Allocation of resources in asymmetric competitions: How do the weak maintain a chance of winning?

To maintain a chance of occasionally beating a stronger player in a competition waged over several fields, a weaker player should give up on some of the fields and concentrate resources on the remaining ones. But when do weak players actually do this? And which fields do they give up when the fields differ in their likelihood of being assessed? We report an experimental study of resource allocation in which asymmetric pairs of players compete over asymmetric fields. Symmetric players and symmetric fields are used for control. We find that players behave as follows: (1) Average wins are the same in the symmetric and asymmetric fields conditions and correspond to relative player strength. (2) The proportion of fields given up on decreases with a player’s greater relative strength, increases for asymmetric field likelihoods, and increases when competitions are framed in meaningful context; this proportion is related to wins. (3) When field likelihoods are asymmetric, players’ resource allocation is correlated with likelihood. Wins generally increase with that correlation but the relation is different for players of different strength. (4) The proportion of fields given up on and the correlation with likelihood change with experience towards the values corresponding to higher wins.     

Countering Overseas Power in Global Value Chains: Information Asymmetries and Subcontracting in the Plastics Industry

Resource Dependency Theory (RDT) and Global Value Chain (GVC) analysis have been deployed in the strategic and international management literatures to address questions of power in dyadic relationships and global production networks, respectively. This paper integrates the two theoretical approaches in order to expand RDT, using insights from Hirschman's exit/voice model to show the options available to some firms but not others. Using the relationship between buyers and contract manufacturers from GVC analysis, we find a correlation between firm size and choice of strategic action in response to contract manufacturers' dependence on buyers. Large firms follow an acquiescence strategy while small manufacturers follow an avoidance strategy, able to use both exit and voice strategies. Enabled by scale or control over information, both of these approaches successfully reduce uncertainty and provide a source of sustained competitive advantage. Using a study of the production chain in consumer plastics manufacturing in China, we show how dependent firms respond to GVC induced pressure. We find that based on the size of the contract manufacturer, the range of strategic responses to power is constrained by the nature of the dependency in global value chains. This opens important insights into the role that structural characteristics of organizations (like size) play in determining strategic freedom.     

表面摩擦驱动收卷的玻纤布卷驱动力特征

与传统股权相比,扶贫股在出资、股权类型、权利内容、收益分配、退出机制、风险防范等方面形成了许多创新做法,但存在制度回应弱、效益吸引力不够、相关利益协调不足、长效的收益分享机制缺失、平台治理参与局限等深层次问题。据此,应立足中国实践,在集体股的框架内,明确扶贫股的法律属性,以集体股制度创新为路径,从制度层面规范扶贫股。     

“互联网+”时代公共图书馆馆藏资源共享的路径探索

面向用户需要、满足用户需求是公共图书馆馆藏资源共享服务的根本导向。在“互联网+”时代,开展针对性、增值性服务是公共图书馆功能和价值实现的重要体现。“互联网+”时代公共图书馆馆藏资源共享具有多元、服务、共赢的特征,在推动馆藏资源共享的实践中,公共图书馆要借助信息技术建设信息数据和信息共享平台的统一标准,打造用户一体化体验模式,并积极引入社会力量助力资源共享建设,以期实现跨越式发展。     

Faculty Performance Evaluation: Modeling to Improve Personnel Decisions*

Based on likely future changes in faculty evaluation practices, this paper examines how institutions of higher education might operationalize performance evaluation as related to research, teaching, and service. A model is developed that allows coupling performance evaluation and relevant market considerations with merit pay, tenure, and promotion decisions. The approach is specifically applicable to tenure-track faculty members in colleges and universities.     

控股股权交易中控股股东的义务——以控制权溢价为视角

控制权溢价是指用来购买公司控股股权而支付的超过非控股股权转让价格以上的价格部分,其存在已为经济学的实证研究所证实。控股股权交易(协议转让)原则上不需公司有权机关批准,包含控制权溢价在内的转让价格由交易双方商定,对公司和其他股东的权益产生重大影响。控股股权协议转让中控股股东的诚信义务可具体化为调查义务、信息披露义务,以及特定情形下的忠实义务,义务的违反直接导致与控制权溢价归属相关的法律后果。我国应针对控制权溢价存在的事实,对上市公司协议收购中的控股股东课以具体的诚信义务形式。     

论上市公司国有股估值、减持区间及治理策略

国有股减持中的国有股估值,减持区间,及利润分配等问题值得研究,在对A股估值多变量模型分析中,本文从分类建模分析、综合建模分析角度出发讨论A股估值问题,并对国有股减持提出了治理策略.     

抚州市红色旅游资源开发与保护

红色旅游资源是旅游资源中的重要组成部分,其保护与开发既有经济意义,更有教育与政治意义。对抚州市红色旅游资源进行开发和保护,不但能有效地促进抚州市经济建设,另外通过红色旅游资源的开发和保护也能很好提高抚州市在国内乃至国外的知名度,这对抚州的经济发展与社会进步将大有裨益。抚州红色旅游资源非常丰富,但同时也存在一些不利因素。文章通过对抚州市红色旅游资源现状进行分析后,提出积极引进民间资本、实现红色旅游资源开放式综合开发、加强旅游产业基础设施建设等多个方面保护与开发抚州红色旅游资源的建议。     

人力资源视野下的高职院校教师队伍建设

高素质专业化教师队伍是实现高职教育事业发展和人才培养目标的重要保障。高职院校教师队伍建设应以人力资源理论为导向,拓宽引进渠道,创新激励机制,加强培训开发,构建评价体系,充分发挥人力资源管理的配置、激励、开发和评价等四大核心职能。     

客户价值的虚拟配送中心价值链研究

指出了传统价值链思想的局限性 ,从企业获得持续竞争优势出发 ,提出了基于顾客价值的价值链分析方法 ,并进一步将其应用到虚拟配送企业中。分析了虚拟配送中心价值链的特点 ,并对虚拟配送企业的运作策略进行了讨论