组成的文化产业竞争力综合指标评价体系。借助因子分析模型,比较了北京、上海、广州、深圳、厦门、长沙、武汉、苏州、天津等9个城市的文化产业竞争力现状。最后,文章根据波特的“钻石模型”,分析了提升文化产业竞争力的要点所在。     

基于波特钻石理论的秦皇岛市旅游业竞争优势分析

迈克尔.波特教授提出的"钻石理论"是竞争力分析的有力工具,根据"钻石理论",从生产要素、需求条件、相关支持产业和建筑企业的竞争状况等四方面深入分析了秦皇岛市旅游业的竞争优势,上述竞争优势将为做大做强秦皇岛市旅游业提供良好的平台。     

权力结构、强化市场型政府和中国市场化改革的异化

本文提出中国的市场化改革出现了异化,并对其给出了基于权力结构的解释。文章认为,强化市场型政府是一国市场走向健康和规范的源泉,它奠定了市场健康和规范发展的产权（权利）基础、规则型契约基础和公平竞争秩序基础。然而,只有在权力结构均衡时,一国政府才有可能变成强化市场型政府,在权力失衡下,政府更可能变成萃取型政府,以萃取（掠夺）为主要职能,这就回答了奥尔森所未能回答的问题。针对中国权力结构失衡状况,文章分析了为什么中国的市场化改革会因为权力结构失衡和权力嵌入市场而走向异化,并基于中国的现实,总结了中国市场化改革异化的八大表现,给出了基于事实的实证。     

基于钻石模型的皖北农业集群式发展研究

农业是皖北地区的支柱性产业,目前仍处于农业发展的初级阶段。皖北地区农业生产和管理分散,经济效益没有达到最大化。借鉴Porter的"钻石模型",对皖北农业集聚的生产要素条件,需求条件,相关及支持产业,企业的战略、结构及竞争对手,机会及政府行为等进行分析,皖北地区要形成具有特色的农业集聚区,应建设农业工业园区,高效利用生产要素;大力发展上下游企业,树立区域品牌;优化农业组织结构,培育龙头企业;加速城镇化发展,刺激国内外需求;完善政府支持体系,创造农业发展机遇。     

DOES ICT GENERATE ECONOMIC GROWTH? A META‐REGRESSION ANALYSIS

Despite phenomenal technological progress and exponential growth in computing power, economic growth remains comparative sluggish. In this paper, we investigate two core issues: (1) is there really no connection between ICT and national economic growth? and (2) what factors moderate the ICT–growth relationship? We apply meta‐regression analysis to 466 estimates drawn from 59 econometric studies that explore the Solow or Productivity Paradox that there is little impact of ICT on economic growth and productivity. We explore the differential impact of ICT on developed and developing countries and the differential impact of different types of ICT: landlines, cell phones, computer technology and Internet access. After accommodating potential econometric misspecification bias and publication selection bias, we detect evidence that ICT has indeed contributed positively to economic growth, at least on average. Both developed and developing countries benefit from landline and cell technologies, with cell technologies’ growth effect approximately twice as strong as landlines. However, developed countries gain significantly more from computing than do developing countries. In contrast, we find little evidence that the Internet has had a positive impact on growth.