港口经济与城市经济系统耦合协调度实证研究

我国正处于港口高速建设和城市迅速发展时期,协调港口和城市功能的关系对提高港口城市的综合能力具有重要意义。在深入分析港城经济系统耦合机理的基础上,采用熵权法选取港口经济与城市经济的耦合元素指标,并以深圳港为例,运用耦合度模型与耦合协调度模型进行实证分析,动态把握港口经济与城市经济的耦合协调状态。研究表明,2000~2011年期间,深圳港口经济与城市经济两大系统的耦合系统程度趋向转好,耦合发展类型由严重不协调衰退向高级协调发展转变,并有向优质协调发展的趋势,体现了两大系统的协同效应。     

韩国海上执法机制探析

韩国海洋管理执法机制从机构设置到工作职能都是在逐步加强和完善的。韩国海洋警察正“为了21世纪的海权”在积极努力地维护韩国海洋权益,同时在处置海上突发事件和开展海上反恐斗争中也发挥着越来越重要的作用。韩国海上执行机制无论在海洋执法机构的建立,执法依据的完善,资金、装备、信息的保障,还是在人员及专业人才的培养、公众参与制度的建立、国际合作的加强等方面都值得我国学习与借鉴。     

Online MapReduce scheduling problem of minimizing the makespan

MapReduce system is a popular big data processing framework, and the performance of it is closely related to the efficiency of the centralized scheduler. In practice, the centralized scheduler often has little information in advance, which means each job may be known only after being released. In this paper, hence, we consider the online MapReduce scheduling problem of minimizing the makespan, where jobs are released over time. Both preemptive and non-preemptive version of the problem are considered. In addition, we assume that reduce tasks cannot be parallelized because they are often complex and hard to be decomposed. For the non-preemptive version, we prove the lower bound is \(\frac{m+m(\Psi (m)-\Psi (k))}{k+m(\Psi (m)-\Psi (k))}\), higher than the basic online machine scheduling problem, where k is the root of the equation \(k=\big \lfloor {\frac{m-k}{1+\Psi (m)-\Psi (k)}+1 }\big \rfloor \) and m is the quantity of machines. Then we devise an \((2-\frac{1}{m})\)-competitive online algorithm called MF-LPT (Map First-Longest Processing Time) based on the LPT. For the preemptive version, we present a 1-competitive algorithm for two machines.     

A Mathematical Model of Service Failure and Recovery Strategies*

Understanding the nature of service failures and their impact on customer responses and designing cost‐effective recovery strategies have been recognized as important issues by both service researchers and practitioners. We first propose a conceptual framework of service failure and recovery strategies. We then transform it into a mathematical model to assist managers in deciding on appropriate resource allocations for outcome and process recovery strategies based on customer risk profiles and the firm's cost structures. Based on this mathematical model we derive optimal recovery strategies, conduct sensitivity analyses of the optimal solutions for different model parameters, and illustrate them through numerical examples. We conclude with a discussion of managerial implications and directions for future research.     

关系特征、资源获取与初创企业绩效关系实证研究

网络关系在新企业创建和成长过程中具有关键作用,但究竟何种网络特征能够促进新企业资源获取和绩效提高尚不明晰.本文以初创企业为对象,构建了关系特征、资源获取与新企业绩效之间的理论模型,利用322家成立时间在42个月内初创企业的调研数据,对理论模型和假设进行实证分析.分析结果表明,关系强度对知识资源和运营资源获取具有正影响;关系信任对知识资源和运营资源获取具有正影响;网络规模对知识资源获取具有正影响,知识资源获取对新企业财务和成长绩效具有正影响;知识资源获取对运营资源获取具有正影响;知识资源获取对运营资源获取与新企业绩效间关系具有正向的调节作用.但网络规模对运营资源获取的影响不显著,运营资源对初创企业财务和成长绩效的影响不显著.     

高级管理人员变更、股权特征与盈余管理——来自中国上市公司的经验证据

本文以2003-2006年我国A股上市公司为研究样本,检验公司发生高级管理人员变更时的盈余管理行为。研究结果表明,发生高级管理层变更的公司,高级管理人员变更的当年存在较严重的调减利润的盈余管理行为;此外,对于发生了高级管理人员变更的公司,如果其控股股东是地方和中央政府部门所属国企或中央直属国企,则其调减利润的盈余管理行为可以得到一定程度的抑制;大股东的制衡度越大,公司盈余管理的幅度也将越小。研究结果还显示,当发生高级管理人员变更时,上述因素对公司调增利润的盈余管理行为基本没有影响。     

跨组织工作流建模及分析研究述评

从组织间工作流的层面对跨组织工作流建模的已有研究进行分类、总结和评价.然后,从定性分析和定量分析2个角度综述了工作流分析的相关研究.最后,总结了该领域研究的管理实践意义,并针对现有研究存在的不足,探讨了未来的研究趋势和发展方向.     

多产品竞争中企业产品线最优区域的选择

多产品厂商产品线延伸收缩的决策,不仅仅与自身的竞争实力有关,还与产品的市场特性有关。低端市场上的产品处于生命周期末期,厂商的市场空间不断缩小,市场竞争异常激烈。而新兴市场上的产品从成长期向成熟期过渡,技术不断成熟,消费群体稳步增长。拥有技术优势的厂商必然会收缩低端产品线,放弃低端市场,然后延伸高端产品线,进入新兴市场,从而提升自身的利润水平;由于低端市场上厂商的退出,市场竞争烈度的下降,低端市场在位企业的利润水平也会因此有所改善。     

I warn you because I like you: Voice behavior,employee identifications,and transformational leadership

Voice behavior refers to the behavior that proactively challenges the status quo and makes constructive changes. Previous studies have explored the antecedents of employees' voice behavior, but to whom employees are likely to voice their thoughts has remained rarely examined. We propose that voice behavior is target-sensitive and that there are two types of voice behavior: speaking out (voice toward peers) and speaking up (voice toward the supervisor). Transformational leadership facilitates both speaking out and speaking up. However, it produces effects on employees via different types of employee identifications. Specifically, social identification predicts only speaking out, while personal identification predicts only speaking up. In contrast, affiliative extra-role behavior is less target-sensitive, and transformational leadership influences affiliative extra-role behavior via both social identification and personal identification. We examined our hypotheses by collecting both self-reported and coworker data from 191 Chinese employees in different organizations. Our hypotheses gained general support from the data. Implications for research and practice are discussed.     

Minimum 2-distance coloring of planar graphs and channel assignment

A 2-distance k-coloring of a graph G is a proper k-coloring such that any two vertices at distance two get different colors. \(\chi _{2}(G)\)=min{k|G has a 2-distance k-coloring}. Wegner conjectured that for each planar graph G with maximum degree \(\Delta \), \(\chi _2(G) \le 7\) if \(\Delta \le 3\), \(\chi _2(G) \le \Delta +5\) if \(4\le \Delta \le 7\) and \(\chi _2(G) \le \lfloor \frac{3\Delta }{2}\rfloor +1\) if \(\Delta \ge 8\). In this paper, we prove that: (1) If G is a planar graph with maximum degree \(\Delta \le 5\), then \(\chi _{2}(G)\le 20\); (2) If G is a planar graph with maximum degree \(\Delta \ge 6\), then \(\chi _{2}(G)\le 5\Delta -7\).