不确定性因素对国际资本外撤的影响及对策

不确定性因素是影响国际资本外撤的重要因素之一。本文在跨国公司理论关于撤资问题的理论框架下,从“外国劣势”入手,着重研究了不确定性因素对撤资的影响,并指出了减少不确定性的途径及其政策启示。     

The Restaurant Revolution-Growth,Change and Strategy in the International Foodservice Industry

Summary

This paper reports the results of a two-year investigation into the forces driving change in the global foodservice industry and the identification and analysis of competitive methods used by multinationals to respond to these forces. The five forces identified are: (1) globalization and economic change, (2) a knowledge based environment, (3) the future labor force and its entrants, (4) concern for well being, and (5) threatened natural resources. The competitive methods as identified by analyzing multinational foodservice firms are: (1) strategic expansion into the international marketplace, (2) investment in technological development, (3) internal competency development, (4) effective communication to target markets, and (5) competitive pricing strategies. Using the co-alignment model of strategy as the underpinning of the analysis it was determined that multinational firms have responded well to the forces of globalization and economic change, and the knowledge based environment. However, it appears that little competitive methods have been developed to address the forces such as labor force, well being and threatened natural resources. The implication here is that firms that are not in alignment with environmental forces will have to address this concern if they expect to continue to add value for all industry stakeholders.     

The growth of multinational firms in the Great Recession

Using a large firm-level dataset, this paper studies multinational firms׳ performance during the Great Recession. Foreign multinationals grew faster than local firms outside of the crisis, but slower during the crisis. Industry and size differences between domestic and foreign-owned firms account for much of this slowdown. However, multinationals from different countries performed differently during the crisis. The paper then assesses the role of multinationals in the global recession using a quantitative model. Had multinationals׳ relative performance remained unchanged during the crisis, the median country׳s aggregate growth would have been 0.12% higher, with a range of −0.13 to 0.5% across countries.     

日本跨国公司在山东省直接投资的内生增长模型分析

文章借鉴了内生增长模型的核心思想,在领先国--追随国模型的基础上,提出并利用跨国公司--本土企业模型来分析目前日本跨国公司对山东省直接投资的利与弊.在肯定了日本跨国公司过去十几年间对山东省经济发展做出大量贡献并分析其原因的同时,也指出目前日本跨国公司在山东省的经营仍有诸多需要改进之处,并提出大力引导大型跨国公司来山东省投资,防止出现\"集体外逃\"事件,在保持东部地区发展的同时注意引导跨国公司去山东省的中西部地区投资,吸引更多的日本R&D投资以及管理层本土化等政策建议.     

Employee Loyalty: An Examination

This article presents and examines four different reconstructions of Ronald Duska’s argument for the thesis that employees’ loyalty to their employers is misguided. One of them is the reconstruction presented by John Corvino in this journal. The remaining three revolve around, respectively, employers’ failure to reciprocate employees’ (attempts at) loyalty, the commercial character of employment, and the instrumental character of employment. The result of the examination is that the argument does not withstand scrutiny in any of the four reconstructions. The failure of Duska’s argument, however, does not mean that employee loyalty is justified, because the burden of proof is on the defenders of the loyalty. Moreover, a different argument, which is also presented in the article, shows that the loyalty of most present-day employees to their employers is bound to be significantly limited, because of the radical changeability of corporations with publicly traded stock.