The choice and timing of foreign direct investment under uncertainty

This paper sheds new light on why timing and entry mode should be considered simultaneously in the international investment literature. We derive the profit levels at which it is optimal to switch from exporting to setting up a wholly owned subsidiary, creating a joint venture, or licensing production to a local firm. The preferred entry mode depends on uncertainty about future profits, tax differentials between the home and the foreign country, the cost advantages of local firms, institutional requirements, and the degree of cooperation between partners in a joint venture.     

The Wealth Effect of Domestic Joint Ventures: Evidence from Taiwan

This study presents important international evidence by examining the wealth effect of domestic joint ventures by Taiwanese firms. In opposite to United States evidence, we find that announcements of domestic joint ventures by Taiwanese firms are, on average, associated with significantly negative abnormal stock returns. We also find that the stock market response to announced domestic joint ventures is significantly positively related to the announcing firms' investment opportunities, size of investment and debt ratio, and is significantly negatively related to the business relatedness variable. In contrast, free cash flow, firm size, relative firm size and managerial ownership are found to have no significant power in explaining the market response. Our results support the investment opportunities, synergy and complementarity hypotheses as well as a broad interpretation of the free cash flow hypothesis, but reject the absolute size, relative size and alignment-of-interests hypotheses. This study makes valuable contributions to the literature by providing the first direct evidence on the role of investment opportunities, synergy and alignment-of-interests in explaining the wealth effect of domestic joint ventures     

区分不同收入层次,启动农村消费

目前,消费不足是制约内需扩大和经济高效增长的关键因素。而在消费中,与城镇消费相比,农村消费严重滞后,因此刺激消费的重点在于启动农村消费。制约农村消费需求增长的因素有很多,然而针对不同收入层次的农民,影响其消费的各主要因素存在明显差异。因此,应区分不同收入层次,施以不同对策措施,启动农村消费。     

财务理论体系构架的评述

构建财务理论体系应遵循系统完整、逻辑一贯、兼容并包、科学实用、动态稳定等原则.理财环境是财务理论体系赖以推理论证的最本源的抽象范畴,是构建财务理论体系的逻辑起点.财务理论体系由起点理论、基础理论、目标理论、运行理论四个层次组成,它们相互联系,互为铺垫,循序推进财务理论研究向实践方向发展.     

关于会计理论体系逻辑起点问题的研究

本文在回顾我国关于会计理论体系逻辑起点研究成果的基础上,分析了以会计假设、会计本质、会计环境、会计目标作为逻辑起点的缺陷及新的研究趋向--双起点论的不足,认为应将会计对象作为会计理论体系的逻辑起点。对于同样以会计对象作为逻辑起点的观点,由于各学者对会计对象内涵定义的不同,其构建的理论体系是存在偏差的。笔者认为以价值增值运动为会计对象是合理的选择,并以此作为逻辑起点构建了会计理论体系的粗略框架。     

论中国特色社会主义经济学的核心范畴

确立中国特色社会主义经济学的逻辑起点，必须突出它的特殊性，而不能照搬以往的经济学。迄今，所有的经济学由于其任务和宗旨不同大体可分四种类型、四个逻辑起点。中国特色社会主义经济学根据它的任务和宗旨，需要在科学社会主义实践逻辑的基础上，进行科学抽象，分析其矛盾特殊性的三个表现及中国的个性，揭示以社会主义本质为核。范畴和逻辑起点的理论规定性，进而全面展开，创立新的架构。     

在华合资企业的“独资化”趋势解析

近年来,“独资化”已成为跨国公司在中国投资的一种新趋势。外资独资化的四个原因是:即追求更高利润、市场竞争加剧、加强技术控制以及政策环境松动,最后对如何应对“独资化”提出若干建议。     

跨国公司对我国汽车合资企业控制分析

跨国汽车公司以国际直接投资(FDI)方式建立合资企业是我国汽车产业利用外资的主要形式.在实际运行中,股权比例的安排并不等于实际控制权的分配,合资企业对合资双方相关资源依赖性的强弱决定了合资双方的实际控制权.跨国汽车公司借助技术垄断优势,通过双方合资时的约定或日后实际运作中的设计安排,以非股权约束的方式来实现对合资企业的实际控制.     

The contingent value of marketing strategy innovativeness for product development performance in Chinese new technology ventures

This study extends research on entrepreneurial behavior by investigating the relationship between the marketing strategy innovativeness (MSI) and new product performance in technology-based new ventures in China. Specifically, premised on contingent resource-based view we argue that MSI is a firm capability that must be bundled with external managerial relationships and be deployed in the appropriate environment to ensure its success. We found that the team's extra industry relationships and market dynamism enhanced the impact of MSI on new product performance. In contrast, top management team's intraindustry relationships, financial relationships, and technology dynamism hindered the impact of MSI on new product performance.     

Agency hazards and alliance portfolios

Prior research over several decades has catalogued many positive motives underlying firms' decisions to engage in joint ventures and other forms of alliances. In this empirical analysis, we investigate whether agency problems brought about by the separation of ownership and control also stimulate the development of firms' joint venture portfolios. By focusing on joint ventures, as opposed to diversification in general or acquisitions, we address the recent debate on agency theory's domain. Results from a sample of U.S. manufacturing firms' alliance portfolios offer supporting evidence, and comparable findings are obtained for international and domestic joint ventures. Agency hazards are also found to bring about extensions of firms' nonequity alliance portfolios in both the international and domestic settings. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.