Impact of outsourcing on business-to-business marketing: An agenda for inquiry

Increasing globalization has made companies focus more on their outsourcing decisions. Moving beyond the tactical companies have begun to incorporate outsourcing as a strategic weapon in their armory. This article expands on this theme by highlighting the need for understanding this key issue from business marketing and sales perspective and pointing to some interesting research issues on the topic. The article also introduces this special issue, briefly discusses the six special issue articles and provides a framework that integrates their contributions to our understanding of strategic outsourcing.     

Interactive data and retail investor decision‐making: an experimental study

The results of an experimental study of retail investors' use of eXtensible Business Reporting Language tagged (interactive) data and PDF format for making investment decisions are reported. The main finding is that data format made no difference to participants' ability to locate and integrate information from statement footnotes to improve investment decisions. Interactive data were perceived by participants as quick and ‘accurate’, but it failed to facilitate the identification of the adjustment needed to make the ratios accurate for comparison. An important implication is that regulators and software designers should work to reduce user reliance on the comparability of ratios generated automatically using interactive data.     

Entering the mobile service market via mobile platforms: Qualcomm's BREW platform and Nokia's Preminet platform

The mobile telecommunication market has evolved from simple voice to multimedia services. In the past, the primary players in mobile services were local operators in different countries; international telecommunication vendors, such as Qualcomm and Nokia, were seldom involved in the mobile service market. In order to enter this market, Qualcomm and Nokia have separately introduced their mobile application platforms, called respectively BREW and Preminet. This paper examines how the two companies attempt to share the mobile service market through their mobile platforms and internationalized business models. This paper also analyzes their mobile platforms’ business models and their strategic implications.     

家族性资源对家族企业创业导向的影响机制

探究家族企业创业导向的前因变量,能有效培育创业导向,进而提升家族企业创业绩效。构建家族性资源对家族企业创业导向的影响因素模型,设计家族性资源和创业导向维度及量表,以福建省259个家族企业为研究样本,运用分层回归分析探讨家族性资源对创业导向的作用方向、影响强度和机理。研究结果表明,创业家族特质、家族文化和家族创业网络对创业导向都有着不同程度的影响,相比之下,家族文化和家族社会关系网络是更为关键的因素。     

科技企业孵化器在技术范式转换过程中的作用分析

技术范式定义了进一步创新的技术机会和有关如何利用这些机会的基本程度,因此技术创新可以看成是新旧技术范式之间的转换。科技企业孵化器以为高新技术产业的创新服务为目标,由此提出科技企业孵化器能有效地促进技术范式的转换:企业孵化器扶植新技术,在技术群中筛选出有市场前景的创新技术,并且促进技术范式转换过程中正外部性的产生和集聚效应、规模效应的发生,加快二次创新,增强企业新技术范式的创生能力。     

美国对中国反倾销的变化趋势、原因及对策分析

自20世纪90年代以来,中国的资本密集型出口产品逐步替代劳动密集型出口产品成为美国的主要反倾销对象。美国对中国反倾销出现的这一变化趋势,一方面是由于中国劳动力价格上升,劳动密集型产品对美出口比例降低,另一方面是由于中国的资本密集型产品对美出口迅速增加对美国相关产业形成竞争压力。为了有效的应对美国的反倾销,无论是相关出口企业,还是国家政府部门都应给予足够重视,应坚持统一对外的方针,抵制低价出口行为;实施市场多元化战略;设立专门应对反倾销的机构,共同做好反倾销的预防工作和应对措施。     

从结构角度看中国出口贸易的增长波动

本文基于经济周期理论,借助HP滤波法从总体和结构两个角度分析了中国的出口增长波动,结果表明:中国出口波动中,原料密集型产品出口增长速度最慢,劳动密集型产品出口增长持续性最强;资本密集型产品出口增长扩张收缩能力最强,增长最不稳定;易模仿的研发密集型产品出口增长最快,难模仿的研发密集型产品出口增长速度较快。总出口增长波动和上述五类产品出口增长波动之间存在长期均衡关系。     

"义乌商圈"融资发展研究——以"稠行模式"为例

改革开放以来,以中小企业为主要栽体的"商圈"迅速发展起来,"义乌商圈"就是其中最具特色的代表之一.浙江稠州商业银行作为一家扎根于义乌的"市场银行",与"商圈"同成长、共命运,积极开展金融创新,探索出了一条适合"商圈"发展的"稠行模式".本文通过对"稠行模式"经营特点的分析,以期为我国商圈融资发展提供新的思路和对策.     

Politically connected boards,family and business group affiliations,and cost of capital: Evidence from Indonesia

We investigate the effect of politically connected boards (both supervisory boards [SBs] and boards of directors [BODs]) on cost of debt and equity capital of listed companies in Indonesia which has established a two-tier corporate governance system. The results, based on 250 firms, suggest that companies with politically connected SBs experience lower cost of debt and equity capital, whereas politically connected BODs have no association with cost of either debt or equity. Furthermore, we find that family firms and firms belonging to business groups with politically connected SBs enjoy lower cost of debt and equity capital. Our main results are robust to alternative measures and to tests for endogeneity.     

Lessons for progressing narrative reporting: Learning from the experience of disseminating the Danish Intellectual Capital Statement approach

The case for the greater use of narrative disclosures within the annual report package continues to attract support from accounting academics. After a decade of comparatively limited attention, the topic of narrative reporting has returned to the accounting research agenda, in part in association with integrated reporting and a growing interest in accounting for business models, as well as a resurgence of intellectual capital research. In the light of a continuing optimism that narrative reporting will eventually assume its rightful place within financial reporting, the paper reports and reflects upon the findings of a study of the outcome of the Danish Guideline Project in the decade following its conclusion in late 2002. This initiative placed a heavy emphasis on the extension of narrative reporting in its principal output, the Intellectual Capital Statement, still widely regarded as a highly promising intellectual capital reporting framework. Based on insights derived from the study, the paper identifies a number of major obstacles that confront the advocates of narrative disclosure practices, the persistence of which is rooted in the contestable jurisdiction that characterises the accountancy profession itself.