建立以本土企业为主体的协同创新机制研究

改革开放以来,我国经济发展取得了巨大成就,但也面临一些重大挑战,特别是本土企业加入、依赖跨国公司主导的产业链,在短期内得以迅速发展的同时,也导致本土产业链出现了断裂和碎片化的问题,这对本土企业的创新和发展是不利的。文章研究在我国建立以本土企业为主体的协同创新机制的基本规律和特点,为提高本土企业的创新能力提供借鉴。研究的主要发现是,这是一个复杂和曲折的过程,在这一过程的启动阶段和转折阶段,非经济因素或者至少是长期经济因素而不是短期经济因素具有独特的、非常重要的作用。     

管理认知、资源编排与后发企业技术追赶

后发企业技术追赶研究逐渐深入到微观认知基础,但关于管理认知如何驱动技术追赶的机制尚未被充分揭示。通过纵向案例研究,揭示了后发企业高管认知与资源编排动态适配以实现技术追赶的过程。研究发现,在追赶阶段,高管分析型认知通过“纵向资源结构化、稳定性重组、联盟撬动”的资源编排方式进行基本技术积累;在转型阶段,高管创造型认知通过“横向资源结构化、丰富性重组、国际撬动”的资源编排方式获得了新兴技术能力;在超越追赶阶段,高管的悖论型认知通过“双向资源结构化、开拓性重组、平台撬动”的资源编排方式实现了行业技术领先。研究结论既从管理认知视角拓展了技术追赶理论,又为后发企业的追赶实践提供了管理启示。     

Service diversification and growth of professional service firms

This study investigates the impact of service diversification on the rate and mode of firm growth in professional service firms (PSFs). Drawing on the extant PSF literature, we identify differing views regarding the growth impact of service diversification. Specifically, some scholars suggest that the external client benefits associated with service diversification should allow PSFs to expand revenues at a rapid pace and pursue less merger and acquisition activity, whereas others imply that increased diversification can cause internal challenges with respect to learning costs, coordination and innovation that can limit the rate of revenue growth and encourage more mergers and acquisitions. We test these competing views using longitudinal data on 137 accounting firms and cross-sectional data on 125 law firms and find that service diversification is negatively associated with the rate of firm revenue growth and positively associated with the use of mergers and acquisitions.     

Supply Chain Strategies and International Tax Arbitrage

What motivates the geographic footprint of the supply chains that multinational firms (MNFs) deploy? Traditional research in the operations and supply chain management literature tends to recommend locations primarily based on differentials in production costs and the ramifications of physical distance ignoring the role of taxation. MNFs that strategically position parts of their supply chains in low‐tax locations can allocate the profits across the divisions to improve post‐tax profits. For the profit allocation to be defensible to tax authorities, the divisional operations must possess real decision authority and bear meaningful risks. Generally speaking, the greater the transfer of risk and control, the larger the allowable allocation of profit. These transfers may also create inefficiencies due to misalignment of business goals and attitudes toward risk. We model these trade‐offs in the context of placing in a low‐tax region a subsidiary that oversees product distribution (as a limited risk distributor commissionnaire, limited risk distributor, or fully fledged distributor). Our analysis demonstrates that the MNF's preferences regarding the operating structures are not necessarily an obvious ordering based on the amount of risk and decision authority transferred to the division in the low‐tax jurisdiction. We derive and analyze threshold values of the performance parameters that describe the main trade‐offs involved in selecting an operating structure. We find some of the optimal decisions to exhibit interesting non‐monotone behavior. For instance, profits can increase when the tax rate in the low‐tax jurisdiction increases. Numerical analysis shows that the Limited‐Risk Distributor structure is rarely optimal and quantifies when each alternative dominates it.     

