义乌阿拉伯商会的功能透视

目前义乌是全球规模最大的小商品集散中心,也是中东地区在中国设立的最大贸易基地。21世纪初,阿拉伯商会、阿拉伯商人俱乐部在义乌相继成立。阿拉伯商会组织致力于服务商会会员和帮助会员融入义乌社会的工作等。如何使在义乌的阿拉伯商会组织能够公开、合法地活动,是一个亟待解决的现实问题。     

直隶商会与乡村小农经济变迁

近二十年来,中国商会史的研究已经取得了丰硕的成果。综观现有研究成果,多集中于上海、苏州、天津等大城市商会,而对中小城市尤其是乡村集镇基层商会鲜有涉及。本文试图以直隶商会为个案,透视在直隶乡村小农经济变迁中,直隶商会所扮演的角色及其社会影响。     

通州区电子商务企业集聚初探

本文通过分析产业集聚的内涵、通州区电子商务产业集聚现状和相关制约因素,并结合周边地区产业园区竞争的现状,提出增强通州区产业集聚效应的对策。     

荷马为什么歌唱“阿喀琉斯的愤怒”?——《伊利亚特》的主题与古希腊民主政治的兴起

荷马为什么要把“阿喀琉斯的愤怒”作为《伊利亚特》的主题 ?阿喀琉斯与阿伽门农之间的冲突实际上是民主政治与专制王权之间两种政治的冲突。史诗所反映的迈锡尼时代 ,发达的工商业文明孕育了阿喀琉斯反抗阿伽门农专制王权的政治力量。而阿喀琉斯的反抗引发平民和贵族的觉醒 ,动摇了专制统治的基础 ,这就开启了希腊历史的一个伟大时代 :城邦民主制时代。正是因为对阿喀琉斯民主精神的歌唱 ,使荷马成为希腊民族的伟大导师 ,受到后世的称颂和感激。《伊利亚特》的主题与古希腊民主政治的兴起紧密相连。     

Who benefits from the adjustment process in developing countries? A test on India,Kenya, and Turkey

This paper employs country-specific multisectoral general equilibrium models of Turkey, Kenya, and India to study the adjustment problems confronting these countries. The effects of liberal and interventionist policies on GDP and on incomes of different classes are analyzed. The results show that liberal policies minimize the GDP losse that both capitalists and farmers are relatively better off under these policies, while industrial persons experience reduced welfare.     

Multiple Conceptualizations of Small Business Web Use and Benefit*

Small businesses play an important role in the U.S. economy and there is anecdotal evidence that use of the Web is beneficial to such businesses. There is, however, little systematic analysis of the conditions that lead to successful use of and thereby benefits from the Web for small businesses. Based on the innovation adoption, organizations, and information systems (IS) implementation literature, we identify a set of variables that are related to adoption, use, and benefits of information technology (IT), with particular emphasis on small businesses. These variables are reflective of an organization's contextual characteristics, its IT infrastructure, Web use, and Web benefits. Since the extant research does not suggest a single theoretical model for Web use and benefits in the context of small businesses, we adopt a modeling approach and explore the relationships between “context‐IT‐use‐benefit” (CIUB) through three models—partial‐mediator, reduced partial‐mediator, and mediator. These models posit that the extent of Web use by small businesses and the associated benefits are driven by organizations’ contextual characteristics and their IT infrastructure. They differ in the endogeneity/exogeneity of the extent of IT sophistication, and in the direct/mediated effects of organizational context. We examine whether the relationships between variables identified in the literature hold within the context of these models using two samples of small businesses with national coverage, including various sizes, and representing several industry sectors. The results show that the evidence for patterns of relationships is similar across the two independent samples for two of these models. We highlight the relationships within the reduced partial‐mediator and mediator models for which conclusive evidence are given by both samples. Implications for small business managers and providers of Web‐based technologies are discussed.     

A Transaction‐Efficiency Analysis of an Internet Retailing Supply Chain in the Music CD Industry*

The emergence of the Internet may have fundamentally altered the mechanisms underlying information exchanges between sellers and end consumers. However, little attention has been given to the impact these mechanisms have on the efficiency of supply chain operations. This paper begins to address this deficiency in the literature by evaluating supply chain transaction efficiency effects from Internet purchases by consumers. It develops and empirically tests a theoretical framework examining the role Internet purchases have in establishing transaction‐efficiency levels in product exchanges involving sellers, placed at different supply chain echelons, and consumers. The theoretical framework integrates the transaction‐cost and internet economics, inter‐organizational information systems, and supply chain management literatures. Empirical testing, via structural equation modeling, is based on archival data in the Internet music CD market. The results show that Internet‐mediated purchases by consumers allow for greater transaction efficiencies when inventory ownership is postponed farther upstream in the supply chain and supply chain echelons are disintermediated. The results also indicate that channel structure configuration, defined by the supply chains' Internet retailing echelon, moderates these transaction efficiency effects.