服务创新中的整合研究方法：前沿探析和未来发展

服务创新是什么?过去十几年,理论和实践界在此课题上已经取得了很大进展.然而,定义的不统一使得对服务创新的研究结果非常混乱.整合研究方法为问题的解决提供了思路.利用它,可以更好的定义服务创新,打开服务创新内容和过程的黑箱,有利于服务创新理论的深入发展和实践应用.文章利用系统回顾法对2000—2009年的文献进行梳理整合的基础上,分析了基于整合研究方法研究服务创新的前沿信息,并对其未来发展提出了建议.     

Why Do Some Multinational Firms Respond Better Than Others to the Hostility of Host Governments? Proximal Embedding and the Side Effects of Local Partnerships

Using a multiple-case study of alleged expropriations reported before the World Bank, we examine how multinational companies (MNC) react to the escalating hostility of host governments. Our study reveals how different choices regarding the interaction with local nonmarket stakeholders – which we refer to as proximal vs. mediated embedding – shape how managers respond to these disputes by affecting their ability to collect, process and interpret information, and to act upon it in a way that effectively mobilizes local and international support. In contrast to the prevailing view that local partners in international joint ventures shelter MNCs from abuse from political authorities, our findings show that primary reliance on local partners to manage the local nonmarket environment can actually reinforce a liability of outsidership and even create a ‘liability of insidership’, to the extent that relying on local partners prevents the MNC from establishing quality connections with a broad range of nonmarket stakeholders, reducing its alertness and responsiveness to hostile acts from host governments.     

多渠道环境下产品分销及协调策略

文中构建了由一个制造商与一个零售商组成的双渠道供应链模型,提出了三种不同条件下的决策模型。研究了双渠道环境下产品分销及协调结构中的利益分享。研究发现品牌差异化并不是协调渠道冲突的主导分销策略。制造商采用协调结构并进行利益分享可以最大化整个供应链的利益,同时对于每个渠道成员都是双赢的。     

上市公司的资本结构决策和优化调整

在建立和完善现代企业制度,深化企业自主经营、自负盈亏的条件下,如何在企业的筹资财务运作中提高企业的资本结构决策水平,进一步优化企业资本结构,势必关系到企业财务管理目标的实现程度。同时,也是企业研究的重要课题。     

On the distribution of education and democracy

This paper examines the determinants of female autonomy within households in a developing country. In particular, we investigate the relative contributions of earned versus unearned income in enhancing women's autonomy and the role of employment outside of their husband's farm. In a simple theoretical model, it is demonstrated that earned income could be more important than unearned income in empowering women. Using data from rural Bangladesh, empirical estimations confirm this prediction and also reveal the surprising fact that it is not employment per se but employment outside their husbands' farms that contributes to women's autonomy. The data also point to the importance of choosing the correct threat point in theoretical analyses of female autonomy.     

An Analytical Framework for Joint vs Separate Decisions by Couples in Choice Experiments: The Case of Coastal Water Quality in Tobago

This paper offers an analytical framework for analyzing joint and separate decisions by couples in the context of choice experiments for nonmarket valuation. It reports results from an attribute-based stated preference study in which members of couples are asked to conduct a choice-experiment first individually and then jointly. The choice context was the selection of which beach to visit while on vacation in Tobago. Available alternatives differed in attributes related to coastal water and beach quality such as level of coastal development and fish abundance. Tests of preference equality are reported and structured so as to identify the intra-couple decision-making patterns under taste heterogeneity with both finite and continuous mixed logit. Results from the latter suggest that women’s preferences are found to be predominant in the joint choice-experiment. Results suggest caution in using individual choice rather than joint couple choice when valuing quality changes impacting on couple activities, such as water and beach quality in Tobago, and call for further research on the topic.     

Secrecy and fairness in plea bargaining with multiple defendants

I consider a model of plea bargaining with multiple codefendants. I mainly compare the equilibrium outcomes under joint negotiations whereby both defendants can observe both plea offers and under separate (secret) negotiations whereby they can observe only their own respective offer. Contrary to the widespread perceptions, the prosecutor is made worse off under secret negotiations or at best as well off as under joint negotiations. I also discuss the implication of equilibrium offers on fairness.      

铁矿石国际贸易定价权与议价力的博弈分析

文章通过对铁矿石国际贸易定价的博弈分析,发现定价权能够带来先动优势,因而买卖双方内部寡头都有竞争定价权的动力,且竞争的相对强度决定了各自的议价力大小;在铁矿石国际贸易中,定价权竞争具有"弱者优势"效应,但其作用有限.因此,为应对铁矿石国际贸易持续上涨的压力,我国钢铁企业应综合考虑定价权竞争与议价力的提升,并以改变买卖双方定价权竞争的相对强度为目标设计博弈对策     

Cultural variation in response to strategic emotions in negotiations

This research examined how culture influences the effectiveness of the strategic displays of emotions in negotiations. We predicted that in cross-cultural negotiation settings, East Asian negotiators who highly regarded cultural values that are consistent with communicating respect as humility and deference would be more likely to accept an offer from an opposing party who displayed positive as opposed to negative emotion. With a sample of East Asian MBA students, the results of Study 1 confirmed this prediction. Study 2 results replicated this finding with a sample of Hong Kong executive managers and also found they were less likely to accept an offer from a negotiator displaying negative emotion than Israeli executive managers who did not hold humility and deference in such high regard. Implications for strategic display of emotions in cross-cultural settings are discussed.     

The Interaction of Wage Bargaining Institutions and an Independent Central Bank – A Methodological Reflection on Current Theories

The paper analyses the increasingly popular literature on strategic interactions from a methodological viewpoint. These political economy approaches focusing on interactions between wage bargaining institutions and an independent central bank do not follow unified methodological rules and so cannot be categorised under a single particular paradigm. Moreover, the literature remains in a way circumscribed by the limits of our logical capacities and of mathematical tractability and therefore relates to the 'real world' of wage bargaining and economic policy institutions in a very limited way only. A consideration of the vast complexity of institutional conditions that impact economic performance in EMU reminds and cautions one that actual economic policy research is able to cover only very few of the numerous conditions responsible for the overall outcome.