Hybrid governance and governance performance in industrial purchasing relationships

Hybrid governance arrangements (e.g. joint action, long-term contracting and vertical coordination) feature regularly as an effective response to inter-firm dependence in the literature of business-to-business relationships. However, current empirical work has paid little attention to whether such governance arrangements really do improve governance efficacy and reduce transaction costs. The present study focuses on the governance efficacy of vertical coordination in industrial business-to-business relationships. Building on transaction costs arguments, the author examines whether vertical coordination is an effective means for adapting to inter-firm dependence, realized as the substantial employment of specific assets.Empirical findings from a survey of 170 industrial supplier–buyer relationships demonstrate that when asset specificity reaches a certain level, greater vertical coordination reduces ex post transaction costs significantly. On the other hand, this efficacy pattern is modest or non-existent in relationships with low asset specificity.The research findings support the basic TCA assumption that the performance of hybrid governance arrangements is highly dependent on a situation of substantial inter-firm dependence with subsequent small-number conditions.     

知识经济的本质特征及对我国发展机遇的思考

本文在解析知识经济本质特征的基础上,分析了知识经济对我国发展带来的机遇和挑战,提出我国实施知识发展战略,应对知识经济挑战的必要性和具体途径,最后从增强吸收知识、获取知识、交流知识能力三方面提出了相关的政策建议。     

试论企业的终端营销攻略

本文分析了销售终端在企业经营战略中的重大意义，并主要以海尔为例对当今市场经济条件下企业销售终端的建立，提出了若干思路和建议。     

顾客让渡价值分析：逆向营销视角

随着社会经济和科学技术的发展,逆向营销从根本上改变了传统营销的观念和方式,消费者成为整个营销过程的主导者。通过逆向营销的组合方式消费者能够获得更大程度的顾客让渡价值和顾客满意,并使企业能够在日趋激烈的竞争中更好地开展营销活动。     

通信运营企业的质量管理的再提高

现在通信运营企业为了提高服务质量,不断的加强员工培训,制定客户服务规范,使出了浑身解数,但是仍不见服务质量有显著的提高,用户对企业服务质量的投诉仍居高不下。本文就针对通信运营企业再次提高服务质量的问题,提出了价值链质量管理,鼓励企业实行内部营销,以建立一个完整的质量体系,而不是仅仅关注企业中某一个直接面对客户的职能部门。     

构筑现代管理平台 提升核心竞争能力

铁路货物运输面对市场份额不断下滑的严竣形势,如何摆脱经营困境,扭转被动局面,文章指出,应着重在“管理”二字上下功夫,加强战略管理,重视信息管理,强化优势管理,完善系统管理,通过构筑现代的、科学的管理平台,不断深化货运市场营销,提升核心竞争能力。     

广西北部湾经济区发展战略探析

分析了广西北部湾经济区的发展现状,创造性地提出其发展要因,最后,基于发展要因提出经济区发展战略,以供决策参考。     

企业信息化中竞争策略的分析

在信息技术基础上 ,提出了企业资源计划 (ERP)、电子商务 (E—Business)和客户关系管理 (CRM) ,就其管理思和实际应用进行了深入的分析研究 ,得出了企业在全球化市场竞争中的有效策略是三者之间无缝连接的系统集成。     

Unlocking the potential of advanced manufacturing technologies

This research examines whether investments in advanced manufacturing technologies (AMTs) such as flexible manufacturing systems (FMS), computer aided design (CAD), computer aided manufacturing (CAM), robotics, etc., are more likely to lead to improved performance if they are supported by improvements in the manufacturing infrastructure of the company. This question is evaluated using data gathered from 202 manufacturing plants chosen from industries generally considered to have relatively high investments in technology.Multiple item scales are developed and adapted from sources in the literature to measure investments in technology, infrastructure, and the performance of the plant. Evidence supporting the reliability and validity of these scales is provided. Hierarchical regression is used to analyze the relationship between technology, infrastructure, and performance. The results suggest that there is an important interaction between the adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies and investments in infrastructure. Firms that invest in both AMTs and infrastructure perform better than firms which only invest in one or the other. Separate analyses on sub-samples of firms with the highest and lowest investments in AMTs show that infrastructural investments have a stronger relationship with performance in the high investment group. Thus, the data indicate that infrastructural investments provide a key to unlocking the potential of advanced manufacturing technologies.     

虚拟代建企业合作伙伴管理模型研究

文章提出把虚拟代建企业合作伙伴按照提供产品或服务的战略性程度进行细分,与不同特质的群体分别建立典型的战略伙伴关系和持久的正常交易关系模型,同时给出战略性程度评价的模糊数学分析方法.强调盟主需要把重要资源配置于战略伙伴交易关系中,促成核心竞争力的集成优化.