Environmental performance and plant closure

This study uses a sample of plant closings as the testing stage to examine the financial consequences of variant environmental performance records and stakeholder pressure levels. It compares 117 manufacturing facilities closing down between 1998 and 2000 to 351 facilities surviving through this period, along four measures of environmental performance. It shows that in the ten years prior to closure, closing facilities reduce their toxics emissions relatively more and incur somewhat stronger community and regulatory pressures than surviving ones. The results persist through alternative versions of the model and suggest that the environmental performance of closing facilities is at least as good as that of surviving ones. The mix of environmental practices of closing facilities differs from that of surviving ones with the former engaging in significantly less recycling of waste than the latter. Closing facilities focus more on end-of-pipe measures while surviving ones engage in more pro-active strategies, consistent with evidence in the literature of a positive relation between pro-active environmental practices and performance. Stakeholder pressures, in some cases (e.g., in pollution intensive industries), may be associated with unrecoverable costs to facilities, including closure, depending on the environmental management choices of the facilities.     

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.     

我国饲料业营销环境分析与评价

随着饲料业主导技术的日趋成熟及市场化发育程度的提高,饲料业己步入从成长期向成熟期过渡的转型期。饲料行业面临着同质化竞争,要使企业在竞争中处于有利的地位,必须对饲料行业中的供应商、养殖户、行业内竞争对手、潜在进入者进行分析,从而得出整个行业的发展趋势。     

基于Multi-Agent的物流企业绩效评价模型研究

文章利用多Agent具有的自制性、主动性、交互性等特性,针对物流企业实现智能化评价要求,提出了基于Multi-Agent的物流企业绩效评价系统所需数据的动态采集、传递、存储和实时处理的流程思想,并在此基础上建立物流企业绩效评价模型。     

基于环境价值链的企业环境绩效审计指标体系研究

环境绩效审计作为一种监督和评价企业环境绩效状况的手段,其重点是如何构建一整套环境绩效评价指标体系。企业价值是通过从产品设计、制造、包装、运输、使用到报废处理等产品生命周期过程的一系列创造价值的经营活动实现的,这一过程的经营活动组成企业的环境价值链。对企业环境价值链的分析,有利于设计环境绩效评价指标,因而,以环境价值链为环境绩效审计的评价载体分析环境价值链每个环节的特点,构建环境绩效审计评价指标,能有效提高环境绩效审计的效率与效果。     

宽体车车架结构分析与整车性能验证

本次研发的宽体车总质量为40t,是在总质量60t级平台产品的基础上向下衍生而来的。应用三维造型软件建立了矿用自卸车实体几何模型,并对关键结构——车架给出了应力分析时的模型简化方法,根据整车的装配关系和车架的受力特点确定了车架强度有限元分析的边界条件,在此基础上建立了包括车桥、悬挂和车厢在内的整车有限元模型,依据矿用车的典型受力重点选取满载静止或平稳行驶、扭转组合和侧倾举升作业作为分析工况,应用ANSYS软件求解得到各工况下车架的应力大小和应力分布规律。为验证整车的性能,在华润水泥南宁公司矿山对样车进行了为期3个月的性能试验,并对该矿车进行了全面检验,为下一步优化设计提供依据。     

激励性规制的强度分析

网络型产业中存在的信息不对称使规制契约的存在成为必然。现实经济活动中之所以要设计和采用不同强度的激励性规制,主要是由于没有哪种规制机制能够解决所有问题。在理论综述的基础上,借鉴前人的研究,分析了网络型产业的激励性规制模型中的激励强度与激励绩效的关系,并指出其在实践中的应用以及对我国的借鉴。     

360度绩效评估应用于非领导行政人员管理的探索

非领导行政人员的工作能力、态度和形象直接影响行政组织的形象和效率。有效的绩效管理是加强对非领导行政人员监督管理的重要手段。引入360度绩效评估对非领导行政人员进行全视角的考核,有助于激励其为组织目标积极务实工作,促进文明行政。     

关于高校辅导员绩效考核之合理性的思考

当前高校辅导员绩效考核存在一些较为普遍的问题,探究其问题产生的根源,在制度理性中规制辅导员考核机制,体现合理、正义、人性化的制度氛围,还需要在社会关系的基础上,坚持否定之否定的方法,在实践检验中不断总结完善,使考核制度更加理性、考核工作更具目的性。     

Weak Disposability in Nonparametric Production Analysis: Reply to Färe and Grosskopf

Färe and Grosskopf (this issue) claim that a single abatement factor suffices for modeling weak disposability in nonparametric production models, and that the Kuosmanen (2005) technology that uses multiple abatement factors is larger than necessary. This article demonstrates by a numerical example that a single abatement factor does not suffice to capture all feasible production plans, and that its use leads to the violation of convexity, one of the maintained assumptions of the model. We also prove that the Kuosmanen technology is the correct minimum extrapolation technology under the stated axioms.