Changing the marketplace one behavior at a time: Perceived marketplace influence and sustainable consumption

This study introduces the construct of Perceived Marketplace Influence (PMI) and investigates its role in mediating the relationship between environmental concern and sustainable consumption behavior. A nationwide survey shows that Perceived Marketplace Influence plays an important role in mediating the relationship between concern and behavior, providing an explanation for prior inconsistencies in this relationship. Accordingly, Perceived Marketplace Influence plays a purposeful role in transforming environmental concern into behavior. This project extends previous research on the relationship between values, beliefs, and behavior by showing that one's perception of influence on the marketplace behavior of others significantly influences one's own marketplace behavior. Improved understanding of this relationship provides updated guidance to firms and policymakers for projecting and encouraging sustainable consumption behavior.     

顾客参与创新过程中授权对消费者创造力的影响研究

文章从顾客层面出发,探讨了顾客授权对消费者创造力的影响,同时加深了对顾客参与构念的理解。通过两个实验,利用不同情景和处理方法,对文中所提假设进行了验证。认为顾客参与创新过程中,相对高的顾客授权会提升产品新奇性,削弱产品功能性。同时,内在快乐和经济奖励会调节以上作用。     

Can Female Directors Enhance the Value of Private Firms? Evidence from China’s Listed Companies

Female directors have become common in private companies. Using data from private listed companies in China’s A-share stock market from 2000 to 2009, this paper analyzes whether the existence of female directors can enhance firm value. Results show that female directors have a significantly positive impact on firm value. Moreover, female directors promote enterprise value less significantly in regions with better institutional environment, which implies that there is a substitution relationship between female directors and institutional environment. Furthermore, we use 2SLS (two-stage least squares) and LEVOP (lag the explanatory variables one period) to control endogeneity, and the research conclusion remains robust. Our study provides additional empirical evidence for economic consequence of female directors, and expands research on the relationship between board structure and firm value.     

EXPLORING THE IMPORTANCE OF EXCESS FEMALE MORTALITY AND DISCRIMINATION IN “NATALITY” IN EXPLAINING THE “LOWNESS” OF THE SEX RATIO IN INDIA

The beginning of the present century has been marked by a shift in attention from “excess” female mortality to discrimination in natality in explaining the “lowness” of the sex ratio or proportion of women in India's population. Such a shift in focus seemingly suggests that discrimination in intra‐family allocation of resources has reduced substantially in India. In this context, an attempt has been made to decompose the observed lowness of the sex ratio in India vis‐à‐vis that of the stable population into that attributable to: (1) age structure difference, (2) excess female mortality, and (3) abnormalities in sex ratios at birth in India. Estimated contributions by each factor suggest that, as late as 2001, excess female mortality or the lowness of the relative survival advantage of women is the single most important determinant of “missing” women in India. The results also point to the importance of age structure difference, which accounts for a little more than 17% of the lowness of the sex ratio in India in 2001.     

Has Abe's Womanomics Worked?

The present paper estimates the effect of the Abe Cabinet's Womanomics policies that aimed to increase female labor supply and keep women on a career path. The policies are surveyed, and the effects are estimated using microdata from the Labor Force Survey combined with data at the prefectural level on day care provision. A difference‐in‐difference (DD) method is applied to uncover the impacts of the Abe Cabinet's policies. The rapid increase in the provision of infant care, especially in the urban area, has contributed to a strong increase in the labor participation of mothers with young children. In addition, DD method estimates show a strong increase in mothers with infants staying in permanent‐contract regular employment. A significant shortening of work hours of workers, especially of parents with infants, is observed, which enabled working mothers to maintain their employment status. A change in the gender wage gap in the Japanese labor market is observed, but much progress is still required to close the large wage gap.     

试论饭店员工心理授权的有效实施

随着知识经济的来临,面对激烈的市场竞争和要求越来越高的顾客,传统的命令控制式组织已不适应快速变化的环境,新的环境对企业的经营管理提出了新的要求。饭店管理者需要转变角色,充分发挥员工的技能,提高员工的积极性和自主性,才能为顾客提供个性化服务,进而提高饭店的绩效水平。     

女性高管特征对企业绩效的影响研究

随着女性高管的规模逐渐扩大,女性高管特征对企业绩效的影响也引起了很多学者的关注.以2015—2019年沪深A股民营企业制造业作为研究对象,论文研究女性高管特征对企业绩效的影响,主要是从女性高管平均薪酬以及女性高管海外经历两方面出发.研究发现,女性高管平均薪酬以及海外经历对企业绩效都有显著的正向影响,本文从委托代理理论的...     

Fostering community empowerment and capacity building through tourism: perspectives from Dullstroom,South Africa

This study observed tourism development in the popular South African destination of Dullstroom, Mpumalanga, and sought to identify the significant social benefits that have been fostered as a result. Dullstroom is synonymous with fly-fishing and is well-known throughout the country for its unique natural environment that is host to diverse flora and fauna. In the South African context, the impacts generated by tourism development on local communities have remained preoccupied with the economic benefits they deliver and rarely the important social gains that may also be developed. Between October 2012 and March 2013, a qualitative research methodology was developed to capture the views and experiences of 46 local employees (predominantly Non-white, South African females) and 16 owners or managers of local tourism-focused businesses. The findings reveal that tourism development has provided a number of positive impacts and that local community members encountered a number of benefits that ventured beyond economic factors. These benefits included empowerment through capacity building and the acquisition of positions that involved a high degree of responsibility, many of which would have been otherwise unobtainable but for the support of local tourism businesses. Others were afforded opportunities to pursue formal qualifications that enabled them to pursue dreams of senior positions or even new career paths beyond Dullstroom. The platforms that enabled these outcomes are discussed from the perspectives of both employers and employees in the local tourism economy.     

女子举重运动员膝关节损伤的主要原因及伤后训练应注意的问题

本文从女子膝关节的构造特点、心理特点、生理特点及训练有关方面,分析女子举重运动员膝关节损伤的主要原因和伤后训练应注意的问题.     

研发人员心理授权与创新绩效：内在工作动机与控制点的作用研究

文章采用某大型外资研发机构的209位研发人员与主管的配对数据,对研发人员心理授权与创新绩效的关系及控制点的调节作用和内在工作动机的中介作用进行研究。结果发现：心理授权对研发人员创新绩效具有显著的正向影响;对于内控型员工来说,心理授权对创新绩效的影响比外控型员工更为显著;同时,心理授权对创新绩效的影响以内在工作动机为部分中介。文章最后讨论了本研究的理论价值和实践启示。