2020北京生态文明建设愿景

通过借鉴不同研究中情景分析的结果,选取与北京生态文明建设与可持续发展高度相关的经济社会、资源环境、能源、碳排放、技术发展和绿色经济规模等六个不同角度,试图构建2020年北京生态文明的发展前景,以及北京如何才能在未来引领中国乃至世界的绿色经济发展。在综合评估的基础上,提出未来北京生态文明发展的愿景和实现的途径及关键点。     

Top management team's vision and human resources management practices in innovative Spanish companies

The objective of the article is to analyse whether the strategic vision of the top management team (TMT) and the way employees working in teams are rewarded and assessed affect companies' innovation performance. The study was carried out on a sample of 97 Spanish companies belonging to the three most innovative sectors based on number of patents registered. The results indicate that the top management team's strategic vision alone does not explain a company's innovation performance. Innovation also requires the existence of compensation practices based on the ideas generated and developed by project teams. These results offer relevant implications for the TMT and the managers of the research and development (R&D) and human resources (HR) functions about the way teams should be rewarded and supported in order to improve the company's innovation efforts.     

Obesity of politicians and corruption in post-Soviet countries

We collected 299 frontal face images of 2017 cabinet ministers from 15 post-Soviet states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan). For each image, the minister's body-mass index is estimated using a computer vision algorithm. The median estimated body-mass index of cabinet ministers is highly correlated with conventional measures of corruption (Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, World Bank worldwide governance indicator Control of Corruption, Index of Public Integrity). This result suggests that physical characteristics of politicians such as their body-mass index can be used as proxy variables for political corruption when the latter are not available, for instance at a very local level.     

Unfolding market vision quality: understanding its dimensions,drivers, and before-launch performance

ABSTRACT

While prior research has recognised the importance of developing radical and really new product innovations for long-term business success, the factors underpinning successful development of such ‘market-driving’ innovations remain elusive. This study unfolds the extrinsic and intrinsic dimensions of market vision (MV) quality and investigates their drivers, the organisational and individual dimensions of market visioning competence (MVC). Further, it examines the extent to which MV dimensions influence before-launch performance – specifically, the ability to maintain breakthrough integrity (BI) of new products and achieve early success with customers (ESC) with market-driving innovations. Using a sample of 179 managers of innovative companies in Thailand, the results highlight that the MVC organisational dimension acts as a key driver for both dimensions of MV quality. While the MV extrinsic dimension influences BI, the instrinsic dimension of MV influences ESC – and ultimately, BI influences ESC. Research implications exist to advance the development of market-driving innovations.     

我国东、西部中小企业金融排斥状况研究

从金融排斥的角度研究中小企业融资难的问题,通过选取2002年至2011年相关数据,根据金融排斥维度的不同分别构建了东、西部中小企业金融排斥综合指数,在此基础上对东、西部中小企业受金融排斥状况进行区域对比,研究结果发现,东部地区中小企业金融排斥程度总体上高于西部地区,西部地区地理排斥和评估排斥强于东部地区。     

面向企业的船舶轮机工程卓越工程师人才培养模式

以船舶行业发展背景及企业对轮机工程技术人才内涵需求为基础,提出以工程素质、创新意识、团队精神和国际视野为目标导向的5维一体卓越工程师人才培养教育模式,从课程体系建设、教学方法改革、实践教学平台和国际化师资队伍建设等方面,探讨了面向企业的轮机工程卓越工程师人才培养模式实施途径,使大学生的综合素质得到显著提升。     

提升消费性需求:负责任的股市与它的实现条件

金融危机使得出口陷入了极大的困境,依赖投资拉动亦非持久之计,解困的最佳途径应该是提升消费性需求。股市作为国民经济中的"大腕",面对这一特殊时期,社会责任使它无法置之度外。认识股市市场的愿景,并从市场化机制着手改造股市本身,摈弃排队的上市模式是落实这一责任的条件。如果能让价廉物美的股票流通于市,最终将产生消费性需求较大幅度提升的效果。     

Unlocking the magic in successful tourism destination marketing: the role of sensing capability

ABSTRACT

Tourism destinations are facing an increasingly competitive environment, and the need to offer a compelling visitor experience is intense. However, destinations are hindered by the fragmented nature of their governance structure, with a disparate group of actors from service providers to local government agencies involved. The purpose of this study is to investigate how the tourism destination can respond effectively to changing market trends and develop a shared vision for the destination among the various actors. The resource-based view (RBV) of the firm perspective is adopted to identify the role of network management capabilities, which facilitate the coordination of actors needed to ensure destination efficacy, thereby addressing a lack of scholarly attention to marketing capability in the tourism destination. The empirical context is set in Killarney, Ireland’s most enduring and popular tourism destination. The findings point to the presence of a dynamic destination sensing capability in Killarney, which is driving a market-sensing capability and orchestration capability. This investigation provides important insight into how a successful tourism destination is able to sustain the magical ingredient of tourist engagement over two centuries.     

Forecasting tourist arrivals in Barbados

Importance of forecasting in tourism is not a controversial issue. Recently, there has been increased attention on forecasting models in tourism. The value of a forecasting model depends on the accuracy of out-of-sample forecasts. At present, there is no indication as to which model or class of models is suitable for forecasting tourism. This paper specifies, estimates, and validates an ARIMA model for forecasting long-stay visitors in Barbados. The accuracy of the short-term forecasts surpasses most recent forecasting studies. The implication of the study is that customized model building may be highly rewarding in terms of accurate forecasts compared to standard or simple methods.