Sticky cost behaviour: evidence from small and medium sized companies

This paper investigates whether cost stickiness occurs in small and medium sized companies using a sample of Italian nonlisted and listed firms during the period 1999–2008. Our findings show that cost stickiness emerges only for the total cost of labour and not for selling, general and administrative (SG&A) costs, cost of goods sold and operating costs. Stickiness of operating costs is only detected in a sample of listed companies. We further contribute to the literature on sticky cost behaviour by discussing critical issues associated with the extant approach of empirical analysis and interpretation of sticky cost behaviour.     

浅析中小企业供应链融资的产品选择和风险管理

作为解决中小企业融资难问题的一个途径,供应链融资产品通过利用产业本身的资金流和产品流,较好地实现了对核心企业供应链上的中小企业金融支持。本文通过对中小企业供应链融资产品的剖析和解读,有针对性的对产品风险控制手段进行分析,探索供应链融资产品在中小企业这一融资主体的差异性和适用性。     

中小企业应收账款质押融资模式中的道德风险研究

应收账款质押融资作为供应链金融较常见的融资模式,是解决中小企业融资难的有效途径。该模式的风险因素包括信用风险、道德风险、法律风险和行业风险。其中道德风险主要由银企之间信息不对称引起。博弈论分析表明,道德风险受核心企业的监督意愿、银行和核心企业的监督成本以及对违约企业的惩罚力度的影响。     

Best practice interventions: Short-term impact and long-term outcomes

This paper uses empirical field research to examine whether short-term best practice interventions (BPIs) can lead to improvements that are sustained in the long term. In addition, this research investigates the implied conflict between striving for short-term results and achieving long-term development of capabilities. It also examines the tension between the lack of resources of the typical small and medium sized enterprise (SME) users of BPIs and the time required to develop a critical mass of capability. A longitudinal case-based study of eight SME contexts examined BPI outcomes and factors leading to short- and long-term success and sustaining best practices. The research identifies factors related to the intervention context, implementation and change-agent approach. The data indicate that in resource-limited SMEs BPIs are limited in their ability to develop adequate capability for long-term change.     

基于公司治理的中小企业会计信息质量改进研究

论文首先简单介绍了公司治理理论的内容,然后分析了公司治理与会计信息质量之间的显著相关性,讨论了我国现阶段中小企业公司治理存在的问题及对会计信息质量的影响,最后从内、外部治理机制两方面分别提出了提高中小企业会计信息质量的对策,认为企业内部需要建立有效履行各个职能的运行机制,同时还需要政府、银行、社会中介和媒体等对外部治理发挥作用。     

我国中小企业实施ERP的问题及解决方法

中国加入WTO之后，企业的竞争环境发生了根本的变化，全球化、信息化、过剩的经济时代的到来，要求企业必须建立高效、动态的快速反应系统，信息化是企业的必然选择，也是提升企业竞争力的利器和手段。近年来，ERP市场如火如茶，许多企业已购买并使用ERP产品，但企业实施ERP难点多、矛盾多、不可控因素多，实施ERP并获得成功的企业甚少。本文针对当前我国中小企业实施ERP中存在问题进行了深入分析，存在的问题主要有企业的高层对实施ERP的目标不明确；错误地把上马ERP当作万能工具；企业基础管理薄弱，普遍存在无法可依、有法不依的现象：缺乏相应的ERP实施人才。并针对这些问题提出了相应解决办法，实施企业必须明确ERP项目实施的目标并制定实施项目的总目标、分目标与分阶段目标；考察和选择ERP厂商；必须有一批精通ERP管理思想、掌握软件技术，同时又有在中国环境下组织实施ERP项目经验的实施顾问队伍：重视培训，并贯穿始终：ERP实施阶段需要领导强有力推进和各方协调。     

论中小企业的市场营销策略

随着国民经济的不断发展和综合国力的不断增强,我国的中小企业在市场营销的发展方面取得了长足的进步,但在市场营销方面还存在标准不统一,不规范,融资困难,管理混乱,缺少人才,现代企业制度难以建立等问题。要全面提升我国中小企业的营销能力,应通过政策性融资安排,促进商业性金融的开展,发挥中小型商业融资组织在其中的重要作用,企业要着重抓好成本管理、财务管理和质量管理,建立一个有效的吸引人才的机制,进行产权改革,使之适应经济发展。     

最大债权国困境与人民币国际化关系研究

对外汇储备额居世界首位的中国而言,除美国国债外,并无其它合适的投资形式可以满足中国外汇储备管理要求,中国成为美国国债的最大持有国是一种无奈的选择。中国因此陷入了最大债权国困境,增持、减持左右为难。解决最大债权国困境的金融策略在于人民币国际化,跨境贸易人民币结算走出了正确一步,但需解决境外人民币供给与需求意愿的现实障碍,加快人民币国际化进程。     

Small enterprises as complex adaptive systems: a methodological question?

Complexity science constitutes an emerging post-positivist interdisciplinary field of investigation of dynamical systems in the natural and physical worlds. The central concept of complexity is that interactions between parts of open systems create novel, unpredictable patterns, and that while the history of the system is relevant in understanding its dynamic, the isolation of individual parts of the system (analysis) does not reveal the casual mechanisms in the system. It is suggested that complexity science can inform our methodologies for investigating the social sciences. The paper explores whether complexity science offers ways of theory building that can take account of pluralistic or interdisciplinary research in enterprise dynamics. The authors offer a model of six theorized ontological layers, derived from the canon of research literature within a small enterprise domain, with boundaries at each end. It is suggested that dynamical concepts of agency (adaption, evolution, fitness, interdependence) coupled with the theory of evolutionary autopoietic structures generate a plausible field for the study of enterprise dynamics. A focus on ontological and experimental adequacy is necessary to develop theory within this framework. An appropriate methodology involves iterations between experimental forms of scientific analysis and the grounding of emergent or evolving theories.