Innovation in R&D service firms: evidence from the UK

Research and Development (R&D) service firms make significant contributions to innovation in other businesses. The extant literature considers these firms a homogenous sub-group of Knowledge Intensive Business Service firms (KIBS). The objective of this study is to investigate how R&D service firms innovate and the variety of innovation practices within these firms. Employing data from semi-structured interviews with senior managers from 32 UK-based R&D service firms, we suggest that there are two different modes of innovation: in the first mode, R&D service firms innovate similarly to KIBS whose innovation is ad-hoc in nature and driven by customers’ requests; another group of R&D service firms innovate like New Technology-based Firms (NTBFs) relying more on structured in-house R&D activities.     

商务成本的构成及其评价问题的研究

近来,商务成本成为一个全球性热门话题,它是企业投资决策的重要依据和反映区域竞争力的重要指标。本文对商务成本的概念和构成作了描述,并介绍了一种计算各个城市或地区商务成本指标系数的方法,为实际工作提供了方便。     

大规模定制的组织特征研究

目前国内外学者和专家主要从技术角度研究如何实现大规模定制,而本文从组织设计理论的角度分析了大规模定制模式对组织的要求。成功实施大规模定制的动态稳定性组织要求以增加顾客价值为导向、以业务流程为中心、内部组织具有高度柔性、外部组织能战略协作。     

信息工程中主题数据库的规划与设计

主题数据库是信息化建设的重要内容之一;首先,运用数学的语言对主题数据库的规划进行了描述;然后介绍如何通过计算信息系统中各个实体间的相关系数来进行主题数据库的规划;最后,提供了用全域系统体系C—U矩阵和主题数据库的质量评估函数对规划出来的主题数据库进行评估的方法。     

建筑企业法律风险防范的研究

多数建筑企业尤其是未经历诉讼的企业不清楚法律风险,如何规避企业的法律风险是企业的一个难题。文章从法律风险防范的角度为建筑企业构建一个法律保障机制提供有益的探索。     

图景动态博弈分析法在中外资银行网上人民币业务竞争战略选择中的应用

将图景分析思维模式和动态博弈模型理论结合分析竞争双方在战略制定过程中的博弈过程和可能性结论的这一方法目前成为国外战略管理领域新兴出现的热点。由于网上银行和人民币业务将成为入世后中外资银行的主要金融营运手段和竞争业务 ,因此本文选取中外资银行入世后网上人民币     

Determinants of Ethical Decision Making: The Relationship of the Perceived Organizational Environment

This study attempts to help explain the ethical decision making of individual employees by determining how the perceived organizational environment is related to that decision. A self- administered questionnaire design was used for gathering data in this study with a sample size of 245 full-time employees. Perceived supervisor expectation, formal policies, and informal policies were used to assess the expressed ethical decision of the respondents. The findings indicate that the perceived organizational environment is significantly related to the ethical decision of the respondent.     

企业商业标识知识产权保护策略

商业标识即商业意义上的“识别性标记” ,是企业重要的无形资产。在企业竞争进入了质量竞争和品牌竞争阶段之后 ,商业标识在市场竞争中的作用日益凸显。立足长远发展的现代企业应当考虑商业标识的保护策略 ,保护自己的知识产权     

Estimating the performance effects of business groups in emerging markets

Business groups—confederations of legally independent firms—are ubiquitous in emerging economies, yet very little is known about their effects on the performance of affiliated firms. We conceive of business groups as responses to market failures and high transaction costs. In doing so, we develop hypotheses about the effects of group affiliation on firm profitability: affiliation could either boost or depress firm profitability, and members of a group are likely to earn rates of return similar to other members of the same group. Using a unique data set compiled largely from local sources, we test for these effects in 14 emerging markets: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, India, Indonesia, Israel, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Turkey. We find evidence that business groups indeed affect the broad patterns of economic performance in 12 of the markets we examine. Group affiliation appears to have as profound an effect on profitability as does industry membership, yet strategy scholars have a much clearer grasp of industries than of groups. Moreover, membership in a group raises the profitability of the average group member in several of the markets we examine. This runs contrary to the wisdom, conventional in advanced economies, that unrelated diversification depresses profitability. Overall, our findings suggest that the roots of sustained differences in profitability may vary across institutional contexts; conclusions drawn in one context may well not apply to another. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

携程旅行网春秋国旅网e龙旅行网内容交付性研究

旅行电子商务网站成功的关键因素之一是能否提供满足消费者需求的内容,基于瑞奇曼（Rachman）和布奇南（Buchanan）的研究方法,对国内三个著名旅行网站的内容交付性进行了研究,讨论了我国旅行电子商务网站在内容建设方面存在的问题以及改进的方法。