我国中小旅行社产品的深度开发

我国中小旅行社的数量众多,但其产品却存在着较多的问题.中小旅行社要生存发展,必须从产品方面入手改革,才能在巨大的竞争对手面前提高自己的竞争实力.     

CEO career horizon,corporate governance,and real options: The role of economic short‐termism

Research Summary: Combining studies on real options theory and economic short‐termism, we propose that, depending on CEOs’ career horizons, CEOs have heterogeneous interests in strategic flexibility, and thus, have different incentives to make real options investments. We argue that compared to CEOs with longer career horizons, CEOs with shorter career horizons will be less inclined to make real options investments because they may not fully reap the rewards during their tenure. In addition, we argue that long‐term incentives and institutional ownership will mitigate the relationship between CEOs’ career horizons and real options investments. U.S. public firms as an empirical setting produced consistent evidence for our predictions. Our study is the first to theoretically explain and empirically show that a CEO's self‐seeking behavior will impact real options investments. Managerial Summary: This article helps to explain how a CEO's self seeking‐behavior may shape a firm's real option investment, which could result in different level of strategic flexibility. We argue that CEOs with short career horizons have less time to exercise their firms’ real options, which should lower the investments in the firms’ real options portfolios relative to CEOs with long career horizons. We study a sample of U.S. public firms and find strong evidence that a CEO's expected tenure in the firm is positively related to the real options investments at the firm level. We find that this agency issue can be mitigated by adopting appropriate corporate governance mechanisms such as long‐term incentives and institutional investors.     

Activist‐impelled divestitures and shareholder value

Research Summary : This study analyzes how the divestitures that are impelled by activist investors in their campaigns against public corporations affect shareholder value. Using hand‐collected data on the activist campaigns that were launched against and the divestitures that were undertaken by Fortune 500 companies between 2007 and 2015, we find that activist‐impelled divestitures are more positively associated with immediate and longer‐term measures of shareholder value than comparable manager‐led divestitures. These performance differences persist for nearly two years after the completion of these deals. Our results empirically test the idea that firms with agency problems unlock shareholder value when they divest, and support the notion that activist investors fulfill an important external governance function. Our work also opens new research opportunities and offers practical implications as well. Managerial Summary : This study investigates how divestitures that are undertaken at the behest of activist investors affect shareholder value. We find that divestitures that were undertaken under pressure from activist investors are associated with more positive shareholder returns than comparable divestitures that were undertaken voluntarily by managers. These performance differences persist for nearly two years after the completion of these deals, alleviating concerns about the purported short‐termism of activist investors. Our findings suggest that activist investors may fulfill an important governance function by inducing managers to undertake strategies that they might not otherwise pursue, thereby unlocking shareholder value.     

BS in the boardroom: Benevolent sexism and board chair orientations

Research Summary: Though research has focused on the ascent and acceptance of female CEOs, the post‐promotion circumstances female CEOs face remain unclear. In this study, we focus on a critical post‐promotion circumstance: the board chair–CEO relationship. Drawing on the gender stereotype literature, agency theory, and stewardship theory, we posit that firms appointing a female CEO are more likely to adopt a collaboration board chair orientation and less likely to adopt a control orientation. We further predict this effect is attenuated by female board representation. Using a sample of new S&P 1500 CEOs, we find support for our predictions regarding the collaboration orientation but not the control orientation. This research provides some evidence of benevolent sexism in the boardroom, with female directors acting as a countervailing influence. Managerial Summary: Whereas the notion that females encounter a glass ceiling on their path toward CEO is well documented, the conditions female CEOs encounter after promotion are less understood. The relationship between the board chair and the CEO is one important post‐promotion condition. Board chairs can focus on monitoring and/or working together with the CEO. We suggest board chairs are more likely to work in close collaboration with female CEOs than with male CEOs. We attribute this to benevolent sexism, which explains that board chairs are more likely to collaborate with female CEOs because they view females as more conducive to, and in need of, this type of relationship. We also suggest this benevolent sexism is less prevalent when there are more females on the board.     

