What Can Be Learned from DuPont and the Freon Ban: A Case Study

Between 1974 and 1988, executives of DuPont, the world's largest producer of CFCs, were confronted with emerging evidence that CFCs were destroying the stratospheric ozone layer. The difficulty that executives face in such cases is that scientific knowledge develops over time and does not necessarily proceed in a straight line toward true conclusions. At the beginning of a new field of research, there is much uncertainty and disagreement among the experts. The solution of the ozone problem required a remarkable cooperation among science, business, and international governments. After looking at the role of DuPont executives in this drama, and the difficulties facing any executive dealing with uncertain science, the paper turns to an evaluation of the field of Business Ethics to see what light it might throw on this and analogous problems. Finally, the paper offers specific suggestions in terms of principles in dealing with uncertain science, and concludes that the course of action that DuPont followed, including some mistakes, can serve as a model for analogous crises.     

The Performance of Actively Managed International Mutual Funds

International mutual funds allow individual investors to diversify abroad at a reasonable cost. This paper tests whether international funds that actively engage in country and security selection outperform passive global benchmarks. We apply a mean-variance efficiency test that incorporates the practical prohibition against short sales of open-end mutual funds. Our tests reject the efficiency of the world equity market portfolio over the sample period, and our funds as a group outperform the inefficient world index. However, we find no evidence of security selectivity ability using a 12-country benchmark. We do find that active international funds provide global diversification benefits. Tests using the Positive Period Weight (PPW) measure of Grinblatt and Titman (1989), which is robust to nonlinearity in fund and benchmark returns, yield similar results.     

国际快递公司在华发展特点及启示

简要介绍了联邦快递、联合包裹、敦豪环球快递、荷兰天地快运四大国际快递公司在中国市场发展的特点及成功经验;指出我国目前物流快递业发展的诸多问题,提出有效应对措施与建议,提高我国快递企业的竞争力。     

Business communities in the European confectionery sector: A U.K.-Finland comparison

This paper is based on the early stages of an international collaborative project investigating the structural changes of the confectionery sectors in Finland and the U.K. over the past two decades. An institutional perspective is used to extend conventional understandings of industries via the development of the sector concept. The network and community constructs are shown to be important devices for understanding the institutional character of a sector. Accordingly, the paper reveals the similarities and differences between the two national examples. An explanation is offered of the way domestic networks persist in both countries while contrasting community profiles are apparent.     

我国企业国际科技合作现状及对策研究

文章从经济和科技全球化背景下企业国际科技合作的战略地位分析入手,介绍了我国企业国际科技合作概况,重点分析了企业对外科技合作存在的主要问题,提出了推进企业国际科技合作发展的8点对策建议。     

基于服务质量的第三方物流分包模型研究

协调合作有利于实现供应链上节点企业之间的共赢。，论文针对由第三方物流提供者、第三方物流分包商组成的供应体系结构，提出了参与双方在信息对称情况下的合作和激励约束机制，在此基础上建立了基于服务质量的收益分享模型，通过与市场规制模型以及Stackelberg模型的比较分析可以看出，合作机制可以达到Pareto最优，使得渠道总利润最大化的同时，实现参与各方的共赢。最后通过算例对模型进行了比较分析，验证了激励机制设置的有效性。     

我国港口经济发展的战略选择

从港口相关概念和发展历程开始，阐述了我国商贸港口发展面临的国际产业转移的重大机遇，以及如何及时抓住机遇，继续扩大区位优势，争取更多政策支持，培育产业集聚形态，促进港口经济繁荣，增强港口城市经济活力。     

我国中小企业国际市场营销策略浅析

积极有效地开展国际市场营销是我国中小企业成长和发展的必由之路。文章在国际市场营销理论的基础上,分析了我国中小企业在开展国际市场营销活动中存在的问题并提出了我国中小企业国际市场营销的若干策略。     

Risk-based classification of supplier relationships

The management and exploitation of external resources has increased and become a new source of business success. This has given rise to various new risks and therefore increased the need for collaborative risk management and learning. The objective of this paper is to explore the differences in risk management and learning across supplier relationships classified through network risks. The paper provides a theoretical review of supplier relationships and risk management, as well as a survey-based empirical study conducted in one case company's supply network. A set of network risks and risk-management measures is developed by means of factor analysis, and a supplier classification by means of cluster analysis. According to the results, the exploitation of collaborative risk management and learning is highest among the most strategic supplier relationships. A classification typology based on suppliers’ opinions helps both parties in the relationship and enables the efficient exploitation of mutual risk management with collaborative learning as one of its keystones.     

电子商务下供应链物流协同的研究

从探讨供应链物流协同理论出发,构建了电子商务下供应链物流协同的一个基本框架,并借鉴协同学中建立序参量方程和势函数曲线解决问题的相关理论进行了协同效用分析;主要研究了供应链物流协同运作的策略、分阶段实施方案,以及对协同运作采取的绩效衡量方法。