Network learning: Episodes of interorganizational learning towards a collective performance goal

Little is known about learning processes in horizontal networks. This study focuses on networks as learning entities, i.e. learning by multiple organizations as a group, and the mechanisms involved in developing and addressing a network-level performance goal. By using a narrative approach, we gather in-depth primary data from network members to examine: how do firms engage in network learning? and, how is network learning coordinated towards a performance goal in a horizontal inter-firm network? Our findings comprise two learning episodes: ‘learning how to compete’ and ‘learning how to perform’. These episodes help us to understand network learning processes; the relationship between network learning and organizational learning; and the regulatory role a hub firm provides towards a collective performance goal.     

遵循创投发展规律深化国有创投公司市场化改革——部分省市国有创投公司调研报告

江苏、浙江及深圳等部分省市国有创投公司成功的原因，在于不断按照市场化、专业化要求推进体制机制创新，突破现行国有评估、考核和激励机制等的束缚。上海国有创投业在国内与深圳创投、江苏高投等公司基本上同时起步，但近年来在实力和影响力方面差距拉大。建议上海国有创投业体现政府职能和市场化的经营活动要分开；国资创投活动要与市场融合特别是与社会资金融合；通过改革和创新突破现有国资规定。     

生产性企业组织学习最优控制模型及其理论分析

运用最优控制理论研究生产性企业组织学习活动的动态最优决策问题.以企业的概念性学习投资率和操作性学习投资率为决策变量,累积知识量、生产率、单位成本和废品率等为状态变量,计划期内的总利润为指标函数,建立了一个最优控制模型,其特点在于规范地描绘概念性学习和操作性学习对企业累积知识量、生产率、单位成本、质量以及企业利润的动态影响.根据生产性企业组织学习和生产经营的实际情况,提出了一些定量化表达的假设和定义.在假设和定义的基础上利用最大值原理分析了所建立的模型,获得了关于动态最优概念性学习投资策略和操作性学习投资策略性质的一些结论,将这些结论与实际问题相结合,指出了在生产性企业组织学习实践上的含义.     

Impact of Hazardous Substances Regulations on Small Firms in Delaware and New Jersey

Regulations under the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act impose significant requirements on firms handling hazardous chemicals. The nature of the regulations would suggest that small firms, because of limited resources and other structural limitations, would experience more difficulty complying with the regulations than large firms. To understand the difficulties imposed by the regulations on small firms, we interviewed ten small firms in Delaware and New Jersey, states with existing hazardous regulations similar to those being considered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and evaluated their responses to state regulations. The impacts of the environmental regulations on the firms and on the risk levels of their businesses are discussed. Propositions for research into small firms compliance are developed. Possible means for reducing the regulatory burden on small firms while enhancing regulatory effectiveness are suggested.     

女性董事改善了企业会计稳健性吗?——基于中国民营上市公司的经验证据

以2004-2011年中国民营上市公司为研究样本,运用Basu模型结合民营上市公司董事会环境和女性特征,实证检验了女性董事对会计稳健性的影响.研究结果表明,董事会是否存在女性、董事会中女性的数量和比例都对会计稳健性有着显著的影响.其中,董事会存在女性董事降低了低竞争行业企业和低债务监督企业的会计稳健性,但女性董事的数量和比例的增加却提高了高竞争行业企业的会计稳健性.研究结论对深入理解会计稳健性以及加强中国民营上市公司治理结构具有一定的指导意义.     

生产率与企业出口--基于辽宁省工业企业微观数据的实证研究

近期部分学者发现的中国企业出口“生产率悖论”问题,可能是加工贸易比重过高导致的。为此文章选择加工贸易比重较低的辽宁省作为检验对象,对2003～2008年间持续存在的2644家规模以上制造业企业数据进行面板数据分析,发现“生产率悖论”在该地区并不存在,高生产率是企业出口的决定因素,同时所有制性质、企业规模、市场进入成本等也会影响出口。针对人均利润、人均应收账款等方面的对比还发现,国内信用制度较差、交易成本过高也可能导致了中国企业“被迫出口”。