我国城市基础设施建设投融资绩效评价——基于三阶段DEA模型的实证分析

自改革开放以来,我国城市化步伐明显加快,现已进入城市化高速发展的起步阶段。为了进一步推进城市化进程,更多的资金投入到城市基础设施建设中,这就涉及投融资管理与绩效评价问题。文章分别从资金来源结构和资金投向结构两个角度出发,运用三阶段DEA方法对我国2012年城市基础设施建设投融资绩效进行评价,同时对影响投融资效率的因素进行分析。研究结果表明:中西部地区城市基础设施投融资效率主要受规模效率制约,东部地区主要受纯技术效率制约;城市基础设施建设投融资效率受环境因素影响较大;人力资本、经济基础和科技发展水平较高的省份在城市基础设施建设投融资效率方面占有优势。     

新时期高职院校教师绩效考核研究

高职院校教师绩效考核要坚持全面、科学、公平和导向原则,构建科学、动态的考核体系,注重能力、过程和结果考核,以调动教师工作积极性,促进其职业发展。     

游客对歌舞旅游产品真实性评判研究--以西双版纳傣族歌舞为例

以西双版纳傣族歌舞为例，研究了游客对歌舞旅游产品真实性的心理认识，以及各要素对游客真实性体验的影响。研究结论表明：表演人员的妆扮、歌舞表演的主要内容、伴奏时所使用的乐器、表演的气氛、舞蹈的基本动作、表演人员的精神面貌，主持人的解说等对歌舞真实性影响最大；其次为表演人员所属的民族、年龄、表演场地、歌舞培养方式、音乐的节奏旋律是否经过改编、演唱时所使用的语言、演出服装采用日常生活服装；表演人员的性别、表演时间、节目表演的先后顺序对歌舞旅游产品真实性没有影响。     

制度变迁、管理层股权激励和公司投资——来自股权分置改革的经验证据

本文基于股权分置制度变迁的视角,通过考察管理层股权激励对公司投资决策的影响,检验管理层股权激励的有效性及内在机理。实证结果表明,股权分置改革显著改善了管理层股权激励的治理效应,降低了因管理层自利行为而导致的过度投资。此外,有微弱的证据表明,股改后国有公司管理层的股权激励缓解了公司投资不足。上述研究对解决由公司内部人控制而产生的投资过度及投资不足等代理问题具有重要的现实意义,也为从制度层面研究公司投资行为和治理机制提供了一个有益的视角。     

内部控制信息披露与公司绩效相关性研究——基于2009年河南省上市公司的数据分析

以河南省2009年沪市和深市上市公司为样本,就上市公司内部控制信息披露对公司绩效的影响进行实证分析.研究发现,内部控制信息披露与公司绩效之间存在显著正相关,内部控制信息披露程度越高,行为越主动,其财务绩效也就越好.引导上市公司内部控制信息披露有利于提升上市公司绩效.     

政府业绩计量和报告：一个受托责任观点

受托责任要求政府对公民负责，说明公共资金的筹集和使用。这要求政府对外披露业绩信息以评价其受托责任，对内提供业绩信息以改进决策。本文探讨了受托责任的内涵及其与业绩报告的关系，分析如何计量和报告业绩，并根据我国的实际情况提出了改进我国政府业绩计量和报告的建议。     

How efficient airways act as role models and in what dimensions? A superefficiency DEA model enhanced by social network analysis

