以科学发展观为统领 促进高校又好又快发展

正坚持以科学发展观指导高校定位,为实现又好又快发展提供坚实的基础保障高校的发展定位,对高校的发展方向、办学理念、建设方略都起着重要的指导作用,是高校实现又好又快发展的基础。只有在科学发展观指导     

坚持科学发展 重视品牌战略 推动地方经济又好又快新发展

在经济全球化、产业分层化的今天,地方政府如何通过实施品牌战略,做大做强做优本地自主品牌,已成为推动产业升级、推动地方经济又好又快发展的一个关键因素,本文对此进行了相关的探讨。     

生物产业:又一个世界经济主导产业

6月16日,以"创新与发展,战略与未来"为主题的第一届中国生物产业大会在石家庄市举行。随后,以"发展生物技术,引领生物经济"为主题的2007国际生物经济大会又于6月26日在天津滨海新区举行。国务委员陈至立在大会上表示,中国已将发展生物技术和生物产业列入国家有关发展规划,到2020年生物产业占GDP的比重要达到4%以上。     

保增长 调结构 转方式 促进经济社会又好又快发展

2010年是河北省实现“十一五”规划目标的决战年，也是巩固经济回升向好基础的关键年。要按照“既要保持经济平稳较快发展，又要在转变发展方式上取得突破”的总体要求，抓住关键强措施，狠抓落实促发展，努力完成伞年各项目标任务。     

落实“又好又快”关键在于地方政府

“又好又快”发展是科学发展观的具体化,也是反思我国多年发展历程的经验总结,它不仅是我国经济社会进入一个新的发展阶段之后的必然要求,更是我们这一代建设者的历史责任和应尽义务。中央关于实现“又好又快”发展的各项政策,落实的关键在于各部委和各级地方政府。     

加快转变经济发展方式 推动经济社会又好又快发展

<正>加快转变经济发展方式,是党的十七大提出的战略任务。邢台市是经济欠发达市,经济总量小、基础差、结构不优,加快转变经济发展方式的任务既艰巨又紧迫。特别是在后金融危机时期,能否在加快转变发展方式上占得先机、赢得主动、取得突破,对于邢台市培育内生增长动力,提高区域竞争力,加快实现富民     

确立又好又快理念 全面提升督查水平

党的十七大报告提出,要促进国民经济又好又快发展。又好又快,既是推动科学发展的,必然要求,也是指导督查工作的根本原则。督促检查作为促进党委决策落实的重要手段,必须树立又好又快理念,全面提升督查服务水平,在加快建设富强秀美和谐新西峡的历史进程中发挥更大作用。     

加强自主创新促进经济又好又快发展

党的十七大强调:"提高自主创新能力,建设创新型国家。这是国家发展战略的核心,是提高综合国力的关键。"党中央的这一重大决策,是科技经济社会发展的重大指导思想和行动纲领。这就表明,在当代中国,推进经济又好又快发展,关键是要增强我国的科技创新能力,走自主创新之路。     

把促进又好又快作为科技工作的重中之重

党的十七大对科技工作提出了新的更高的要求,把提高自主创新能力,建设创新型国家摆在促进国民经济又好又快发展的突出位置,作为八项任务的第一条,强调这是国家发展战略的核心, 是提高综合国力的关键.科技界和广大科技工作者要勇敢地肩负起这一重大使命和责任,坚持自主创新,把促进国民经济又好又快发展作为科技工作的重中之重.     

树立又好又快理念 全面提升督查水平

党的十七大报告指出：要促进国民经济又好又快发展。又好又快，既是推动科学发展的必然要求，也是指导督查工作的根本原则。督促检查作为促进党委决策落实的重要手段，必须树立又好又快理念，全面提升督查服务水平，这样才能在推进领导决策落实中发挥更大作用。     

Educational Landscapes and Urban Development. Contextual and Spatial Interfaces and Linkages

In the broad sociopolitical discussion on education quality within the last decade, it has become apparent that education is gaining importance for urban development, as well as space and the urban context are important dimensions of education. This becomes particularly evident in concepts for local educational landscapes (Ger. Bildungslandschaften). The young field of research on educational landscapes is currently lacking empirical research from spatial and planning sciences. In the paper, the current state of scientific research on educational landscapes in Germany and Europe and first insights to contextual and spatial interfaces and linkages between education and urban development in general are presented.     

Inventory Models with Continuous and Poisson Demands and Discounted and Average Costs

We develop a new, unified approach to treating continuous‐time stochastic inventory problems with both the average and discounted cost criteria. The approach involves the development of an adjusted discounted cycle cost formula, which has an appealing intuitive interpretation. We show for the first time that an (s, S) policy is optimal in the case of demand having a compound Poisson component as well as a constant rate component. Our demand structure simultaneously generalizes the classical EOQ model and the inventory models with Poisson demand, and we indicate the reasons why this task has been a difficult one. We do not require the surplus cost function to be convex or quasi‐convex as has been assumed in the literature. Finally, we show that the optimal s is unique, but we do not know if optimal S is unique.     

E-governance and Corruption-developments and Issues in Ethiopia

This paper reports the results of a survey of 400 respondents in Ethiopia about factors generating corruption and the potential of e-Governance to mitigate corruption. It is suggested that e-Governance can help not only in weeding out corruption but also in the establishment of sounder government citizen relationships in Ethiopia. While e-Governance cannot cure all the structural factors that breed corruption in the society, strategic implementation of e-Governance can help improve the critical variable in combating corruption-government citizen relationships. It is argued that while e-Governance initiatives can make important contributions to improving public services they can best do so by helping improve overall relationships between governments and citizens.

