中国制造企业低碳竞争力的来源及提升途径

文章通过文献回顾,指出低碳经济与循环经济、生态经济、绿色经济之间的异同以及制造企业对低碳运营的认识误区.在分析企业低碳转型刺激因素和动机的基础上,详细解释了中国制造企业缺乏低碳成长主动性与创造性的原因.利用战略管理的市场基础观(MBV)、资源基础观(RBV)、制度基础观(IBV)和认知基础观(CBV),深入分析了制造企业低碳竞争力的来源,并为中国制造企业的低碳实践提供了参考和建议.     

China's Auto Industry Steps Forward

Last year,the volume of China's auto trade reached US$66.878 bil- lion,of which imports accounted for US$25.982 billion,a year-on- year increase of 24.45 percent;while ex- ports totaled US$40.896 billion,growing by 45.31 percent.The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers(CAAM) predicts that the number of autos sold in 2008 will break the 1 million barrier for the first time in history,representing an increase of about 20 percent.     

Women’s Careers at the Start of the 21st Century: Patterns and Paradoxes

In this article we assess the extant literature on women’s careers appearing in selected career, management and psychology journals from 1990 to the present to determine what is currently known about the state of women’s careers at the dawn of the 21st century. Based on this review, we identify four patterns that cumulatively contribute to the current state of the literature on women’s careers: women’s careers are embedded in women’s larger-life contexts, families and careers are central to women’s lives, women’s career paths reflect a wide range and variety of patterns, and human and social capital are critical factors for women’s careers. We also identify paradoxes that highlight the disconnection between organizational practice and scholarly research associated with each of the identified patterns. Our overall conclusion is that male-defined constructions of work and career success continue to dominate organizational research and practice. We provide direction for a research agenda on women’s careers that addresses the development of integrative career theories relevant for women’s contemporary lives in hopes of providing fresh avenues for conceptualizing career success for women. Propositions are identified for more strongly connecting career scholarship to organizational practice in support of women’s continued career advancement.     

Four Design Criteria for any Future Contractarian Theory of Business Ethics

This article assesses the quality of Integrative Social Contracts Theory (ISCT) as a social contract argument. For this purpose, it embarks on a comparative analysis of the use of the social contract model as a theory of political authority and as a theory of social justice. Building on this comparison, it then develops four criteria for any future contractarian theory of business ethics (CBE). To apply the social contract model properly to the domain of business ethics, it should be: (1) self-disciplined, i.e., not aspire results beyond what the contract model can realistically establish; (2) argumentative, i.e., it should seek to provide principles that are demonstrative results of the contractarian method; (3) task-directed, i.e., it should be clear what the social contract thought-experiment is intended to model; and (4) domain-specific, i.e., the contractarian choice situation should be tailored to the defining problems of business ethics.     

基于组织惰性视角的组织理论演进路径研究

组织演进的过程也即组织惰性的克服过程。从克服组织惰性的视角出发,文章认为古典管理理论所倡导的“一场全面的心理革命”、行为科学理论对人的关注、管理科学理论对组织管理的重新认识以及当代组织理论所推崇的开放系统与组织学习理念,都是在打破传统组织理论范式的基础上建立起来的。人们正是在不断克服组织惰性的过程中推动组织理论与实践的创新。     

信用修复国际比较研究

在社会信用体系中,信用修复机制是适用失信主体改正自新、为其重塑信用的新方式,是信用惩戒的有机组成.通过梳理信用修复的定义、原则、对象及作用,从信用修复立法、不良信息保存、异议及投诉处理机制、信用修复机构设立等方面比较分析美国、英国、韩国和中国的信用修复机制,同时分析英美在信用修复监管、美韩及中国在诚信教育、韩国及中国在...     

Effects of au naturel packaging colors on willingness to pay for healthy food

This study introduces and defines a novel color family—au naturel colors—and proposes that featuring these hues on product packaging enhances consumer willingness to pay (WTP) for healthy food products, but not for unhealthy food products. This effect occurs irrespective of the fit between the colors of the product and of the packaging, and of the color lightness or saturation. Perceptions of product authenticity mediate the relationship between au naturel colors packaging and consumer WTP for the product. The results of seven studies provide support for the proposed conceptual framework, contributing to the literature on consumer responses to colors and packaging features, and allowing to draw implications for the marketing of healthy food products.     

Exports and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: New insights from innovative econometric methods

This study examined the relationship between exports and economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. It employed innovative econometric methods, including the Fourier ADF with structural break test, a comparative analysis of three causality tests and a rolling causality test procedure. The findings suggested that there was a statistically significant relationship between exports and economic growth in several Sub-Saharan countries. However, the causal linkages between exports and economic growth in these countries were found to be weak and unstable. These empirical results have some notable policy implications.     

Small talk,big impact – The influence of casual collegial advice on purchasing negotiations

The concept of behavioral supply management has attracted substantial research attention since its introduction about a decade ago. Nevertheless, it is still in a developmental stage, and the supply management field represents a unique and fertile ground for more behavioral research. In this paper, we demonstrate the uncharted potential of behavioral supply management with a special focus on casual advice-giving, which is broadly present in everyday organizational interactions. The study differentiates among three collegial advice types for buyers – to be honest, bluff, or lie – and investigates its influence on subsequent buyer–supplier negotiations. Scenario-based experiments show that advisees are prone to heed advice to be honest and to bluff, but not heed advice to lie in supplier negotiations. Further, we found that, regardless of the advice content, advisees seem to be indifferent to whether the advice is solicited or unsolicited and the advice-giver’s job function. Finding that even small talk can have a big impact, we conclude with a call for more behaviorally-focused empirical research and a broader agenda for behavioral supply management.     

How Do Social Norms Influence Parents’ Food Choices for Their Children? The Role of Social Comparison and Implicit Self-Theories

Despite the proliferation of healthier side items for children at fast food restaurants, many parents still do not make healthy choices for their children in this setting. The goal of this research is to identify the parents most likely to do so and develop an intervention to nudge these parents toward making healthier choices in retail outlets. Across four field studies conducted in a retail environment (i.e., locations of a fast food restaurant chain), the authors predict and find that parents with a high tendency to engage in social comparison and a malleable view of the self are most likely to conform to the norm in their parental social network. Given that the norm in the population studied is to order a less healthy side item (e.g., fries) versus a healthy side item (e.g., fruit), conforming results in significantly less healthy orders for the children of these individuals. The authors demonstrate that a social norm-based intervention designed to set a new healthy norm in this retail environment succeeded in increasing the overall proportion of parents that chose a healthy side item by over 29% by increasing the choice of healthy sides specifically for these individuals. The authors conclude with a discussion of implications for theory, retail managers, and policy makers.