Doing more and doing better are two different entities: Different patterns of family control and environmental performance

Family firms bear two types of agency costs, including type I and type II agency problems, in corporate environmental practices: (1) Outside executives at family firms hesitate to engage in environmental strategies, which can lead to drops in profits; (2) Controlling families employ opportunistically environmental management to achieve their interests. We argue that a primary cause for the agency problems lies on ineffective internal corporate governance at family firms, which can cause loss of managerial (or power) balance between outside executives and family executives. Our findings show that family firms with ownership and strategic control (FSC), which family executives and outside executives monitor and constrain each other, can achieve the highest environmental performance. Moreover, external controls, including product market competition and provincial environmental regulations, substitute effective internal control of FSC. The environmental performance premium of FSC is more prevalent when the production market competition is lower. Family firms with ownership, operational, and strategic control (FOSC) can achieve higher environmental performance within a province with more stringent environmental regulations.     

防止或减少国际货运代理的责任风险

投保责任险，将风险事先进行转移，是防止或减少国际货运代理的责任风险的最好办法之一。除此之外，货运代理尚须采取其他的必要措施，以尽量避免损失的发生、降低其责任风险。     

道路交通对城市空间形态的影响

城市交通方式和道路系统的布局对城市的规模和空间结构分布具有重大影响 ,同样它作为重要的基础设施和对外交流通道对城市的发展方向也起着重大的引导作用。本文通过对道路交通的研究 ,揭示了城市的演变规律和发展趋势。     

谈我国养老保险等社会保障制度的完善

本文从社会保障的基本含义出发,分析我国社会保障制度的现状及养老保险制度中存在的问题,并提出改革的依据、完善的措施和建议。     

国有企业推行会计委派制度初探

为根治当前工作存在秩序混乱、管理松懈、违规操作等问题，遏制会计信息失真，维护社会主义市场经济秩序，会计委派制应运而生，并迅速发展成为一种新型会计管理体制。本主要针对国有企业推行会计委派的必要性、委派范围、方式，以及应注意的问题作探讨，为国有企业完善会计委派制提供思路。     

大连普兰店北部乡镇与日本同纬度地区资源开发的比较分析

文章基于文献研究以及大连市普兰店北部乡镇的农业发展现状，依照科学发展观的原理，分析了同纬度地区日本的农业资源开发模式，就我国目前的自然条件、农业生产状况、开发经营模式、开发利用效益、农业发展组织模式、化肥施用水平等方面与日本进行比较，为北部乡镇的资源开发和经济发展提供有益的启示。     

从“大萧条”看中美两国应对当前金融危机之策

本文站在历史的角度，审视与检讨中关两国政府在应对当前由次贷风暴引发的金融危机中的得与失。历史是一面镜子，发生在20世纪30年代的世界性大萧条与今日美国金融危机在很多方面具有相似之处。以史为鉴，在百年一遇的危机面前，各国政府应携手并进，同舟共济，避免陷入更深的困境。当前的局势为中国充分展示负责任大国的形象提供了契机。     

物流业发展方兴未艾

物流业作为第三产业中的一个新兴行业，正吸引着越来越多的产业资本向该领域转移，通过对我国物流业的发现现状的介绍，以及与发达国家在物流业上的差距分析，来揭示国内物流业存在的巨大商机，并由此切入进军物流领域最为积极的上市公司可从中获取怎样的利益，从而为证券市场市场投资投资物流板块提供一种分析思路和投资依据。     

Building strong brands in Asia: selecting the visual components of image to maximize brand strength

Asian brands have often struggled to develop quality images. The visual aspects of branding have received little attention on how they might be used to strengthen brand perceptions in Asia. Guidelines for designing visual brand stimuli are developed using evaluations of logos in China and Singapore. There is a significant relationship between design and the responses companies seek, including positive affect, perceptions of quality, recognition, consensus in meaning, and feng shui. How designs are perceived, and their effect on consumer responses, were similar between China and Singapore. Companies are encouraged to leverage design to strengthen their brands. In particular, they should select logo designs that are elaborate, natural, and harmonious as these created positive affect and quality perceptions, clear meaning, true recognition, and feng shui. Many of these relationships hold in the United Sates as well, implying that the visual aspects of brand strategies may accomplish companies' goals across international borders.     

承保国际货运代理责任险的机构

国际货运代理所从事的业务内容杂、项目多、范围广，使其身份呈多样化；其所承担的法律责任亦较为复杂，也就使得保险人难以掌握和估计其风险程度及损失的大小，难于确定费率的高低。因此，国际上许多国家的保险公司都不承保货运代理责任险这一特殊的险种。