Conflict management and innovation performance: An integrated contingency perspective

In recent years, many of the basic assumptions underlying organizational conflict research have changed, drawing into question the validity of some previous research findings. Operating from the perspective that conflict is complex, multidimensional, and context specific, this research takes a fresh look at key conflict antecedents, mediators, and consequences in the context of the innovation process. The study investigates the relationships among five behavioral conflict-handling strategies, destructive and constructive conflict, and innovation performance as perceived by 290 R & D and marketing department managers. Empirical results both support and question some of the previous findings in conflict research. The results indicate that integrating, accommodating, compromising, forcing, and avoiding conflict-handling strategies can have different impacts on constructive and destructive conflict in an innovation context. Kelly Hewett (kelly_hewett@moore.sc.edu) is in the Department of Marketing at the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on the management of relationships between buyers and sellers, as well as between headquarters and foreign subsidiaries in managing the marketing function globally. Her research has been published in theJournal of Marketing, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and theJournal of International Business Studies, among others. R. Bruce Money (moneyb@byu.edu) is the Donald Staheli Fellow and an associate professor of marketing and international business in the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University. His articles have been published in journals such as theJournal of Marketing, theJournal of the Academy of Marketing Science, theJournal of International Business Studies, andSloan Management Review. His research interests include the international aspects of national culture’s measurement and effects, business-to-business marketing, word-of-mouth promo-tion, services marketing, and negotiation. Subhash Sharma (sharma@moore.sc.edu) is the James F. Kane Professor of Business in the Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. Professor Sharma’s research interests include marketing strategy, structural equation modeling, data mining, customer relationship management, e-commerce, the marketing-operations interface, and global marketing strategies. He has published numerous articles in these areas in leading academic journals such as theJournal of Marketing Research, theJournal of Marketing, Marketing Science, theJournal of Retailing, theJournal of Operations Management, theInternational Journal of Research in Marketing, andManagement Science. Professor Sharma has also authored two textbooks:Applied Multivariate Techniques (John Wiley, 1996) andScaling Procedures: Issues and Applications (with Richard G. Netemeyer and William O. Bearden, Sage, 2003). Professor Sharma was a member of the editorial boards of theJournal of Marketing Research and theJournal of Marketing and currently serves on the editorial review board of theJournal of Retailing.     

加强地方高校科技创新工作的深入思考

根据教育部、科技部《关于进一步加强地方高等学校科技创新工作的若干意见》精神,探讨了地方高校科技创新的制约因素和定位,从提高自主创新能力、创新平台建设、完善创新机制等方面,提出了构建地方高校自主创新体系的建议。     

乡村休闲旅游地游客满意度评价研究——以成都市三圣乡幸福梅林为例

以成都市三圣乡幸福梅林为例，研究乡村休闲旅游地的游客满意度评价。研究表明，游客在评价总体满意度时，游客的总体期望差异与总体满意度有较大的相关性，而目的地与游客最佳目的地、其他同类目的地的比较优劣与总体满意度的相关性小；在评价具体评价因子时，游客的期望并不清晰，对具体评价因子感知实绩与满意度的评价差异不显著，感知实绩能有效地反映游客的满意度；游客满意度不仅与游客的推荐意愿正相关，而且也与游客的重游意愿正相关。     

新会计准则的四大改进

中国新会计准则体系已于2006年2月15日正式发布,并于2007年1月1日起在上市公司率先实施。通过对新会计准则与原会计准则的比较,把握新会计准则的变化,对于贯彻实施新会计准则体系、提高上市公司质量、促进资本市场和谐稳定发展具有重要意义。本文认为新会计准则的四大改进为:会计目标定位于“受托责任观”与“决策有用观”的融合、会计信息质量强调相关性与重要性原则、会计要素的确认与计量国际趋同、财务报告体系更趋有用性。     

农民增收:建设社会主义新农村的保障

农民增收是解决农民问题的关键,也是构建和谐社会,建设社会主义新农村的保障。文章分析了农民增收的社会意义、我国农民收入现状及其原因,最后对农民增收的关键因素作了一些思考。     

新时期加强高职院校德育工作的几点思考

通过对新时期加强高职院校德育工作的必要性和重要性的分析,提出以创新德育理念为先导、以延伸和优化德育途径和方法为突破、以提高德育工作队伍素质为保障,努力开创德育工作的新局面。     

解决“三农”问题的财政对策思考

三农问题，是关乎我国九亿农民生存状况和国民经济发展与社会安定的大事，本文从财政的角度出发，研究制约“三农”问题的财政障碍，并进一步提出加大财政支农力度、重视农村人力资源开发和完善公共财政体系三大财政对策．以期从财政的角度解决我国的“三农”问题。     

缩小城乡居民收入差距的财政思考

缩小城乡居民收入差距的关键在于提高农村居民的收入增长速度。要实现农村居民收入的较快增长,必须通过一定财政政策的支持,积极发展农业经济,改善农业经济结构,提高农业经济质量,增强农业的竞争力。通过农村税费改革,切实减轻农民负担。加快农村剩余劳动力从农业生产领域向非农产业领域的转移、从农业劳动力过剩地区向劳动力短缺地区转移,藉以提高农业劳动生产率,增加农民收入。     

由非货币性交易新准则引发的一系列思考

为了适应我国企业经营方式的变化和提高证券市场会计信息披露的质量，财政部于2001年初对非货币性交易准则重新予以修订。新准则实施1年来，发挥了抑制关联交易、打击证券投资市场投机活动的重要作用，体现了会计准则的中国特色和国际化的有机协调。但任何事物都有其两面性，新准则在其具体实施过程中出现了准则和制度的衔接、自身的发展与完善等诸多问题，而此类问题的出现应当引起广大会计界人士的关注。     

农村义务教育财政投入的经济学分析

劳动力素质低下是农村经济贫困的重要根源,要改变农村“知识贫困”的面貌,必须从农村义务教育抓起,而教育投入问题始终是我国农村基础教育发展中的主要制约因素。本文用现代公共财政论对农村基础教育这一社会服务化产品进行了公共财政定位,针对现行农村义务教育体制存在的问题进行了剖析,最后得出结论:农村义务教育主要是政府的责任,应当由政府财政支出作为保证。只有采取措施,完善政策,切实强化中央及地方各级财政的支持和投入力度,中国农村基础教育才会改变目前的弱势状况,出现蓬勃发展的新局面。