In this empirical study, a five-stage methodology is used to examine the efficiency of 45 worldwide known airline companies from the financial, operation and marketing perspectives. Initially, the superefficient data envelopment model is run with inputs and outputs that are selected based on the literature review. However, because 21 out of 45 airline companies are found to be efficient based on this analysis, a stepwise regression-based mechanism is applied to four reduced models – one for each output variable – for better discrimination. The outputs are, namely, net profit margin (financial output), passengers carried, on-time departure performance (operational outputs), and customer satisfaction (marketing output). In this way, the significant input variables are found for each reduced model. In the third stage, in order to provide even more discrimination, social network-based eigenvector centrality values are used as the weights of the superefficiency scores, and the strengths and weaknesses of efficient airlines for each output are specified in terms of their related significant inputs. The results show that, when net profit margin is taken as an output, Vietnam Airlines has the top weighted superefficiency value and excels in terms of available seat kilometers and liquidity, but it should improve its debt level. Although Norwegian Airlines has the highest efficiency with respect to debt level, it is not the best role model because its eigenvector centrality value is relatively low. However, Norwegian airlines also has the highest weighted superefficiency and acts as a role model in terms of on-time departures with respect to this output. Its main strength is liquidity, and it has no significant weaknesses. On the other hand, in terms of overall satisfaction and passengers carried, Vietnam Airlines and Thai Airways are the leaders, respectively. Vietnam Airlines is the only superefficient company with respect to overall satisfaction, while the basic strengths of Thai Airways in terms of passengers carried are its employee and fleet, and it has no significant weakness. A final aggregation of the results is made by making pairwise comparisons of the relative importance of four outputs for 7 experts selected from different departments of airline companies. According to the results, Net Profit Margin has the highest priority, followed by On-time Departure and Overall Customer Satisfaction, while passengers carried has the lowest importance. Based on these relative priorities, it can be said that Vietnam Airlines can be accepted as the top performing airline company, followed by Norwegian Airlines.     

Assessing the role of network topology in transportation network resilience

The abstract representation of a transportation system as a network of nodes and interconnecting links, whether that system involves roadways, railways, sea links, airspace, or intermodal combinations, defines a network topology. Among the most common in the context of transportation systems are the grid, ring, hub-and-spoke, complete, scale-free and small-world networks. This paper investigates the role of network topology, and the topology’s characteristics, in a transportation system’s ability to cope with disaster. Specifically, the paper hypothesizes that the topological attributes of a transportation system significantly affect its resilience to disaster events. Resilience accounts for not only the innate ability of the system to absorb externally induced changes, but also cost-effective and efficient, adaptive actions that can be taken to preserve or restore performance post-event. Comprehensive and systematically designed numerical experiments were conducted on 17 network structures with some relation to transportation system layout. Resilience of these network structures in terms of throughput, connectivity or compactness was quantified. Resilience is considered with and without the benefits of preparedness and recovery actions. The impact of component-level damage on system resilience is also investigated. A comprehensive, systematic analysis of results from these experiments provides a basis for the characterization of highly resilient network topologies and conversely identification of network attributes that might lead to poorly performing systems.     

Reprint of “Quality management,environmental management maturity,green supply chain practices and green performance of Brazilian companies with ISO 14001 certification: Direct and indirect effects”

This study aims to test a new conceptual model based on the relationship between quality management (QM), environmental management maturity (EMM), adoption of external practices of green supply chain management (GSCM) (green purchasing and collaboration with customers) and green performance (GP) with data from 95 Brazilian firms with ISO 14001. To our knowledge, such links and relationships are not simultaneously identified and tested in the literature. The results indicate the validation of all of the research hypotheses. This paper highlights that an improvement in green performance will require attention to quality management, environmental management maturity, and green supply chain.     

The Social Psychological Underpinnings of Commons’s Institutional Economics: The Significance of Dewey’s Human Nature and Conduct

The institutional environment of science differs across countries. Its particularities have an impact on productivity of scientific enterprise in terms of both research and teaching. Reform of the system of higher education occupies an important place in programs of catch-up modernization. Attempts to replicate Western institutional arrangements and organizational designs in this area have been undertaken in Russia since the very beginning of economic and political reforms of the 1990s. This paper considers a particular transplant, the Higher School of Economics (HSE) established in 1992, and its subsequent evolution. A structural analysis shows its divergence from the organizational patterns that served as a model. The HSE case is compared with several "representative" Western universities as well as other Russian universities. When explaining divergent patterns between the HSE and the Western counterparts, special attention is paid to the issue of power relationships and their role in the functioning of the scientific organization. The paper aims to contribute to the discussion of "cultural entrepreneurs" and their motivation.