A study of cross‐border outshopping determinants: mediating effect of outshopping enjoyment

Outshopping has been studied in the marketing literature for years, and research has identified some compelling reasons for people to shop out of their home country. Outshoppers literally go extra miles to outshop for better quality and assortment of merchandise, higher quality of personal service, more pleasant shopping atmospherics, and more competitive prices. In this study, we propose that outshopping enjoyment is not only directly related to outshopping, as are the earlier outshopping determinants, but mediate the relationships between those cognitive determinants and outshopping behaviour. In addition, we explore how patriotism and terror would affect people's outshopping frequency. Managerial and research implications are also discussed.     

Patent breadth as effective barrier to market entry

Firms protecting their invention by a patent have the legal right to exclude competitors from using the patented matter. However, despite patent protection, competitors could enter the market by ‘inventing around’. Provided that inventing around becomes more difficult the broader a patent is, the strength of protection against market entry increases in patent breadth. Building on a theoretical benchmark formalizing the relationship between varying patent breadth and the threat of market entry, our empirical analysis supports the prediction that inventors perceive broad patents as effective market entry barriers.     

网络环境下纸质科技期刊生存危机与思考

电子期刊的问世为传统的纸质科技期刊带来了严峻的挑战。当前,电子期刊正快速抢夺读者,尤其是年轻读者,削减了纸质科技期刊原有的市场份额,而且原材料价格不断上涨,纸质科技期刊正面临着前所未有的生存危机。如何化解困境,这是每一位从事纸质科技期刊出版工作的业者无法回避的问题,笔者就此提出了自己的看法。     

对联想并购IBM全球PC部后的SWOT分析

在用12.5亿美元收购IBM全部个人电脑业务之后,全球第三大电脑厂商在中国诞生。这是中国IT业迄今为止最大的一笔海外收购,是中国企业实践国际化梦想的最大尝试。然而尘埃落定之后,联想今后将如何发展是摆在眼前的问题。在制订战略与计划之前,首先应分析一下新联想的机会与威胁、优势与劣势。本文试用SWOT模型对此进行了分析。     

濒危世界自然遗产对“三江并流”可持续保护的启示

基于联合国教科文组织世界遗产中心网站公布的1979—2017年监测数据和历年世界遗产大会对濒危世界自然遗产评估决议，分析了濒危世界自然遗产的空间分布和时间演变特征，总结出濒危世界自然遗产“濒危”原因和“脱危”措施以及中国云南三江并流遗产地的主要威胁因素。最后，分析了云南三江并流遗产地主要威胁因素的产生原因，并通过与濒危世界自然遗产“濒危”原因的对比，提出适合云南三江并流遗产地的管理和保护措施，为遗产价值的可持续保护提出了对策。     

International Mergers and Acquisitions Laws,the Market for Corporate Control,and Accounting Conservatism

Exploiting the staggered enactment of country‐level mergers and acquisitions (M&A) law as an exogenous increase in corporate takeover threat, this paper examines how a disciplinary market for corporate control affects accounting conservatism. Following M&A law adoption, we find increased accounting conservatism, with more pronounced effects in countries with weak shareholder protection and in those experiencing larger growth in takeover activity. Further analysis reveals that elevated takeover threats increase conservatism through changes in capital structure and investment decisions as well as improvements in board monitoring. Our findings highlight the importance of the market for corporate control in shaping financial‐reporting outcome.     

Which employers regard the threat of dismissal as a suitable incentive to motivate workers?

Using German establishment data, this study finds that the share of blue-collar workers, an outdated production technology and a high-wage policy increase the probability that employers regard the threat of dismissal as a suitable incentive. A participatory human resource management policy, the incidence of a works council and difficulties in filling vacancies decrease the probability.     

FATF全球ML＆TF威胁评估及对我国的启示

2010年下半年,金融行动特别工作组（FATF）发布了第1份全球ML＆TF（洗钱和恐怖融资）威胁评估报告（GTA）,介绍了全球视野下ML＆TF威胁及最终危害的系统性框架,并提供了用来判断和应对这些威胁的指导性方法。本文对该报告进行了翻译和研究,并提出了我国借鉴该评估框架的建议。     

Royal Dutch/Shell

Climate change will affect security of individuals and populations as well as the security of states. The article reviews evidence on the scope and nature of the climate change challenge; reviews how these impacts manifest themselves in insecurity at diverse scales; and examines evidence on the political economy of adaptation responses to these impacts. I argue that climate security has been framed in public and policy debate over climate change such that climate change impacts are a threat to nation states in terms of their interests, their economies and their borders. This framing crowds out, subverts and constrains framing in terms of human-well being. I suggest that human security provides a broader and more encompassing notion of climate security than that focussed on security of states. Here, climate security focuses on the idea of freedom from harm and fear of individuals and communities and the capability to adapt to any imposed harm. From that human security perspective, the central analytical issues become those of vulnerability, adaptation and justice.