HOW COOPERATIVE ARE SAVINGS AND CREDIT COOPERATIVES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES?: AN ANALYSIS OF DATASETS FROM UGANDA

Building successful savings and credit cooperatives (SACCOs) that actually embody the cooperative principles is a challenge to development agencies. Although SACCOs form the majority of microfinance providers in many developing countries, the most recent literature on microfinance governance and performance has given little reference to the longstanding body of relevant cooperative literature. SACCO representation in microfinance datasets is biased. Drawing on so‐far unexploited datasets of Ugandan SACCOs and savings groups, this paper empirically analyses policy debate regarding SACCO‐ and savings group regulation. The findings point to the relevance of practically implementing the principle of ‘cooperation between cooperatives’ to ensure effective governance at SACCO level. Moreover, the paper introduces two new measures, based on members' savings and shares, which could become useful tools to track the application of cooperative principles in developing countries, and hence improve evidence‐based policy‐making for SACCOs.     

校企联合打造示范性高职精品专业

国家示范性高职院校建设的核心是建设高水平的专业,通过若干高水平的重点专业建设,形成若干个强势专业群,从而起到示范带动作用。共同打造精品专业是校企合作的切入点,是培养双师型队伍建设的有效途径,能够增强校企实训基地产学研结合工作的开展。     

浅谈校企合作对物联网专业建设的影响

随着近几年物联网的飞速发展,导致此方面人才奇缺。青岛农业大学以校企合作办学模式新增了物联网专业,以期为物联网的发展输送人才。本文阐述了校企合作办学模式在课程建设、师资建设、教材建设、实训和就业等方面给我校的物联网专业建设带来的积极影响以及对科研的促进。     

深化漳台产业合作的几点思考

立足漳州市情，深化漳台产业对接，构建具有核心竞争力的现代产业体系，是落实“海西建设，漳州先行”发展战略的重要举措。比较分析漳台产业的互补性，运用经济学原理论证漳台产业对接的现实性与可行性，并提出深化漳台产业合作曲建议。     

大股东合作与竞争关系的一个博弈分析

公司治理文献对所有者与经营者和大股东与中小股东之间的利益冲突进行了广泛分析 ,但缺乏对大股东之间合作与竞争关系的研究。利用博弈理论 ,本文对大股东合作与竞争的可能性进行了理论分析。分析表明 :对于最大化自己收益的大股东而言 ,对长期收益和控制权潜在收益考虑得越多 ,则他们之间进行合作的可能性也越大 ,而相互竞争或不合作的可能性越小。所以 ,对于上市公司和宏观管理机构而言 ,鼓励大股东进行真诚合作并防止他们通过合谋而损害中小股东利益是十分必要的。     

网络经济下的企业竞合关系的演变

随着信息技术的快速发展，社会经济转型加速，网络经济已经形成并迅速发展。企业的经济运行环境随之发生了巨大的变化，传统的企业间竞合关系认识以及相关战略已经很难适应网络经济下企业的发展需要。本文在回顾西方经济理论关于合作的理论的基础上，从网络经济的诸多特征出发，依据交易成本理论和博弈论方法分析了网络经济下企业广泛开展合作的动因，并介绍了企业合作的实现形式。     

Global competition and cooperation in the electronics industry: the case of X-ray equipment, 1900–1970

The electronics industry is often regarded by scholars as an example of a sector driven by endless technological innovation and major competition between a few large companies, thus embodying the common view whereby the free market leads firms to innovate. On the other hand, some business historians have also emphasised that, since the beginning of the twentieth century, most of these companies were engaged in various international cartel agreements. The business and economic history literature on this industry reveals a clear-cut divide between the inter-war years and the post-war era. In this paper, however, we argue that technical and commercial cooperation between large electronics companies continued in various forms despite the spread of anti-trust policies after 1945. In this case study, we explore the global X-ray equipment industry from its beginnings around 1900 to the advent of the CT scanner in the early 1970s. The paper focuses on Siemens and Philips, the two largest manufacturers of radiological equipment. It demonstrates that both companies pursued their commercial and technical cooperation at least until the 1970s, although it was much less overt as during the interwar years.     

Are some Indian banks too large? An examination of size efficiency in Indian banking

In this paper we use data from the years 1997–2003 to evaluate the size efficiency, as distinct from scale efficiency, of Indian banks. Following Maindiratta [Maindiratta A (1990) J Econ 46:39–56] we consider a bank to be “too large” if breaking it up into a number of smaller units would result in a larger output bundle than what could be produced from the same input by a single bank. When this is the case, the bank is not size efficient. Our analysis shows that many of the banks are, indeed, too large in various years. We also find that often a bank is operating in the region of diminishing returns to scale but is not a candidate for break up.

区域合作的制度基础:跨界治理理论与欧盟经验

区域合作是促进区域协调发展的重要形式。如何克服现有行政区划障碍与解决各合作方经济发展不平衡这“两个难题”是保证合作可持续发展的关键。解决这两个难题不是一个单纯的基于比较优势理论的资源配置或产业分工的问题,而是要建立合作的制度基础。文章尝试从“跨界治理”的视角,借鉴欧盟的跨界治理经验,研究我国区域经济合作的制度基础,提出建立一个符合市场经济原则的跨界治理体系,为推动中国区域经济合作提供一种新的路径参考。     

我国加强区域经济合作的对策

区域经济合作促进了区内贸易的优先发展,同时对多边贸易体制形成了强有力的冲击。我国加强区域经济合作的对策是形成并完善中国的区域经济合作框架,有步骤、有层次、渐行式推进区域和次区域经济合作,推动全方位、多极化的全球经济合作网络。