Corporatisation and Corporate Governance in China's Economic Transition

China has sought to improve enterprise performance not through privatisation as in other transition economies, but through corporatisation as means of improving corporate governance. Actual governance practices of corporatised Chinese firms are however seriously defective, characterized by excessive power of CEOs, insider control and collusion, lack of safeguards for minority shareholders and weak transparency. These shortcomings are attributable to factors such as cultural and political traditions, uncompetitiveness of markets, poor legal enforcement, weak debt and equity markets, but above all to continued state dominance in ownership and control of the corporate sector and listed companies. Corporatisation, nevertheless, has created a regime conducive to implementing measures for improving corporate governance.     

政府公共投资的经济效应分析

关于政府公共投资的经济效应,学术界有颇多争论,虽然一系列研究成果发现公共资本与经济增长正相关,但也有一些学者通过研究得出了截然相反的结论。文章运用经济增长理论分析政府公共投资的经济效应,并以中国相关数据为样本进行实证检验,实证检验得出结果:公共投资与产出正相关。在此基础上,文章根据我国目前所处的经济发展阶段,运用计量经济模型,估计出我国当前政府公共投资的最优规模,即公共投资占GDP的合理比重为4.5%,公共投资占财政总支出的合理比重为22%左右。     

浙江农村安全饮用水供给体制和运行机制创新——基于市场化供给的视角

保障农村安全饮用水是新时期我国政府全面建设小康社会、构建社会主义和谐社会的重要举措,浙江省自2003年实施“千万农民饮用水工程”以来,建设成效显著,但也暴露出诸多问题,急需对此进行总结和完善。本文从制度、体制和机制层面剖析了浙江省农村安全水供给存在的问题,并在此基础上寻求诸如如何建立农村安全饮用水多元化供给体系,如何健全管理体制以推动饮用水工程良性运行,如何完善监测体系以保证农村饮用水安全等完善举措。     

Moral Discourse and Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting

This paper examines voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting as a form of moral discourse. It explores how alternative stakeholder perspectives lead to differing perceptions of the process and content of responsible reporting. We contrast traditional stakeholder theory, which views stakeholders as external parties having a social contract with corporations, with an emerging perspective, which views interaction among corporations and constituents as relational in nature. This moves the stakeholder from an external entity to one that is integral to corporate activity. We explore how these alternative stakeholder perspectives give rise to different normative demands for stakeholder engagement, managerial processes, and communication. We discuss models of CSR reporting and accountability: EMAS, the ISO 14000 series, SA8000, AA1000, the Global Reporting Initiative, and the Copenhagen Charter. We explore how these models relate to the stakeholder philosophies and find that they are largely consistent with the traditional atomistic view but fall far short of the demands for moral engagement prescribed by a relational stakeholder perspective. Adopting a relational view requires stakeholder engagement not only in prescribing reporting requirements, but also in discourse relating to core aspects of the corporation such as mission, values, and management systems. Habermas’ theory of communicative action provides guidelines for engaging stakeholders in this moral discourse. MaryAnn Reynolds is an Associate Professor of Accounting in the College of Business and Economics at Western Washington University. Dr. Reynolds teaches intermediate financial accounting and is published in the areas of corporate social, environmental and ethical reporting. Kristi Yuthas is the Swigert Endowed Information Systems Professor in the School of Business Administration at Portland State University. Dr. Yuthas teaches accounting and information systems and is published in the areas of social and ethical impacts of management information systems.     

企业社会责任履行、R&D投入与财务绩效——基于我国主板上市公司的经验证据

在当前市场竞争环境中,社会责任履行情况已成为企业竞争的重要因素之一,而企业选择主动承担社会责任是否能够有效促进财务绩效的提高和企业价值的实现?基于我国A股上市公司2010-2015年六年数据共3181个研究样本,研究不同作用机制下企业社会责任履行情况、R&D投入与财务绩效的三者的复杂关系。实证结果表明：（1）企业履行社会责任与财务绩效呈正相关关系;（2）不同的作用机制不会改变企业社会责任履行与财务绩效的正相关关系;（3）技术创新投入增强了企业社会责任对企业财务绩效的积极影响,但是这一结果主要是基于研发投入与战略性社会责任的履行保持一致对企业绩效产生正向的刺激效果,而研发投入对利他性社会责任与财务绩效的调节作用表现并不显著。     

用制度创新破解中小企业融资困境

中小企业融资难是中小企业发展面临的主要制约要素,[1]发达国家政府通过采取各项措施,成功地解决了制约本国中小企业发展的融资难题。随着中小企业在我国国民经济中扮演着越来越重要的角色,我们有必要借鉴国际成功经验,提高企业自身素质,打破银行传统歧视观念,创造有利于中小企业融资的外部环境,来解决中小企业的融资难问题。     

婚姻市场的教育分层与女性人力资本投资

在经济转轨时期,中国女性的劳动力供给表现出\"非理性\"现象:在劳动力市场的性别歧视越来越严重的情况下,女性人力资本投资却不降反升.婚姻市场的教育匹配和分层趋势,说明女性人力资本投资不但在劳动力市场上有收益,在婚姻市场上也有收益.劳动力市场上的性别歧视导致女性人力资本投资在劳动力市场的收益率下降,但只要这一投资行为在婚姻市场的收益率上升足以弥补这种损失,女性增加其人力资本投资就是一种理性的选择.     

山西省装备制造业集群企业合作与创新之间关系的经验分析

利用山西省装备制造业集群企业的数据,实证分析了集群企业的纵向合作和横向合作对综合创新、产品创新和流程创新的作用。结果表明:纵向合作是影响山西省装备制造业集群创新的重要因素,横向合作对产品创新的影响较为显著。     

A Classification of Dutch Manufacturing based on a Model of Innovation

Summary The paper studies the degree of homogeneity of innovative behavior in order to determine empirically an industry classification of Dutch manufacturing that can be used for policy purposes. Defining homogeneity in terms of an economic model distinguishes our classification from existing taxonomies such as those of the OECD, Pavitt and the various classifications based on a principal components analysis. We use a two-limit tobit model with sample selection, which explains the decisions by business enterprises to innovate and the impact these decisions have on the share of innovative sales. The model is estimated for eleven industries based on the Dutch Standard Industrial Classification (SBI 1993). A likelihood ratio (LR) test is then performed to test for equality of the parameters across industries. We find that Dutch manufacturing consists of three groups of industries in terms of innovative behavior, a high-tech group, a low-tech group and the industry of wood. The same pattern shows up in the three Dutch Community Innovation Surveys. The empirical part of this study has been carried out at the Centre for Research of Economic Microdata at Statistics Netherlands. The authors wish to thank Statistics Netherlands, and in particular Bert Diederen, for helping us in accessing and using the Micronoom data set. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the authors. The authors also wish to thank Fran?ois Laisney, Patrick Waelbroek and participants at presentations in Maastricht, Strasbourg, Leuven and Lille for their helpful comments. The first author acknowledges financial support from METEOR.