Parent country nationals or local nationals for executive positions in foreign affiliates: An empirical study of Japanese affiliates in Korea

This study examines how the host country experience of Japanese multinational corporations (MNCs) affects their staffing policies for executive manager positions at foreign affiliates. Hypotheses on executive staffing policies for foreign affiliates are tested using survey data collected from 103 Japanese affiliates in Korea. Findings show that the level of global integration and the degree of centralization of decision-making positively affect an assignment of parent country nationals as executive managers of foreign affiliates. We further find that foreign affiliates’ experience in a host country moderates the effects of both global integration and centralization on staffing decisions for the affiliates.

山西省农村社会保障水平研究

建立农村社会保障制度是解决"三农"问题、发展农村经济的重要保障.山西农村社会保障制度由农村社会养老保险、新型合作医疗、社会救助和社会福利等制度组成.对2005年山西省农村养老保险水平、新型合作医疗水平和最低保障水平进行定量分析,揭示目前农村社会保障水平偏低的现实,为进一步完善农村社会保障制度提供依据.     

科技成果产业化目标市场评估与选择模型研究

在分析国内外目标市场评估与选择理论研究现状及其存在问题的基础上,构建了基于系统动力学(SD)的目标市场评估与选择过程控制模型;明确了科技成果产业化目标市场评估系统边界,并采用战略环境评估方法,从宏观环境支持程度、产业环境威胁力及内部资源条件满足程度等方面识别出24个营销绩效影响因素,形成了SD模型的基准变量;然后构建了科技成果产业化目标市场发展提升过程因果关系图、流图、量化分析方程,形成了SD系统结构模型,刻画出影响因素与科技成果产业化营销绩效的动态反馈规律;最后结合某高分子材料类科技成果产业化实际,对其目标市场评估SD模型进行了vensim软件模拟,并基于目标市场发展水平及稳定性模拟结果,提出了科技成果产业化目标市场选择方案,为高等院校和科研院所科技成果产业化目标市场评估与选择提供借鉴。     

供应链经济背景下供应链金融发展现状、问题与策略研究——基于构建经济发展新格局的视角

构建以国内经济大循环为主的国内国际经济双循环的经济发展新格局,是党中央应对当前国际国内新形势提出的新的发展战略。供应链经济是实现经济双循环目标的重要抓手,而供应链金融则是供应链经济能否持续繁荣的重要保障。近年来,我国的供应链金融虽然有了较快的发展,但面对复杂多变的经济金融形势,特别是构建经济发展新格局的战略背景下,必须根据供应链经济变化新特点,扎紧供应链金融的风险敞口,设计好供应链金融的新布局,提升供应链金融在各项金融产品中的比重,加快供应链金融各项政策落地,以数字化为主要手段全面推动供应链金融生产能力的再释放,充分满足供应链经济发展的需求,发挥金融在供应链经济发展,特别是经济发展新格局构建中的重要作用。     

The Effect of the Alternation in the Ruling Party on Three-Factor Risks and Returns in ETF: The Case of Presidential Elections in Taiwan

This study discusses the effect of alternation in the ruling party in presidential elections on three-factor risks and returns of the three main exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in Taiwan, which has an unclearly defined international status and whose citizens have the right to vote directly for the president. We find that after the ruling party has been determined, in the period between Election Day and inauguration day, both the stock market and ETFs show a slight rise in prices. This suggests that most investors are initially optimistic after the election results have been announced. Meanwhile, the reverse book-to-market risk value deteriorates significantly. These results indicate that political uncertainty increases the risk premium of market factors and reverse book-to-market factors for some ETFs.     

Diffusion of Hospital Innovations in Different Institutional Settings

This paper purports to analyze a hospital's adoption of both product and process innovation as a quanta! choice. The impacts of this decision on physicians, while depending on institutions that differ between the US and continental Europe, are shown to feed back to the hospital, influencing the profitability of the innovation. Recent changes of hospital finance give rise to testable comparative predictions in both institutional settings     

North–South terms‐of‐trade trends from 1960 to 2006

The composition of exports of developing countries is increasingly dominated by manufactured goods. This has not changed the fact that their major trading partners continue to be the developed countries. In order to properly assess the distribution of gains from trade, there is a pressing need to analyze the movements in the terms of trade of developing countries with respect to the developed ones. A statistical analysis of the North–South terms of trade reveals that the terms of trade have turned against the South since the 1960s. However, the terms‐of‐trade deterioration is neither continuous nor evenly distributed over different country groupings. The existence of a structural break in the mid‐to‐late 1970s together with the greatest adverse terms‐of‐trade movements against the highly indebted and least developed countries attest the discontinuity and unevenness of this process.     

旅游人类学近1/4世纪研究的新成果 --《主客关系新探:21世纪旅游问题》述评

主客关系问题始终是旅游人类学的主题之一,维莱恩·史密斯和玛丽安·布伦特合编的<主客关系新探21世纪旅游问题>一书,汇集了21世纪开始时旅游人类学研究者的丰硕成果,和第一、二版相比,立场观点、案例选取、编辑特色等方面有了很大变化,值得推荐给旅游专业的学生、教师和研究人员.     

关于新经济条件下的中国工会组织及其工作思路的思考

文章从经济和历史两个维度,分析了中国特殊劳动关系下的工会工作,阐述了重视并加强工会工作的必要性和现实性,以及在对待工会问题上所存在的一些缺憾和亟待解决的问题。从而折射出中国特色市场经济条件下工会工作的现实复杂性与艰巨性,进而推演出新形势下工会组织的准确定位与工作思路:从企业的国际性发展规律和社会的实际需要来理顺劳资关系;提高工会干部的综合素质是理顺劳动关系的根本。     

股权结构治理结构与审计师选聘--2002年深圳股市的实证检验

笔者等以2002年深圳股市的484家上市公司为样本，考察了大股东控制的公司审计师的选择行为，以及公司治理结构是否能够遏制大股东的偏好。结果发现，第一大股东持股比例越大，越不会聘请国际“四大”会计师事务所的境内合作所；但是，如果第一大股东是外资股，他们更可能聘请国际“四大”会计师事务所的境内合作所。