Most studies on investment evaluation mainly focus on enterprise economic benefits only, without process operability and sustainability considered. In this paper, we suggest that investment evaluation in process indus...Most studies on investment evaluation mainly focus on enterprise economic benefits only, without process operability and sustainability considered. In this paper, we suggest that investment evaluation in process industries should be executed under three strategic objectives--enterprise benefits, social benefits and customer benefits. A systematic investment evaluation and decision-making method with a four-step procedure based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is proposed to evaluate various qualitative and quantitative elements with various criteria. At the first step, the decision hierarchy is constructed under the three strategic objectives. Second, pair-wise comparison is utilized to evaluate the weights of elements and criteria. Third, qualitative elements are quantified by pair-wise comparison and quantitative elements are re-scaled by a uniform criterion. At the last, the best choice is made through synthesizing values upward in the hierarchy. An investment decision support system (DSS) is developed based on Microsoft Excel, and applied to a retrofit investment of united fluid catalytic cracking(FCC) and liquefied gas separation process in a refinery plant.展开更多
The ecolotogical research of enterprises' competition is the front line of current research of enterprises ' competition strategy : This text applies the competition principle of living creature in ecology to resea...The ecolotogical research of enterprises' competition is the front line of current research of enterprises ' competition strategy : This text applies the competition principle of living creature in ecology to research enterprises' competition problems .explains the ecological characterisiics of enterprises' competition, such as non-symmetry, crowded effect, density effect. competition-rejective effect, suitable resources niche and red queen effect etc., deduces the ecological model of enterprise' competition, and further analyzes enterprises' competition strategy; strategy R and strategy K. on the basis of enterprises' practices, Therefore enterprises' competition ecosystem theories have further been deepened and enriched.展开更多
In the course of pushing forward the overall growth capacities of the mining industry and getting adapted to the tense competition after China抯 entry into WTO, it is quite necessary to speed up the process of fosteri...In the course of pushing forward the overall growth capacities of the mining industry and getting adapted to the tense competition after China抯 entry into WTO, it is quite necessary to speed up the process of fostering large state-owned coal group enter-prises. This strategical proposal is made on the basis of a comprehensive analysis of the main problems challenges faced by the coal mining industry is made on. The main prob-lems with Chinese coal mining industries discussed include: over-competition with a low convergence, severe waste and loss of mine resources with poor exploitation techniques, disordered operation with few industrial entry barriers, heavy welfare burdens from low socialization. The accession of WTO provide Chinese coal mining industry with chances to push forward the reforms and structural shift in the enterprises, expedite the estab-lishment and perfect of coal mining market mechanism, expand their international market share as well as introduce foreign investment, and with challenges from high technology, knowledge economy, and information revolution. The solutions to the foster of large-scale coal mining group enterprises, as well as the possible points to note and the policy pro-posal are advanced.展开更多
In the increasingly fierce market competition, economic efficiency of enterprises is the fundamental for enterprise' s development and survival; accounting plays an important role in enterprise management. The appear...In the increasingly fierce market competition, economic efficiency of enterprises is the fundamental for enterprise' s development and survival; accounting plays an important role in enterprise management. The appearance of accounting industry is to meet the economic needs of management within the organization and gradually developed, its main functions is to improve operating efficiency and to establish and provide a variety of data and information, such as internal management needs. Based on this, the paper makes an analysis about the role that industry accounting play for corporate financial management in China.展开更多
Based on systematical research on the conception evolution of ecological enterprise, theoretical and practical development of constructing ecological enterprise, the paper makes conclusion that ecological enter- prise...Based on systematical research on the conception evolution of ecological enterprise, theoretical and practical development of constructing ecological enterprise, the paper makes conclusion that ecological enter- prises are developing into a new stage in which governments are launching some pilot projects about construct- ing ecological enterprises. And after that, governments should make policies to spread construction of ecological enterprises, to construct ecological enterprises in legal system and conforming to the standard as soon as possibly. So that, the basic units of ecological economy that fit to the conditions of China will be set up.展开更多
The decision system based on network economy is the foundation of enterprise's making good winning in its market. This paper describes the decision makers' utility model based on network economy, considers the...The decision system based on network economy is the foundation of enterprise's making good winning in its market. This paper describes the decision makers' utility model based on network economy, considers the roles decision-makers not only play in the enterprises are decision making, coordinating, controlling and monitoring, but also they are mainly designers, executants and educators in the mode of network economy展开更多
