Crafting Internal Hybrids: Complementarities,Common Change Initiatives,and the Team-Based Organization

Hybrid governance forms that seek to meld the virtues of both market control and traditional hierarchical control are alluring. Comparatively little research, outside of the M-form literature, has examined internal hybrids - hierarchical forms infused with elements of market control. This paper contends that common change initiatives, such as TQM, re-engineering, autonomous work teams, and group-based rewards, are appropriately viewed as attempts to craft internal hybrids by selectively infusing elements of market control within hierarchy. However, these change initiatives are often implemented in isolation and, as a consequence, violate patterns of complementarity that sustain traditional hierarchy or support the stable infusion of market control.The paper argues that these violations of complementarity often spiral hierarchies toward fundamental transformation. The clear trajectory of these transformations is to quite radically disaggregated organizations structured around teams. The paper presents both theory and evidence supporting the existence of complementarities among these common change initiatives.     

混合拉曼/EDFA放大器及其在DWDM中的应用

本文综述了混合拉曼／掺饵光纤放大器（HFA）的工作原理，结构和特点，介绍了4类HFA基本结构及其实验结果，并通过介绍近年来各类HFA在密集波分复用（DWDM）系统中的应用表明了HFA在带宽，增益和噪声特性方面的优点。     

Management of hybrid organisations: a case study in retailing

Hybrid organisations present important theoretical and managerial opportunities. We examine a large Finnish multichain retail organisation in order to identify and understand the challenges of hybrids in a retailing context. We are especially interested in how these complex firms try to maintain a balance between the centralised corporate control and the local autonomy and initiative of their retailers. The governance forms and processes identified in the case organisation are discussed with the help of a proposed conceptual framework. We believe that the identified governance problems and practices in the three different retail chains and especially our recommendations will facilitate the understanding of retail hybrid organisations and the management of hybrids in general.     

Unfolding institutional plurality in hybrid organizations through practices: The case of a cooperative bank

This paper provides a theoretically informed analysis of how institutional pluralism unfolds in hybrid organizations through practices. Building on Quattrone's (2015) procedural model, the paper studies institutional plurality in the case of an Italian cooperative bank that has experienced enduring success. By reversing the usual approach to logic, defined as a stable set of beliefs, this paper shows that this hybrid organization uses a recursive system of practices in search of social order. This hybrid organization interrogates its organizational imperatives and defines adequate ways to achieve them. This paper then observes that this system of practices is permeable to external pressures, i.e., inspections by the central bank, a reform of cooperative banks, political pressure for mergers and acquisitions, and Italy's sovereign debt crisis. While such an organization appears to be ongoingly accountable to its multiple stakeholders, external pressures undermine its community accountability system and push this hybrid organization towards compliance accountability. Based on our findings, this paper develops a process model for hybrid organizations to navigate institutional plurality and to explain the potential limitations of the accountability system.     

BLK4-250比例控制器在供水系统设计中的应用

介绍用流量／电流比例控制器取代交流变频调速装置作为高压供水系统的核心部件,通过可编程控制器 (PLC)对工频水泵机组的自动控制作用,消除了由变频器在运行过程中所引发的谐波、喘振、憋压、水锤效应等不利因素的影响,达到了稳定供水压力、节约电能、提高系统可靠性的目的。     

基于1394总线的高速数据传输系统的设计

讨论了“三网合一”趋势下高速串行总线1394标准的技术优势和应用前景。以专用控制芯片FM323为核心，给出了基于1394总线和PCI总线的跨网络高速数据传输系统的实现方案，对其设计要点进行了详细讨论。     

论一种"新"型的关税同盟:混合型关税同盟

国际经济学界流行的看法,即认为贸易转移型关税同盟既可导致贸易创造又可导致贸易转移,这是不正确的,这种所谓的贸易转移型关税同盟实际上是一种混合型关税同盟。一个混合型关税同盟包含了一个纯贸易创造型关税同盟和一个纯贸易转移型关税同盟,关税同盟的建立能否给某个加盟国带来福利的增加,取决于这两股相反作用力的相对强弱。若贸易创造大于贸易转移,则福利增加,反之亦然;若两者相当,则还能出现福利不变的情况。     

可编程序控制器和变频器在精梳机上的应用

精梳机在纺织企业生产中起着重要的作用。本文分析了对其进行改造的必要性 ,根据原设备的实际情况 ,利用可编程序控制器和变频器技术对之进行改造 ,提高了设备的自动化程度和企业的经济效益。改造后 ,能源消耗降低了 ,设备运行稳定 ,维护方便     

Relative accuracy and predictive ability of direct valuation methods, price to aggregate earnings method and a hybrid approach

In this paper, we assess the relative performance of the direct valuation method and industry multiplier models using 41 435 firm‐quarter Value Line observations over an 11 year (1990–2000) period. Results from both pricing‐error and return‐prediction analyses indicate that direct valuation yields lower percentage pricing errors and greater return prediction ability than the forward price to aggregated forecasted earnings multiplier model. However, a simple hybrid combination of these two methods leads to more accurate intrinsic value estimates, compared to either method used in isolation. It would appear that fundamental analysis could benefit from using one approach as a check on the other.     

How does issuing contingent convertible bonds improve bank's solvency? A Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall approach

This paper examines how issuing an innovative financial instrument called contingent convertible bond (CoCo) may enhance bank's solvency in comparison to issuing a conventional bond. CoCos convert automatically into common equity or have a principal write-down when bank's regulatory capital fails to meet a predetermined level. They have been invented and put into legislation with an objective to absorb losses thus preventing institutions from bankruptcy. From the standpoint of an issuer CoCos bring about two counter effects regarding his solvency: on one hand they recapitalize a bank approaching insolvency on the other hand CoCos pay much higher coupon comparing to conventional bonds. In our model a bank has two funding alternatives: either to issue CoCos or conventional bonds. We measure issuer's default risk using the concept of Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES). We conclude that CoCos have the potential to strengthen the resilience of the issuer on the condition that the probability of conversion triggering is higher than the VaR's significance level. Our findings can be helpful to the policymakers and banks to better understand the impact of CoCos on issuer's solvency.