Watching online videos interactively: the impact of media capabilities in Chinese Danmaku video sites

In China, the implementation of a Danmaku social media system to sustain and raise user interest in online video sites is an increasingly widespread phenomenon. Danmaku technology is used to display users’ messages in written text on the online video stream. Little is known about the effects of this form of interactive enhancement. The aim of this empirical study is to evaluate the evolving media capabilities of the Danmaku system and their effects on users’ perceptions of interactivity and their intentions to continue using Danmaku. We draw on media synchronicity theory and apply it to a stimulus-organism-response model. Using this framework, we hypothesize that the media capabilities of the Danmaku system, namely its transmission velocity, parallelism, symbol sets, rehearsability, and reprocessability, elicit increased interactivity, which influences users’ instantaneous intentions to share and to continue the use of the Danmaku system. The results showed that both users’ instantaneous intention to share and their intention to continue to use were significantly affected by the perceived interactivity. Unlike the results of previous studies, our findings showed that all five media capabilities positively affected the users’ perceptions of interactivity. The potential theoretical and practical implications of our findings are discussed.     

Interactive profit-planning systems and market turbulence: A dynamic capabilities perspective

This article describes, theorizes and empirically investigates the concept of interactive profit-planning systems (PPS) through the lens of the dynamic capabilities logic. With this conceptualization: interactive PPS capabilities comprise budgeting, forecasting and results-reporting routines, in which top and middle managers interact to create knowledge for sensing, seizing, and business model reconfiguring (to manage strategic business change). Survey data from 331 Australian firms is analyzed employing partial least squares structural equation modeling. The data provides support for two hypotheses: (1) greater market turbulence strengthens the positive effect of interactive PPS capabilities on business unit performance; and (2) greater market turbulence strengthens the positive effect of flexibility values (of organizational culture) on interactive PPS capabilities. Our findings show that interactive PPS capabilities function according to the salient tenets of the dynamic capabilities logic, and clarify the beneficial roles of formal cybernetic control systems and the intertwined involvement of top and middle managers in using dynamic capabilities.     

Impact of customer loyalty and service operations on customer behaviour and firm performance: empirical evidence from UK retail sector

Abstract

Retail networks are striving to achieve competitive advantage by increasing value through loyalty and efficiency with a focus on service operations. As sales promotions have become an integral part of the retail supply chain planning, customer behavioural aspects based on loyalty and service operations have been challenged greatly. Subsequently, management capabilities, such as planning and timely replenishment, have become complicated tasks for many retail store managers. This study develops a model integrating retail network value and efficiencies with customer behaviour and performance. We validate the model using survey data from prominent U.K. retail store customers. Our data analysis shows that both loyalty and service operation attributes have positive significant impact on customer behaviour, while the service operation mediates the relationship between loyalty and customer behaviour. This result gives a new outlook to build managerial capability based on customer loyalty and service operations. Our results specifically show that the service operation attributes will indirectly influence the customers’ buying behaviour even in the presence of loyalty attribute such as promotion schemes. This result sends a strong signal to retail supply chain managers to offer customised promotions considering local community rather than having uniform sales promotion nationwide.     

Disability,personalisation and community arts: exploring the spatial dynamics of children with disabilities participating in inclusive music classes*

This paper uses personalisation and the capabilities approach to explore inclusive music classes for children with disabilities in Scotland. It provides a unique insight into the impact of participation through the voices of the disabled young musicians, their parents and tutors. The study highlights the power of inclusive spaces to transform lives, to build confidence and contest disabled identities. It engages in the spatial dynamic of opening up inclusive spaces, as well as exposing emerging tensions in the liminal space that is created through movement between safe and supported spaces and the antithesis, spaces that disempower and marginalise. The findings suggest good practice around personalisation, when conceived of from a social justice perspective, as a template for working with other marginalised groups and in other professional settings.     

适合应用型人才培养的结构设计课程教学改革探讨

结合土木工程专业教学实践,围绕当前结构设计课程的特点,以《混凝土结构设计》课程为例就如何提高教学质量,培养学生的工程意识和综合设计能力,从教学方法、教学内容、教学手段等方面对课程的教学改革进行探讨。     

制造企业物流能力及其对竞争优势和企业绩效的影响研究

利用探索性和验证性因子分析,开发制造企业物流能力量表,得出物流能力的三个维度:物流流程能力、物流柔性能力和物流信息整合能力.利用LISREL对研究假设进行检验,得出制造企业物流能力与竞争优势和企业绩效之间的因果关系,在研究结论基础上,对制造企业提高物流能力提出相应建议.     

论曹操的军事才能

曹操的军事才能大致可以概括为这样四句话 ,即 :一、长于战术 ,短于战略 ;二、长于任将 ,短于治军 ;三、长于陆争 ,短于水战 ;四、长于政治 ,短于军事。综观曹操一生的军事活动 ,无论是用兵实践 ,还是理论著述 ,可知上述四点是符合他的实际的。正是这样一些特点 ,决定了曹操实际上并不是一个出色的军事家 ,更不是一个杰出的大军事家     

农民工养老保险制度现状的研究

农民工队伍日益壮大,为中国现代化建设做出了突出贡献,并在一定程度上解决了农村劳动力富余的问题。然而,农民工的养老保险制度却存在着很多问题,引发了严重的退保、拒保现象。在分析我国农民工现状的基础上,对农民工人数进行了预测,阐述了我国现行的农民工的养老保险的类型,并分析了现行的养老保险制度的不足及对策建议。     

制度环境、创业能力对国际创业模式选择的影响

基于制度理论和组织能力理论,通过对我国的172家国际新创企业进行问卷调查,运用层次回归分析模型对影响国际创业模式选择的能力因素和制度因素进行实证研究。研究表明,创业能力强的国际新创企业偏好于采用高级的国际创业模式,而且这种创业偏好在制度环境友好的东道国更加明显。     

基于竞争战略类型的银行战略能力对绩效的影响机制研究

本研究基于Treacy和Wiersema的竞争战略分类框架,建立了银行内部聚焦的成本和效率导向竞争战略与银行外部聚焦的顾客满意导向的竞争战略两种银行竞争战略类型。通过问卷调查的方法获得107家中国银行的样本,以资源基础观和战略匹配为理论基础,从战略执行的视角,实证分析了银行的竞争战略类型与其战略能力的匹配对绩效的影响。结果显示,选择成本和效率导向的竞争战略的银行,其运营能力、技术能力和风险控制能力对绩效有显著正向的影响;而选择顾客满意导向竞争战略的银行,其营销能力和风险控制能力对绩效有显著正向的影响,最后我们根据实证结果提出针对中国银行业的管理建议。