Complementary Drivers of New Product Development Performance: Cross‐Functional Coordination,Information System Capability,and Intelligence Quality

Coordination efforts that access and align relevant cross‐functional expertise are regarded as an essential element of innovation success. In recent years, these efforts have been further augmented through complementary investments in information systems, which provide the technological platforms for information sharing and coordination across functional and organizational boundaries. Somewhat overlooked has been the critical mediating role of the intelligence gained through these efforts and capabilities. This study draws on the theory of complementarity to elaborate on the nature of this mediating concept. Theoretical predictions of the model are tested using instrument variable regression analysis of data collected from a sample of publicly traded US manufacturing firms. The findings suggest that the effects of both internal and external coordination on market intelligence and supply‐chain intelligence are moderated by the firm's information system capability. The effect of both types of intelligence quality on new product development performance was contingent with the effects being enhanced (attenuated) when the market conditions were dynamic (stable). The results are robust to common‐method bias, endogeneity concerns, and alternative estimation methods.     

高校来华留学生教育中的文化冲突与管理

在中国高校学习的留学生已经形成一个庞大的多元文化群体,他们分属不同的种族和民族,具有不同的宗教信仰和成长背景,体现出极强的多元文化性,由此也导致了不同文化间的碰撞。根据文化的层次性,留学生教育中的文化冲突主要表现为容易化解的技术层面冲突,社会规范、时空观、价值观的冲突和无法用外部强制力量轻易改变的深层信仰冲突。要想避免和化解这些冲突,必须加强留学生教育的管理,并根据三个层次间的关系和文化的特征,对任课教师、管理人员和留学生进行跨文化培训,在以人为本的基础上促进跨文化的理解,从而实现文化共生和完善留学生管理支撑体系。     

Systemic Practice in the Time of COVID: Conversations Among Culturally Diverse Therapists

The COVID‐19 pandemic has changed the delivery of clinical services and education of health professionals, including family therapists. This paper distils two separate Zoom conversations between myself (as the lead author) and two eminent family therapists, Professors Maurizio Andolfi and Harry Aponte, where challenges and opportunities for the profession during and after the pandemic are discussed. Creativity and resourcefulness are two important elements therapists and educators have needed to access during the pandemic to find alternative ways to continue to provide clinical services and teaching. Most therapists have transitioned using online technology and various platforms such as Zoom and Skype; for some this has been a somewhat familiar experience, for most it has been a novel one. Key themes emerged from the conversations including the personal and professional ‘lived experiences’ of the pandemic; the financial impact on clients and students; the importance of touch for human social connection; the use of ‘self’ as an instrument of change and alternative platforms of service delivery and teaching. We reflected on what has been lost, such as the nuances inherent in face‐to‐face human interactions, and what has been gained, such as observing families in situ in their own environments.     

Single replicate orthogonal block designs for circulant partial diallel crosses

Some incomplete block designs for partial diallel crosses have been given in the literature. These designs are obtained by regarding the number of crosses as treatments, and consequently require several replications of each cross. The need for resorting to a partial diallel cross itself implies that it is desired to have fewer crosses. A method for constructing single replicate incomplete block designs for circulant partial diallel crosses is provided in this paper. The designs are orthogonal, and thus they retain full efficiency for estimation of the contrasts of interest.     

