Strategic Network Orchestration in Emerging Markets: China's Catch‐up in the High‐Speed Train Industry

Transitioning from catch‐up in production to catch‐up in innovation capabilities is essential to emerging market firms (EMFs) achieving internationalization and a competitive advantage. While some EMFs are now positioned among the world's most advanced firms, many struggle to become independent innovators. Thus, understanding how EMFs can develop internal absorptive capacity and progress towards catching up in innovation capabilities remains important. Our study seizes this research opportunity and develops a network‐based explanation of catch‐up, which complements existing technological and organizational explanations. Specifically, we address the question of ‘How does the orchestration of collaborative networks enable EMFs to catch up in production and innovation capabilities?’ by describing an important yet under‐researched process of strategic network orchestration and showcasing the dynamic interdependencies between network orchestration and organizational learning. Our study provides a detailed account of Chinese high‐speed train (HST) development from 1990 to 2020 and opens the possibility for future research on network orchestration in emerging market contexts. This provides EMF managers with a set of actionable network orchestration mechanisms that can be used when designing and purposefully managing their strategic nets of domestic and foreign partners.     

Latin American convergence and divergence towards the mortality profiles of developed countries

It is uncertain whether Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries are approaching a single mortality regime. Over the last three decades, LAC has experienced major public health interventions and the highest number of homicides in the world. However, these interventions and homicide rates are not evenly shared across countries. This study documents trends in life expectancy and lifespan variability for 20 LAC countries, 2000–14. By extending a previous method, we decompose differences in lifespan variability between LAC and a developed world benchmark into cause-specific effects. For both sexes, dispersion of amenable diseases through the age span makes the largest contribution to the gap between LAC and the benchmark. Additionally, for males, the concentration of homicides, accidents, and suicides in mid-life further impedes mortality convergence. Great disparity exists in the region: while some countries are rapidly approaching the developed regime, others remain far behind and suffer a clear disadvantage in population health.     

启蒙与马克思主义中国化

新文化运动后期,因马克思主义的传入而使中国历史的命运发生了改变,从此马克思主义与启蒙便产生了复杂的关系。文章从思想史的角度出发,围绕中国启蒙思想的递嬗轨迹和特殊内涵,深入分析启蒙与马克思主义中国化互相影响的特殊过程,揭示不同的历史发展阶段启蒙与马克思主义的历史关系,重新审视启蒙与中国的特殊国情。在中国社会转型期的当下,凸显启蒙对中国现代化建设的重要现实意义。     

地方政府重大决策机制存在问题及优化路径

地方政府作为地方公共事务管理者，决策正确与否直接关系到公共管理活动的成败，并且在一定程度上影响地方经济发展的水平及其核心竞争力。由于我国地方政府现阶段决策主体多元性及其职能模糊性，一些重大决策失误现象屡屡发生，造成了有限资源的巨大浪费，严重影响了地方政府在人民群众中的威信和形象。对此，我国地方政府迫切需要优化重大决策机制，包括明晰体制内外决策主体的职能、第三方评估、公众参与、决策终身责任追究及倒查机制等，以推进地方政府决策的民主化、科学化和法治化。     

长江三角洲南部下蜀黄土与硬粘土层关系初探

从气候变化和地形影响两个角度 ,对长江三角洲南部晚更新世地层中西部丘陵区的下蜀黄土与东部平原区的硬粘土层进行了初步探讨 ,认为二者的物质来源都是末次冰期盛冰期由风力搬运堆积而形成的。     

关于社会主义本质论的探索与形成

马克思主义经典作家对社会主义及其本质进行了初步的探索;毛泽东结合社会主义在中国的实践进行了开创性的探索;邓小平在继承上述理论的基础上,结合我国改革开放的实际形成和发展了中国特色的社会主义本质论。     

发展市场中介组织促进中小企业人力资源开发

针对市场中介组织的发展现状及存在的问题 ,着重从组织形式和服务内容两个方面 ,研究了发展为中小企业提供人力资源开发服务市场中介组织的目标模式 ,并提出了发展该类中介组织的对策措施     

梁实秋文学批评思想探源

由于染实秋家庭环境和所受教育不同于现代时期的其他作家 ,所以在留学过程中所接受的是白璧德的古典主义文学批评观 ,而这一批评观的来源则是新人文主义教育思想 ,新人文主义教育思想又是一种超越时空而不变的思想和文明境界 ,为此 ,我们不能简单地把梁实秋归结为保守主义者     

Computing maximum likelihood estimates from type II doubly censored exponential data

It is well-known that, under Type II double censoring, the maximum likelihood (ML) estimators of the location and scale parameters, θ and δ, of a twoparameter exponential distribution are linear functions of the order statistics. In contrast, when θ is known, theML estimator of δ does not admit a closed form expression. It is shown, however, that theML estimator of the scale parameter exists and is unique. Moreover, it has good large-sample properties. In addition, sharp lower and upper bounds for this estimator are provided, which can serve as starting points for iterative interpolation methods such as regula falsi. Explicit expressions for the expected Fisher information and Cramér-Rao lower bound are also derived. In the Bayesian context, assuming an inverted gamma prior on δ, the uniqueness, boundedness and asymptotics of the highest posterior density estimator of δ can be deduced in a similar way. Finally, an illustrative example is included.     

论工程训练与创新人才培养

工程训练是重要的实践性教学环节 ,必须把工作重点转移到培养学生创新能力上来 ,创造有利于培养创新人才的环境 ,传授给学生丰富的创新知识基础 ,改革教学内容、教学方法、教学手段和考核办法 ,以保证培养创新人才的需要 ,并注意培养学生各种创新素质 ,鼓励学生创新 ,促进其创新能力的发展