Change within purchasing and supply management organisations – Assessing the claims from maturity models

It is a wide-held assumption that professional development and change within purchasing and supply management (PSM) organisations can be explained and guided by a maturity model. In this paper the guidance which the maturity model concept offers to understand a PSM organisation's performance is assessed. The methodology is based on the outcomes of a literature review of PSM maturity models, development of an organisational change framework and the learning from three qualitative case studies. An alternative understanding of the development of the PSM organisation is offered through an organisational change framework, composing 1) movement transitions, 2) scalability of change, 3) acceptability of change, and 4) the substantive element of change. The research found that extant PSM maturity models are too rigid for PSM managers to apply, and although maturity models are commonly accepted in PSM literature, in practice, they may produce the opposite effect of what is promised. The PSM maturity models suggest that their application will lead to increased status and influence of PSM within the organisation; expectations that may not be met. PSM organisations’ change processes are subjected to a range of situational and contextual power relations which must be considered in order to advance the specific PSM organisation roles and responsibilities.     

民营旅行社在中国的发展

通过民营企业东星旅行社借助汉口国旅的“壳资源”进军出境旅游业务的事例，探讨民营资本向旅行社行业扩张时，面临的各种制度壁垒和其他困难，并联系中国加入世贸带来的机遇和挑战，对民营旅行社的发展和扩张提出了系列想法和建议。     

环境退化、市场非均衡与创业

文章提出了一种新的创业观,解释了环境问题创业。奥地利学派的创业理论认为,市场非均衡提供了创业机会。环境退化作为一种市场非均衡,为创业者提供了潜在机会。但是对这种机会的利用存在一系列障碍,文章将针对其中的不对称信息、不完全信息与公共产品,介绍创业者如何克服这两种障碍,利用环境退化所产生的机会进行创业,缓解环境退化。     

外贸企业开展绿色营销的必要性及策略分析

随着全球保护意识的增强，世界各国都在实施可持续发展战略，强调经济发展应与环境保护相协调，作为绿色保护运动的一个重要组成部分绿色营销业正成为社会和企业认真研究的热门话题。外贸企业开展绿色营销是走向世界的重要途径。     

What Prevents Firms from Advancing in their Environmental Strategy?

The aim of this paper is to analyze the determinants of the strategic environmental behavior of firms and, more specifically, the external and internal barriers that limit and sometimes even prevent the environmental adaptation. The analysis focuses on a sample of industrial firms that have at least three workers and that are located in Aragón, a region situated in the northeast of Spain. In order to achieve this objective, first the theoretical literature on the topic is reviewed. Subsequently, from the firms which were sampled, the existence of an underlying structure among the totality of barriers is studied. Finally, this structure is analyzed in order to determine if it has any influence on the degree of proactivity of the firm’s environmental strategy.

中国的贸易顺差能持续吗?

截止2008年3月末国家外汇储备余额达16822亿美元,同比增长39．94％。导致我国外汇储备增长的连续13年贸易顺差如今能否持续引起了多方讨论。预测分析认为,在可预见的未来我国贸易顺差是可以持续的,主要支撑因素有：我国经济继续保持8％增长势头所确立的基本面支撑,政策调整使一般贸易比重上升并接近加工贸易水平,我国承接世界产业转移的能力增强使利用外商直接投资额持续增长,我国的人力资本积累显示出的内部效应和外部效应等。     

大学英语听力中的障碍与对策

听力教学是大学英语教学过程中重要的组成部分,由于缺乏必要的语言环境,学生在学习时必然会遇到种种障碍。从听力理解过程中的障碍角度,提高听力水平的可行性对策包括:提供丰富的语言材料;注重训练听力技能;注重"听、说、读、写、视"相结合;借助多媒体辅助的课外训练。     

论多边贸易体制下的绿色壁垒

该文首先分析绿色壁垒的成因、特点及表现形式,接着指出了WTO中涉及到绿色壁垒问题的相关规定,最后指出我国面对绿色壁垒的应对措施.     

浅谈中小外贸企业与跨境电子商务

后危机时代出现的低碳贸易壁垒,严重影响了我国出口利益。日趋恶化的外部环境,已威胁到国内中小外贸企业的生存。本文认为跨境电子商务应成为中小外贸企业脱困的首选方法。     

垄断与产权:我国利率市场化的制度性障碍

在缺乏竞争的金融体系下，借贷价格偏离均衡价格，消费剩余减少，资源配置扭曲，金融运行效率降低。在我国，资金供应依然主要由居于垄断地位的国有商业银行及其变种组成和资金需求依然主要由国有企业及其变种组成的情况下，利率市场化会使得资金价格扭曲和变形，理论上推演的利率市场化预期效果在很大程度上无法实现。我国利率市场化的时间表只能视微观经济主体市场化的进程而定。