Integration of inland waterway transport in the intermodal supply chain: a taxonomy of research challenges

This paper identifies research opportunities which will enable the further integration of inland waterway transport in the intermodal supply chain. Intermodal transport may be interpreted as a chain of actors who supply a transport service. Inland navigation can play a crucial role in increasing supply chain service performance. A first group of research challenges lies in the evolving relationship between transport geography and logistics activities. The next set of research challenges has the objective to encourage efficient operations in IWT: development of a system wide model for IWT, integration of operational planning systems and analysis of bundling networks. A third group of research efforts is directed towards shippers and consignees who use the intermodal transport chain to send or receive their goods: further development of models that integrate intermodal transport decisions with supply chain decisions and creation of green supply chains. A fourth cluster of research challenges concerns the problem domain of external cost calculations. Finally detailed time series data on freight transport should be collected to support these future research tracks.     

后危机时代中国-东盟自贸区面临的机遇与挑战

金融危机对中国-东盟自由贸易区产生了深远影响,后危机时代中国-东盟自由贸易区机遇与挑战并存,既有国际贸易环境得到改善、双方共同抵御贸易保护、东亚区域合作加强等利好方面,也存在着中国威胁论、双方竞争加剧以及贸易风险加大等不利因素。我国要抓住合作机遇,优化产业结构,推动人民币区域化进程,实现双方的互利共赢。     

新时期中国对外贸易绿色高质量发展思考

新时期,实现中国对外贸易绿色高质量发展关系到贸易强国建设、对外贸易转型升级和双循环新发展格局的构建。当前,中国经济社会发展不仅要面对全球经济与贸易增速放缓、贸易保护主义和逆全球化抬头、中国贸易快速发展的红利逐步弱化、新一轮技术革命如火如荼展开之变局,还要面对中美贸易争端加剧、全球经贸规则重构等带来的巨大不确定性挑战。应采取加快构建新时期对外开放新格局、加快推进对外贸易产业转型升级、加快构建更加自由便利的对外贸易营商环境、努力提升中国在国际经贸规则重构中的话语权等措施,切实推进中国对外贸易绿色高质量发展。     

浅析我国网上药店发展所面临的机遇和挑战

近几年,我国网上购物发展迅速,为网上药店的发展奠定了良好的基础。文章首先描述网上药店所面临的一系列机遇,随后介绍其目前存在的挑战,最后针对这些挑战提出了几点改善建议。     

INNOVATION POLICY: RATIONALES,LESSONS AND CHALLENGES

Innovation policy has emerged as a new field of economic policy during the last few decades. This paper explores the rationales for national innovation policies, as laid out in the existing literature on the subject, and considers what the lessons and challenges for theory and practice in this area are. Innovation policy attempts to influence innovation activity, often with the purpose of increasing economic growth. But it can also have more specific aims such as preventing unwarranted climate change, improving national health, and so on. The increasing attention given to innovation policy at the national level from the 1990s onwards went hand in hand with the development of a new, systemic understanding of innovation, which in a better way than before accounted for the ‘stylised facts’ of innovation activity as identified by empirical work. The system approach, as the paper shows, came to have a significant influence on the subsequent policy discourse. Drawing on recent advances in innovation-systems theory, a synthetic framework for the analysis of innovation policy is developed and used to highlight issues of particular relevance for the conduct of innovation policy and future scholarly work in this area.     

The pragmatic roots of scientific insight: a culturalist approach to management theory in the view of grand challenges

Grand challenges, as they are currently discussed in management research, refer to societal problems that affect human affairs comprehensively. Tackling grand challenges must therefore be considered first and foremost as an overarching cultural effort. To understand how management theory fits into this effort, the article drafts a new epistemic approach to theory development. The approach is based on the school of Methodical Culturalism in the philosophy of science. It turns the attention to the pragmatic roots of scientific insight in daily life. From the review of extant literature associated with Methodical Culturalism, the article extracts a list of questions to investigate how these pragmatic roots take effect in theory development. Using selected examples, the article gives a brief illustration of the change in perspective that results from the culturalist approach. It argues that management theory can be more closely related to grand challenges when the personal affectedness of scholars as human beings is better taken into account.     

加入WTO对我国产业结构现存矛盾的挑战及对策

目前我国的产业结构存在着“同构化”、“低度化”等诸多矛盾。加入WTO之后,这些矛盾的进一步存在将使我国经济面临更大的挑战,从而影响我国区域经济的良性发展,及时研究并确立相应的策略具有紧迫的现实意义。     

西部学前教育发展面临的机遇与挑战

21世纪的第二个十年,是我国从教育大国向教育强国迈进的关键阶段,中央政府从人力资源强国和国计民生的战略高度出发,对学前教育给予了前所未有的重视,相继出台一系列涉及学前教育发展的规划、政策,给学前教育特别是相对落后的西部学前教育带来了发展的新契机,但同时也对西部学前教育提出了挑战,并使西部学前教育中蓄积已久的一些问题显得愈发亟待解决。     

深化对"和平发展道路"战略的研究

坚持走和平发展道路是中国国际战略和外交方针的重要思想,是时代发展的需要。大国的崛起总是充满着艰难险阻,在这个阶段,中国的外交越是风光无限,就越应该重视其中蕴藏的问题,文章对当前中国在崛起中面临着政治、经济、文化和安全等方面的问题,存在的挑战和风险进行了分析,并提出了积极的应对对策,以此深化对和平发展道路的认识。