Money and Output: Friedman and Schwartz Revisited

More than 50 years ago, Friedman and Schwartz examined historical data for the United States and found evidence of procyclical movements in the money stock, which led corresponding movements in output. We find similar correlations in more recent data; these appear most clearly when Divisia monetary aggregates are used in place of the Federal Reserve's official, simple‐sum measures. When we use information in Divisia money to estimate a structural vector autoregression, identified monetary policy shocks appear to have large and persistent effects on output and prices, with a lag that has lengthened considerably since the early 1980s.     

Walking and Talking Corporate Social Responsibility: Implications of Firm Size and Organizational Cost

In this paper we address two interrelated research gaps in the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) literature. The first results from a lack of understanding of different patterns of CSR engagement with respect to CSR talk (impression management and the creation of symbolic images and documentation) and CSR walk (substantive implementation of CSR policies, structures and procedures). Related to this, the second gap concerns limited knowledge about the influence of firm size on CSR engagement. We develop a conceptual model that explains differences in CSR talk versus walk based on organizational cost and firm size. This allows us to theorize the antecedents of what we call the large firm implementation gap (large firms tend to focus on communicating CSR symbolically but do less to implement it into their core structures and procedures) and vice versa the small firm communication gap (less active communication and more emphasis on implementation). Our model expands a new theoretical understanding of CSR engagement based on as yet underemphasized firm‐level antecedents of CSR, and opens up several new avenues for future, and in particular comparative, research.     

营业转让中的劳动合同承继探讨--从一起劳务派遣转包案件说起

营业转让是用人单位具有一定机能性财产的一体转让,劳动关系已成为营业转让的重要标的和要价筹码。营业转让时劳动者与生产资料继续保持结合,劳动关系转移不违背其人身属性。应在立法中明确规定营业转让时劳动关系随转制度,买受企业应无条件接受原有职工,原职工在劳动条件、福利待遇等不变的情况下不得解除劳动合同。     

基于主体建模方法及其在宏观经济学中的应用

本文介绍了一种新型宏观经济学研究范式———基于主体建模方法。与主流的动态随机一般均衡模型相比,基于主体建模方法能更好地描述实际生活中经济主体的有限理性和适应性预期的行为,同时它还可以模拟复杂性系统中的异质性主体之间的交互作用,从而研究经济系统的演化过程及其宏观特征的“涌现”过程。此外,本文还介绍了基于主题建模方法在货币政策和经济波动理论中的应用：在政策分析中,基于主题建模方法能大量模拟市场参与者决策的“动物精神”和“羊群效应”,即使没有外部冲击,也可能形成金融危机等非均衡经济现象。随着计算机水平的发展,基于主题建模方法必将成为经济学分析的一个有力的新工具。     

Failure prevention and management in business incubation: practices towards a scalable business model

How support systems such as a business incubator deal with failure, a common phenomenon in new venture creation, is less understood. Employing a value creation perspective helps us to understand failure, the inability of an entrepreneurial team to build a scalable business model. Based on case studies at nine Swedish business incubators, we develop a dynamic process model towards understanding failure prevention and management in business incubation. We find business incubation practices towards failure prevention and management to be a mix of predictive and non-predictive strategies. These practices could help prevent and mitigate failure at personal, organisational and social levels towards value creation for the startups and their stakeholders and channel the effects of failure towards social benefit.     

Innovation in R&D service firms: evidence from the UK

Research and Development (R&D) service firms make significant contributions to innovation in other businesses. The extant literature considers these firms a homogenous sub-group of Knowledge Intensive Business Service firms (KIBS). The objective of this study is to investigate how R&D service firms innovate and the variety of innovation practices within these firms. Employing data from semi-structured interviews with senior managers from 32 UK-based R&D service firms, we suggest that there are two different modes of innovation: in the first mode, R&D service firms innovate similarly to KIBS whose innovation is ad-hoc in nature and driven by customers’ requests; another group of R&D service firms innovate like New Technology-based Firms (NTBFs) relying more on structured in-house R&D activities.     

商务成本的构成及其评价问题的研究

近来,商务成本成为一个全球性热门话题,它是企业投资决策的重要依据和反映区域竞争力的重要指标。本文对商务成本的概念和构成作了描述,并介绍了一种计算各个城市或地区商务成本指标系数的方法,为实际工作提供了方便。     

大规模定制的组织特征研究

目前国内外学者和专家主要从技术角度研究如何实现大规模定制,而本文从组织设计理论的角度分析了大规模定制模式对组织的要求。成功实施大规模定制的动态稳定性组织要求以增加顾客价值为导向、以业务流程为中心、内部组织具有高度柔性、外部组织能战略协作。     

信息工程中主题数据库的规划与设计

主题数据库是信息化建设的重要内容之一;首先,运用数学的语言对主题数据库的规划进行了描述;然后介绍如何通过计算信息系统中各个实体间的相关系数来进行主题数据库的规划;最后,提供了用全域系统体系C—U矩阵和主题数据库的质量评估函数对规划出来的主题数据库进行评估的方法。     

建筑企业法律风险防范的研究

多数建筑企业尤其是未经历诉讼的企业不清楚法律风险,如何规避企业的法律风险是企业的一个难题。文章从法律风险防范的角度为建筑企业构建一个法律保障机制提供有益的探索。