政府补助:保壳还是培优

研究发现对于需要保壳的上市公司,仅有7%靠政府补助保壳成功,政府补助没有起到雪中送炭的作用,不具有保壳动机;而对于不需要保壳的上市公司,上期盈利能力越高的,本期获得的补助越少,说明政府补助没有起到锦上添花的作用,不具有培优动机.     

中国合同法与CISG

《合同法》无疑是目前我国民事领域中最为成功的立法,该法在诸多方面受到了联合国《国际货物销售合同公约》的影响。比较《合同法》与《公约》,在合同的订立、合同解除、违约责任与免责、买卖合同等方面,既可以看出前者对于后者的继受,也可以看出二者之间存在的若干差异。     

论海峡两岸民商事司法协助模式的发展趋势

海峡两岸民商事司法协助迄今已历经分别立法模式和民间协议模式。《海峡两岸共同打击犯罪及司法互助协议》和《海峡两岸经济合作框架协议》的签署为海峡两岸民商事司法协助模式的发展提供了新的契机。在海峡两岸政治、经济、文化等因素的共同作用下,民间协议模式在较长时间里继续存在,官方协议模式及统一立法模式将在条件成就时生成。     

才情隐显与政治对话——曹丕曹植同题赋同题史论比较

在对曹丕曹植同题赋的比较中,曹植的个体情志显现较突出,曹丕则比较模糊。在同题史论中,曹丕曹植构成一种对话关系,且这种史论已成为言志的工具。     

An alternative phase II/III design for continuous endpoints

The success rate of drug development has been declined dramatically in recent years and the current paradigm of drug development is no longer functioning. It requires a major undertaking on breakthrough strategies and methodology for designs to minimize sample sizes and to shorten duration of the development. We propose an alternative phase II/III design based on continuous efficacy endpoints, which consists of two stages: a selection stage and a confirmation stage. For the selection stage, a randomized parallel design with several doses with a placebo group is employed for selection of doses. After the best dose is chosen, the patients of the selected dose group and placebo group continue to enter the confirmation stage. New patients will also be recruited and randomized to receive the selected dose or placebo group. The final analysis is performed with the cumulative data of patients from both stages. With the pre‐specified probabilities of rejecting the drug at each stage, sample sizes and critical values for both stages can be determined. As it is a single trial with controlling overall type I and II error rates, the proposed phase II/III adaptive design may not only reduce the sample size but also improve the success rate. An example illustrates the applications of the proposed phase II/III adaptive design. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Satisfying and Retaining Customers through Independent Service Representatives

The degree of leverage possessed by manufacturers who outsource their customer service function to channel partners over customer satisfaction and loyalty is assessed empirically. Data provided by independent service representatives are linked with data from their customers. Results indicate that a manufacturer's support of its representatives increases their job satisfaction which, in turn, is indirectly linked to the customer satisfaction through shared perceptions of service performance and quality. However, the strength of the effects is modest, suggesting that manufacturers may need to consider direct customer contact strategies or contractual means of assuring customer satisfaction when independent service representatives “own the customer.” Conceptually, the hypothesized shared mindset model is tested against the competing affect transfer model, resulting in support for the former. Job satisfaction moderates the degree of agreement between representatives' and customers' perceptions of service performance and quality such that greater agreement occurs when job satisfaction is high.     

Estimating a marriage matching model with spillover effects

We use marriage matching functions to study how marital patterns change when population supplies change. Specifically, we use a behavioral marriage matching function with spillover effects to rationalize marriage and cohabitation behavior in contemporary Canada. The model can estimate a couple's systematic gains to marriage and cohabitation relative to remaining single. These gains are invariant to changes in population supplies. Instead, changes in population supplies redistribute these gains between a couple. Although the model is behavioral, it is nonparametric. It can fit any observed cross-sectional marriage matching distribution. We use the estimated model to quantify the impacts of gender differences in mortality rates and the baby boom on observed marital behavior in Canada. The higher mortality rate of men makes men scarcer than women. We show that the scarceness of men modestly reduced the welfare of women and increased the welfare of men in the marriage market. On the other hand, the baby boom increased older men's net gains to entering the marriage market and lowered middle-aged women's net gains.     

江苏高等教育国际化战略探讨

基于战略管理理论,探讨了科学规划江苏高等教育国际化问题,具体包括规划的总体指导思想、规划内容、规划重点以及规划实施保障等方面,并提出了科学规划与促进高等教育国际化的特色发展策略、平台发展策略、信息化发展策略和资源发展策略。     

社会科学研究中质与量的方法选择

质性研究和量化研究是社会科学研究中的两种重要方法。质性研究遵循人文一解释的基本逻辑．是用文字描述归纳社会现象;量化研究遵循科学一实证的基本逻辑,以数字符号诠释社会现象,具有继承自然科学研究方法的传统和社会科学研究方法的特点。在争论定量、定性二者的差异的进程中,不断实现优势互补则是社会科学研究方法发展的主流趋势。     

Negative impact induced by foreign workers: Evidence in Malaysian construction sector

Though foreign workers served to overcome the labor shortage in the Malaysian construction market, over-dependence on foreign workers and the negative impacts induced have become a serious social problem. The aims of this research are to identify those negative impacts induced by foreign workers in the Malaysian construction market and to determine strategies in minimizing these negative impacts. Data were collected through a structured interview and survey. The questionnaires were delegated to professionals in construction projects who have direct contacts with foreign workers. Only respondents from those companies registered under the CIDB grade G7 were chosen for this survey. There were 117 sets of questionnaires completed and analyzed through the structured interviews. The three principal factors attracting foreign workers to the Malaysian construction market are “Preference of the employers”, “Lifestyle and working conditions”, and “Unattractiveness of the career pathway”. The main negative impacts induced by foreign workers are “Over-dependence on foreign workers”, “Increment in criminal activities or social problems”, and “Existence of illegal workers”. This research proposes that strategies such as “Attract local workers into the construction industry”, “Industrialized Building Systems”, “Eliminate illegal migration”, and “Improve governance structure” would be successful in minimizing negative impacts induced by foreign workers.