面向资金约束供应商的供应链内部融资——股权还是债权?

通过制造商向供应商提供投资或借款，可以减少由于供应商资金不足无法正常组织生产引起的制造商及供应链利润的损失，分析了股权和债权两种融资模式下制造商的最优融资与供应商的最优生产决策，并比较了供应链绩效.结论表明:供应商一定会接受债权融资，但只有在一定条件下才会接受股权融资;在股权融资模式下，要将资金约束供应商的生产恢复到无资金约束下的最优水平，需要供应商的初始资金低于一定的临界值且制造商分享供应商的利润份额超过一定的临界值;在债权融资模式下，要将资金约束供应商的生产恢复到无资金约束下的最优水平，则需要供应商的初始资金超过一定的临界值;从制造商和供应链整体的视角，在供应商自有资金少时实行股权融资模式，并且增加制造商分享的利润份额，而在供应商自有资金多时实行债权融资模式是最优策略.最后通过算例对结论进行了验证.     

考虑供应商产品交付水平的供应链融资策略研究

供应商产品的交付水平直接影响下游制造商的生产，但是这种现象没有得到供应链金融研究的重视。为此，本文将供应商交付水平和供应链的运营融资问题结合起来研究。在考虑供应商产品交付水平的情况下，通过研究资金不足的供应商分别利用制造商预付款融资和风险投资方股权融资时，供应商的最优运营决策和融资策略，最后考虑了供应商对两种融资方式的选择。研究结果表明，供应商的自有资金水平对供应链均衡决策及其收益影响很大，有限的自有资金严重制约了供应商产品的交付水平，降低了供应链的运作效率；不管是资金充足，还是选择融资，供应商的利润不仅与自身的运营效率有关系，而且与替代供应商产品的批发价格有很大关系，当供应商的运营效率较低时，供应商的利润随着替代供应商产品的批发价格先增大后减小，当供应商运营效率较高时，供应商的利润随着替代供应商产品的批发价格逐渐增大。当供应商进行融资时，若自有资金水平较低，应通过股权融资的方式进行融资，若自有资金水平较高，供应商应该选择制造商预付款的方式进行融资，若自有资金量超过预付款融资时供应商所需资金的阈值时，供应商选择不融资。     

零售商提前支付与贷款担保下的供应商融资策略

在供应商面临资金约束的供应链中,通过零售商提前订购部分产品并支付货款的内部预订融资模式,与零售商为供应商提供担保向银行借款的外部信贷融资模式,可以缓解供应商的资金约束对零售商及供应链利润的影响,研究了两种模式下供应商和零售商的最优生产决策和融资决策,并分析了供应商的自有资金、零售商的资金成本、银行利率三种因素对于供应链融资绩效的影响。结果表明:两种融资模式要实现无资金约束下的最优生产量,都需要供应商拥有一定的初始资金,所需初始资金量的多少与各自的融资成本有关。所得的结论为供应链企业选择合适的融资方式和最优生产决策提供指导。最后通过数值分析对结论进行了验证。     

考虑风险规避的资金约束供应链最优信用契约设计

本文针对零售商的资金约束问题，研究了风险规避的供应商如何通过设计信用契约影响零售商的融资结构。构建了包含供应商、零售商以及银行在内的供应链融资模型，给出了供应商的最优信用契约决策、零售商的最优库存决策以及银行的最优利率决策。进一步分析了供应商的风险规避程度对最优信用契约决策的影响。研究表明：当供应商的风险规避程度低于某个临界值时，供应商偏好提供全额信用，从而零售商的融资结构为单一的交易信用融资；而当供应商的风险规避程度高于该临界值时，供应商偏好提供部分信用，从而零售商的融资结构为组合融资。最后，通过数值算例验证了本文的结论。本研究一定程度上丰富了现有供应链金融的理论研究，为供应链核心企业与银行的决策提供了依据与参考。     

