Exploitation Strategy and Performance of Contract Manufacturing Exporters: The Mediating Roles of Exploration Strategy and Marketing Capability

Contract manufacturing exporters (CMEs) receive a meagre share of global value chain returns, primarily because of the mundane and exploitative nature of the activities they perform in their dependency relationships with lead firms. We posit that CMEs can enhance their performance by capitalizing on their exploitation strategy. Exploitation strategy triggers exploration strategy which requires building marketing capabilities for enhanced performance. Based on data from 154 Vietnamese CMEs, we find significant indirect only mediation effects of: 1) exploration strategy between exploitation strategy and export performance; and 2) marketing capability between exploration strategy and export performance. Further, we find significant indirect only serial mediation of exploration strategy and marketing capability between exploitation strategy and export performance. The findings are also supported and contextualized based on illustrative quotes from face to face semi-structured interviews with senior managers of 10 Vietnamese CMEs. The findings suggest that CMEs' that consciously capitalize on the exploitation strategy by seeking exploration opportunities while building their marketing capability exhibit enhanced performance.     

Leadership and organizational learning: A multiple levels perspective

We review theoretical and empirical work relevant to the nexus of leadership with organizational learning. We build on the classic distinction between exploration and exploitation and the 4I framework of organizational learning [Crossan, M. M., Lane, H. W., & White, R. E. (1999). An organizational learning framework: From intuition to institution. Academy of Management Review, 24, 522–537.] to present previous research and offer research directions linking leadership constructs and processes of organizational learning at different levels of analysis. For each of these links, we discuss the mediating effect of organizational context and suggest future research directions. This review is integrated using a model and propositions that depict the role of leaders with regard to new and existing learning.     

中外合作办学评估探讨

根据2003年国务院颁布的《中华人民共和国中外合作办学条例》要求,当地人民政府教育行政部门通过年检的方式对中外合作办学机构的办学水平和教育质量进行评估、并将评估结果向社会公布。本文拟将中外合作办学机构的办学水平和教育质量评估的有关问题作如下探讨。     

Impact of strategic and operational risk management practices on firm performance: An empirical investigation

Increasingly, creating and delivering value through complex supply chain networks involves substantial risks. However, strategy development under business risk conditions is not well-understood. This cross-country research examines how, under conditions of supply chain network risk, firms develop effective risk management practices. Using a literature review and survey research of managers from global firms; we present a research model, and empirically test the hypothesized relationships. The results show that under conditions of uncertainty, management decision-making is more likely to be cautious until visible forms of risks emerge, and prudent response mechanisms are put in place. This study identifies the crucial role of supply chain exploration and exploitation practices, and their influence in development of network risk management practices, leading to competitive financial outcomes.     

Individual Exploration,Sensemaking, and Innovation: A Design for the Discovery of Novel Information

Discovering novel information can result in the generation of potentially valuable new ideas and can therefore be beneficial to organizations interested in innovation. To be useful, novel information must have a particular relationship to existing organizational knowledge. It must be far enough away to qualify as novel, but it must be close enough that it can be understood and exploited. Therefore, a key challenge for novel‐information discovery (NID) is to find concepts that have such relationships to a given starting point or focal concept of interest. Despite the potential benefits, organizations face a number of challenges when discovering novel information on the Web: locating it, understanding its relevance, and making sense of it given the constraints and biases of existing mental models. In this article, we develop an understanding of the challenges of NID and how a tool can support individuals in locating and translating novel information into novel ideas. Using a design science approach, we develop a design theory for NID. A prototype is developed and evaluated. Our findings show that an NID tool performs better than other Web search tools such as Google in terms of the perceived levels of novel information provided and radicalness of the ideas generated.     

上声变调补议

上声变调是学习普通话的重点和难点。本文对上声变调中的两个问题进行了分析和研究 ,并对上声变调规律作了探索     

论西北开发的可持续性进程

科学评价西北地区环境特征是顺利实施西部战略的前提,西北地区气候干旱,水资源短缺,由此引发的环境问题,不仅成为历史时期人类不合理开发的后果之一,也直接影响到今天西部战略的进程。本文立足于可持续发展的基点,以西北地区开发地域局限性与开发幅度有限性为核心,重点论述了在全球变暖的气候背景下,西北地区面临的水资源状态,以及以此为依托的开发项目与环境恢复措施的可实现限度,指出西北地区的开发应建立在水资源允许值之内,实施因水制宜的开发举措,一切过高估价西北地区过去的环境面貌,过高评介西北地区的开发限度,都会导致西部战略实施走向误区。     

梁启超对《史记》的阐发

梁启超发掘出《史记》中的有关内容,为宣传资产阶级改良思想服务。他以《史记》为记载文之典范,讲解作文之道,为白话文运动推波助澜。他对《史记》的阐发体现出经世致用的时代特点。学术方面,他的研究具宏观性质,虽然较粗略,但开风气之先,对后世的学人大有启迪。     

论建国后毛泽东对共同富裕道路的探索

文章从效率与公平的角度论述了建国后毛泽东探索共同富裕道路的得失,认为毛泽东的探索虽然没有成功,却是中国最终实现共同富裕的不可或缺的一环。     

以研究为主的教育学教学模式探索

在当前我国教师专业化建设的进程中,高等师范院校担负着重要任务,作为体现师范特色的教育学课程,必须以培养有创新能力的新型教师为教学目标,因此建立一套形式多样化、评价多元化的以研究为主的教育学教学模式是十分必要的.