Substance in Business-to-Business Relationships

ABSTRACT

The research explores the substance of business relationships within a technical consultancy industry–engineering. Relationships in the engineering industry are project based resulting in close and intense relationships during the project life but with low involvement relationships (if at all) between projects. A model of relationship substance was developed using SEM techniques. The results highlight the actor dimension of the relationships as being essential to overall project performance. Resources, such as knowledge, also played an important role in the relationship model.     

Profiling Computer Predispositions

ABSTRACT

An exploratory study was undertaken to measure undergraduate student attitudes toward computers. A revised version of the Bath County Computer Scale (BCCAS) developed by George Bear, Herbert Richards, and Paul Lancaster was administered to a proportionality sample of 310 undergraduate students whose demographic make-up was very dissimilar to those who had participated in the original BCCAS instrument validation study.

A thirty-six item instrument was personally administered to 310 learners pursuing undergraduate studies, yielding a total of 11,160 individual responses. The data so obtained were subjected to several statistical tests of significance such as ANOVA. Through cross-classification numerous tables were generated and analyzed.

The findings indicate that demographic variables such as gender, status, GPA average, major, prior computer experience and anticipated future use of computers show significant differences in how Students feel about computers.     

服务业发展与产业结构优化关系的分析

发展服务业是产业结构不断优化的助推器，也是优化产业结构的主要手段，而产业结构的优化也为服务业的发展提供了的空间和环境，反过来也促进服务业的发展。产业结构优化的过程就是服务业不断发展的过程，产业结构的不断优化有利于服务业的发展，服务业的发展推进产业结构的整体优化，并能够带动其他产业的发展。     

浅谈高职院校图书馆考证信息服务

通过分析新形式下出现的考证现象,文章针对职业教育的目的和特点,浅要论述了高职院校图书馆信息服务的新内容——考证信息服务,提出了考证信息的收集范围、收集措施,考证信息的管理以及怎样开发利用考证信息,强调了考证信息服务对高职院校图书馆建设的必要性和紧迫性。     

长春市社区卫生服务现状分析

目前全国人民都在关注社区医疗服务问题,我作为一名长春市市民,走访和调查了长春市社区卫生服务现状,总体看是好的,但还有不足,有待改善。     

The role of food service in tourist satisfaction

The paper is based on empirical investigation carried out amongst a 341-sample population visiting the Black Sea resorts of Romania in August 1997. The purpose of the study was to investigate the role and importance of food service in tourist satisfaction and to note any differences in satisfaction levels between regional groups. Analysis of the findings revealed that significant differences existed between three tourist groups’ satisfaction perceptions of value for money, quality of food, number of dishes, standard of food service, variety of dishes, presentation of food and speed of service in general; and of bread, coffee, meat and soup in particular. Overall results further indicated that quality of food, value for money, variety of dishes, attractiveness of surroundings and presentation of food were the attributes that most affected the overall food service experience in Romania. The paper concludes that food service is an important contributor to tourist satisfaction and that there are significant differences in satisfaction levels with food service between eastern and western European, and Romanian tourists.     

Competition Effects of Supermarket Services

This article investigates the competition effects of supermarket services using fluid milk as a case study. A simultaneous equation model for services and price competition is estimated with scanner data from fifteen supermarket chains using two alternative measures of services, namely store size and principal components of in-store services. Empirical results show that increasing services results in economies of scope, greater supermarket chain-level demand, lower price elasticity of demand, and enhanced market power, leading to higher milk prices and quantity sold. We conclude that, as result of service competition, supermarkets differentiate themselves from competitors and successfully attract less price-sensitive consumers.     

谱分析方法在市场经济周期研究中的应用—以温州市为例

经济周期的理论必然涉及经济周期长度的研究，相对于常用的自回归移动平均方法，谱分析方法具备一定的优点。本文以温州市1978－1998年国内生产总值指数作为市域经济发展水平的量度，利用谱分析确定了四个不同的周期，并对其成因进行了初步探讨。     

提高高校图书馆图书利用率的途径

本文针对目前高校图书馆普遍存在的图书利用率低的问题 ,从采访、编目 ,特别是流通等方面提出改善这种状况的一些行之有效的途径。     

关于教育与就业关系的一个理论模型及实证检验

In this paper, we divide the process of educational development into two aspects: the change in educational structure and the expansion of educational scale. Based on this hypothesis, we analyze the relationships between each of the two aspects and employment respectively. In this paper, the factors and the transmission mechanism of the influence that education has on employment are also explained. Then, the theoretical models of the relationship between education and employment are built up. Finally, we use the empirical data collected in China to test the theoretical models and give explanations to the status quo of the unemployment structure within various educational levels. It suggests that: the development of education in China at present is beneficial to the increase in the employment rate, the increase in the proportion of the laborers with junior school education has negative effects on employment, and the development of higher education creates positive effects on the employment, but no evidence shows any significant correlation between the proportion of the laborers with senior high school education and the unemployment rate. Translated from Xin Zhengzhi Jingjixue Pinglun 新政治经济学评论 (Review of New Political Economy), 2006, 2(1): 46–69