基于资金约束的风险厌恶制造商融资策略和渠道选择研究

针对风险厌恶制造商和零售商组成的供应链系统，考虑制造商因开通直销渠道面临资金约束、直销渠道需求不确定性和零售渠道增值服务，基于Stackelberg博弈理论构建了零售商提前支付模型和银行借贷模型，给出了制造商的最优融资策略和渠道选择策略。研究发现，提前支付对资金约束制造商总是最优的，但是只有当自有资金较少时零售商才愿意提前支付。对制造商来说，只有自有资金很少且风险厌恶程度较高时，才不开通直销渠道；零售商应该提高增值服务效率，并在一定条件下，中等的提前支付利率水平对零售商是最优的。最后，数值算例验证了结论的正确性。     

供应商资金约束下考虑政府补贴的供应链绿色生产决策研究

基于中小供应商面临资金约束的现实情境,将政府绿色信贷和绿色产品补贴引入供应链绿色生产决策系统,建立政府、制造商、供应商博弈模型,分析供应链最优绿色生产决策。研究表明:①提高消费者绿色敏感度有助于企业扩大生产、提高产品绿色度,在一定范围内增加社会福利;②降低供应商绿色投入占比会在缓解融资压力的同时增加社会福利;③绿色信贷补贴下,绿色敏感度的提高增加了融资压力,但绿色产品补贴下,仅当绿色敏感度较低时此结论才必然成立;④当绿色敏感度较低时,绿色信贷补贴更能激励绿色生产,改善社会福利水平,反之绿色产品补贴更优。     

低碳努力下资金约束供应链的融资选择策略研究

本文研究低碳环境下资金约束制造商的供应链中成员决策策略及融资模式选择问题,建立了由供应商主导,制造商跟随的Stacklberg模型。考虑市场需求受制造商低碳努力的影响,并设计银行信贷和贸易信贷两种融资方式,从供应链中成员各自利益最大化和低碳努力水平最大化出发,给出了两种融资模式下的均衡解并进行了模式比较分析。研究表明当制造商的低碳投资成本系数和供应商的生产成本均较低时,制造商应选择BCF模式融资,当低碳投资成本系数较低,而生产成本较高时,TCF模式是制造商的融资均衡策略。当低碳投资成本系数较高时,无论生产成本如何变化,此时BCF模式始终是制造商的最佳融资策略。同时存在供应商生产成本的阈值,使得当生产成本低于该阈值时,BCF模式对供应商更佳,其他情况下TCF模式是供应商的融资策略均衡。     

具有两阶段生产模式和需求信息更新的供应链契约研究

针对二级供应链,在基于Stackelberg博弈的批发价契约中,分析了折扣价格与零售商最优提前订购量的关系及对契约双方期望收益的影响;设计了价格折扣与回购联合的协调契约,分析了供应链系统的最优提前生产量、供应链协调条件及协调契约下制造商和零售商的期望收益变化,并在协调契约不满足制造商的个体理性约束时,提出采用不对称Nash谈判模型设计两阶段生产与订购的回购契约,在保证供应链系统整体绩效最优的条件下,使制造商和零售商利润都能得到满意增长。研究表明,三级供应链实行两阶段订购的必要条件是分销商与零售商的最优提前订购量相等,与二级供应链相比,价格折扣契约下三级供应链效率更低,但价格折扣与回购联合的契约同样能协调三级供应链,该协调契约满足零售商与分销商激励相容约束。     

在弹性需求和物品易变质条件下数量折扣定价模型

研究在弹性需求和易变质物品条件下,当供应商和零售商独自决策时,供应商如何确定最优数量折扣问题。基于Stackelberg博奕建立了数学模型,证明了零售商的出售价格随供应商出售价格的降低而降低,从而需求量增大。当供应商给予价格折扣时,零售商的利润是增加的。在此基础上,给出了最优数量折扣的计算方法。对供应商和零售商单独决策时,供应商利用数量折扣对供应链进行协调产生的系统利润与供应商和零售商联合决策时的系统利润做了数值分析和比较。结果表明,供应商采用数量折扣的方法使供应链协调是有效的;价格折扣随价格敏感系数的增大而增大,随变质率的增大而减小。     