CEO and Chairperson characteristics and firm performance

This paper focuses on the relationship between Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairperson characteristics and firm performance. Specifically, the study examines the association between the characteristics of the CEO and the Chairperson of the board and firm performance. Using a sample of S&P 500 firms, the evidence found suggests that demographic and experience-related characteristics may be associated with the market valuation and financial performance of the firm. In particular, the reported results indicate a positive relationship between the presence of female CEOs or Chairs and firm performance, thus suggesting that gender-based differences may affect the CEO’s/Chairperson’s success. Moreover, the findings concerning the age of the CEO or Chair are mixed, while their experience and quality appear positively related to firm performance. Interestingly, a CEO or Chairperson holding multiple board seats is negatively associated with firm performance, whereas CEO duality has a positive relationship with Tobin’s Q and the return on assets (ROA) of the firm.     

David and Goliath: causes and effects of coopetition between start-ups and corporates

Coopetition (collaboration between competitors) among young firms (i.e. start-ups) and larger, more established firms (i.e. corporates) may be beneficial for both partners as each party typically has something to offer that is missing in the other. Start-ups often develop innovative ideas, are flexible and agile, willing to take risks, and aspire to achieve high growth, but they tend to lack the required resources, capabilities, and knowledge due to their newness and smallness. Corporates have resources, routines, and experience that enable them to work efficiently but lack a certain innovation capability. Research has suggested that coopetition represents an opportunity for start-ups facing restrictions in resources, while corporates benefit from start-ups’ innovative ideas. However, it is yet unknown whether start-ups and corporates engage in coopetition with each other and, if so, how and why they do this. This study seeks to fill this void by exploring the motives of coopeting start-ups and corporates, how they manage their coopetitive relationship, and what implications occur including potential benefits and risks. We present a multiple case study based on qualitative data collected through 70 interviews with Austrian-based start-ups and corporates representing 35 coopetitive partnerships. Discussing the findings based on our data, we propose relationships concerning coopetition and its role to enlarge resource- and technology-bases as well as its role in the development of dynamic capabilities.     

Career orientations and career success among research,and development and engineering professionals

Managing the careers of research, development and engineering (RD&E) professionals is important to the strategic use of RD&E in the economy. Appropriate mechanisms for motivating RD&E professionals will probably emerge as a critical success factor for organizations that want to compete in world markets. This study examines dimensions and levels of career orientation and their correlations with individual and work-related outcome variables among 78 RD&E professionals. The findings reveal a rich diversity of career orientation in RD&E professionals. The data strongly suggest that RD&E professionals are service, lifestyle and security oriented. However, they scored low on technical orientation and entrepreneurship. This paper suggests that the dual career ladder is not an effective device for managing RD&E professionals. Organizations must be careful to provide career paths that retain and motivate workers and, more importantly, find matches between organizational needs and individuals' needs, and restructure jobs accordingly. The authors offer suggestions for future research and identify implications for management.     

Work and shopping overflow — Consequences and differentiation among selected psychological and demographic characteristics

Contemporary individuals are forced to deal with excessive stimulation, which causes an overload in the cognitive and emotional areas. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possible factors differentiating the perceived level of work and shopping overflow experienced by individuals and consequences of these states. Two psychological variables: cognitive control and sensation seeking, are chosen as potential factors differentiating the perceived levels of overflow. We assume that individuals with high cognitive control and sensation seeking will report lower levels of both types of examined overflows. Experiencing low overflow levels may manifest in the search for additional stimuli, rather than in the desire to limit them. Two indexes of behavior connected to seeking extra stimulation are selected: one belonging to the area of consumer behavior (readiness to participate in the experience economy) and one belonging to vocational behavior (choosing a boundaryless career). The quantitative study is conducted on a sample of 297 management students who are currently employed. The research results support the relation between cognitive control and perceived level of work and shopping overflow. Individuals who can cognitively control the situation and the incoming stimuli report lower levels of overflow. No significant relationship between sensation seeking and the level of overflow is found. The demographic variables that influence the perceived overflow are age and salary for work overflow and age for shopping overflow. As far as consequences of overflow are concerned, a low level of shopping overflow is related to readiness to participate in the experience economy. However, there is no link between work overflow and preferred career pattern. The managerial implications for human resource management and marketing strategy design are discussed.     

Review and reappraisal of modelling and predicting mental workload in single- and multi-task environments

The concept of mental workload has long been recognized as an important factor in individual performance within complex systems. It is documented that either overload or underload may degrade performance, and further affect the efficiency of the whole system. Therefore, systems designers need some explicit models to predict the mental workload imposed on individuals by the system at an early design phase so that alternative system designs can be evaluated. In examining mental-workload literature, it is found that few predictive mental-workload models have considered factors specific to individuals. This research aims to develop a practical framework for predicting mental workload in both single- and multi-task environments considering such individual factors. In order to describe mental workload more precisely and more completely, a framework for mentalworkload definitions, which contains instantaneous workload, average workload, accumulated workload, peak workload and overall workload, is proposed. In order to model individual factors, two new variables, i.e. effective workload and ineffective workload, are introduced to model the taskgenerated workload and individual-generated workload. The extension of the model to multi-task environments is also discussed. The proposed conceptual models are domain-independent and could be used to guide the development of operational models for different specific tasks.