The impact of trust and contract on innovation performance: The moderating role of environmental uncertainty

Research into two important control mechanisms for managing the supply chain relationship - contracts and trust - is on the rise. However, our understanding of how they influence innovation in a firm remains rather unclear. Thus, the primary objective of this study is to examine the individual and interactive effects of contracts and trust on firms' innovation performance and the contingent effects of environmental uncertainty on those relationships in China. The empirical results from a survey of Chinese manufacturing firms indicate that there is a positive relationship between trust and firms' innovation performance, an inverted U-shaped relationship between the use of contracts and firms' innovation performance, and that contracts and trust are substitutes. Moreover, we find that environmental uncertainty enhances the effects of trust, but does not influence the impact of contracts on innovation performance.     

Contractual arrangements between farmer cooperatives and buyers in China

The agrofood market in China is dominated by spot market exchanges of small farmers and various small traders, with only minor penetration of the modern supply chain at the farmgate. The emerging Farmer Professional Cooperatives (FPCs) are expected to facilitate vertical coordination. The overall goal of this study is to investigate the contractual arrangements between the FPCs and the buyers. Based on a national representative survey of 157 FPCs in China, this study shows that 32% of FPCs introduced written contracts in the primary marketing channel. Contracts are more likely to be adopted in the livestock sector and are positively related to the scale of production. While branding promotes contracts between FPCs and buyers, public certification of quality and food safety often substitutes for contracts. Furthermore, the membership heterogeneity of FPCs affects an FPC’s decision to use contractual arrangements with the buyer.     

西方国家对劳动派遣放松规制的背景及其启示——兼评《中华人民共和国劳动合同法（草案）》相关条款

自20世纪90年代以来，西方国家和国际劳工组织对劳动派遣的政策已呈现出放松规制的迹象。西方国家是在严格规制的原有基础上和劳动力供给不足的市场环境中，在劳动派遣作为典型雇佣关系补充形式且以雇佣型劳动派遣为主的情形下，在严格控制派遣机构资格并有社会合作伙伴广泛参与监管的同时，对劳动派遣放松规制，这也是强化与放松并存的结构性规制。我国劳动派遣业的发展具有不同于西方国家的背景，虽然也应当强化规制与放松规制并举，但现阶段应当侧重强化规制；并且，应当基于我国国情，就从严规制和从宽规制的事项作出选择。     

Encouraging extra-role behavior in a channel context: The role of economic-, social-, and justice-based sharedness mechanisms

In export businesses where overseas agents enjoy much better knowledge of customers, competitors and institutional environments, a major challenge facing export channel management is encouraging extra-role behavior in forms of agents' spontaneous, cooperative, and innovative actions when formulating and executing strategic decisions for export markets. This study addressed this major challenge by developing an integrated model of agents' extra-role behavior which proposed that the exercise of economic, social, and justice related sharedness mechanisms when making and executing strategic decisions of channel partnerships can be expected to have a positive effect on channel relationship performance. The model was tested by a sample of 353 exporting manufacturers. The empirical evidence showed that channel relationship performance was strongly and positively affected by exporters' perception over agents' extra-role behavior over strategy formulation and execution. Exporting firms are advised to enhance likelihood of agents' extra-role behavior over strategy formulation and execution by expanding inter-organizational sharedness mechanisms in the forms of agents' contract inclusiveness, agents' relationship trust, and agents' decision-making procedural justice.     

劳动契约视角下的经营者人力资本定价研究

经营者人力资本定价是目前理论研究的热点与难点问题。基于对经营者人力资本构成的多维性和调用的主动性两个关键特征的考察 ,从劳动契约的微观角度对经营者人力资本定价进行分析 ,并充分考虑劳资双方的特定状态 ,进一步探讨影响经营者人力资本价格的权变因素 ,认为经营者人力资本定价是一个复杂的系统过程 ,应该从可重新谈判的动态角度把握定价的精度     

公关人员应如何理解和实践公民道德规范

本从公关人员的角度，详细地阐述了公关人员遵守公民道德规范的重要性，并重点论述了公关人员具体应如何理解和实践20字规范，为公关人员开展工作、提高自身道德素质指出具体的方向。     

新《劳动合同法》对外资企业的影响及对策探讨

《中华人民共和国劳动合同法》保护了劳动者合法权益,要求企业制定规章制度更民主化,限制了劳动合同的短期化,试用期受到全方位的规定,为劳动者及时足额取得报酬保驾护航。该法律的实施对外资企业有积极、消极两方面的影响,外资企业应该对照该法,进一步清理、修改、完善规章制度,建立劳动关系时应签订劳动合同,解雇职工和签订无固定期限劳动合同需慎重,努力建设雇主品牌,积极进行产业升级,做好劳动者入职前的风险防范,以便企业能更好地生存和发展,达到双赢。     

《消法》修改视野下的格式条款浅析

随着社会主义市场经济的发展,格式条款在社会消费领域的使用愈发普遍,对社会经济生活产生了重大的影响。不公平、不合理的格式条款对广大消费者的权益造成了侵害。在消费者权益保护法修改过程中,应当从行政途径和司法途径两个方面加强对格式条款的规制,实现契约自由与契约正义的动态均衡,以更好地保障消费者权益,体现社会公平。     

公司性质的争议:从视角组合的角度分析

通过逻辑学中视角组合,可以发现公司法定论和公司契约论的明显差异。由此得出一个好的探讨公司性质的进路,不仅能够在对象概念所含要素这样一个表层上是以归属视角建立基础的,还能在此之上,继续用归属视角或效用视角在要素的现实层面扩展构建,即能够建立一个现实的语境内涵。     

国有产权转让中的机制设计--基于企业职工的合约选择

在国有产权转让过程中,关键是要克服国有产权本身所具有的不利于进行市场交易的特性,使其交易更符合市场原则。市场本身就是由一个个的合约所构成,是否选择签约及合约的方式是由每个参与者自己作出的。因此,国有产权转让的机制设计就是要尽量使相关的利益主体有权作出对自己有利的合约选择,并对自己的行为负责。