基于产品质量差异的资金约束制造商最优融资决策研究

本文研究了资金约束制造商在线上线下双渠道中分别销售两种不同质量水平的产品时的最优融资决策,其中制造商可以通过电商平台融资和零售商融资两种方式来缓解资金压力。本文建立了两种融资模式下的Stackelberg博弈模型,得到了制造商与零售商的最优定价决策以及融资利率和双渠道中的产品质量差异对均衡决策的影响;对比分析了两种融资模式下的价格、销量以及供应链各成员企业的利润差异。结果表明融资利率的上升会带来双渠道定价的上升,但不一定会加剧双渠道间的价格竞争。制造商的最优融资决策同时受融资利率、消费者对产品质量的敏感程度以及双渠道产品质量差异的影响。当电商平台融资和零售商融资利率相同且消费者对产品质量的敏感程度较低时,制造商会选择零售商融资,并在零售商处销售高质量产品;当消费者对产品质量的敏感程度较高且双渠道产品质量差异较大时,制造商则会选择电商平台融资并在电商平台投放高质量产品。     

Power,authority and legitimacy

Management, human resources, organization, control, leadership, etc., all seem to be just so many euphemisms for power, and this suggests a discourse of management and organization that calls things by their proper name. This paper on the contrary stresses the need to resolve the concept of ‘power’ itself into more differentiated notions, and proposes that clarification may be derived from distinctions once explicit in the vocabulary of Classical antiquity, but lost in modern European languages. It argues that nothing but confusion in thinking about organizations, management and legitimation can result from the failure to recognize that the phenomena this vocabulary identifies and distinguishes are irreducibly different.     

Criteria for selecting a production control philosophy

Logistic objectives constitute a compromise between having short leadtimes and a low volume of work in progress on the one hand and a high resource loading and due date obligation on the other. Miscellaneous production planning approaches offered today provide different combinations of logistic objectives for satisfying a manufacturing strategy. To combine the strength of the various approaches into a unified system, a new approach based on a dynamic and distributed production planning methodology is proposed. To customize the approach, various analyses and specifications have to be made and for that reason some important characteristics and criteria for analysing production control philosophies will be given.     

The social construction of the meaning of acute stressors: a qualitative study of the personal accounts of police officers using a stress counselling service

The police profession is one in which acute stressors are encountered more frequently than in other occupations. Using the personal accounts of 35 police officers attending an in-house stress counselling clinic, the aim of the present study was to provide a qualitative examination of how the institutional context of policing influenced the ways in which acute stressors signified to individual police officers experiencing felt distress. Using the framework of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy as an analytical tool, it is argued that beliefs contributing to the experience of felt distress are related to the way in which policing as both an identity and an activity is constructed through the police organizational culture. Not only do these constructions influence the ways in which officers perceive themselves and their environments, but they also operate at the collective level to 'normalize' some emotional responses and to 'pathologize' others which, it is argued, could impact upon the outcomes of interventions such as stress counselling.     

The moderating role of social support in Karasek's job strain model

This paper examines whether social support is a boundary-determining criterion in the job strain model of Karasek (1979). The particular focus is the extent to which different sources of social support, work overload and task control influence job satisfaction, depersonalization and supervisor assessments of work performance. Hypotheses are tested using prospective survey data from 80 clerical staff in a university setting. Results revealed 3-way interactions among levels of support (supervisor, co-worker, non-work), perceived task control and work overload on levels of work performance and employee adjustment (self-report). After controlling for levels of negative affect in all analyses, there was evidence that high levels of supervisor support mitigated against the negative effects of high strain jobs on levels of job satisfaction and reduced reported levels of depersonalization. Moreover, high levels of non-work support and co-worker support also mitigated against the negative effects of high strain jobs on levels of work performance. The results are discussed in terms of the importance of social support networks both at, and beyond, the work context.     

Job insecurity, coping resources and personality dispositions in occupational strain

This paper presents research on the relationships between the work-related stressor of perceived job insecurity and various indicators of occupational strain, taking into account employees' personality dispositions (trait negative and positive affectivity) and coping resources. Respondents were 222 Australian public servants surveyed during organizational restructuring that involved downsizing and threat to job certainty. The research was formulated within an adaptation of Osipow, Doty, and Spokane's (1985) framework of stress-strain-coping that included the possible direct as well as moderating effects of personality dispositions in reporting occupational strain (Parkes, 1990). Findings from hierarchical regression analyses indicate consistent significant independent effects of personality dispositions, coping resources and perceived job insecurity on various indicators of strain. There was also support for the moderating roles of negative affectivity and self-care in the relation between perceived job insecurity and physical strain. Implications for the role of dispositional factors, especially negative affectivity, and the utility of various coping resources in accounting for occupational strain in times of threatened job security are discussed.     

