基于供应链管理的企业外包策略选择分析

外包是企业从传统纵向一体化管理模式向供应链管理模式转变的重要途径。然而,外包策略的有效选择对企业实际运作来说并非易事。该文从供应链管理的角度出发,通过对核心业务、顾客价值以及产品特性和业务类型的分析,探讨了在不同竞争环境中如何通过外包策略的选择来增强企业的竞争优势。     

试析《劳动合同法》对人力资源管理实践的挑战

自2008年实施以来．《劳动合同法》在劳资双方引起广泛关注。本文研究《劳动合同法》对《劳动法》补克和完善的内容。分析《劳动合同法》对中国企业人力资源管理实践的影响和挑战，指出从长远的观点出发．《劳动合同法》的实施将促进中国企业人力资源管理向精细化、科学化、系统化方向发展．实现劳资和谐和社会和谐。     

Supply Chain Conflict Due to Store Brands: The Value of Wholesale Price Commitment in a Retail Supply Chain*

Store brands are of increasing importance in retail supply chains, often causing channel conflict, as the retailer's product directly competes with the manufacturer's national brand. Extant research on the resulting channel interactions either assumes the national brand manufacturer can credibly commit to maintaining a wholesale price or that he lacks such ability. However, these two scenarios imply very different supply chain interactions, as only a national brand manufacturer with commitment ability can strategically adjust a national brand wholesale price to prevent a store brand introduction by the retailer. We specifically analyze the impact of this assumption on the manufacturer, the retailer, and the customers. We determine when long‐term contracts that provide the manufacturer with such commitment ability can improve supply chain profitability.     

The Potential for Cannibalization of New Products Sales by Remanufactured Products*

The potential for cannibalization of new product sales by remanufactured versions of the same product is a central issue in the continuing development of closed‐loop supply chains. Practitioners have no fact‐based information to guide practice at firms and academics have no studies available to use as the basis for assumptions in models. We address the cannibalization issue by using auctions to determine consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for both new and remanufactured products. The auctions also allow us to better understand the potential impact of offering new and remanufactured products at the same time, which provides us insights into the potential for new product cannibalization. Our results indicate that, for the consumer and commercial products auctioned, there is a clear difference in WTP) for new and remanufactured goods. For the consumer product, there is scant overlap in bidders between the new and remanufactured products, leading us to conclude that the risk of cannibalization in this case is minimal. For the commercial product, there is evidence of overlap in bidding behavior, exposing the potential for cannibalization.     

对新《劳动合同法》中劳务派遣制度的思考

新《劳动合同法》对劳务派遣员工合法权益的维护和保障起着重要的意义,通过对新法中劳务派遣制度进行解读发现,新劳务派遣制度在派遣机构准入门槛、派遣员工与正式员工同工同酬、派遣数量和岗位等方面还存在一些＂可操作性＂漏洞,并指出了新法实施过程中可能面对的新情况。不断细化和完善劳务派遣相关制度,并在法律执行过程中建立保障机制,保证执法效果,是实现新法目标、保障派遣员工的合法权益、使派遣员工切实享受改革成果的重要途径。     

Electronic Data Interchange: Research Review and Future Directions*

For nearly two decades, electronic data interchange (EDI) has been widely viewed as a technology pivotal to supply chain management that has also provided benefits to firms on multiple levels. Despite a substantial body of literature, there are a number of conflicting and inconclusive research results in this field. In this study, we synthesize the diverse body of research in EDI by organizing the literature into an initial theoretical framework. Based on a meta‐analysis of results from the empirical literature, we seek to clarify conflicting results from the literature in order to develop a more unified theoretical framework of contextual variables associated with EDI adoption factors and outcomes. From a managerial standpoint, our literature‐based framework offers a set of guidelines for making successful EDI adoption and implementation decisions.     

中国功能性分配格局的国际比较研究

 在当前的研究文献中,我国学者在对中国劳动收入份额进行国际比较时,通常在两个方面产生混乱：一是我国收入法GDP中的劳动者报酬指标包含了非公司业主的混合收入,采用的是宽口径的概念,而SNA1993中的雇员报酬概念却并不包括混合收入,是窄口径的概念。因此,根据我国收入法GDP数据直接计算出的劳动收入份额并不具有国际可比性;二是2004年我国收入法GDP的统计口径本身发生了变动,使得我国2004年前后的劳动收入份额也不具有可比性。本文首先以2004年的经济普查数据为基础,对自我雇佣者的混合收入按照宽、中、窄三种口径进行调整,基本消除了上述的两个不可比因素;其次,以调整后的可比数据为基础,本文对我国宽、中、窄口径的劳动收入份额进行了全面的国际比较,得到的结论更为稳健可靠。结果发现：如果采用窄口径的劳动报酬概念,我国的劳动收入份额不仅低于发达国家的平均水平15～20个百分点,也低于发展中国家的平均水平超过4个百分点。     

中国城镇家庭收入增长益贫性形成机制研究

 借助社会福利函数对益贫式增长测度的可分解性,结合中国健康与营养调查（CHNS）提供的家庭就业率、劳动参与率、劳动报酬率、劳动时间等微观数据,追溯居民收入形成的劳动力市场特征要素,将居民收入和各劳动力市场特征的效用性、公平性与增长的损益相结合,应用要素分解模型阐释中国新世纪以来城镇家庭收入增长的益贫性及其形成机制,由此得到更具针对性的收入益贫式增长政策启示。     

The roles of supply network centralities in firm performance and the moderating effects of reputation and export-orientation

Abstract

This study explores how supply network degree, closeness, and betweenness centralities affect firm performance, and the moderating effects of organizational reputation (measured by PageRank centrality) and export-orientation. The supply chain relationship empirical data are drawn from manufacturing and manufacturing service companies in Hong Kong, China. Social network analysis and moderated regression analysis were adopted to test the hypotheses for a sample of 814 focal firms with 3086 supply chain ties. The results indicate that in-degree and closeness centralities improve firm performance. Reputation is found to positively moderate the relationship between closeness and sales performance, but negatively moderates the relationship between betweenness and sales performance. Export-orientation has no effect on relationships. This study contributes to the literature by providing additional empirical evidence on the role of supply network position in firm performance. It also introduces PageRank centrality as a new measure of organizational reputation in a supply network.     

Female labor force participation in the US: How is immigration shaping recent trends?

Women entered the paid workforce in unprecedented numbers during the 20th century. Yet recent years have been witness to a creeping reversal in women's labor force participation. Why did the revolution stall? In response to debates over a “natural” limit to women's employment, or a cultural backlash against the dual-breadwinner household, we consider an alternative explanation, namely whether immigration has slowed the growth in female labor force participation. Using CPS data from 1998 to 2018, we show that the increase in the share of immigrants and children of immigrants in the population has reduced overall female labor force participation. However, immigration accounts for relatively little of the retreat from the labor force. Instead, the compositional effect of population change is overshadowed by behavioral shifts that affect both natives and immigrants. Lower participation rates among native-born women accounts for most of the overall decline. Despite persistent differences, we also find substantial convergence in the labor force behavior of native-born and foreign-born women, which bodes well for the long-term economic incorporation of immigrants and their children.