我国独立董事薪酬间接支付的方案探讨

我国的独立董事是基于聘用关系从上市公司直接领取报酬的.这种直接薪酬制度影响了独立董事的独立性.独立董事薪酬由上市公司承担,中介机构支付的薪酬间接支付方案有利于独立董事作用的发挥.在方案设计中,是以中国证券业协会下设独立董事委员会作为非盈利性的中介机构.     

贵州国际旅行社业的SCP范式分析

文章采用哈佛学派的产业组织分析范式对贵州国际旅行社业(指入境旅游)发展现状进行了分析并提出了简单的政策建议,以利于为政策制定和为行业管理提供客观依据.     

Corporate brand strategy: Drivers and outcomes of hotel industry’s brand orientation

The MNC resellers are vastly competitive and capital-intensive. Based on the corporate brand orientation, the objective is to investigate how the individual dimensions of hotel industry’s brand orientation can improve a corporate experience and subsequently create superior hotel performance and retailer preferences. A model of the integration of the hotel industry’s brand orientation was tested in a survey conducted among MNC resellers from hospitality industry. Structural equation modelling was applied to gain insight into the various influences and relationships. The research makes two main contributions. It makes a theoretical contribution by classifying the integration of the hotel industry’s brand orientation for hospitality industry and from this extrapolate key suggestions for further study. The continuous evolution and economic influence of the hospitality industry require the application of innovative marketing practices.     

国有企业高管薪酬管制与委托代理问题

由于国企高管的经营业绩难以被准确度量,加上监督约束机制不健全,高管的超额薪酬成为国企代理问题的一种典型表现,于是政府将高管薪酬管制作为应急措施来降低代理成本,缓解国企代理问题。采用双重差分法对2011—2018年A股上市公司的分析表明：第二次限薪令在有效限制国企高管薪酬水平的同时,没有对高管在职消费产生显著影响,有效降低了国企代理成本;但第二次限薪令也降低了薪酬激励效应,导致国企高管努力程度降低,由此造成的利益损失又成为新的代理成本。国企薪酬制度改革面临激励与管制的两难选择,应在国企分类改革的基础上对不同类型国企的高管采取不同的激励机制：对公益类及特殊行业的国企增强高管政治晋升激励,对竞争行业（营利性）国企则应在推向市场的同时放松薪酬管制,从而有效降低代理成本,解决国企代理问题。     

松嫩高平原土地利用格局空间尺度识别及其关联关系研究

研究目的:实现由传统的人工识别到自动识别土地利用格局空间尺度的方法创新,为优化区域土地利用格局提供科学依据。研究方法:基于分形理论,采用二阶导数对计盒维数模型进行改进和优化。研究结果:(1)研究区土地利用格局在900 m×900 m尺度上具有明显的分形特征;(2)1991年、2003年和2015年研究区土地利用格局表现为各土地利用类型之间空间作用力、分布均匀程度和内部联结性的大小不同,并呈现出空间相互关联关系复杂性;(3)1991—2015年,研究区土地利用格局空间相互关联关系变化特征明显,表现为土地利用格局中竞争强度强弱的差异。研究结论:(1)改进的计盒维数模型能够实现土地利用格局空间尺度的自动识别;(2)建立的计盒维数自动识别尺度模型,确定研究区土地利用格局空间尺度900 m×900 m是独立最小地理单元,也是分析土地利用格局变化的最优尺度。     

Environmental sustainability practices and exports: The interplay of strategy and institutions in Latin America

We integrate institutional economics with stakeholder theory to examine the antecedents and outcomes of Environmental Sustainability Practices (ESP) for small and medium enterprises in Latin America. We find that these firms primarily engage in ESP to succeed in export markets. We also find that this is especially true when firms demonstrate organizational agency by adopting complementary strategies such as obtaining international quality certifications to develop credibility among stakeholders. Lastly, their cause receives a further boost when they are based in institutional environments that are known for strong democratic voice and accountability mechanisms. In elucidating the interplay of strategy and institutions, we suggest the need to better integrate organizational agency into institutional theory and institutional environment into stakeholder theory.