Institutional antecedents of subsidiary external embeddedness: Coping with regulatory competitive constraints

We investigate institutional antecedents to subsidiary external embeddedness and relate regulation constraining competition in local service sectors to subsidiary embeddedness with local partners in complementary sectors. Combining research on business networks with arguments derived from transaction cost economics, we argue that subsidiary external embeddedness depends on the extent of transaction costs originating from small numbers bargaining, which regulatory competitive constraints in local service sectors are a source of. Based on this logic, we suggest that low and high levels of regulatory competitive constraints are associated with greater subsidiary external embeddedness. We also suggest that this U-shaped relationship is more pronounced for subsidiaries that are centers of excellence within the multinational enterprise because these subsidiaries heavily depend on the local context as a source of their competitive advantage over their sister subsidiaries.     

Breakthroughs on Fundamental Issues of Socialist Political Economy in China’s Economic Reform

How to effectively integrate the basic economic system of the primary stage of socialism in which public ownership is the dominant and diverse economic sectors develop side by side with a resource allocation model in which the market plays a decisive role is a fundamental issue in building a socialist political economy with Chinese characteristics. Western bourgeois economics and the traditional understanding of Marxist classical writers reject the possibility of such integration. In the transitional countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the practice and theoretical exploration of combining the two ended by abandoning public ownership. The fundamental feature of socialist economic reform practice with Chinese characteristics is to uphold their organic unity. This approach has already achieved great progress but at the same time is confronting a series of new problems.     

Unequal returns to social capital: the study of Malays in Singapore through a network lens

Using the concepts of ‘social capital deficit’ and ‘return deficit’, this study considers the social network aspects of social disadvantage among Malays in Singapore, as compared to Singaporean Chinese. Analysing a 2005 representative survey, we find Malays have less social capital than Chinese, a social capital deficit partly explained by their lower educational attainment. We find no return deficit in earnings: that is, every additional unit of social capital increases earnings equally for Chinese and Malays. However, we find return deficits in education: every additional unit of social capital (e.g. ties to educated parents) increases educational attainment more for Chinese than Malays. In all, this study offers a social capital explanation for Malay ‘plight’, complementing the more conventional explanations of human and economic capital.     

Unemployment among Mexican immigrant men in the United States, 2003–2012

Based on their socioeconomic characteristics, Mexican immigrant men should have very high unemployment. More than half do not have a high school diploma. One in four works in construction; at the height of the recent recession, 20% of construction workers were unemployed. Yet their unemployment rates are similar to those of native-born white men. After controlling for education and occupation, Mexican immigrant men have lower probabilities of unemployment than native-born white men – both before and during the recent recession. I consider explanations based on eligibility for unemployment benefits, out-migrant selection for unemployment, and employer preferences for Mexican immigrant labor.     

珠江三角洲企业营销由粗放型向集约型转变的探讨

珠江三角洲的市场营销在由粗放型向集约型转变中涌现了一些集约型营销搞得较好的企业,具体表现有：善于发现市场机会,扩大市场需求;重视产品高新系列化,提高市场竞争力;重视分销和促销;工商携手、开拓市场;树立社会营销观念,提高企业的知名度和企业形象等     

黄金通衢拓市场 蔬果批发可增益

文章分析了在北仑区白峰镇兴建蔬菜果品批发市场的可能性及对该区、该镇经济发展的促进作用,最后提出了如何兴建该市场的具体建议。     

试论我国民族出版产业

我国的新闻出版业（包括图书、报纸、期刊、音像、电子出版物）经历了由出版事业向出版产业的转变,终于被纳入了市场经济体制。作为具有意识形态特征的民族出版产业,在世界知识经济时代到来及我国将加入ＷＴＯ之时,面对国际出版产业和国际资本的挑战,如何保持民族出版产业的主体地位和主导作用,成为严峻且必须回答的问题。因此,对我国出版产业应有相应的政策和对应的措施     

中国养老金监管原则的法理思考

在人口老龄化时代,养老金制度的健全和完善成为保障老年人权益的关键,对养老金的监管是防范养老金流失、保证养老金保值增值的重要手段。从法理学视角看,对养 老金的监管要坚持信息公开、法治化管理、专门机构监管和市场化监管原则,以确保养老金监管的有效性,实现养老金价值的增长,健全和完善养老金监管制度。     

我国产能过剩现象的成因及治理对策

我国虽然建立了以市场化为取向的市场经济体制,但传统的计划经济体制仍然在一定程度上影响着市场经济的发展,政府仍然控制着大量的要素资源,要素资源尚未实现 市场化,再加上国有企业改革相对滞后,从而导致了产能过剩和产能短缺并存的经济结构失衡状态。为此,应将政府主导的投资体制转变为市场主体自主进行的投资体制,并进行 国有企业的改革重组及要素资源的市场化改革,对经济发展实施正确的政策导向;同时,积极实施“一带一路”倡议,引导过剩产能的消化,创造有效的市场需求,解决产能过剩 问题。     

中国省域星级酒店市场结构变化的空间差异分析

本研究以2006-2015年星级酒店相关数据为基础,运用区位熵、市场集中度指数和市场结构变动指数等研究方法,探讨了我国31个省市区星级酒店市场结构的变化及其空间分异特征.结果表明:1.四星、五星等高星级酒店的区位熵呈现出明显的由东向西梯度递减的分布格局,而一星、二星等低星级酒店的区位熵分布则与此完全相反.2.我国绝大部分地区的酒店集中程度均较高,且区域分异特征并不十分明显,主要集中在二星及三星酒店.3.整体上,近十年来我国星级酒店市场结构的变化较为不明显,但其变化的地域特征较为明显.4.各星级酒店在全国各省市区所占比重的变动方向较为一致.