Job stress, job strain, and psychological withdrawal among Dutch university staff: towards a dualprocess model for the effects of occupational stress

This study examined the antecedents of job strain (emotional exhaustion, health complaints) and withdrawal behaviour (e.g. lowered organizational commitment) among a cross-sectional sample of 131 academic staff members of the law department of a large Dutch university. Conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, 1989) provided the theoretical background for this study. Strains and withdrawal behaviours were expected to be most prominent among those who reported having few resources and/or who reported high job demands. Structural equation modelling revealed that this was indeed the case. As predicted, differential patterns of effects emerged for job demands and job resources. Analysis of the effects of four job-specific stressors revealed that especially the structural aspects of a staff member's teaching task (e.g. the number of students in their classes) contributed strongly to perceived job demands. Theoretical and practical implications of the study are discussed.     

Dermal Uptake of 18 Dilute Aqueous Chemicals: In Vivo Disappearance‐Method Measures Greatly Exceed In Vitro‐Based Predictions

Average rates of total dermal uptake (K_up) from short‐term (e.g., bathing) contact with dilute aqueous organic chemicals (DAOCs) are typically estimated from steady‐state in vitro diffusion‐cell measures of chemical permeability (K_p) through skin into receptor solution. Widely used (“PCR‐vitro”) methods estimate K_up by applying diffusion theory to increase K_p predictions made by a physico‐chemical regression (PCR) model that was fit to a large set of K_p measures. Here, K_up predictions for 18 DAOCs made by three PCR‐vitro models (EPA, NIOSH, and MH) were compared to previous in vivo measures obtained by methods unlikely to underestimate K_up. A new PCR model fit to all 18 measures is accurate to within approximately threefold (r = 0.91, p < 10^?5), but the PCR‐vitro predictions (r > 0.63) all tend to underestimate the K_up measures by mean factors (UF, and p value for testing UF = 1) of 10 (EPA, p < 10^?6), 11 (NIOSH, p < 10^?8), and 6.2 (MH, p = 0.018). For all three PCR‐vitro models, log(UF) correlates negatively with molecular weight (r² = 0.31 to 0.84, p = 0.017 to < 10^?6) but not with log(vapor pressure) as an additional predictor (p > 0.05), so vapor pressure appears not to explain the significant in vivo/PCR‐vitro discrepancy. Until this discrepancy is explained, careful in vivo measures of K_up should be obtained for more chemicals, the expanded in vivo database should be compared to in vitro‐based predictions, and in vivo data should be considered in assessing aqueous dermal exposure and its uncertainty.     

Systems Resilience for Multihazard Environments: Definition,Metrics, and Valuation for Decision Making

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction reported that the 2011 natural disasters, including the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, resulted in $366 billion in direct damages and 29,782 fatalities worldwide. Storms and floods accounted for up to 70% of the 302 natural disasters worldwide in 2011, with earthquakes producing the greatest number of fatalities. Average annual losses in the United States amount to about $55 billion. Enhancing community and system resilience could lead to massive savings through risk reduction and expeditious recovery. The rational management of such reduction and recovery is facilitated by an appropriate definition of resilience and associated metrics. In this article, a resilience definition is provided that meets a set of requirements with clear relationships to the metrics of the relevant abstract notions of reliability and risk. Those metrics also meet logically consistent requirements drawn from measure theory, and provide a sound basis for the development of effective decision‐making tools for multihazard environments. Improving the resiliency of a system to meet target levels requires the examination of system enhancement alternatives in economic terms, within a decision‐making framework. Relevant decision analysis methods would typically require the examination of resilience based on its valuation by society at large. The article provides methods for valuation and benefit‐cost analysis based on concepts from risk analysis and management.     

UNIX系统性能监控简述及shell系统资源统计程序

本文简要阐述了unix系统中(主要以IBM的AIX为例)进行系统性能管理的几种命令行工具,并通过编写shell实例程序,运用其中提到的工具实现系统资源利用率的统计程序,为做好unix系统管理和调优提供参考.