论新加坡学校德育的儒家思想底色

新加坡学校德育以科学化、本土化、现代化和社会化的儒家思想为指导,确定学校德育的教学目标,课程设置和教学内容。用儒家思想整合多元化的社会价值观,抵御西方腐朽价值观的侵蚀,完善学校、家庭、社会三维一体的德育网络。探究新加坡学校德育的儒家思想底色,寻求我国学校德育改革的新思路。     

Deciding to export: An exploratory study of Singaporean entrepreneurs

This paper confirms a mapping between a taxonomy of entrepreneurs and what triggered Singaporeans to become exporters. The study involved interviews with 47 new exporters based in Singapore. Entrepreneurs were classified as either ‘opportunity seeking’ or ‘reactive’. Export triggers were either ‘pull’, negative ‘push’, or positive ‘push’. We find that those who were opportunity seeking at start-up were more likely to have responded to export ‘pull’ forces. It was rare indeed for a reactive founder to have been ‘pulled’ into exporting. Among this group of entrepreneurs, ‘push’ forces dominated the decision to export. The paper concludes with some implications for policy targeting and suggestions for further research.     

The impact of HR configuration on firm performance in Singapore: a resource-based explanation

This study investigates how the characteristics of a firm's human resource practices and processes (HRPPs) are associated with firm performance. The results found that the extent to which HRPPs can be substituted by information technology or codified in employee manuals, made them easy to be imitated and were therefore associated with an attenuation of the firm's financial performance. On the other hand, constant positive investments into a firm's HRPPs were associated with enhanced firm performance. No significant relationships were found between the embeddedness of HRPPs with information technology or the uniqueness of the firm's HRPPs and firm performance. The results are explained in terms of the resource-based view of the firm.     

新加坡集约用地举措及其发展趋势

土地利用包含的内容非常广泛,涉及居住、农业、工业、商业、基础设施和特殊用地等多方面,并与道路交通和城市规划紧密相关。因此,要协调好这些方面的关系必须高效集约利用土地。近几年,新加坡在集约利用土地方面又有新举措。结合土地利用的多方面内容,多个角度介绍新加坡集约用地的一些新措施,并提出了未来新加坡集约用地的发展趋势。     

新加坡社会核心价值体系建设对我国的启示与借鉴

社会核心价值体系是引领人们的思想行为、社会精神风尚和发展方向的灵魂,是关系社会稳定与国家兴旺的决定性因素。研究新加坡这个以华人为主体、以儒家伦理为本的国家的＂共同价值观＂的探索路径,学习借鉴成功经验。对推进我国社会主义核心价值体系建设具有十分重要的现实意义。     

Corporate Real Estate and Stock Market Performance

An interesting question in corporate real estate literature is whether real estate can improve the stock market performance of property-intensive non-real estate firms. Using a data set comprising 75 non-real estate corporations that own at least 20 percent properties, this paper empirically assesses and compares the pair-wise return, total risk, systematic risk and Jensen abnormal return performance of composite (with real estate) and hypothetical business (without real estate) firms. We employed Morgan Stanley Capital International world equity index instead of a local market index to provide some insights into the performance of the local market relative to the global market during the 1997–2001 volatile periods experienced by many Asian countries. Our results suggest the inclusion of real estate in a corporate portfolio appears to be associated with lower return, higher total risk, higher systematic risk and poorer abnormal return performance. It is therefore likely that non-real estate firms own properties for other reasons in addition to seeking improvement in their stock market performance. Further research is needed to explore the main factors contributing to corporate real estate ownership by non-real estate firms.     

The impact of changes to the human resources function in Australia

With the rapid development of information technology (IT) in the late twentieth century, a 'real-time' global economy is now taking shape. The social costs of being networked in the global economy vary across nations and regions. Some report job losses and fragmented working conditions, and in general social structure is endangered. The idea of maintaining a nation's social safety net and the traditional concept of the welfare state is now challenged. In this article, we deal with three issues. First, we point out that new social risks are formed by the structural change in the labour market. Second, the interaction of the nation-state and global economy is addressed; in facing new social risks, we argue, the role of nation-state is still important. However, the traditional paradigm of the welfare state needs to be re-conceptualized. Third, with the expanding view of the welfare state, this paper examines the developments of constructive welfare policies and discusses the social transformation processes in Singapore, especially in the face of the new social risks caused by globalization.     

新加坡社区医疗卫生服务的经验及其启示

新加坡推行的政府主导的社区发展模式和丰富的社区医疗服务使其成为世界上社区建设和治理最为成功的国家之一。新加坡为社区居民提供的医疗卫生服务主要包括政策参与、医疗诊治、宣传教育、环境维护四个方面。借鉴新加坡社区医疗卫生服务的成功经验,改善我国社区医疗卫生服务应构建"四位一体"的医疗卫生机构服务体系、以社区首诊制度为开端、合理配置社区医疗卫生资源、善于借助社会力量等。     

Does a reward program affect customers’ behavioural intention of visiting the airport? A case study of Singapore Changi Airport

An understanding of the behavioural intentions of customers in visiting airports may help airport management to boost airport retail revenue (i.e. non-aeronautical revenue) by increasing customer spending at the airports. This study aims to examine the connection between airport reward programs and customers' behavioural intentions of visiting the airport, attempting to bring some benefits and credits for implementing reward programs in the airport sector by using Singapore Changi Airport as a case study. Two types of customer behavioural intentions (i.e. time spent at the airport and various purposes of visiting the airport) were investigated in the study to examine the effects of Changi Airport's reward program (i.e. Changi Rewards). An on-line survey was conducted, and the participants' responses were analysed via a structural equation modelling approach. The results showed that the attractive benefits of Changi Rewards could have a positive influence on arousing customers' intentions to engage with the programme. In addition, customers' intentions to engage with the programme can have a positive effect on increasing passengers' time spent at the airport and inducing customers to visit the airport for leisure purposes. Managerial implications to the airport sector are discussed.     

Forecasting tourism: a combined approach

In this article, we employ a combined seasonal nonseasonal ARIMA and sine wave nonlinear regression forecast model to predict international tourism arrivals, as represented by the number of world-wide visitors to Singapore. Compared with a similar study of the accuracy of international tourist arrivals forecasts by Chan (Journal of Travel Research, 1993, 31, 58–60)¹ and Chu (Journal of Travel Research, 1998, 36, 79–84)² using other univariate time series models, our proposed model has the smallest mean absolute percentage error.