Product configuration,ambidexterity and firm performance in the context of industrial equipment manufacturing

The practice of configuring products to individual customer orders has found application in a variety of industry contexts, but little is known about the specific capabilities that firms develop to successfully compete when offering configurable products. Our research begins to fill this gap in the context of industrial equipment manufacturing. Drawing from the ambidexterity literature, we argue that firms have to balance dual goals of reducing variation and promoting variation in their product configuration activities by fostering two distinct firm-level capabilities: product configuration effectiveness (PCE) and product configuration intelligence (PCI). Specifically, we hypothesize that the simultaneous presence of PCE and PCI—that is, product configuration ambidexterity (PCA)—drives superior firm responsiveness and, indirectly firm sales and operating margin. However, we also contend that responsiveness gains through PCA can diminish with product complexity and can increase operating cost. We test these hypotheses by collecting both primary and secondary data from a sample of 108 European industrial equipment manufacturing firms. Results from our analyses indicate that PCA has an indirect effect through responsiveness on sales and operating cost but not on operating margin, with this effect diminishing with product complexity. Taken together, our results suggest that investment in developing PCA may represent a conundrum for industrial equipment manufacturing firms, because it translates into market but not financial advantages, and it is intertwined with product design decisions. We conclude this study with a discussion of the findings for theory and practice.     

践行社会主义核心价值体系培养“四有”新人

随着我国政治、经济、文化事业的蓬勃发展、社会主义现代化建设和小康社会的奋斗目标正在进一步实现,可是我们也应该看到,意识形态多样化的倾向也在严重影响着大学生的健康成长和思想。我们的党和国家要高度重视这些问题,我们要通过以社会主义核心价值体系为指导,对大学生思想政治教育的原因进行分析研究,我们必须要坚持马克思主义的主导地位、用中国特色社会主义核心价值体系来教育和引领大学生思想政治教育工作。     

阜康市白杨河水库施工期坝体内部变形资料简析

白杨河水库工程的主要开发任务是:在满足灌溉的前提下,向工业园区供水,同时兼顾防洪,是一座具有综合利用任务的水利工程。文章主要通过计算、分析大坝内部垂直、水平变形的监测资料,了解在施工期坝体内部的变形情况。     

某水库工程地质问题浅析

水库存在坝体填筑质量差,坝基处理不彻底,大坝心墙防渗体及坝基存在渗漏等工程地质问题,经过对大坝进行防渗加固处理,大坝目前运行良好。     

美、日企业员工激励机制及借鉴

目前员工在企业管理中的地位和作用日益增强，员工激励管理对提高企业核心竞争力也越来越重要。只有那些对员工的忠诚和业绩给予高度关注的企业才能在竞争中保持优势地位。通过分析美国和日本企业员工激励机制，为我国企业的员工激励提供借鉴：激励机制主要是把激励的手段、方法与激励的目的相结合，从而达到激励手段和效果的一致性。因此，企业对员工的激励手段应灵活多样，根据不同的工作、不同的人、不同的情况制定出不同的激励机制。     

The impact of sourcing enterprise system use and work process interdependence on sourcing professionals’ job outcomes

We examine sourcing professionals’ work context to conceptualize how they use sourcing enterprise systems (SESs) and to understand when SES use results in positive/negative job outcomes. We differentiate between SES use for supplier selection and supplier governance, identify sourcing professionals’ work process interdependence as a moderator for the impacts of SES use on job satisfaction, and suggest job satisfaction mediates the impacts of SES use on job performance. We conducted a field study of sourcing professionals’ SES use at one of the largest consumer product companies in the United States, which has implemented an SES to innovate its sourcing professionals’ work processes. Based on our analysis of the survey and qualitative data we collected, we found the impacts of both types of SES use (1) to be negative on job satisfaction when work process interdependence was high, (2) to be positive on job satisfaction when work process interdependence was low, and (3) to be mediated by job satisfaction for job performance. We discuss the implications of our findings for the literature at the intersection of information systems and operations management as well as for the information technology enabled innovation of sourcing processes and, more generally, complex business processes.     

基于顾客感知价值提升企业核心竞争力的研究

现代企业竞争的客观事实证明:顾客价值才是企业发展的源泉和企业胜败兴衰的关键所在。特别是顾客感知价值已成为企业创造竞争优势的重要因素,是形成企业核心竞争力的动力,企业核心竞争力为顾客感知价值提供了可靠的保证,两者是一种互生共存的关系。     

数字动漫企业核心竞争力与专利布局的关联性分析

数字动漫产业作为21世纪最具成长潜力的文化创意产业,在世界经济结构转型中创造着巨大的经济价值。在全球化的竞争时代下,要创造领先优势,取得专利权的保护并进行战略性专利布局是一种重要的手段。而对于技术密集的数字动漫产业而言,企业的专利拥有量及布局管理更是其核心竞争力的体现。     

以社会主义核心价值体系引领高职院校校园文化建设

本文结合学习十八大精神,强调高职校园文化建设必须坚持社会主义核心价值体系的引领作用不动摇;分析了高职校园文化建设面临的挑战,强调面对困难与挑战不回避;提出了引领高职校园文化建设的途径,强调探索文化传承创新之路不停滞。