Sources of gains from international portfolio diversification

This paper looks at the determinants of country and industry specific factors in international portfolio returns using a sample of forty eight countries and thirty nine industries over the last three decades. Country factors have remained relatively stable over the sample period while industry factors have significantly increased during the last decade and dropped again since 2000. The importance of industry and country factors is correlated with measures of economic and financial international integration and development. We find that financial market globalization is the main driving force behind the changes in relative magnitude of the different shocks. Country factors are smaller for countries integrated in world financial markets and have declined as the degree of financial integration and the number of countries pursuing financial liberalization has increased. Higher international financial integration within an industry increases the importance of industry factors in explaining returns. Economic integration of production also helps in explaining returns. Countries with a more specialized production activity have higher country shocks.     

Agency hazards and alliance portfolios

Prior research over several decades has catalogued many positive motives underlying firms' decisions to engage in joint ventures and other forms of alliances. In this empirical analysis, we investigate whether agency problems brought about by the separation of ownership and control also stimulate the development of firms' joint venture portfolios. By focusing on joint ventures, as opposed to diversification in general or acquisitions, we address the recent debate on agency theory's domain. Results from a sample of U.S. manufacturing firms' alliance portfolios offer supporting evidence, and comparable findings are obtained for international and domestic joint ventures. Agency hazards are also found to bring about extensions of firms' nonequity alliance portfolios in both the international and domestic settings. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Informational Efficiency of the Equity Market As Compared to the Syndicated Bank Loan Market

The loan market is a hybrid between a public and a private market, comprised of financial institutions with access to private information about borrowing firms. We test whether this is reflected in informationally efficient price formation in the loan market vis-a-vis the equity markets, and reject this private information hypothesis. We also reject a liquidity hypothesis which suggests that equity markets always lead loan markets, despite bank lenders' access to private information, because of greater liquidity in equity markets. We further test, and reject, an asymmetric price reaction hypothesis that states that loan returns are more sensitive to negative information whereas equity returns respond symmetrically to both positive and negative information. We find evidence most consistent with an integrated markets hypothesis that suggests that both the equity and syndicated bank loan markets are highly integrated such that information flows freely across markets. This is particularly true when the equity market makers are also loan syndicate members.      

西部新型工业化道路的特殊性及战略选择

西部目前正处于工业化初期向中期过渡期,加深工业化仍然是一项艰巨的历史性任务。由于西部工业基础薄弱,结构不尽合理,且信息化、现代化程度低,与东部发达地区相比,西部新型工业化道路具有特殊性。因此,优化西部地区产业结构、提高现代化新技术水平,用资源引进资本以及推动农业工业化等,是西部新型工业化的必由之路。     

跨国战略联盟与我国汽车业的发展

汽车制造业是近几年我国工业行业中利润增长最快的行业,汽车业的发展得益于战略联盟的应用。我国企业尤其是汽车业应当重视跨国公司的这一发展新趋势,不断开拓与国外跨国公司的合作形式,以提高我国汽车业的国际竞争力和国际化经营水平,同时要注意防止联盟的陷阱。     

企业经营的价值构成与战略权衡

企业为顾客所提供的产品或服务的总价值由顾客价值与企业价值构成。相对于同业中的竞争者或历史上的企业自身，如果企业更能创造顾客价值，则可认为企业有当下经营优势；如果企业更能创造顾客价值与企业价值，则可认为企业有持续经营优势。顾客价值与企业价值是企业经营过程中既对立又统一的两个方面。如何跨期考虑顾客价值与企业价值之间的比例关系，是企业应该而且必须做出的战略权衡。     

知识员工雇佣管理模式研究--基于SHRM的分析

本文从战略人力资源管理的视角,综合运用知识资本理论和战略管理理论熏以知识员工异质性为研究的逻辑起点,根据知识员工所拥有知识的战略价值及企业专用性这两个维度,把知识员工分为先锋型、工兵型、卫士型和盟友型等四种类型,然后较深入地分析了各类知识员工的特点,并在此基础上提出了差异化雇佣管理模式。文章最后还就差异化雇佣管理所带来的问题进行了研究,一方面丰富了雇佣关系管理理论的内容,另一方面也为中国的知识型和高科技企业在实践中分层分类雇佣管理知识员工提供了理论依据。     

以"代建制"为契机加快工程项目管理公司的发展

建设部《关于培育发展工程总承包和工程项目管理企业的指导意见》的发布，以及全国大部分地区政府投资工程代建制的实行，为我国工程项目管理公司的发展创造了机遇。面对竞争日益激烈的国内外市场，如何抓住有利形势，加快我国工程项目管理公司的培育和发展，使之能与国外的工程项目管理公司相抗衡，已经成为一个非常紧迫的问题。     

建立和运行一体化管理体系的初步尝试

对质量管理体系、环境管理体系、职业健康安全管理体系进行合理整合，形成一个综合管理体系即QEO一体化管理体系。认为：QEO一体化管理体系是建立方针和目标并实现这些目标的相互关联或相互作用的一组要素、组织机构、管理、程序过程和资源，它比多个管理体系更能有效达到依据方针所制定的目标。详细介绍了建立QEO一体化管理体系的过程。     

我国石油企业跨国经营战略的探讨

石油企业走出国门，实施跨国经营，是解决我国国内油气资源供求矛盾加剧的必然选择，也是维护和保障我国石油安全乃至国家经济安全的必由之路。文章探讨了我国石油企业国际化经营的必然性及其动因，进一步分析了目前我国石油企业国际化经营的发展现状，在此基础上提出了我国三大石油集团实施“走出去”战略的八项对策。