低碳经济背景下的中国绿色营销

低碳经济背景下,企业的外部环境变得更有利于绿色营销的实施。绿色营销管理中引入低碳指标,既可以让绿色营销在企业更具可操作性,也使得理论界对绿色营销理论研究中的某些分歧进一步缩小,从而有助于绿色营销理论的进一步发展和完善。     

经济转型期广西跨越式发展的困境与出路

2012年广西GDP超万亿元,广西进入后3000美元时代。GDP超万亿元后广西将处在加快发展和经济转型的重叠时期,这一时期广西实现跨越式发展将面临瓶颈制约、结构束缚、体制障碍三个重大难题,而调结构、转方式是广西直面发展困境、破解发展难题的最佳选择。     

关注和改善民生:党的执政理念的新发展

改革开放以来,我们党在带领人民大力发展生产力的同时,越来越注重民生问题的解决,把它作为提高党的执政能力和永葆先进性的关键,并在执政实践中一以贯之,关注和改善民生,是中国特色社会主义的本质要求,是深入贯彻落实科学发展观的核心,是党的执政理念的新发展。     

政府转型模式与转型绩效：中国经验

改革开放以来,中国政府转型采取了一种滞后于经济转型的渐进转型模式,取得了巨大的成功。通过分析转型经济政府的角色与作用,解释中国政府滞后于经济转型的渐进转型模式,有效减少地方政府“被俘获”和“竞租”风险、联结不完全计划和不完全市场、推进制度创新,从而提升转型绩效。中国经验对转型经济具有借鉴意义。     

邻近性与创新合作：最新研究进展

自邻近性理论提出以来,邻近性在创新合作网络及其演化中的作用得到了很多学者的关注,相关研究丰富而庞杂。从邻近性因素对创新合作的影响、邻近性因素在创新合作中的相互作用以及创新合作对邻近性因素的影响等方面梳理了当前的研究进展,力图在邻近性因素与创新合作构成的复杂系统中厘清相互关系与动态作用机制。在此基础上,针对当前研究中尚未明晰和解决的问题,进一步提出了未来研究中有待持续深入的议题。     

The China model view is factually false

ABSTRACT

Using a cross-regional analysis of China, this article shows that the China model view is factually false and the universal model view is factually true. It is the marketization and development of non-state sectors, rather than the strong power of government and the state sector, that have driven the Chinese economy to grow fast and to be increasingly innovative. If China wants to sustain its economic performance, it must stay on the way to continuing marketization. Otherwise, China will fall into stagnation.     

The securitization of gold and its potential impact on gold stocks

We study the market impact of a very successful financial innovation – the SPDR Gold Trust exchange-traded fund (GLD). GLD holds physical gold, and provides traders with a convenient and cost-effective way to gain exposure to gold. We find that after the introduction of GLD, the liquidity of gold company stocks declined, and their adverse-selection risk increased. Over the two-month period after GLD’s introduction, the stocks’ relative effective bid-ask spreads increased by over 15%, while their adverse-selection cost, as measured by the price impact of trades, went up by more than 30%. Gold stocks also experienced significant negative abnormal returns (−12% on average) in the month after GLD started trading. Our findings suggest that GLD attracted traders, especially uninformed traders, away from gold company stocks, and that the resulting negative demand shocks and decrease in the stocks’ liquidity caused their prices to decline. Our results show that existing securities can be seriously adversely affected when a new security enters the market.     

Services as drivers of economic growth. Is there an opportunity for Latin America countries?

ABSTRACT

Considering the recent improvements in services innovation and productivity performance, the aim of the article is to analyze if they can act as a new growth driver for Latin American countries. For that, we review the literature on services and structural change in two stages. First, we apply a bibliometric methodology to identify the main trends in literature. Second, we analyze in-depth a smaller set of papers in order to extract the main lessons regarding three aspects of our question: (i) services and productivity growth, (ii) new opportunities for innovation in services and (iii) relation between services and manufacturing through servitization process. The results show that productivity and innovation growth in services are concentrated in only a few branches. Besides this, services performance depends on their links with manufacturing activities. We conclude that the current Latin American servitization process clausure opportunities for developing instead of opening them.     

Taking superintelligence seriously: Superintelligence: Paths,dangers, strategies by Nick Bostrom (Oxford University Press, 2014)

A new book by Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, is reviewed. Superintelligence explores the future of artificial intelligence and related technologies and the risks they may pose to human civilization. The book ably demonstrates the potential for serious thinking aimed at the long-term future. Bostrom succeeds in arguing that the development of superintelligent machines will, if not properly managed, create catastrophic risks to humanity. The book falls short in some respects, and some sections are more compelling and novel than others. Overall, however, Bostrom’s book succeeds in demolishing the “null hypothesis” according to which the possibility and risks of superintelligence can continue to be ignored, and is a must-read for those interested in the long-term future of humanity.     

Deconstructing the future of management: Pharmakon,Gary Hamel and the impossibility of invention

There has been a growing tendency to argue that the practice of management must be reinvented in the future in order to energize the creative potential of employees. However, the discourse on ‘management innovation’ attributes a curious dual function to the concept of management. On the one hand, management is portrayed as the ‘toxin’ that can impede innovation. But on the other hand, management is portrayed the ‘cure’ that will heal the defects that prevents innovation. Informed by Derrida's reflection upon the dual meaning of pharmakon, a word that means both ‘remedy’ and ‘poison’, the paper engages with Hamel's popular management handbook The Future of Management. Although Hamel attempts to establish a clear-cut distinction between those principles of management that obstruct and those that facilitate innovation, one is ultimately left uncertain whether management is a cure or a poison for innovation. This ambivalence points to an underlying paradox of contemporary post-managerial thinking that is characterized by incorporating transgression into its productive logic.