计量管理对于企业发展的作用研究

计量管理作为企业全面管理的重要内容,也是企业实现质量管理的关键,对于保证企业产品质量,提高企业的经济效益具有非常重要的作用。文章概述了企业计量管理工作的特点,提出了企业计量管理对于企业发展的作用,并分析现阶段我国企业计量管理工作存在的问题,最后阐述了完善我国企业计量管理工作的有力措施,可以为相关计量工作人员开展计量管理工作提供参考。     

基于和谐管理理论的专业特色形成研究

专业特色建设是实施高等教育质量工程的一项重要内容,对改变我国高校专业"千校一面"的现实、提高各校专业的竞争力具有重要的意义。针对我国专业建设往往重视经验个案的介绍而缺乏一般意义理论的概括的研究现状,以和谐管理理论为基础,遵循其三阶段的分析框架提出了专业特色化建设模型,以某校工程管理专业特色化建设为例,探讨了其基于特色化建设模型专业特色的路径。     

Combining work and informal care: the importance of caring organisations

Population ageing and rising costs of long‐term care mean that organisations will be confronted in the future with a growing number of employees who combine paid work with providing informal care to a relative or non‐kin. Combining work and informal care successfully partly depends on job and care‐related features, but more information is needed on the importance of organisational aspects in this regard. The impact of organisational support on work outcomes (work–care balance and perceived need for job adaptations) was studied among 1,991 employed informal caregivers in 50 different organisations. Multilevel logistic regression analyses revealed that a heavy care burden decreased the odds of combining work and care successfully. Caregivers who felt supported by colleagues and supervisors, and who worked in supportive organisations had higher odds of good work outcomes. The findings imply that organisations should be explicit about their concern for informal caregivers and be particularly aware of colleagues with heavy care responsibilities.     

U.S.-Based Fast-Food Restaurants: Factors Influencing the International Expansion of Franchise Systems

Studies of international franchising are scant but increasing and can be divided into two streams of research: those focusing on environmental predictors of internationalization and those focusing on strategic, firm-level characteristics. Examining the latter category, this study empirically explores a set of firm-level attributes as predictors of decision making on whether firms seek international expansion. Using longitudinal data from Bond's Franchise Guide 2001–2008, we draw on a sample of U.S.-based fast-food franchise systems to test our hypotheses. Specifically, our database is composed of 1,058 observations of 158 chains, and we estimate a semi-parametric logistic model for international franchising. The model contributes to the literature by being the first to examine the nonlinearity of international franchising determinants using agency theory. The results show that (a) bonding, (b) the percentage of franchised units, (c) the number of states within which the system operates, and (d) the provision of area development agreements and sub-franchising significantly contribute to the international expansion of U.S.-based fast-food franchisors.     

探讨200kV电力系统高压线路继电保护

文章简要介绍了继电保护系统的工作特性,并分析了200 kV高压线路继电保护配置方案,以保护电力系统运行稳定。     

Relationship between customer complaint behavior and demographic characteristics: A study of hotel restaurants' patrons

This study documented customer complaint behavior in hotel restaurants in Deadwood, USA, and examined the relationship between complaint behavior and demographic characteristics. The sample consisted of 250 hotel restaurant customers. It was found that the hotel restaurant customers tended to complain privately rather than taking public actions. Older, well-educated, customers with higher incomes tended to take private action to complain about their dissatisfaction more than younger, less educated customers with lower incomes. Based on results of the study, implications were suggested for industry practitioners to diminish the negative impact of complaint on hotel restaurants.     

Multi‐state Stochastic Processes: A Statistical Flowgraph Perspective

Two‐state models (working/failed or alive/dead) are widely used in reliability and survival analysis. In contrast, multi‐state stochastic processes provide a richer framework for modeling and analyzing the progression of a process from an initial to a terminal state, allowing incorporation of more details of the process mechanism. We review multi‐state models, focusing on time‐homogeneous semi‐Markov processes (SMPs), and then describe the statistical flowgraph framework, which comprises analysis methods and algorithms for computing quantities of interest such as the distribution of first passage times to a terminal state. These algorithms algebraically combine integral transforms of the waiting time distributions in each state and invert them to get the required results. The estimated transforms may be based on parametric distributions or on empirical distributions of sample transition data, which may be censored. The methods are illustrated with several applications.     

民办本科院校办学特色研究综述

文中根据对民办本科院校办学特色国内研究状况的分析,其研究规模逐年扩大。对于办学特色内涵的定义已经有较为稳定的结论。办学特色同时受到民办院校发展的内因与外因影响,在这些影响因素的作用下,民办本科院校同时存在着许多问题。随着问题的不同,给出的解决方案也不尽相同。     

我国货币政策中介目标研究——一个基于实证研究方法视角的综述

货币政策中介目标的选择是货币理论研究中的一个热点。近年来理论文献更多地围绕着中介目标的选择标准——相关性、可测性与可控性,应用实证方法开展研究。实证研究方法多种多样,不同方法对研究结论具有重要影响。从实证研究方法分类的角度梳理了近年来国内外研究货币政策中介目标的一些文献,为进一步的研究提供参考。     

Strategic interaction and aggregate incentives

We consider a model of interdependent efforts, with linear interaction and lower bound on effort. Our setting encompasses asymmetric interaction and heterogeneous agents’ characteristics. We examine the impact of a rise of cross-effects on aggregate efforts. We show that the sign of the comparative static effects is related to a condition of balancedness of the interaction. Moreover, we point out that asymmetry and heterogeneous characteristics are sources of non-monotonic variation of aggregate efforts.