Automatic Smoothing for Poisson Regression

Abstract

Adaptive choice of smoothing parameters for nonparametric Poisson regression (O'Sullivan et al., 1986 O'Sullivan , F. , Yandell , B. S. , Raynor , W. J., Jr. ( 1986 ). Automatic smoothing of regression functions in generalized linear models . J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 81 : 96 – 103 . [CSA] [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) is considered in this article. A computable approximation of the unbiased risk estimate (AUBR) for Poisson regression is introduced. This approximation can be used to automatically tune the smoothing parameter for the penalized likelihood estimator. An alternative choice is the generalized approximate cross validation (GACV) proposed by Xiang and Wahba (1996 Xiang , D. , Wahba , G. ( 1996 ). A generalized approximate cross validation for smoothing splines with non-Gaussian data . Statist. Sinica 6 (3): 675 – 692 .[Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). Although GACV enjoys a great success in practice when applying for nonparametric logisitic regression, its performance for Poisson regression is not clear. Numerical simulations have been conducted to evaluate the GACV and AUBR based tuning methods. We found that GACV has a tendency to oversmooth the data when the intensity function is small. As a consequence, we suggest tuning the smoothing parameter using AUBR in practice.     

Optimal Designs for Best Linear Unbiased Prediction in Diallel Crosses

ABSTRACT

Recently, Ghosh and Das (2003 Ghosh , H. , Das , A. ( 2003 ). Optimal diallel cross designs for estimation of heritability . J. Statist. Plann. Inference 116 : 185 – 196 . [Google Scholar]) considered the estimation of variance components and the variances of these estimates. While comparing the yielding capacities of the cross (i, j), Kempthorne and Curnow (1961 Kempthorne , O. , Curnow , R. N. ( 1961 ). The partial diallel cross . Biometrics 17 : 229 – 250 .[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) proposed the estimation of the yielding capacity of any cross based on the least square estimators of the general combining ability effects and/or the mean yield of the cross (i, j). In this article, the problem of predicting the yielding capacity of the cross (i, j) from the sample of inbred lines has been considered. The properties of the best linear unbiased predictor for predicting the unobserved general combining ability effects together with general mean effect has been studied. We characterize A-optimal complete diallel cross designs and some efficient partial diallel cross designs under this setup.     

宗教与跨文化交际

宗教是文化的一部分,渗透到社会文化生活的方方面面.从广义上讲,宗教的历史也就是一部人类文化的历史,而语言又是某个民族文化、风俗习惯的载体.研究中国宗教与基督教对东西方文化的影响,可以正确地认识宗教的作用,以利于我们了解彼此的语言、文化背景、思维方式、价值观,以利于我们在跨文化交际过程中避免产生文化误读现象.     

海峡西岸经济区经济发展现状及对策

自1992年实行全面改革开放以来,海峡西岸经济区成为中国东部沿海地区的重要增长点,其经济实力与地位得到显著提升。分析发现,其区域经济发展总体实力仍然相对较弱,外部竞争异常激烈,区域内部差异较大,中心城市集聚带动能力较弱,资金外逃和人才流失现象明显。由此提出加强区域合作,实现和谐共荣;发展县域经济,关注效率与公平;发展壮大中心城市,建设海峡西岸城市群;提升引资能力,扩大外向型经济规模;升级教育理念,加强人才队伍建设等经济发展建议。     

小议学生在商务日语学习中的跨文化交际培养

在全球经济一体化的今天,国与国之间的关系更加紧密地联系在一起,异文化之间的冲突和融合成为全球化时代的一个重要特征。随着日本对华投资力度的不断增加,要求熟练掌握商务日语的人才需求量也不断加大,因此商务日语的教授是很重要的,学生不仅要学习日语基础知识和商务知识,还应注重跨文化交际能力的培养,以便在今后的商务活动中避免异文化之间的冲突,这对于我国的经济的发展也是很有必要的。     

“美术”在东方文化历史语境中的生成

在"西学东渐"的大背景下,"美术"译文首现于展览空间并不是一种翻译上的机缘巧合。因为西方现代意义上的"艺术"、"美术",乃是与公共领域内的艺术制度紧密相联的。明了"美术"历史生成的"跨历史文化语境"实践,明了民族国家主体在"跨文化历史语境"实践中的困顿和选择,我们就不难理解中国艺术现代性从一开始就呈现出来的推动国家现代性历程的文化自觉。而这也正是中国现代艺术发展在20世纪后期饱受当代艺术家诟病的向国家意识形态投诚的根源所在。