Motives behind retailers’ post-entry expansion - Evidence from the Chinese luxury fashion market

This study aims to examine the motives behind retailers’ post-entry expansion in foreign markets. Through case studies of eleven participating luxury fashion retailers in China, qualitative data was collected from twenty-two executive interviews. Although their initial market entry was driven by both reactive (push) and proactive (pull) factors, the motives behind their post-entry expansion have become predominantly proactive, especially long-term growth strategies, the ambition to extend their brands and retail formats to more cities, and the experiences gained in entry markets. The desire to optimize the retail store portfolio through multiple channel strategies have slowed down the expansions of physical stores.     

Relative-to-rival corporate philanthropy,product market competitiveness,and stakeholders

Unlike most of the literature that examines the relationship between corporate philanthropy and financial performance, this study investigates the mechanisms through which corporate socially responsible behaviors produce financial outcomes. We propose that corporate philanthropy improves corporate competitiveness by eliciting positive responses from stakeholders, who assess a firm’s philanthropic contribution in relation to its rivals to determine what level of support they wish to provide to the firm. We predict that a firm’s philanthropy relative to its rivals has a positive effect on its product market competitiveness, and that this positive effect is moderated by three conditions that influence stakeholder response: stakeholder attention to philanthropy, its perceived legitimacy, and expectations of corporate giving. Our predictions are generally supported by our analyses. Overall, this paper shows that strategic philanthropy has a quantitative dimension, and firms obtain the market competitiveness associated with corporate philanthropy by integrating their rivals’ positions into their decision making.     

中石化上游领域竞争力和抗风险能力的定量分析

在分析石油公司上游领域竞争力影响因素的基础上，提出了定量评价上游 领域竞争力和抗油价风险能力的定量评价方法，按上游综合竞争力指标将世界石油公司分为三类，第一类公司的指标值均在90以上，第二类公司在55－70，第三类公司在25－35。分析表明中石化集团上游领域竞争力较低，承受体油价的时间很短，但是，中石化集团公司上游竞争力和抗风险能力有很大的改善余地，并提出提高竞争力和抗风险能力的措施和建议。     

论商业银行核心竞争力的内涵及主要特征

商业银行的核心竞争力是商业银行在激烈的市场竞争中形成的优于竞争对手、保持竞争优势和持续发展的能力,体现了商业银行特殊的市场价值取向、抵抗市场风险和获得持续竞争优势的能力,集中反映了商业银行在市场竞争下的竞争能力和竞争优势。商业银行的知识、信息技术、经营机制、文化和伦理是影响商业银行核心竞争力的主要因素。战略价值性、独特性、延展性、系统整合性和动态性是商业银行核心竞争力的主要特征。     

推进西部大开发亟待全面深化对内开放

要实现西部大开发的伟大战略构想,改变西部经济落后面貌,缩小东西部差距最终实现西部地区的经济现代化,市场化和国际化,亟待全面深化对内开放,打破地区封锁,建立统一开放竞争有序的国内大市场,优化资源配置,调整产业结构,发挥区域优势,东西部进行合理分工,增强企业竞争力,使西部的发展融入全国全球的经济体系中.     

用于直接序列扩频系统的信道估计算法及改良

对于无线通信接收机设计说，信道估计单元一直是一个关键的模块。在WLAN（无线局域网）接收机的设计中，室内环境下无线信道的复杂性和不可预测性成为系统研究和分析的焦点。如何获得精确的信道估计，从而计算出准确的Rake接收机和均衡器的抽头系数，是关系着整个系统性能的重要因素。介绍了传统信道估计的方法和过程，并针对其缺点展开讨论，并提出了两种改良的信道估计算法。该算法能够大大地缩小估计误差，提高系统性能。     

渠道压缩:中间商该何去何从?

中间商的出现是为了满足生产商和市场对于渠道的需求而产生的。但随着生产商和市场的发展,其对于渠道的需求也在发生着变化。同时外部条件的变化也影响着生产商对渠道的需求。本文从生产商对渠道的需求的角度以及中间商满足需求的能力的角度来分析中间商的发展趋势。     

沪深京穗城市竞争力比较

在倪鹏飞关于城市竞争力最新研究的基础上 ,对沪深京穗四城市竞争力进行比较分析 ,找出各城市的优势和劣势 ,提出了相应的改进措施 ,为各城市提升城市竞争力提供决策依据。     

虚拟经营——21世纪的制胜之道

文章对虚拟经营进行了详细的说明,介绍了虚拟经营的5种形式,论述了转向虚拟经营的可行性,同时提出了虚拟经营已经成为一种新型的企业运转和管理的模式。随着计算机技术的不断发展,虚拟经营将在现代社会中演绎更重要的角色。