经济全球化的实质是现代生产方式全球化

经济全球化是当代世界经济发展进程中不以人们意志为转移的大趋势 ,其实质是现代生产方式全球化。提升国家制度和科技竞争力是全面参与经济全球化的根本要求     

麦德龙:如何塑造核心竞争力

本文从经营理念、自购自建营业场所、使用“透明发票”等三方面剖析了麦德龙这一世界连锁企业巨头的核心竞争能力，试图为本土的连锁企业培育自己的核心竞争力提供参考，使其在日趋激烈的行业竞争中立于不败之地。     

我国产业竞争优势转型在大数据环境下的新研究

大数据时代不可逆转的到来,昭示着产业竞争优势出现新的转型契机。通过合理化大数据使用态度,并结合我国产业发展的实际状况,找寻出大数据库建设滞后,存在严重的外部依赖性、大数据的知识产权保护意识和手段不足、人才队伍建设缺乏顶层设计等诸多阻碍大数据促进产业竞争优势转型的桎梏。由此提出,建立服务产业竞争的独立大数据体系是获取竞争优势的全程保证,这就需要厘清独立大数据体系的建立基础、标准和作用域。最终通过大数据与物联网和智慧城市联动发展,使中国在新一轮产业竞争优势转型中夺得先机。     

电子商务平台MFN条款的反垄断法分析

近年来在电子商务平台领域,围绕MFN条款产生的垄断行为逐渐引起各国反垄断机构的关注,已经涌现出如“苹果电子书案”“亚马逊电子书案”“在线酒店预订(OTA)案”等典型案例。由于MFN条款具有促进竞争和限制竞争的双重效果,各国在规制MFN条款垄断行为过程中面临着适用原则选择、违法性认定依据选择和责任追究等多重分歧和困境。在市场高度集中、信息高度透明的电子商务平台领域,涉MFN条款的垄断行为可能更易达成,危害性也可能更为严重。我国有必要借鉴域外经验,形成对涉MFN条款垄断行为的违法性认定标准体系和追责机制,防范和减轻MFN条款引起的限制竞争效果。     

商业银行提高核心竞争力探析

文章认为,商业银行的核心竞争力由品牌与企业文化、非凡的创新能力、人才和诚信四个要素组成。应对市场竞争,商业银行需从七个方面入手创新和提高其核心竞争力。     

Postcards from the Raj

ABSTRACT

Patterson's article explores aspects of British identity as they relate to depictions of Britons and Indians on postcards during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He argues that these were not innocuous ‘comic’ pieces, as they were intended to be seen at the time, but rather were integrally linked to the justification of the Raj, since they emphasize the civilizing mission of empire and the ‘backwards’ nature of India. Nearly all aspects of imperial life, whether running the bungalow, dispensing justice or even travelling by train, required the British to maintain an imperial façade of control and an aura of invincibility. Part of this process required the British to depict Indians as incapable of self-rule, and the postcards depict the British as natural overlords of India, born ‘booted and spurred’ to rule, while Indians are portrayed ‘saddled and bridled’. Indians then, due to their ‘Oriental nature’, are portrayed as too lazy, too effeminate or too dishonest to run their own country effectively. Another theme that can be explicated through the postcards is that of masculinity. By constantly posing as a more masculine and worthy race, the British laid down an entire grid of civilization in which they could be the only legitimate rulers. This aspect of the White Man's Burden further bolstered and perpetuated the masculine authority of the Raj, and the postcards became a key component linking empire and metropole for the re-export of imperial ideology to Britain.     

Comparative Climate Change Policy and Federalism: An Overview

This commentary provides an overview of the four papers in this issue of Review of Policy Research on the politics of climate change. The papers all address in one way or another aspects of how federal‐type systems are dealing with the collective action and multilevel governance issues of climate change policy. The comparative study of federal systems provides insight into how domestic authority is so often overlapping and divided when dealing with greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Federal arrangements offer a rich array of norms, institutions, and practices for tackling these problems. Federal systems grapple continuously with the kinds of issues that are the most intractable in the climate change case, such as overcoming interregional differences of interests and values. A common federal feature is competition among subnational governments and between them and national or federated governments over climate change policy, which has been especially significant in the United States and in Canada in the relative absence of national action––although soberingly, the whole is as yet nowhere near as great as the sum of the parts. More significant, but rarer is the achievement of tighter coordination in federal systems achieved through intergovernmental co‐decision, as seen in the European Community and Australia. This has been accomplished in large part due to a consensus among all intergovernmental parties on the nature of the problem and congruence with the existing international regime, characteristics missing in the North American context.     

整合产生强势竞争力--广西县域工业快速发展模式探究

善于对资源要素进行合理整合才会产生强势竞争力.考察广西近年一些县份经济的快速发展,不难发现有以下几种成功模式一是依托大企业产品向两头延伸拓展形成的整合竞争力模式;二是专业化生产配套产品形成的整合竞争力模式三是产品集群生产形成的整合竞争力模式;四是特色产业大基地种植+集群深加工的整合竞争力模式.     

Breaking up a partnership to build a competitive market in Denmark’s ambulance service: how can studies of contract reversals learn from the sociology of markets?

ABSTRACT

paper analyses a case of contract reversal in the market for ambulance services. The paper suggests that the sociology of markets-literature provides insights into market institutions of importance to relations between government and contractors that will benefit contracting out theory. Building on document analysis and interviews with 19 key stakeholders, it is demonstrated how a regional government in Denmark tried to wrestle the service provision from a long-time private provider and create a competitive market, only to discover that the implementation of the new contract was beset by obstacles largely stemming from informal norms in the market and attempts of the existing provider to hamper market entry for challenger firms. The result was a contract reversal: from private provision to government-provided service delivery. The paper contributes to the contracting out literature by providing a more elaborate understanding of the institutional conditions under which contract reversals can take place.     

Institutional and symbolic aspects of illiberal politics: the case of North Macedonia (2006–2017)

ABSTRACT

The paper discusses the underlying characteristics of Macedonian illiberal politics during the 11-year rule of the centre-right party VMRO-DPMNE (2006–2017) focusing on two aspects: institutional and symbolic. We argue that the unfair political competition was enabled by the weakness of pre-existing institutions and the population’s clientelist preferences, which were systematically exploited and expanded by VMRO-DPMNE. We also argue that the multi-ethnic character of the country, the disputed Macedonian national identity and the lack of viable international prospects allowed VMRO-DPMNE to construct a strong nationalist narrative that appealed to voters and further isolated the opposition.