R&D strategy and Australian manufacturing industry: an empirical investigation of emphasis and effectivness

This research investigates the degree of emphasis placed by the Australian manufacturing industry on Research and Development (R&D) strategy as well as on other organisational strategies such as marketing, HRs (HR), technology, and operations at the functional level. The research extends further to investigate whether the emphasis on R&D strategy differs with contextual factors such as firm size, firm’s generic strategy, type of market, firm’s life cycle stage, etc. A mail survey was carried out to collect information from manufacturing firms across Australia. This was followed by an on-site interview of some of the senior managers of manufacturing firms from three Australian states: South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales.The study found that although the emphasis on R&D strategy has received a high priority in the past few years, it has not been as effective as the operations strategy and the technology strategy. The operations strategy has been accorded the highest importance in the past few years and this will continue in the future. The study also indicated that firms, which adopt a differentiation generic strategy, put more emphasis on R&D than the firms, which adopt cost leadership and focus generic strategies. The results did not indicate any evidence of a relationship between firm size and the R&D strategy although large firms are found to put more emphasis on operations and marketing strategies. Relatively higher emphasis was placed on the R&D strategy by businesses: at the growth stage; involved in the manufacture of consumer goods as opposed to industrial goods; involved in exports with a higher sales growth in export markets; and having a higher growth rate relative to their industry.     

Internal labour markets in the Australian banking industry: their nature prior to the Second World War and their recent decline

This paper uses evidence from late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century personnel records of two Australian banks to examine the nature of internal labour markets prior to the Second World War. It is argued that the industry possessed all the classic features of internal labour markets: limited ports of entry, internal promotion, long careers, and assignment of wages by well-defined rules. The paper then examines the reasons why banks adopted internal labour markets. Finally, the paper examines the recent decline of internal labour markets and examines the role of technological and social changes in this decline.     

浅论我国农村环境的法律体系建设

本文分析了我国农村环境法律体系在立法、执法等方面存在的问题,据此提出了健全和完善农村环保法制的一些设想。     

少数民族教育立法简析

为实施西部大开发战略,促进少数民族地区经济发展,解决少数民族地区落后的教育现状,有必要加大少数民族教育立法的进度。在少数民族教育立法过程中,应坚持国家的统一和民族区域自治相结合的原则;坚持一切从实际出发,实事求是的原则,充分考虑民族特点和地区特点的原则;坚持为当地经济建设和社会发展服务相结合的原则;坚持教育与宗教相分离的原则。     

反垄断法域外适用依据分析

反垄断法的域外适用包括多种情形,其依据也各不相同.其中由美国首先在司法中确立的“效果原则”对该类适用问题产生了重要影响,一方面对于保护本国的市场环境,效果原则确实具有积极的作用,但其引发的国家间主权和经济利益的冲突也使得该原则的适用受到了限制.对此,各国都采取了很多变通措施,并通过国际合作来缓解这些冲突,这对于我国的相关立法也具有启示作用.     

国外循环经济立法经验及其对我国的启示

国外循环经济发展的法制建设,特别是发展循环经济领先的国家的经验表明,发展循环经济需要强有力的法律做保障;都把立法作为推进循环经济发展的重要手段和制度保证;我国应该积极借鉴其有益经验和做法,应立法先行,做好立法规划,加快立法进程,强化制度创新,健全法律法规体系,为建设循环型社会构筑坚实的法律保障体系。     

完善我国劳动合同立法的若干问题探析

完善劳动合同的立法是劳动关系稳定和谐的基础。在我国即将进行的劳动合同立法过程中，必须扩大劳动合同的主体范围，使劳动合同的主体具体普遍性;修改劳动法中关于劳动合同期限的规定，确立以无固定期限为原则，以固定期限为例外的劳动合同期限制度;用人单位单方解除劳动合同应当依正当程序进行，劳动合同中应当有标准条款，以加强对劳动者权益的保护。     

行政性垄断与我国未来的反垄断立法

我国发展社会主义市场经济需要完善的反垄断立法。根据垄断的产生与行政权力的 关系,垄断分为经济性垄断和行政性垄断,由于我国市场经济发展的特殊性,行政性垄断构成了 对市场自由公平竞争秩序的主要危险,因此,未来我国的反垄断立法必须将反行政性垄断行为作 为其首要任务进行重点规制,即行政性垄断对未来我国的反垄断立法提出了一定的特殊要求。     

美国反洗钱机制及对我国的启示

近年来,我国政府加大了反洗钱工作力度，反洗钱和反恐融资工作逐渐走上正轨，但与该领域的国际标准相比,仍然有较大差距.美国作为全球反洗钱领域的带头羊，其反洗钱的运作和手段确有高明之处。夏我们要善于学习和借鉴国际经验，不断发展与完善具有中国特色的反洗钱机制。     

我国上市公司管理法规研究

《上市公司股权激励管理办法》（试行）、《上市公司证券发行管理办法》和《上市公司收购管理办法》三大市场法规，构造完成我国上市公司管理的整体法律框架。研究我国上市公司管理的法规，有助于上市公司、管理层、发行人、收购方和投资者等利益相关主体把握新的市场特征和立法精神，实现自身利益的维护和财富增值。