小额信贷、农民创业与收入增长——基于中介效应的实证研究

基于2009—2014年山东省17地市小额贷款公司的面板数据,运用固定效应模型、工具变量和中介效应等分析方法,从农民创业的中介效应视角实证检验小额信贷的农民增收效应。结果表明：小额信贷对农民收入具有显著的正向影响,但由于小额信贷规模仍相对较小,因此其对农民收入的正向影响程度仍相对较低。同时,利用中介效应分析方法,验证农民创业在小额信贷对农民收入的影响中存在显著的中介效应。所以,为了促进农民收入的提高,政府应进一步推动小额信贷的发展以及加大对农民创业的金融支持力度。     

金融发展对企业技术创新模式影响研究——基于中国高技术产业的实证分析

运用中国高技术产业统计数据,实证分析了金融发展对不同技术创新模式的作用机制,并探讨企业所有权性质对这种作用机制是否存在以及存在何种影响。实证分析结果表明：我国信贷市场发展比股票市场发展对自主创新的促进作用更大,并且这种促进作用并不受到企业所有权性质的影响;信贷市场发展对于增加国有企业R&D经费进而促进自主创新的作用更大,而股票市场发展对于增加民营企业R&D经费进而促进自主创新的促进作用更大、更显著;我国金融发展对于国有企业的自主创新与模仿创新的促进作用较大,而对民营企业的促进作用相对较小。     

国际知识溢出、人力资源开发与区域技术创新关系研究——基于北京、上海、深圳的数据分析

经济新常态下,发展知识密集型经济、提升自主创新能力成为我国经济转型的重要方向。在此背景下,“十三五”规划提出将北京、上海建设成为全球有影响力的科创中心,深圳提出建设国际创新城市。在总结和归纳已有研究的基础上,将薪酬水平、政府教育和就业投入等区域人力资源开发变量引入知识溢出对创新影响的模型中,通过对全国数据进行分析,检验国际知识溢出、研发投入、本土吸收能力对我国创新能力的影响,并分析了人力资源开发对影响创新各变量的调节作用。在实证研究基础上,就我国加强人力资源开发、主动提升国际知识溢出对创新能力的促进作用提出政策建议。     

How firms respond to being rated

While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we investigate how these ratings also influence the companies being rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms that receive poor ratings, and especially those that face lower‐cost opportunities to improve or that anticipate greater benefits from doing do. We test our hypotheses in the context of corporate environmental ratings that guide investors to select ‘socially responsible,’ and avoid ‘socially irresponsible,’ companies. We examine how several hundred firms responded to corporate environmental ratings issued by a prominent independent social rating agency, and take advantage of an exogenous shock that occurred when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. Our study is among the first to theorize about the impact of ratings on subsequent performance, and we introduce important contingencies that influence firm response. These theoretical advances inform stakeholder theory, institutional theory, and economic theory. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The impact of CEO core self‐evaluation on the firm's entrepreneurial orientation

Although much has been attributed to a CEO's personality, one particularly intriguing, and as yet unexplored, investigation is its impact on the firm's entrepreneurial orientation. Additionally, despite calls from the upper‐echelon literature, CEO personality research has been hobbled by the absence of a unifying construct that captures core dimensions of personality, and by the difficulty in obtaining such intimate assessments from executives. Building on recent advances in personality research, in particular the identification and validation of the core self‐evaluation construct that captures the core facets of an executive's sense of self‐potency, we develop and test a model of the impact of CEO core self‐evaluation on entrepreneurial orientation. Then, consistent with upper echelons and personality theory, we specify the contingent role of environmental dynamism. Using multisource data from a sample of CEOs and their top management teams from 129 firms, including a time‐lagged assessment of the firm's entrepreneurial orientation, we find evidence to suggest that CEOs whose personalities reflect higher core self‐evaluations have a stronger positive influence on their firms' entrepreneurial orientation. In addition, we find that this influence is particularly strong in firms facing dynamic environments, but negligible in stable environments. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The self‐presentation and self‐development of serious wildlife tourists

The notion of self‐concept and choice of tourism products has yet to be applied to wildlife tourism. The question of how consumers perceive themselves is considered fundamental to understanding purchase and consumption behaviours. This ethnographic study is based upon ‘serious’ wildlife tourism participants, for whom studying fauna and flora is the primary motivation for travel. The findings demonstrate how the ‘culture’ of ‘serious’ wildlife tourism is made up of individuals who differentiate themselves from other tourists in terms of dress, behaviour, development of skills, equipment and intellectual capital, illustrated by their desire to scope, identify and photograph wildlife. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Young consumers’ innovativeness in apparel choices: A model including consumer self‐confidence

In industries with network effects, consumer innovators help to trigger the critical mass needed for a product innovation to be successful. Thus, firms can benefit from actions that increase consumer innovativeness in their target markets. Consumer innovativeness has been associated with variables such as hedonic shopping motivation, impulsiveness and status seeking. There is limited work on the impact on consumer innovativeness of consumer characteristics that reflect consumers’ self‐confident ability to choose. This study proposes and tests a model for consumer innovativeness that incorporates variables from previous research and uncovers the importance of consumer self‐confidence. We collect survey data from 534 Chilean girls, ages 10–15. After building constructs with the help of exploratory factor analysis, we analyze the data with linear regression estimation (via OLS). Our results reveal that consumer self‐confidence is positively and significantly related to consumer innovativeness. Our findings also add evidence ‐from a younger age group‐ regarding the significance of status seeking, impulsiveness and hedonic shopping motivation on consumer innovativeness. Results suggest that companies could leverage consumer innovativeness by taking actions to increase consumers’ self‐confidence. Innovative apparel choices in young consumers could possibly also be strengthened by communicating status achievement and by enhancing shopping enjoyment.     

自我生产政体：“代耕农”及其“近阈限式耕作”

以往利用劳动过程理论分析中国新工人阶级的学者,将分析的经验对象聚焦于工场下的劳动者,却无意中搁置了那些没有明确劳资关系,却同样是为资本主义生产体系服务并被隐性剥削的劳工群体。本文通过展示“代耕农”群体,揭示了“世界工厂”中的另外一种生产形态：自我生产政体。同时,通过引进人类学的“阈限”概念,一面展现这种微型政体的基本特征,一面试图揭示这个现象中所附体的霸权,在没有硝烟的劳动现场里管中窥豹。     

对提高学报校对质量的思考

"编校合一"固有的弱点,加之高校学报繁杂的校对内容,使校对工作难以达到预期的效果。应根据责任编辑自校、集体交叉校对和主编终校的各个阶段的校对内容,综合运用不同的校对方法,以全面提高学报的校对质量。