经济高质量发展水平测度、区域差异及提升路径研究——以湖南省为例

建立全面科学的经济发展质量测度体系是我国经济实现高质量发展的基础和保障。本文结合新发展理念构建区域高质量发展测度体系,利用熵值法并借助空间分析工具多尺度地分析了湖南省经济高质量发展时空演变规律及其区域差异。研究表明：湖南省高质量发展水平整体上呈现出上升趋势,在空间上存在长株潭城市群、张家界“高地”与湘西部分地区“洼地”之间的显著对比;四大区域板块内经济高质量发展差距较大,呈现出长株潭地区经济高质量发展水平遥遥领先、湘南地区和洞庭湖地区稳步提升、大湘西地区发展质量最低但近年来小幅增长的态势,各区域板块发展优劣势并存。实现经济高质量发展和区域协同增长是新时代湖南经济发展面临的两大重要课题,各区域要在社会主义现代化建设中继续发挥比较优势,探索因地制宜的经济高质量发展路径,构建各具特色的区域经济高质量发展新格局。     

中国工业生产效率的区域差异及格局演化

基于2004—2017年省级面板数据,采用SE-SBM模型对中国工业生产效率进行测度,利用Dagum基尼系数对中国工业生产效率的地区差异进行研究,运用Kernel核密度估计和速度激励模型揭示中国工业生产效率的动态格局演化特征.研究发现:中国多数省市区工业生产效率呈上升之势,区域整体差异呈现出波动且下降的趋势,西部地区工...     

客源地居民对南京市重点旅游景区的感知差异研究——以苏、锡、常等七客源地为例

通过对苏锡常等7个客源地居民的抽样调查,获得丰富的基础数据,利用SPSS13．0软件统计分析,探讨了客源地居民对南京市重点旅游景区的知晓度、信息获取渠道、出游意愿以及出游偏好等方面的感知差异特征,并在此基础上提出一些相关营销建议。     

The Yin and Yang of entrepreneurship: Gender differences in the importance of communal and agentic characteristics for entrepreneurs' subjective well-being and performance

This research examines gender differences in the relationships of entrepreneurs' agentic and communal personality characteristics with measures of subjective well-being and new venture performance. Results from a stratified national (USA) random sample of founding CEOs (N = 303) demonstrate the advantages of an agentic characteristic (creativity) for women and a communal characteristic (teamwork) for men, with regard to the respective abilities of such persons to achieve high levels of subjective well-being and new venture performance. These relative advantages for women and men were mediated by perceptions of person-work fit.     

Regional Differences and Threshold Effects of Capital-Skill Complementarity in China

On the framework of Chris and Viera (2005), this article studies the capital-skill complementarity and its regional differences of China, firstly. It is shown that there exists evidence in favor of capital-skill complementarity on the full sample of China. When we test its regional differences, we find no evidence in favor of capital-skill complementarity in the central and western regions, but strong evidence in the eastern region. Further study finds that, the “capital-skill complementarity” exists in the threshold effect. Thus, we argue that the original differences of capital-skill complementarity are relative to the economic development. These results reveal that the low-income region (such as the central and western regions) tends to allocate their capital to complement their abundance of unskilled labor but not skilled labor, but the middle-income region (such as the eastern region) shows just the opposite trend. In short, this article provides some new evidences for the nonlinearity of capital-skill complementarity and supports the viewpoint on “transitory phenomenon” of capital-skill complementarity.     

Does the importance of value,brand and relationship equity for customer loyalty differ between Eastern and Western cultures?

The use of the customer equity framework as a focal marketing strategy to increase customer loyalty has emerged as an important topic. Despite a growing number of investigations, previous studies are limited by their strong U.S. and European orientations. Research into Western consumers cannot necessarily predict the behaviour of Eastern consumers though. Therefore, this study investigates whether the link between customer equity drivers (value equity, brand equity and relationship equity) and loyalty intentions is sensitive to the cultural environment. A sample of 1553 Chinese and 1085 Dutch consumers in the banking and supermarket industries reveals that all three customer equity drivers exert a greater impact in Western than in Eastern cultures. This study also shows that Eastern consumers in general have higher loyalty intentions than Western consumers.     

The ‘Black Metropolis' in the American Urban System of the Early Twentieth Century: Harlem,Bronzeville and Beyond

By defining and measuring a dimension of the Black Metropolis in terms of occupational representation, this study advances research on the urban black communities of the early twentieth‐century United States. Census data show that: (1) Bronzeville (Chicago) was the premier Black Metropolis overall and the black communities of urban‐industrial centers in the Midwest had locational advantages that rivaled those of Harlem (New York) with respect to the rise of the black professional and entrepreneurial classes; (2) The standing of Harlem as a preeminent Black Metropolis was due mainly to opportunities generated by unique features of New York that aided blacks' entry into an extensive array of artistic, entertainment and mass media occupations; (3) The black community of Washington, DC, was the only substantial Black Metropolis below the Mason‐Dixon Line because of advantages that derived from the city's location above areas of the lower South and from its status as the capital of the US federal government; (4) In general, the northern Black Metropolis was characterized more by opportunities for blacks to participate in politics and public life and to create vital cultural institutions than by opportunities for blacks to economically gain through professions or businesses.     

Does religion influence location choice in the hotel industry?

Relying on data from the Spanish hotel industry, this paper analyzes the role of informal institutional factors (IIF) in location choice. Earlier studies mostly use an aggregate level of cultural differences as informal institutional factors. We, however, go deeper into this concept and study the impact of two distinct but interrelated informal institutional factors, religion and language, on the location decisions of hotel chains. We resolve the overlapping problem between these two highly correlated IIF by means of a ‘layer’ measurement in Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Our results show that the higher the informal institutional differences (IID), the lower the presence of the hotels in the foreign country. While physical distance plays a key moderating role, formal institutional differences (FID) did not show any effect. We contribute by unravelling the role of language and religion in location choice in the internationalization process of service firms. Moreover, we test the moderating role of formal institutions in these decisions, thus combining the impact of formal and informal institutions on location choices in service firms.     

Culture and Technology:

The classic study of the relationship between technological innovation and culture has been that of the influence and changes wrought by a technological innovation upon a culture: The Culture Follows Technology school of thought. In this paper we examine the opposite flow: the influence of culuture upon the technological innovative capabilities of a society-Technology Follows Culture. We examine this flow and suggest propositions upon a society's innate ability to source or adopt technological innovations based upon the five Hofstede cultural dimensions.