The meaning of nonprofit advocacy: An ordonomic perspective

Orthodox economic theories of the nonprofit sector are focused on its service delivery role but have little to say about nonprofit advocacy. This study explains nonprofit advocacy by building upon the ordonomic approach, a recently developed strand of institutional economics that explores the interdependencies between institutions and ideas. From the ordonomic perspective, the evolution of a modern society occurs through an ongoing realignment between institutions and ideas. The meaning of nonprofit advocacy is shown to be in contributing to this realignment. This leads to a new understanding of the service delivery role of the nonprofit sector. This role is shown to have a compensatory character in that it is intended to maintain a reasonable quality of human life before the time-consuming ideational and institutional adjustments actually take place.     

Design-balanced capacitated multicommodity network design with heterogeneous assets

Management of assets plays an essential role in determination of service plans operated by carriers in the transportation and logistics system. In this paper, we introduce certain issues related to management of heterogeneous assets in the well-known design-balanced capacitated multicommodity network design, where design-balanced requirements are explicitly defined based on heterogeneous assets.Taking vehicles as an example of heterogeneous assets, we first present an arc-based formulation for the proposed problem and discuss two associated subproblems. We then propose a tabu search based metaheuristic for this problem. Over a wide range of network design instances, we respectively compare our approach with CPLEX with one-hour and ten-hour time limits. Computational results demonstrate that the proposed approach performs very well in terms of solution quality and computing time, especially for large instances.     

Structural and contextual approaches to ambidexterity: A meta-analysis of organizational and environmental contingencies

This meta-analysis examines the conditions under which structural and contextual approaches help balance exploration and exploitation. Drawing on heterogeneous samples of prior ambidexterity studies, we apply moderated meta-analytic regression methods to 33,492 organizations sampled in 114 primary studies from 1991 to 2017 to test a contingency model. Our findings suggest that structural separation helps firms of all sizes to balance exploration and exploitation, and that structural separation is more conducive for balancing exploration and exploitation in high technology environments. Also, avoiding a structural separation approach benefits service firms. As research on ambidexterity enters the maturity stage we discuss the implications for future theory development, methodology, and for managers interested in developing ambidextrous organizations.     

Service tasks of board of directors: A literature review and research agenda in an era of new governance practices

In their seminal review article on board of directors, Johnson, Daily, and Ellstrand (1996) distinguished between the control, service, and resource dependence tasks of the board and called for a stronger focus on board service tasks. Following this call, service tasks of boards have been subject to increased scholarly attention, with new theoretical perspectives and methods introduced. This paper aims at presenting the current state of research on board service tasks, departing from, and building on, the contribution of Johnson and colleagues. In doing so, we employ an Input-Process-Output-Context framework and craft an agenda for how future research could accommodate new governance practices and progress the field. Our review is relevant and timely as studies on the subject are gaining traction both in corporate governance and general management journals. Furthermore, our review on board service tasks proposes new alternative approaches to studying corporate governance which are especially appropriate in times in which a rethink of corporate governance frameworks and concepts is urgently needed.     

New Models of Contracting in the Public Sector: A Review of Alliance Contracting,Prime Contracting and Outcome‐based Contracting Literature

The coordination of public services is an enduring challenge and an important policy priority. One way to achieve collaboration across organizational boundaries, which is being considered in public services such as the English National Health Service (NHS), is through the adoption of alliance contracting, prime provider contracting and outcome‐based contracting. This article reviews the cross‐sectoral literature concerning the characteristics of these new contractual models, how they function, their impact, and their relation to public sector governance objectives. These new contractual forms are characterized as models which, in line with the New Public Management (NPM)/post‐NPM agenda, seek to incentivize providers through the transfer of risk from the commissioners to the providers of services. Key findings are that the models are likely to incur high transaction costs relating to the negotiation and specification of outcomes and rely heavily on the relational aspects of contracting. There is also found to be a lack of convincing cross‐sectoral evidence of the impact of the models, particularly in relation to improving coordination across organizations. The article questions the reconciliation of the use of these new contractual models in settings such as the English NHS with the requirements of public sector governance for transparency and accountability. The models serve to highlight the problems inherent in the NPM/post‐NPM agenda of the transfer of risk away from commissioners of services in terms of transparency and accountability.     

基于委托代理理论的代建项目服务报酬模型研究

“代建制”是对非经营性政府投资项目的实施过程进行管理的一种制度，是政府投资项目管理的新模式。目前代建项目服务报酬偏低制约了代建制的发展，所以要解决的问题主要是公有制产权下政府投资项目的经济与效率的匹配。本文分析了现行代建报酬状况，根据代建制模式下委托一代理关系的特点，构建代建制框架下的服务报酬模型。     

论新形势下高校图书馆中文期刊采访对策

阐述了期刊发行行业出现期刊品种增加、价格上涨、期刊多版化、期刊发行渠道和发行载体多元化的发展态势及其给中文期刊采访带来的影响,提出了高校图书馆引入招标采购运作模式、建立多元化馆藏发展体系、提高采访人员素质的采访对策。     

服务外包业的合作发展和优化分析

通过审视当前服务外包业的发展趋势,对长江三角洲地区发展服务外包的自身优势、劣势及长三角环境机遇、挑战进行简略分析,提出优化建议。     

吕梁市劳务输出面临的问题及对策分析

近几年吕梁市劳务输出发展迅速,为促进地方经济的发展发挥了重要作用,但农村劳动力在流动和异地转移过程中,也出现了一些不容忽视的问题,对此提出了一些相应对策建议。     

从经济普查看中国服务业

 摘　　要:第一次全国经济普查后，国家统计局对GDP数据进行了重大修正。在2004年2．3万亿元的修正量中，服务业增加值的修正量为2．13万亿元，占总修正量的93％。服务业增加值占GDP的比重由修正前的31．9％上升到修正后的40．7％。而服务业就业人数却较统计年鉴数据减少了7592万人，降幅达33％。各地区生产总值与结构的变化改变了各省、市、自治区的原有排名，反映出一些新的情况。本文对经济普查后中国GDP总量、结构和速度的修订、地区生产总量及结构变化、服务业就业人员情况进行了分析，探讨了数据变化的原因及其影响，并对中国服务业发展水平进行了国际比较 。