Marketing Is from Mars,IT Is from Venus: Aligning the Worldviews for Firm Performance

A typical firm is operated by multiple functional managers who may collaborate as well as compete to achieve firm performance. In the digital age, firm performance is essentially customer‐dependent and technology‐dependent, with both marketing and information technology (IT) playing key roles. Unfortunately the two functions often have very different worldviews. We show how these differences can damage firm performance, and suggest ways to mitigate this damage. We build a worldview difference model, synthesized from multiple disciplines. The model is tested using both matched and nonmatched observations from marketing and IT managers, and is analyzed with hierarchical linear models using both perceptual and objective firm performance data over a 4‐year period. We find that differences between the beliefs and perceptions of marketing managers and IT managers generate a negative impact on firm performance, and suggest appropriate technology‐culture associations to effectively align their worldviews for firm performance. To improve firm performance, a cross‐functional appreciation for market and technology drivers can be achieved by making marketing managers more learning‐oriented and by providing IT managers a culture that is congruent with technology.     

Entrepreneurial orientation dimensions and the performance of high-tech and low-tech firms: A configurational approach

Building on the entrepreneurial orientation (EO)-as-experimentation perspective, we examine how configurations of the EO dimensions (innovativeness, risk-taking, and proactiveness) might lead to high and low firm performance, and how the configurations differ under different firm contexts. We adopted a configurational approach and applied fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to a sample of 110 UK small and medium-sized enterprises. Our findings show that three (four) configurations can result in high (low)-firm performance, demonstrating that the EO dimensions can contribute to as well as hinder firm performance. Moreover, the configurations leading to the same outcome are distinct between high-tech and low-tech firms, indicating that the impacts of the EO dimensions on firm performance depend on the firm context. Our findings offer useful insights for managers on how to configure the portfolio of firms' entrepreneurial activities to achieve superior performance.     

地方政府竞争对土地资源错配的影响研究——基于成渝地区双城经济圈面板数据

成渝地区双城经济圈是我国经济的重要新兴增长极,但其发展相对滞后,经济增长内生动力不足,依靠土地出让的地方政府竞争行为依然普遍存在,不利于土地资源的高效配置。基于政府土地出让视角,构建地方政府博弈模型,选取成渝地区双城经济圈2009—2017年城市面板数据,采用系统GMM的实证研究表明：成渝地区政府竞争与土地资源错配呈现显著的“U”形变化特征,地区经济发展水平是这一影响的重要作用机制;在替换变量和剔除核心城市后,结论依然稳健;此外,由于政府竞争博弈行为的反复特征,土地资源错配程度存在动态循环的正向累积趋势。     

The military imprint: The effect of executives’ military experience on firm pollution and environmental innovation

This study focuses on military experienced executives (CEO and chairman) and their effect on two types of firm environmental strategy: firm pollution and environmental innovation. From the perspective of imprinting theory, we find that executives with military imprint, which, so we argue, instills a sense of following rules and stewardship for the collective, negatively relate to firm pollution and positively relate to firm environmental innovation. The strength of military imprint at its formation is shaped by whether focal executives had a military officer rank. In addition, working in an environment with strong pro-military culture sustains and even strengthens the military imprint. Analyses of data from 6,664 firm-year observations of heavily polluting industries from Chinese listed firms between 2013 and 2017 largely support our hypotheses (see Table 4 for overview of various tests). Overall, our efforts of extending imprinting theory to leadership literature suggest that the imprinting effect of military experience persists in executives’ decision-making processes. Furthermore, this study contributes to imprinting research by emphasizing the importance of considering imprint formation and imprint persistence.     

中国经济增长的资本策略选择

本文通过对资本及资本对经济增长的作用的分析, 提出中国现阶段经济增长的资本策略选择应从宏观经济和区域经济两个层面考虑, 根据中国经济增长的具体情况来做资本策略的选择。     

中草药添加剂对乌肉鸡生长性能及代谢的影响

将陈皮、苍术、芒硝等组成的复方中草药添加剂按 1.75 %、2 .2 5 %、2 .75 %的水平添加到川牧乌肉鸡基础饲料中配制成试验饲粮 1、试验饲粮 2、试验饲粮 3,进行为期 30d的饲养试验和 4d的代谢试验 ,结果表明 :试验组与对照组相比 ,成活率提高 5 .1%— 10 .3% ,　日增重 (ADG)提高2 2 .2 %— 4 3.1% ,采食量提高 13.5 %— 18.8% ,料重比下降 13.5 %— 18.8% ,干物质代谢率 (DMR)提高 0 .4 3%— 4 .77% ,　有机物代谢率 (OMR)提高 1.6 8%— 5 .4 7% ,　表观氮沉留率 (ANR)提高7.6 3%— 17.5 1% ,其中试验组 3效果最好。试验组 3与对照组相比 ,DMR、OMR、ANR的差异显著(p <0 .0 5 ) ,ADG的差异极显著 (p <0 .0 1)。     

The effect of knowledge collaboration on business model reconfiguration

This study examines whether and to what extent the presence and intensity of knowledge collaboration across different partners affects business model reconfiguration (BMR). We build on the business model (BM) literature and operationalize BMR by introducing the presence and intensity of collaboration and firm size effects as main explanatory factors in affecting the propensity of incremental and radical BMR. We analyze a large sample of UK firms during 2002–2014 to capture the effect of knowledge collaboration and firm size on BMR. Positively incremental forms of BMR will be influenced by the presence and intensity of knowledge collaboration, while radical forms of BMR are affected by the intensity of collaboration with customers and the collaboration with suppliers by large firms. Furthermore, firms of different sizes do not equally benefit from knowledge collaboration with suppliers for both incremental and radical BMR, while they do equally benefit from collaboration with other partner types.     

大蒜素对淡水白鲳生长影响的研究

本试验通过在饵料中分别添加 2 5mg/kg、5 0mg/kg、75mg/kg、10 0mg/kg的大蒜素投喂淡水白鲳。经过 4 0d的试验 ,试验各组比对照组的增重率分别提高了 88.94 %、10 2 .85 %、92 .4 7%和5 8.4 9% ,成活率分别提高 14 .5 9%、7.5 %、2 .0 88%、8.12 5 % ,饵料系数分别降低 1.6 6 6 %、9.373%、12 .4 9%和 10 .2 1%。且试验组鱼胴体粗蛋白含量分别比对照组提高了 2 2 .98%、13.5 5 %、2 .30 %和0 .19% ;而胴体粗脂肪含量试验组与对照组变化不大 ,并得出淡水白鲳饲料中大蒜素适宜添加量为5 1.86— 74 .15mg/kg。