电子商务在外贸活动中的作用及推广策略

电子商务在外贸活动中具有降低交易成本、提高企业运作效率、增加对外贸易机会等作用。在我国,影响电子商务推广的因素主要有企业信息化基础薄弱、信息安全性缺乏有序的管理办法、信息标准化建设不够规范和扎实,以及一系列相关的法律问题。因此,电子商务的推广,离不开政府的推动和各部门的协调,在给予优惠政策的同时,应尽快建立相关的法律保障体系。此外,还应通过职业技术教育,培养电子商务专门人才。     

城市政府业务重组的原理与方法

本文从职能边界、职能内容、权能配置等三个层面界定了城市政府业务重组的基本内涵。在理论分析和业务环境调查研究的基础上,分析了其主要特征,并分析了公民社会、市场环境、部门利益、法律环境和信息技术等影响因素。在此基础上,本文提出了城市政府业务重组的实施方法和步骤。本文认为,不能将业务重组和流程再造混为一谈,流程再造只是业务重组过程中的一个环节。     

Un-Packing Packaged Cultures: Chinese-ness in International Business

This paper focuses on how the Chinese are represented in the international business literature. Chinese cultures are packaged to make knowledge about the Middle Kingdom more accessible to a general audience. The ways in which these packaged cultures are framed and constructed will be questioned here. Drawing inspiration from Foucault, this article identifies four traits of a packaged culture – it mediates, it asserts the uniqueness of the culture, it selectively packages the culture and it claims that cultural differences matter in business. These traits will form the basis for comparing and examining three methods of packaging a culture, namely the general-macroscopic, ethnographic present and critical emergence approaches. This paper concludes that researchers should reflect on the power they yield when they represent another culture, and that the general public may privilege theories that are accessible rather than sound.

东北地区民营经济发展的制度分析

东北地区与沿海发达地区民营经济的发展存在着较大的差异。产生这一差异的原因除了区位因素外,从根本上来说还是制度上的因素。制度这个因素对于东北经济发展和提高竞争力起着重要的、决定性的作用。东北经济的振兴取决于能否在较短的时间内通过制度创新培育出发展民营经济的市场形态和体制环境来,这就要求政府从宏观上为民营经济的发展提供良好的制度环境,加快制度创新,才能打破正式制度和非正式制度的障碍,制度创新是振兴东北民营经济的出路所在。     

Are economic forecasts of the International Monetary Fund politically biased? A public choice analysis

The paper shows that the economic forecasts of the IMF are frequently distorted by political bias. Longer-term growth forecasts for the industrial countries reveal an absolute as well as relative optimism bias and a significant correlation with election dates in the US. Furthermore, the IMF projections for the developing regions are strongly biased toward optimism. The significant relationship between forecast errors and IMF net credit flows to a region supports the hypothesis that the IMF staff tries to legitimize its lending activities with overly optimistic forecasts.

诉讼时效在保障工商业文明社会信用体系中的核心价值--诉讼时效基本理论的反思与我国诉讼时效立法的重新选择(二)

农耕文明的自然经济和熟人社会特点决定了农耕文明社会成员之间信用的不发达,信任得以天然维系,无需诉讼时效制度对信用加以保护,诉讼时效即无从产生.而工商业文明的商品经济和陌生人社会,则是产生大量信用,社会成员信息不畅.为了保障任何第三人不至于因债权人突然行使产生于年代久远而处于休眠状态的权利而受损,有必要设置诉讼时效制度切断久远的债权债务关系影响到对当事人财产信用的评价,维护债权信用体系.诉讼时效通过其独有的弱化甚至消灭权利的功能维持了整个社会的债权信用,尽可能保障一般社会的交易安全.这即是诉讼时效的制度基础之所在.     

Limited Liability for Small, Closely-Held Businesses

The article assesses the likely impact of the newLimited Liability Partnership envisaged by Limited LiabilityPartnerships Bill. It examines the present choices oforganisational form available to entrepreneurs in English Law andconsiders arguments for and against limited liability bothgenerally in relation to contractual and tortious claims andspecifically in its application to small businesses. The articleconcludes that the Limited Liability Partnership may offerattractive flexibility for small businesses but that there isstill some uncertainty surrounding its provisions, particularlyin relation to members' liability. These must be adequatelyresolved if the new model is to prove an attractive alternativeto incorporation.     

State formation and economic development in post-war Somaliland: the impact of the private sector in an unrecognised state

ABSTRACT

Unrecognised internationally, Somaliland operates as a hybrid political order where a range of state and non-state entities provide security, representation and social services. Local business elites have impacted state formation after war by lobbying against a range of regulations, providing the government with loans and contributions rather than paying sufficient taxes, and by hindering the development of sound financial institutions. The success of such activities has led to de facto protectionism, where foreign ventures have had limited access to the Somaliland market. While such protectionism may have negatively impacted economic development and growth opportunities, recent engagements by multinational corporations in the Berbera port suggest that foreign private investments risk sparking violent conflict. In contrast, domestic businessmen have played a role in preventing or resolving violent conflict at crucial stages in Somaliland’s recent history. Based on fieldwork in Somaliland, we argue that the impact of international corporate actors in post-war contexts needs to be understood in light of local culture and power dynamics, in which the political and economic roles of local business elites are central.     

How Can Business Share Responsibility for Disaster Resilience?

This paper contributes to knowledge of disaster resilience policy implementation in Australia and proposes measures to strengthen partnerships between government and the business sector to enhance national disaster resilience capacity. In Australia, business makes a significant contribution to disaster relief and recovery. Even so, there are unexplored opportunities to enhance the role of business in disaster resilience, particularly through partnerships with government. The extent that state, regional and local‐level disaster plans engage business in disaster relief and recovery is described and their relatively less prominent involvement in disaster resilience is discussed. Examples of disaster resilience policies and their capacity to influence business practices to support disaster resilience are introduced with suggestions for how they can be enhanced. Some potential benefits and pitfalls of public–private sector collaboration are explored and it is noted that, in disaster resilience settings, these risks can be ameliorated through appropriate implementation.     

Exchange Rate Regime,Central Bank Independence,and Political Business Cycles in Brazil

This article examines policy consequences of electoral cycles and exchange rate regime choices in Brazil. The literature on opportunistic political business cycles maintains that governments adopt expansionary economic policies before elections to mobilize voters’ support. However, research findings in Latin America based on the theory has been inconclusive. I argue that the lack of conclusive evidence in Latin America stems from measurement errors common in the use of cross-national aggregate data. Using Brazil’s monthly data from 1985 to 2006, this article shows that there are electorally induced fiscal cycles under fixed and crawling peg exchange rate regimes and electorally induced monetary cycles under floating exchange rates only when the nation’s central bank is not independent. Indeed, accounting for Brazil’s unique economic contingencies and longitudinal variations in the de facto central bank independence, its public policy behavior remarkably resembles that of the more affluent, economically stable OECD countries.