美国跨国公司内部贸易问题研究

内部贸易已成为跨国公司实现其全球化战略的重要工具 ,并且跨国公司内部贸易在贸易方式、贸易规模上的实质性演变对整个国际贸易体系和世界经济发展方向的影响力度逐步加大 ,对我国整个国民经济的发展以及政策法规的制定都有重要的意义。因此 ,本文主要从美国跨国公司内部贸易的具体分析入手 ,对跨国公司内部贸易所独有特性和决定因素进行研究 ,以期望对我国跨国公司“走出去”的战略起到一定的指导作用。     

Attracting Micro‐Enterprises To Learning

Micro‐enterprises, i.e. firms with less than 10 employees, are traditionally the hardest to engage in learning; they are also least likely to participate in such measures as business advice and guidance provision and initiatives to support information communication technology (ICT) adoption. Through a community‐based initiative initially targeting parents (unemployed or employed) to participate in ICT, 30 micro‐enterprises were attracted to learning for the first time. These companies had carefully avoided similar initiatives taking place locally, which emphasized business success and growth; they had only participated in this ICT skills training because of their children. The paper takes a case study approach to evaluate the reasons for participation, explores barriers and implications for those organizing similar activities, and calls for a more holistic view of owners and managers of small firms as fathers, mothers, etc. rather than just as ‘entrepreneurs’.     

中小企业成长的社会网络解释与分析

中小企业成长依赖于外部资源获取,而资源获取渠道又通常产自于由各种社会关系构成的社会网络。本文针对中小企业成长的独特轨迹,认为社会网络理论在中小企业资源获取及在此基础上的持续成长方面具有独到的解释与分析力度。此外,对社会网络的演进模式及其在中小企业资源获取与成长过程中发挥的作用进行了分析。最后,对社会网络理论在中小企业成长方面可能的具体研究应用领域进行了探讨。     

农产品电商集群企业地理邻近性对协同创新绩效的影响

基于知识治理视角,构建农产品电商集群企业地理邻近性、知识治理、知识共享和协同创新绩效关系的链式中介模型,并引入网络关系强度作为调节变量,结合341家农产品电商集群企业的调研数据,采用多层次回归和Bootstrap分析方法,分析地理邻近性对协同创新绩效的直接作用,检验知识治理和知识共享的独立中介作用和链式中介作用,以及网络关系强度的调节作用。结果表明：地理邻近性正向影响协同创新绩效;知识治理在地理邻近性和协同创新绩效间发挥中介作用;知识共享在知识治理和协同创新绩效间发挥中介作用;知识治理和知识共享在地理邻近性和协同创新绩效间发挥链式中介作用;网络关系强度正向调节正式知识治理和显性知识共享的链式中介作用。因此,农产品电商集群企业要把握数字经济发展契机,善于利用集群区位优势和产业资源,激发正式知识治理和非正式知识治理的双重效应,与合作企业建立良好的知识共享关系,实现高质量协同创新发展。     

具有网络外部性的产品兼容性决策分析

通过Stachelberg竞争模型,本文研究了在具有网络外部性的市场中,拥有专有技术的主导厂商对其兼容技术的授权动机问题。并且得到了主导厂商在纵向兼容决策中最优厂商数量的控制的关系。     

城市规模、创业边界与企业家创业

大城市更有活力且更年轻化的人口结构,导致大城市的消费者异质性偏好更强,进而可能推动企业家创业边界的降低与城市创业活动的发展。为了识别这一理论机制,本文在Zhelobodko et al.（2012）的分析框架上,通过引入城市规模和消费者异质性偏好假设,构建了一个异质性企业家区位选择与创业的空间经济学模型,考察城市规模通过企业家创业边界对城市创业活动的影响,并基于2000-2016年204个城市的面板数据以及2008年中国经济普查数据进行了实证检验。研究发现：（1）企业家才能越高的企业,相应的产品定价会越低,产品需求量越大,而利润越高;（2）企业家创业边界除了受到城市规模的影响以外,还会受到消费者多样性偏好的影响;（3）消费者多样化偏好更强的城市,城市的创业门槛更低,城市的创业活跃度更高。     

The effects of pre-IPO corporate activity on newly-public firms' growth

We investigate firms' pre-IPO corporate activity. We find that firms involved in extraordinary – i.e., beyond momentum – amounts of acquisitions, JVs, and alliances in the year leading up to their IPOs (1) are more likely to engage in post-IPO corporate activity; and (2) enter into their first post-IPO transaction twice as fast as other firms. Our results indicate that signaling via extraordinary corporate activity can have a significant effect on entrepreneurial firms’ growth. The implications are discussed.     

Information and communication technology adoption in micro and small firms: Can internet access improve labour productivity?

The rapid spread of information and communication technologies (ICT) may increase firms’ productivity with important consequences for job creation and for economic growth. This article contributes to this discussion by analysing the impact of internet adoption on labour productivity and the mechanisms shaping this relationship in Peruvian micro and small manufacturing firms over the period 2011–2013. The article estimates a reduced form where labour productivity is a function of internet adoption and other explanatory factors. Internet adoption is instrumented using a measure of the availability of financial opportunities for micro and small firms in Peru. Findings indicate that internet adoption: (a) increases firms’ labour productivity; (b) reallocates employment away from temporary administrative workers and non‐remunerated workers and expands employment of permanent production workers; (c) leads to the formalization of labour relationships, to the implementation of new organizational practices and to the improvement of training measures. While changes in employment and formalization of workers are linked to labour productivity gains, increases in training measures and organizational changes do not generate any additional productivity increase. Policies oriented to promote the adoption of ICT in micro and small firms can be beneficial to close the productivity gap with larger firms in Peru. Moreover, policies directed to the formalization of the workforce can provide an extra benefit, i.e. additional labour productivity gains in firms adopting the internet. Finally, policies oriented to the development of digital skills are also important to ease the re‐employment of those workers losing their jobs and the achievement of additional productivity gains that new organizational practices can provide.     

Implementation of just-in-time methodology in a small company

This paper describes the implementation of JIT in a small manufacturing company and the benefits that resulted for the company's operations. Preliminary analysis identified various problems in the existing manufacturing operations. The pre-implementation and post-implementation conditions of the company arc detailed. The achievements of the JIT implementation included a reduction in material traversing, reduced lead limes and inventories leading to an overall reduction in the cost of manufacturing. A smooth flow of material from the raw material stage to the finished product stage was established. Three separate product lines were combined into a flexible manufacturing assembly line. With the adoption of a holistic approach to JIT implementation, it was found that even a small company can make significant strides towards world class manufacturing status. The experience gained by the company can encourage and benefit other small companies to embrace the JIT approach.