‘Business as usual?’ Retail employee perceptions of organizational life following cross-border acquisition

The question of whether strong organizational cultures can be exported across borders has been continually debated in the management and business literature. With increased retail internationalization, the question arises in how far global retailers will be able to transpose their cultural values – which are regarded as key levers to business success – into other national contexts. A case study of the acquisition of a UK retailer reveals workforce compliance to behavioural norms and consent to company values at Schein's () second tier of organizational culture. However, the cultural integration espoused in the retailer's literature is not achieved, but differentiation and fragmentation (Martin, , ) prevail at store level, despite the probable existence of a strong sectoral culture (Ogbonna and Harris, ).     

浅谈航道港口的泥沙淤泥问题处理

航道就是在湖泊、港湾等水域里为船舶提供安全的航行通道。而港口则是为船舶的停靠和安全进出提供的有利条件。如果航道和港口出现了泥沙淤积的问题,那么就必须要解决它。但要如何解决呢?这就是我们要研究的问题。     

武夷山与国际旅游城市

分析了武夷山创建国际旅游城市的优势和存在的问题,指出武夷山创建国际旅游城市,要坚持科学发展观,从旅游城市向城市旅游发展,加强城市旅游目的地建设,对遗产地进行保护性开发经营.     

Delegation and the regulation of U.S. financial markets

We analyze the institutional determinants of U.S. financial market regulation with a general model of the policy-making process in which legislators delegate authority to regulate financial risk at both the firm and systemic levels. The model explains changes in U.S. financial regulation leading up to the financial crisis. We test the predictions of the general model with a novel, comprehensive data set of financial regulatory laws enacted specifically between 1950 and 2009. The theoretical and empirical analysis finds that economic and political factors impact Congress’ decision to delegate regulatory authority to executive agencies, which in turn impacts the stringency of financial market regulation, and our estimation results indicate that political factors may have been stronger and resulted in inefficiencies.     

外汇市场深度、网络外部性与美元的国际地位——基于分国别与地区面板数据的实证研究

尽管美元的未来存在不确定性,但从现况来看尚无任何货币具备超越美元的实力,对美元地位的短期走势并不能作出简单的判断.作者运用面板数据模型对美元国际地位的影响因素进行了实证分析.结果表明,一国外汇市场的发达程度对美元国际地位的确定产生了重要的正面影响:一国外汇市场越发达,其越青睐于持有美元;另外在动态面板数据模型中,前一期外汇市场的实际货币交易量也是决定美元国际地位的显著因素,并且前-期外汇市场的实际货币交易量越大,该国对美元的需求量越大.这一结论证实了网络外部性效应的存在.     

Environmental Policy in Open Economies and Monopolistic Competition

This paper analyses the implications of international trade for non-cooperative environmental policy in the case of local production externalities. A particular focus is on the potential effects of regulations on the variety of goods and the resulting international spillover caused by trade. A tougher domestic standard negatively affects the utility of the households abroad, since such a policy reduces their variety of imports (due to fewer domestic product inventions) or their consumption of each imported brand (due to higher import prices). Ignoring the negative spillover, non-cooperative governments implement inefficiently strict standards in equilibrium. In contrast to this clear-cut inefficiency result, the impact of international trade on the state of the environment is ambiguous.     

国际工程项目宏观风险评价研究

随着我国建筑总承包企业实力不断加强,中国建筑总承包企业在国际市场上占据越来越重要的角色,然而,国际工程给我国带来巨大利润的同时,也使其面临着巨大的风险。通过综合考虑国际承包企业的跨国际运作,基于建筑总承包企业可能面临的企业自身技术管理能力、国际政治、国际金融环境、人文地理等风险因素,构建了系统的国际工程宏观风险评价指标体系,给出了国际工程宏观风险评价方法,对国际承包商从事国际工程承包战略决策、规避宏观风险提供一定的借鉴意义。     

“国际旅游岛”背景下海南省高校休闲体育专业建设的思考

以海南国际旅游岛建设为背景,对海南省高校休闲体育专业建设进行初步探讨。通过分析海南省体闲体育发展趋势特征,提出海南省高校休闲体育专业的人才培养目标、培养规格,课程体系设置和专业方向设置的建议;探讨在教育培养方案、专业课程知识体系、专业教材和教师方面的制约瓶颈,以期望海南高校为国际旅游岛休闲体育产业培养相关优秀的专业人才。     

Exploring the development and transfer of career capital in an international governmental organization

Abstract

This study investigates global career self-management behaviors of staff in an international governmental organization (IGO). The literature on global careers argues that individuals should maximize their career capital, operationalized in the intelligent careers (IC) concept as competencies, social networks, and motivations of persons related to their careers. The IC concept implies that career capital is transferable and argues that IC components are interrelated and self-reinforcing. We explored these assumptions through a case study in a United Nations (UN) organization. Using the IC framework we undertook 29 semi-structured interviews with international assignees, HR, and operational experts and conducted one focus group discussion with seven staffing coordinators. We found that the UN organization had high barriers to career capital transfer between head office and field stations. Therefore, the IGO staff experienced conflicting demands in terms of their career capital behaviors. Many staff did not focus on maximizing their career-relevant capabilities or social networks. Instead, they pursued international careers that intentionally sacrificed internal career progression in favor of their humanitarian aid duties. The research adds to the insights of the global careers literature and refines our understanding of the relationship of the organizational center to its foreign affiliates. The findings expose potentially contradictory behavioral implications of elements of the IC concept and call for a context-sensitive refinement. Managerial implications for resourcing, development, career management, and retention are discussed.     

绿色营销:变革、冲突与战略选择

绿色营销作为市场营销观念的革命,在我国企业管理领域方兴未艾,通过对绿色营销变革的基础与特征,从理论上阐明企业行为逻辑与绿色营销的内在冲突,提出了我国目前实施“政府主导型”绿色营销发展战略的构想。