城乡一体化进程中城市二代移民的社会诉求与应对

城乡一体化发展进程中城市二代移民是一个庞大的社会群体。了解他们的诉求,从政策与实践上作出应对,切实维护他们的合法权利,是统筹城乡发展的根本要求,也是贯彻落实科学发展观的根本体现。通过对城市二代移民的生存境遇的阐述,以解读其社会诉求,并提出了相关对策建议。     

移动图书馆——泛在知识环境下的图书馆信息服务新途径

泛在知识环境下的移动图书馆为图书馆信息服务提供了新途径,是图书馆向数字化、信息化发展的新方向。本文简单介绍了移动图书馆的相关概念、特征和服务类型,分析了发展移动图书馆的障碍并提出了应对策略。     

区域经济一体化进程剖析:长三角、珠三角与环渤海

在全球化迅速发展的今天,区域经济一体化已是大势所趋。长三角一体化进程可分为四个阶段,珠三角可分为三个阶段,环渤海可分为四个阶段;区域一体化不可逆转并正在加速;长三角的一体化进程最快,然后是珠三角和环渤海;要推动区域一体化,适应市场要求、正确理论指导和政府宏观引导三者不可或缺;一体化进程由多种因素共同决定;基础设施一体化最易实施也进展最快,产业结构一体化最难以协调;一体化还处于探索阶段,其目标模式还没有出现。     

生产者服务业与制造业的互动与融合：研究进展及展望——兼议对长三角地区的分析

20世纪70年代以来,生产者服务业在经济发展中的作用日益凸显,从而引起了学术界的广泛关注,生产者服务业与制造业的互动与融合便是其中一个主要方向。近年来,针对这一问题的研究在不断向纵深扩展。本文对已有的研究成果分别从理论、数理模型和实证方面进行了详尽的梳理,同时也总结了目前对于长三角地区这一问题的相关研究,并在此基础上对现有研究成果进行了简要的评价,提出了未来可能的研究方向。     

浅议综合英语教学中的文化知识导入

在综合英语教学中,应将文化知识与词汇学习、习语讲解和语法教学相结合,通过课堂讲解、指导学生课外阅读和利用多媒体资料等措施,培养学生的跨文化意识。     

How do controversial foreign country images affect consumers?

Research shows that controversial political–economic, social, and environmental country images affect consumer responses to foreign products. This study adds to the existing evidence by examining the contingent role of subjective country knowledge and (domestic vs. foreign) country image congruence in the relationships between foreign country image and two major determinants of country-driven (anti-)consumption: foreign product judgements and consumer animosity. The findings draw on survey data (N = 400) on Spanish consumers' views of China and Chinese apparel products. The results indicate that higher subjective knowledge about social and environmental issues (negatively) affecting the foreign country can lead to attenuated (positive) relationships between such country images and foreign product judgements. Further, more negative foreign product judgements can result from incongruent country images—that is, when consumers are more critical of the foreign than of their home country in political–economic, social, and environmental areas. Instead, there is limited support for the hypotheses involving consumer animosity as an outcome. Implications for theory, policy, and practice are discussed.     

Stuck at the bottom: Role of tacit and explicit knowledge on innovation of developing-country suppliers in global value chains

We take a social exchange theoretical perspective of innovation to develop and test a model of the intervening role of tacit and explicit knowledge exchange in explaining innovation of developing-country suppliers in non-equity-based global value chains (NEGVCs). Results of structural equation modelling for a sample of Bangladeshi suppliers embedded in apparel NEGVCs show that tacit and explicit knowledge fully mediate the associations between network competence and both low value-added and high value-added innovation contingent on the quality of network relationships. We also found that both tacit and explicit knowledge contribute more to low value-added innovation than to high value-added innovation. The managerial and policy implications of our findings as to why developing-country suppliers in NEGVCs are stuck in low value-added activities are fully discussed.     

Model-free portfolio theory: A rough path approach

Based on a rough path foundation, we develop a model-free approach to stochastic portfolio theory (SPT). Our approach allows to handle significantly more general portfolios compared to previous model-free approaches based on Föllmer integration. Without the assumption of any underlying probabilistic model, we prove a pathwise formula for the relative wealth process, which reduces in the special case of functionally generated portfolios to a pathwise version of the so-called master formula of classical SPT. We show that the appropriately scaled asymptotic growth rate of a far reaching generalization of Cover's universal portfolio based on controlled paths coincides with that of the best retrospectively chosen portfolio within this class. We provide several novel results concerning rough integration, and highlight the advantages of the rough path approach by showing that (nonfunctionally generated) log-optimal portfolios in an ergodic Itô diffusion setting have the same asymptotic growth rate as Cover's universal portfolio and the best retrospectively chosen one.     

AN ANALYSIS OF SUPPLY CHAIN COLLABORATIONS AND THEIR EFFECT ON PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES

This research examined how operational outcomes, relational outcomes and business performance are affected by a collaboration project between buyers and suppliers in a supply chain. It is hypothesized that interdependence of knowledge and process, supply chain partner insight, and the level of collaboration between the firms affect the outcomes of a collaboration project. Survey data from buyers and suppliers from a wide range of industries and organizations were used in this analysis. Among these participants, higher levels of collaboration led to improvements in operational and relational outcomes, which together led to improvements in asset utilization, competitive position, organizational performance, and profitability.     

DEFINING AND OPERATIONALIZING SUPPLY CHAIN PROCESS INTEGRATION

Integration has been recognized as critical to successful supply chain management. However, an extensive literature review revealed no consensus in its conceptualization. The current study attempts to address this research gap by providing a better definition and operationalization of supply chain process integration. With empirical support, it is proposed that internal and external supply chain process integration should be treated as two separate constructs, each comprised of two dimensions: connectivity and simplification.