绿色分销商的选择研究

分销商是制造企业与客户之间的纽带,分销商的选择是企业的分销渠道设计的重要环节之一.随着可持续发展深入人心,绿色因素也会逐渐纳入分销商选择的评价因素之中.文章基于灰色系统理论,利用灰色层次关联分析建立分销商选择模型,为决策者进行绿色分销商选择提供依据.     

基于价值链的作业成本法分析

本文针对传统成本管理方法存在的局限性,将价值链的思想引入作业成本法,用价值链分析帮助找出各作业与产品成本的联系;阐述了价值链在作业成本法中的具体分析步骤,为成本管理提供更准确的依据;从而有利于提高企业的成本优势,形成企业核心竞争力。     

我国融资性担保机构绩效评价实证研究——以江苏省为例

融资性担保机构的经营绩效在不同地区往往存在一定的差异,需要政府出台有差别的政策来促进其发展。从江苏省苏南、苏中和苏北分别选取了6家融资性担保机构,运用因子分析法对它们的经营绩效进行评价。针对三个地区担保机构经营绩效表现的不同,提出提升江苏省不同地区担保机构经营绩效的制度创新路径,对我国其他地区也有较大的借鉴意义。     

福建省高端装备制造业技术创新效率评价

将技术创新分为两个阶段——投入转化阶段和转化产出阶段,运用DEA两阶段法和DEAMalmquist指数法,对2008—2012年福建省高端装备制造业5个细分行业的两阶段技术创新效率进行了静态和动态评价。研究结果如下:在技术创新的第一阶段,福建省高端装备制造业的投入转化效率在很大程度上依赖于技术进步,但这种趋势在减弱;在技术创新的第二阶段,福建省高端装备制造业的转化产出效率呈下降趋势,且技术进步和技术效率对之共同发挥影响作用。     

关于我国金融风险问题研究述评

金融危机对于任何国家来说都是可怕的灾难,它肇始于美国地产业的次贷危机,且转变成经济危机,对全球经济形成严重冲击,给多国带来了大量的失业和政治动荡的危机。金融在现代经济建设的过程中对引导资源配置、调节经济运行、维护国家经济安全发挥着重要的作用,因此,国家对金融制度的改革和发展尤其重视和关注。     

Investment decision-making under economic policy uncertainty

It is widely established that economic policy uncertainty (EPU) affects investment decisions and performance, yet research in this area has overlooked the direct property investment market. This article seeks to rectify this and proposes a multistage multilevel analytical framework to offer new insights and a richness of findings. Using a news-based measure of EPU in the United Kingdom, and controlling for economic conditions, a national-level analysis reveals some evidence of Granger-Causality between EPU and total returns, indicating that pricing is responsive to uncertainty. These findings suggest that EPU is an important risk factor for direct property investments, with pricing implications. Differences in data and performance measure are important, however, with income returns unresponsive. A micro-level investigation begins to reveal some of the asset-pricing decisions underpinning the national results, indicating investors’ concerns for income streams are consistently high, regardless of varying EPU. Pricing can also cause changes in EPU, such as in the retail and industrial markets (increasingly linked through logistics) reflecting sector-specific stakeholder groups and newsworthy issues. This evidence highlights how important it is for policy-makers to understand the complex and bi-directional relationship, that indecision can undermine investment confidence and cause investment market volatility, in turn raising EPU.     

新开发旅游地市场分析研究——以陕西洛川县为例

通过对洛川县现实和潜在客源市场的调查,分析了洛川旅游市场的空间分布和等级特征、消费者行为特征,并对洛川未来游客的规模进行了预测.在此基础上,探讨了新开发旅游地市场分析的方法.     

The dynamics of tourism discourses and policy in Brazil

This article employs a Foucauldian inspired discourse analysis in order to unveil hidden aspects of the tourism development policy-making process in the UNESCO Espinhaço Range Biosphere Reserve, Brazil. It identifies the emergence of different representations of tourism development and demonstrates the process of social construction of sustainable tourism as an overarching discourse, which incorporates different—sometimes opposing—representations of tourism development to gather the support of people with different backgrounds and interests. However, this research demonstrates that this flexibility caused the sustainable tourism narrative to become a vague and imprecise discourse in the context of the case study, which has been used by the regional elites to conserve the status quo, but disguised as a critical alternative perspective.     

Clustering attendees at the Philharmonic Orchestra’s Summer Festival

There has been an increase in the number of arts and music festivals held annually in South Africa. These festivals range from wide all-encompassing arts festivals, such as the National Arts Festival, to specific festivals that cater for very specific audiences, such as the Jazz Festival and the Philharmonic Orchestra Festival. It may therefore be expected that the attendees of the various types of festivals would differ quite substantially. While much research has been conducted to understand visitor behaviour at general arts festivals and the economic contributions of these festivals, attendees of these more specialised events have been neglected. However, understanding who the attendees are and their behaviour is paramount to the sustainability of these festivals. Therefore, this paper aims to address this void and set the following objectives: (1) to compile a profile of attendees at the Philharmonic Orchestra Festival; (2) to cluster attendees of the Festival into distinct groups; and (3) to compare the various clusters with one another. Data were obtained by administrating 500 visitor questionnaires during January 2010. Using cluster analysis, visitors are grouped based on various characteristics and the differences between the clusters are explored using factor analysis and analysis of variance. Main results indicate that most visitors are mature in age and well educated, from which three clusters were identified with differences evident between the clusters.     

Seasonal concentration of tourism demand: Decomposition analysis and marketing implications

This paper analyzes seasonality in the United Kingdom, specifically the English regions in relation to tourists' place of origin and main travel motivation. The method used is a decomposition of the Gini index, which provides relative marginal effects that facilitate the identification of market segments open to counter-seasonal marketing efforts. This method has been combined with a graphical multivariate technique (biplot), which groups segments according to their seasonality characteristics. Seasonal patterns associated with particular segments differ significantly when studied on a disaggregated basis. Therefore, an adequate level of disaggregation is essential in the design of counter-seasonal strategies. Although this study focuses on British destinations, this methodology could be used as a control and monitoring measure in the regional analysis of any destination, facilitating regular adjustment of regional tourism marketing campaigns to minimize seasonality effects, specifically by targeting the types of tourists less prone to seasonality.