Intermediate Performance Impacts of Advanced Manufacturing Technology Systems: An Empirical Investigation*

A large-scale random sample is used to empirically examine the relationships between implementation of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) and three organization-level measures that have historically been attributed to AMT, but not fully tested along the AMT spectrum: market-oriented flexibility of the production process, organizational integration of production processes, and administrative intensity of the organization. Results indicate that as an organization moves along the technology scale from stand-alone AMT (e.g., CNC machines) through functionally oriented AMT (FMS and CAM) toward CIM, not only do its production processes become more integrated with each other, but those processes become more integrated with other functional systems of the organization, and the quality and timeliness of production information increase. Furthermore, this relationship becomes stronger as companies increase their level of implementation for the latter two technologies. Conversely, market-oriented flexibility decreases and administrative intensity is not observed to change as companies move along the technology spectrum. Future research should examine how organizational redesign and implementation strategies that accompany AMT implementation can concomitantly enhance organizational integration of the production process and market-oriented flexibility.     

Multilevel public goods game: Levelling up,substitution and crowding-in effects

In an online multilevel public goods experiment, we implement four treatments where we gradually increase the marginal per capita return of the global public good. First, we find evidence of an increase in the contribution to the global good (levelling-up effect). Secondly, subjects fund their higher contribution to the global good by reducing their contribution to the local good (substitution effect) rather than by increasing total contribution, i.e., the sum of their contributions to the local and the global good (marginal crowding-in effect). Moreover, we observe that total contribution increases as a consequence of the mere introduction of the global good (categorical crowding-in effect). Finally, we observe that subjects continue to contribute to both public goods even when they are dominated in terms of costs and returns.     

碳约束下江苏省节能减排效率时空演化及分异研究

节能减排是发展低碳经济，建设生态文明的必由之路。运用ＤＥＡ 的ＧＭＬ 指数法和Ａ?ＥＢＭ法相结合的创新模式测算有碳约束下２００６—２０１４ 年江苏省地级市节能减排效率。结果表明：江苏省节能减排效率均值为０?? ８２９，９ 年间整体上升２?? ０％，其中Ａ?ＥＢＭ 效率呈“Ｗ”型变化，ＧＭＬ 指数的变化呈现波动向上的“Ｍ”型；空间区域分布特点为苏南地区领先、苏中次之、苏北地区相对落后。     

伦理经营探析

本文从“成本支付的外部性”、“利益独占”、“帕累托效率”以及“声誉管理”与“企业可持续发展”等角度分析了伦理经营的必要性 ;并探讨了伦理经营的主要内容 :责任感、经济信用、整体利益观与自律     

拟线性效用的福利变动

本文首先从效用最大化和支出最小化两个模型导出各有关参数之间的函数关系 ,并导出等价变动EV、补偿变动CV、间接效用的变动Δυ这三者之间的关系。然后定义并导出货币测度效用函数 μ(q,p,m) ,最后说明EV和CV能够代替Δυ来衡量消费者福利的变动 ,并利用μ(q,p,m)进一步地分析了EV、CV同消费者剩余CS这一古典概念之间的联系。文中的结论对分析消费者的福利等有着广泛而重要的应用