The effect of new product development techniques on new product success in Spanish firms

The rate of market and technological changes has accelerated in the last years. This turbulent environment requires new methods and techniques to bring successful new products to the marketplace. Much attention has focused on new development techniques, but little empirical research has been conducted to validate these techniques. In this study, the relationship between popular new development techniques and new product success is examined. Our findings suggest that only a subset of these popular techniques is significantly related with new product success in Spanish firms. The study also identifies the main contributors to new product development (NPD) effectiveness in Spanish firms.     

Attitudes of food entrepreneurs towards two grant schemes under the first England Rural Development Programme, 2000–2006

Grant schemes introduced under the first England Rural Development Programme (ERDP) (2000–2006) have been subjected to limited academic research and this paper aims to fill this gap by examining the attitudes of food entrepreneurs in two contiguous English regions to two key elements of the ERDP: the Processing and Marketing Grant (PMG) and the Rural Enterprise Scheme (RES). It does this through a qualitative analysis of data gathered from interviews with 20 ‘adopters’ and 20 ‘non-adopters’ of the two schemes in the South West and West Midlands regions of England. The analysis reveals that, despite the rural development rhetoric, neither the PMG nor the RES was particularly effective at funding enterprises beyond the farm gate; both schemes also appeared to attract what can be described as ‘serial adopters’ and to discriminate against those without experience of applying for government grants. Nevertheless, indirectly they did provide opportunities to safeguard and expand local and regional food production, processing and retailing in the two regions.     

Role of network structure and network effects in diffusion of innovations

Why does diffusion of innovation sometimes propagate throughout the whole population, and why at other times does it halt in its interim process? The current paper provides a potential answer to this question by developing a simple computational model of social networks. The proposed computational approach incorporating small-world graphs enables the authors to find that diffusion of innovation is more likely to fail in a random network than in a highly clustered network of consumers. A marketing implication is that the choice of initial target groups and their network structures matter in influencing whether an innovation makes full or partial penetration, in markets where network effects plays a role.     

证券咨询机构预测能力分析--以新股定位为例

本文以四家证券咨询机构对108只新股的开盘价预测为研究对象,文中首先给出数据和研究方法;接着对各机构预测误差进行比较以检验不同机构的预测能力;紧接着分析了机构预测价对新股短期投资的参考价值。     

城市化快速发展时期新城基础教育设施配套标准研究——在大兴新城规划中的研究、发现与启示

在城市化快速发展的过程中,新城由于外来人口多,人口年龄结构年轻化,用地条件不同,同时还要接纳一部分农村生源,因此其基础教育设施配套千人指标明显比中心城区高.这不仅是从大兴新城研究中得出的结论,同时也在与其它城市新区的标准比较中得到了印证.这说明,对于城市化快速发展地区不能简单套用现行标准,对其进行专门的研究是有必要而且也是有意义的.论文以大兴新城为案例,详细介绍了新城基础教育设施配套标准的研究思路、过程和分析发现,并从人口结构、城乡统筹、标准比较、个案研究四方面总结了对其它新城规划有借鉴意义的启示.     

直辖市重庆城乡和谐之路:统筹城乡发展建设社会主义新农村

(接第1期) 5.2 制定有利于改革和消除制约统筹城乡发展建设社会主义新农村的体制、机制障碍的各种创新政策     

新变化与旧表现:对当代资本主义及其命运的思考

战后资本主义国家出现了一系列的变化。认真分析资本主义的生产关系,可以看出,资本主义国家在生产资料的私人占有方面,产品分配方面,阶级关系方面呈现社会化、公平化,缓和化的新变化,但其资本的集中化,贫富加剧化、阶级剥削加重化依然存在。因此,资本主义的新变化并没有改变历史规律。     

Ex-dividend Day Pricing in New Zealand

Controversy continues over the question of tax clientele effects in the pricing of shares that pay dividends. The empirical results remain inconclusive, with variations in testing methods and sample formation the probable causes of much of the variation in outcomes. This study focuses on testing for the presence of a tax clientele effect consistent with prior tests for the same effect using a sample from a particular tax regime period in New Zealand in which companies could pay either or both taxable and non-taxable dividends. The results are generally consistent with the presence of a tax clientele effect in the New Zealand market for the time period, while providing essentially no support for the short term trading hypothesis.
JEL classification: G10; G15     

新巴塞尔协议对银行业的冲击

新巴塞尔协议对银行风险的监管更加全面 ,对资本套利、资本适足率与银行的偿债能力标准等问题提出新的指标和规定 ,对包括中国在内的各国银行业产生强大的冲击。     

面向东盟的广西高校国贸专业实践性教学设计

特色的人才培养模式及专业定位是地方院校开设国际经济与贸易专业的关键,实践性教学模块的设计则是特色人才培养模式的关键。面向东盟建设的国际经济与贸易专业实践性教学模块以专业课程体系为基础,在培养目标上与专业总体定位相一致,即"立足地方,面向东盟,强化素质,办出特色",注重培养专业学生面向东盟所需要的知识结构和能力结构。