Emergent patterns of strategy,environment and performance in a transition economy

Insights from the resource dependence approach, dynamic fit, and strategic choice theories are used to explore the strategies adopted by Chinese enterprises, their settings, and the relationship between strategy, environment, and performance. Results from 959 firms indicate that respondents operating under ‘more marketized’ institutional settings tend to locate themselves in more munificent environments and place greater emphasis on meeting customer needs. Firms in China do not trade off one strategic direction against another, and certain strategy/environment coalignments have significant implications for performance. In particular, performance is better in more marketized and munificent environments and amongst firms who adopt an ‘aggressive’ strategic posture. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

财政应对突发公共卫生事件的制度逻辑及其机制完善

财政作为国家治理的基础和重要支柱,在应对新冠肺炎疫情中起着至关重要的作用。将财政应对突发公共卫生的实践内嵌于财政改革发展逻辑框架下进行考察,在对比SARS相关情况的基础上,分析财政应对新冠肺炎疫情的机制,并判断疫情对财政收支的直接影响和间接影响、短期影响和中长期影响。在此基础上,剖析财政应对突发公共卫生事件存在的问题,进而提出加大支持力度、压缩一般性支出、强化资金监管、加强信息交流和公开等近期应急性财税对策,以及健全筹资体制、优化事权划分、调整支出结构、加强绩效管理等中长期制度性财税措施。     

Trading-up on unmet expectations? Evaluating consumers’ expectations in online premium grocery shopping logistics

Geography and retail store locations are inherently bound together; this study links food retail changes to systemic logistics changes in an emerging market. The later include raising income and education, access to a wide range of technologies, traffic and transport difficulties, lagging retail provision, changing family structure and roles, as well as changing food culture and taste. The study incorporates demand for premium products defined by Kapferer and Bastien [2009b. The Luxury Strategy. London: Kogan Page] as comprising a broad variety of higher quality and unique or distinctive products and brands including in grocery organic ranges, healthy options, allergy free selections, and international and gourmet/specialty products through an online grocery model (n?=?356) that integrates a novel view of home delivery in Istanbul. More importantly from a logistic perspective our model incorporates any products from any online vendors broadening the range beyond listed items found in any traditional online supermarkets. Data collected via phone survey and analysed via structural equation modelling suggest that the offer of online premium products significantly affects consumers’ delivery logistics expectations. We discuss logistics operations and business management implications, identifying the emerging geography of logistic models which respond to consumers’ unmet expectations using multiple sourcing and consolidation points.     

COMPETITION AND CASCADES IN MARKETS: AN AGENT‐BASED MODEL OF ENDOGENOUS MERGERS

We present an agent‐based model of endogenous merger formation in a market with turnover of market participants. We describe the dynamics of the model and identify the conditions under which market competition is sufficiently disrupted to prompt extended periods during which mergers are desirable. We also demonstrate how merger waves can be triggered by industry shocks and firm overconfidence. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Diversification of infrastructure projects for emergent and unknown non‐systematic risks

Allocating resources to competing large‐scale infrastructure projects involves multiple objectives. Traditional decision‐aiding methodologies focus on the trade‐offs among performance and resource objectives. Existing methodologies may fail to account for unknown and emergent risks that are typical of large‐scale infrastructure investment allocation problems. In modern portfolio theory, it is well known that a diversified portfolio can be very effective to reduce non‐systematic risks. The approach of diversification is equally important in choosing robust portfolios of infrastructure projects that may be subject to emergent and unknown risks. In this paper, we demonstrate a methodology to analyze and compare the diversification of portfolios of large‐scale infrastructure projects. We classify and explore several metrics of diversification and integrate them with risk and other performance objectives in a multiobjective approach. We test the new metrics and the methodology in a case study of hundreds of millions of dollars of infrastructure investments. The results suggest that the solutions that consider diversification are more robust to emergent risks, thus, identifying an opportunity to incorporate diversification‐based optimization methodologies to support a variety of problems involving large‐scale infrastructure investments.     

大地震后城市应急功能的思考

随着我国城市规模的不断扩大,城市灾害呈现出群发多样性、时空耦合性、链状分布等新的特点。我国现有的城市应急体系已经不能完全适应城市应急管理的需要,特别是汶川大地震后反映出了我们在城市应急管理方面的一些不足。对存在的不足给予了总结并提出了相关建议,希望能为我们的城市应急管理体系建设提供参考。     

Political entrepreneurship,emergent dynamics,and constitutional politics

Constitutional political economy mostly distinguishes between rules and actions, with rules selected prior to actions within those rules. While we accept the coherence of this distinction, we pursue it within an open rather than closed scheme of analysis. Doing this entails recognition that societies rarely exhibit universal agreement about constitutional provisions. Recognizing the incomplete character of constitutional agreement points to the existence of margins of contestation. Along those margins, political entrepreneurship will be active in promoting support for alternative constitutional interpretations. Within open systems of creative and entrepreneurial action, constitutional reinterpretation is continually injected into society. Acquiescence in the presence of power does not imply agreement about its use. Rather, acquiescence means the constitutional contestation becomes an element of ordinary politics and not an activity that is prior to ordinary politics. It also means that emergent dynamics supplements comparative statics as a method of analysis.     

Planned or Emergent Strategy Making? Exploring the Formation of Corporate Sustainability Strategies

In strategy research, there is a consensus that strategy making resides on a continuum from planned to emergent where most strategies are made in a mixed way. Different contingency factors have been suggested to explain the factors that influence strategy making. Sustainability research seems to overlook most of this development and assumes instead that sustainability strategies are made in a purely planned way. We contribute to a better understanding of the role of different strategy making modes for sustainability in three ways. First, we point to the bias towards planned strategy formation in sustainability research. Second, we propose a new contingency factor to help explain sustainability strategy making based on the nature of the problem addressed. Third, we discuss strategy making for different types of sustainability problems. We argue that planned strategy making is expected for salient and non‐wicked problems while emergent strategy making is likely for non‐salient and wicked problems. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

广东省发展战略性新兴产业的路径与政策选择

加快培育和发展战略性新兴产业对于推进我国现代化建设具有重要的战略意义。广东省工业经济在全国经济中具有举足轻重的地位,本文以广东省为例,从发展战略性新兴产业的实际出发,剖析了广东省发展战略性新兴产业的现状和存在的问题,并从技术创新、管理创新、人才创新和金融创新四个方面提出发展战略性新兴产业的路径。最后提出相关政策建议。     

崇左市突发性水污染事件应急调水分析

文章根据崇左市河流水系及水利工程分布的特点,针对全市河道型饮用水源地较多,饮用水安全面临较大潜在风险,分析分布在河流沿岸的城市发生突发性水污染事件时可能实施的应急调水方案,以提高应急事件处置能力。