Internal factors of intermunicipal cooperation: what matters most and why?

ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on the internal aspects of intermunicipal cooperation, providing a new and innovative approach to the cost effectiveness of municipal waste management. We examine a sample of 658 municipalities in the Czech Republic’s South Moravian Region and 205 cooperating municipalities separately during 2012–2014. The results, based on ordinary least-squares regression, show that cost reduction is significantly influenced by the institutional arrangement of intermunicipal cooperation, the participation of municipal representatives in management, and professional managers. The paper shows that a crucial role in cost reduction is played by internal factors that have been investigated only marginally so far. Cost increases are related to municipality sizes larger than 10,000 inhabitants and to profit-oriented behaviours of waste collection companies. The results differ in the size samples of municipalities; only the impact of institutional arrangement is significant in all groups of municipalities.     

浅谈政府组织行政成本及其控制

随着我国市场经济体制改革进入“深水区”,政府行政体制改革也进入实质性阶段。然而政府组织行政费用支出过大,行政管理成本居高不下是困扰我国政府行政体制改革的最大问题之一。而解决的最佳出路在于塑造“企业化”的政府。     

Does political connection influence corporate financial decisions in unstable political environment?

The aim of this study is to examine the impact of political connection on the cost of debt, the cost of equity and the investment level in an unstable political environment. We use a sample of 55 Tunisian listed firms during the post-revolution period (2011–2018) and we apply a generalized least square (GLS) approach to test our hypotheses. Findings highlight that political connections increase the corporate financial costs and reduce the investment level. Furthermore, in an additional analysis, we show on the one hand that political instability negatively affects the investment and affects positively the cost of debt and the cost of equity. On the other hand, we make evidence that the political instability level negatively affects the relation between the political connection and the cost of debt. The contribution is, to the best of our knowledge, the absence of studies conducted in Tunisia countries examining the impact of political connection on the financial cost and investment level in an unstable political environment such as Tunisia.     

印俄高度军备依赖关系生成机制探究

依赖关系可以出现从轻微依赖、中度依赖到高度依赖等不同程度的情景，是否存在供求关系、是否涉及关键资源、能否承担转换成本是判断国家间依赖程度高低的三个标准。印度和俄罗斯之间的军备合作达到了一种高度依赖的关系，这种关系并不是自然产生的，而是伴随着俄罗斯作为资源供应国采取的主动锁定策略生成并得到强化。通过“展示—供应—刺激—捆绑”这一系列主动锁定策略，俄罗斯逐步强化了印度对其军备供应的高度依赖，也使其国防发展模式和作战理念深深烙上了俄罗斯的印记。在军备依赖的强化过程中，印俄关系得到积极巩固和深入发展，但印度的战略灵活性也同时受到了损害，使印度处于机会主义风险中。当前印俄军备贸易过程中的摩擦、国际军备出口市场竞争的加剧、美印军事关系的发展等因素都不同程度地影响着印俄锁定依赖的稳定性。     

新就业形态劳动者权益保障问题研究——基于平台责任的理论思考

在平台经济蓬勃发展的背景下,区别于传统用工模式的新就业形态对劳动者权益保障提出挑战。国家相关部门近期发布多个文件,从劳动关系、劳动标准、社会保险等方面对新就业形态劳动者的权益保障提出要求,然而地方实践表明要将保障真正落到实处仍存在现实困境。其中,平台责任及其与劳动者关系问题是核心难点,基于风险完全转移和风险不完全转移进行平台责任的理论探讨,有助于建立兼具可行性及可操作性的制度落地计划。     

物业企业基层员工流失问题探析——以F公司为例

在行业中具有代表性的物业企业F,其基层员工流失问题严重并由此给企业的发展带来了巨大影响.应从优化内部人力资源配置、构建和谐的企业文化、提升薪酬合理性与公平性、提供充足的职业发展机会与培训等方面,提升物业企业基层员工满意度,从而有效降低流失率.