Learning across the life cycle: Experimentation and performance among the hollywood studio heads

Guided by notions from the literature on organizational learning, this paper investigates how product line experimentation and organizational performance change across the careers of top managers. Its subjects are the studio heads who ran all the major Hollywood film studios from 1936 to 1965. The study found first, that product line experimentation declines over the course of executive tenures; second, that there is an inverse U‐shaped relationship between top executive tenure and an organization's financial performance; and third, that product line experimentation is more likely to benefit financial performance late in top executives' tenures. These findings are consistent with a three‐stage ‘executive life cycle’. During the early years of their tenures, top managers experiment intensively with their product lines to learn about their business; later on their accumulated knowledge allows them to reduce experimentation and increase performance; finally, in their last years, executives reduce experimentation still further, and performance declines. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

中印电影产业国际竞争力的比较研究

随着经济全球化的不断发展,电影产业对一国经济的发展起着越来越重要的作用。同属于发展中国家的中国和印度,电影产业的发展却存在较大差异。基于"钻石模型"理论,从需求、资源、相关支持产业以及企业战略、结构和政府五个方面剖析了中印电影出口存在的差异及成因,提出了改革电影体制,落实政策法规;缩小文化差异,打破文化隔阂;完善资源整合,改革营销策略;刺激国内需求,形成规模效应等对策建议。     

西方绘画表现形式对电影艺术的影响

电影艺术是现代社会的产物,其艺术理论与表现手法都明显受到西方绘画的影响。绘画表现形式对于电影的影响是全方位的,影响电影艺术家创作的主要因素体现在电影画面的安排上,其中较为明显的是色彩、构图与造型三个方面。     

中小型电力变压器渗漏油的原因分析及解决方法

文章通过对3000多台变压器使用情况进行对比分析,总结出变压器检修及维护质量不佳是变压器漏油的主要原因,提出了变压器渗漏油的预防措施及解决方法。这对于保证变压器的正常运行、检修质量和检修周期有着十分重要的意义。     

面压试验在全金属气缸垫泄漏故障解决中的应用

文章简述了全金属气缸垫面压分布原理和面压试验的操作流程,利用气缸垫泄漏故障分析导致气缸垫泄漏的潜在原因并按照拆机顺序逐一排查,针对背离项提出改进措施,经过试验验证了解决措施的有效性。在解决问题的过程中,面压试验的应用起到了关键作用,这对面压试验在解决发动机气缸垫泄漏故障中的应用具有很好的指导意义。     

射线底片的影像特征对压力容器制造单位质量管理体系运行的指导意义

压力容器产品的制造国家实施强制性的、法定的监督检验制度,在监督检验过程中通过对RT底片的审查,利用RT底片的影像特征来纵观产品制造所采用的焊接方法及整休焊接质量,可以判断产品焊接试板的数量是否满足法规、标准的要求,是否完全执行了焊接工艺,是否严格按返修的程序对缺陷进行返修等,从RT底片这一个点来纵观质量管理体系这个面,从而可以找出质量管理体系运行中的薄弱环节,使压力容器制造单位的质量管理体系能够保持正常、有效的运转,从源头上确保压力容器产品的制造质量。     

中小型电力变压器渗漏油的原因分析及解决方法

文章通过对3000多台变压器使用情况进行对比分析,总结出变压器检修及维护质量不佳是变压器漏油的主要原因,提出了变压器渗漏油的预防措施及解决方法。这对于保证变压器的正常运行、检修质量和检修周期有着十分重要的意义。     

英语影视语言的特点及翻译方法

影视语言具有通俗易懂、口语性和跨文化等特点,翻译时,应把握作品主题,照顾影片风格,尽量保持影片的原汁原味,使其中的文化内涵和艺术效果得到体现。     

溶胶-凝胶法制备SiO2/TiO2多层膜的研究

通过对溶胶、热处理温度以及溶胶-凝胶过程中反应和存放的环境温度及湿度等参数的调整,研究了在实验室条件下制备SiO2/TiO2多层膜的方法.已制备出折射率可调的溶胶,所镀制的SiO2薄膜折射率在1.18～1.41之间可调,TiO2薄膜折射率在1.80～2.20之间可调.采用椭偏仪、红外分光光度计、紫外-可见分光光度计等对所制得的多层膜的性能进行了研究,结果表明,实验条件对SiO2/TiO2多层膜的制备非常重要.     

In and out of everyday life through film experiences: an analysis of two social spaces as leisure frames

The new information and communication technologies have made it possible to view films in different spaces. Using the symbolic interactionist framework as a frame of analysis, we interpret the meaning of the two experiences of viewing technology-mediated films in the home and in the cinema. We conducted field research during the first half of 2009, digitally recording 16 interviews with research participants living in Barcelona (Spain). The interviews were transcribed verbatim with the help of voice-recognition software. Reports from our research participants indicate that individuals considered only the cinema experience to be a true leisure activity, while the home experience was interpreted as a routine recreational activity. Therefore, the meanings of the film-viewing activity were associated with the symbolic properties of the frames of interpretation. Finally, we discuss the implications of these findings for the home as a unified centre where shared meanings are co-produced by family members.