The labour market flexibility debate in India: Re‐examining the case for signing voluntary contracts

A major focus of India's ongoing policy debate over labour market flexibilization has been the statutory requirement that firms employing 100 or more workers cannot dismiss employees without prior government permission. The case for repealing that requirement (or greatly increasing the workforce threshold) is notably underpinned by Basu, Fields and Debgupta (2009). Here, the author challenges their particular theoretical argument for hiring and firing at will based on the voluntary signing of contracts, demonstrating that their general policy conclusion is logically unsustainable even within the framework of that model. The case for labour market flexibilization through voluntary contracting thus remains unfounded.     

The Structure of Legal Relations in Online Transactions*

As the civil law expression of internet plus transactions, the legal relations in online trading platform transactions constitute a complex aggregate of legal relationships composed of groups of legal relations. Specifically, they consist of three basic interlinked legal relationships: Contract relations for online trading platform services between the platform provider and the seller or service provider, and between the platform provider and the consumer. This includes the sales or service contract relations between the triad of the seller, the service provider and the consumer. These relations contain five kinds of major content, viz., the provision of transaction space, the publishing of transaction information, price escrow payment, distribution and delivery of the commodity, and transaction credit evaluation. They involve three forms of supplementary legal relations: the supplementary contract relationship between the platform provider and a third party payment institution; between the seller and third party credit reporting agency; and between the seller and a logistics enterprise. The three forms of supplementary contractual legal relations are set up to act on the major contents of the basic legal relationships in online transactions. On the basis of the online trading platform service contract relationships between the platform provider and the triad of the seller, the service provider and the consumer, the flow of the above- mentioned legal relations centers on the contract of sales or service set up between the seller, the service provider and the consumer to accomplish the aim of the online transaction, meet social needs and boost economic development.     

铁路总价承包合同管理存在的主要问题及对策

结合我国铁路总价承包合同执行现状，对铁路合同专用条款中存在的承发包双方法律地位不对等、工程款拨付比例不切实际、总承包风险费严重不足等主要不合理内容进行剖析，说明不合理的原因。对发包人处理正负量差的方式、工期调整产生的赶工费不能全额解决及部分变更设计在源头上得不到认可等在合同执行过程中存在的问题进行研究。简单分析产生不合理条款和合同执行不到位的主要原因。针对这些不合理条款，提出应对策略。     

中澳合同法诚实信用原则比较研究

诚实信用原则是适用整个民事合同的基本原则，如何正确理解并在司法审判中正确适用诚实信用原则，既是一个严肃的理论问题也是一个重要的现实问题。通过介绍澳大利亚学者和法官的不同观点和澳大利亚合同法中的诚实信用规则的基本含义，然后对我国合同法中诚实信用原则的内容和要求做出总结并与澳大利亚合同法中的诚实信用规则进行比较，最后提出应借鉴澳大利亚合同法诚实信用规则的理念，将主观诚实，客观诚实和合理考虑其他当事人利益三方面内容纳入到我国的诚实信用原则之中。     

Organizational identification as a mediator for the effects of psychological contract breaches on organizational citizenship behavior: Insights from the perspective of ethnic minority employees

This study examines the contribution of the psychological contract (PC) framework to the understanding of ethnic minority employees’ employment relationships. First, it tests the generalizability of PC types (transactional, relational, and balanced) observed in the general population to ethnic minority employees. Then, to further address the unique needs and motivators of minority employees, this study considers diversity-related PCs. It adopts social exchange theory to explain how transactional, relational, balanced, and diversity-related PC breaches predict organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Moreover, it draws insights from social identity theory and examines the mediating role of organizational identification in the relationship between types of PC breach and OCB. Data from 361 Turkish employees working as ethnic minorities in Belgium indicate that relational and diversity-related PC breaches predict OCB partially via organizational identification while transactional and balanced PC breaches directly affect OCB.     

侵权干涉与效率违约的比较——以引诱违约情形的经济分析为中心

效率违约理论认为在引诱违约的情况下,违约能够导致资源流向更高价值的用途,并且减少了交易成本。研究表明,上述两个假设都不能成立。而且由于补偿不充分,效率违约还导致了过多的违约。相反,侵权干涉规则保证了资源流向更高价值的用途,并降低了交易成本,而且避免了过多的违约。     

论主管机关的海难救助报酬请求权

主管机关成为《海商法》上的救助方,不存在法律上的障碍.在我国司法实践中已经出现承认主管机关救助报酬的背景下,结合我国救助费用面临巨大缺口的现实,应承认主管机关的海难救助报酬请求权.同时,鉴于主管机关主要由国家配备公务人员及设备,并由国家财政拨款建立和维持,在确定主管机关救助报酬的具体数额时,应将《海商法》第180条中的奖励性因素排除,主要考虑主管机关的成本费用支出.     

高管层报酬契约构成与标准——基于问卷调查的研究

基于委托代理理论的分析框架,对高管层报酬契约结构与业绩评价标准进行了问卷调查,运用SPSS统计分析软件,对调查结果进行了分析。得出了研究结论:在我国目前上市公司中,高管层报酬契约存在着实行长期期权激励和没有实行长期期权激励的二元结构,具有激励高管层最大化股东财富行为选择的报酬构成是长期期权激励,而没有实行期权激励的公司中,效益报酬具有激励作用;高管层业绩考核指标包括评议性指标和定量指标,运用主成分分析法对业绩评价指标进行了因子界定。     

装卸搬运在物流管理环节中的作用研究

物流活动离不开装卸搬运,它贯穿于不同的物流阶段,因此装卸搬运是物流系统中重要的子系统之一。由于装卸搬运的伴生性和起讫性特点,导致它们经常被忽视,而只被看作是其他活动过程的一部分,没有像运输、储存等物流环节一样受到足够的重视。通过分析装卸搬运的特点,进而阐述装卸搬运在物流管理中的作用和意义。     

Managing Logistics in Regional Banknote Supply Chain Under Security Concerns

We study the logistics problem faced by Regional Branches (RBs) of a central bank in managing the currency supply under security concerns. While making banknote supply decisions to Sub‐Branches (SBs), the management of RB must achieve two goals simultaneously: (i) guarantee that each SB has sufficient inventories of all denominations of banknotes to satisfy the demands from all commercial banks within its service area, and (ii) control the annual spending on this banknote supply operation. Due to security concerns, the following methods are implemented in the process of transporting banknotes: (i) the capacity of a cash truck is limited by the total face value (instead of the physical space) of banknotes, and (ii) empty decoy trucks are deployed along with the trucks filled with banknotes. After deriving a polynomial‐time strategy to guarantee an optimal solution for the special Bin‐Packing Problem faced in this study, we provide an exact formulation for the RB's supply planning problem. We also propose several polynomial‐time algorithms for deriving either optimal or near‐optimal solutions for the problem under different settings. Using the weekly demand data obtained from the central bank, we verify the performance of our algorithms, and analyze the impacts of changes in these features and in the fleet capacity on the total cost incurred by an RB under various scenarios.