The financial implication of the adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices is still an obscure field of study, because studies suggest controversial results. Thus, this research aimed to examine th...The financial implication of the adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices is still an obscure field of study, because studies suggest controversial results. Thus, this research aimed to examine the relationship CSR and economic performance of the companies of corporate sustainability index (ISE) of mercantile and futures exchange of Silo Paulo stock exchange (BM&FBOVESPA). The amount of companies allowing online access to their responses of the ISE questionnaire determined the sample of this research. Thus, for the study period from 2011 to 2012, it has been possible to access the responses of 12 companies, composing the overall sample of this research. The results of the regression analysis allow to statistically assert that for the sample used, environmental performance (EP) contributes to improving economic performance, measured by all financial metrics used: return on equity (ROE), return on assets (ROA), and net profit (NP). Statistically, it is only possible to say that social performance (SP) contributes to improving NP. In terms of market metrics, none of the null hypothesis was rejected, i.e., in any cases, it has been possible to affirm, on a statistical base, that SP and EP contribute to improving the market value (MV) and systematic risk. Thus, it is understood that the stakeholder theory has potential to explain the Brazilian situation regarding the aspects of CSR and financial ones under the accounting and the shareholder theory explains this relation, when viewed with the aid of market measurements.展开更多
Is the adoption of best practice in business associated with improved environmental performance? And what methods can he used to assess and compare the environmental practices and performance of different companies?...Is the adoption of best practice in business associated with improved environmental performance? And what methods can he used to assess and compare the environmental practices and performance of different companies? In this paper, through case anatysis, the business environmental practices and performance of five companies in the manufacturing sector were examined and scored. Assessing these companies practices and performance according to “The best practice model” designed by Australian Manufacturing Council (AMC. 1994). The finding shows that there is strong correlation between environmental practices and performance of companies (r=0.85, p〈0.05), and indicates that corporate paying attention to environmental issue will improve its all performances in business.展开更多
Identification and responsiveness towards customer needs is a notion that rests deeply in the heart of the marketing concept, and has been discussed in various fields of business and economic literature. At the same t...Identification and responsiveness towards customer needs is a notion that rests deeply in the heart of the marketing concept, and has been discussed in various fields of business and economic literature. At the same time literature in port economics and management has proposed various means for analyzing market conditions, overcoming competitive pressures in the port industry and pursuing sustainable competitive advantage. In line with this discussion, albeit with a significant time delay, port economics and management literature has also proposed the use of marketing strategies as a strategic tool towards achieving port competitiveness. However, the early approaches to port marketing, mainly based on consumer marketing principles, where followed by scarce references, mainly dealing with particularities of marketing implementation in ports and terminals. This paper attempts to provide a solid theoretical background to the notion, the need and the applicability of the marketing concept in the container port industry. It investigates the preconditions under which port marketing strategies are designed and formulated, by measuring the level of market orientation of ports and terminals. Furthermore, it attempts to examine the impact of market orientation on port performance, under the mediating role of marketing tactics and the moderating effect of the ports'/terminals' internal and external environment.展开更多
With the rapid development of economy and constant improvement of social market economy system, the trade between countries is becoming more frequent and the competition is more intensified. As the main body of econom...With the rapid development of economy and constant improvement of social market economy system, the trade between countries is becoming more frequent and the competition is more intensified. As the main body of economy market, enterprises' competition is also expanding and strengthening, and fierce competition makes the disadvantaged enterprise withdrawal and also promotes the new enterprise. But the growing enterprise wants to grow sturdily, which is affected by many factors. It needs to face many challenges and cope with various problems. Some problems may not be in place, and they can not find any guidance examples, and this needs enterprise to analyze and choose. Slightly careless, emerging enterprises will be nipped in the cradle. This paper analyzes the operation management mode for the growing enterprise, based on this, it finds out the operation concept and proper operation mode suitable for the long-term development of enterprise, inorder to provide help for relevant stat^t:展开更多
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 79931000) and The State Major Basic Research Development Program (G20000263).
文摘Most studies on investment evaluation mainly focus on enterprise economic benefits only, without process operability and sustainability considered. In this paper, we suggest that investment evaluation in process industries should be executed under three strategic objectives--enterprise benefits, social benefits and customer benefits. A systematic investment evaluation and decision-making method with a four-step procedure based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) is proposed to evaluate various qualitative and quantitative elements with various criteria. At the first step, the decision hierarchy is constructed under the three strategic objectives. Second, pair-wise comparison is utilized to evaluate the weights of elements and criteria. Third, qualitative elements are quantified by pair-wise comparison and quantitative elements are re-scaled by a uniform criterion. At the last, the best choice is made through synthesizing values upward in the hierarchy. An investment decision support system (DSS) is developed based on Microsoft Excel, and applied to a retrofit investment of united fluid catalytic cracking(FCC) and liquefied gas separation process in a refinery plant.
基金Supported by Hunan Judge Committee of Philosophy and Social Science(No.0402003)and Research Item of Hainan University(No.Kyjj0409).
文摘The ecolotogical research of enterprises' competition is the front line of current research of enterprises ' competition strategy : This text applies the competition principle of living creature in ecology to research enterprises' competition problems .explains the ecological characterisiics of enterprises' competition, such as non-symmetry, crowded effect, density effect. competition-rejective effect, suitable resources niche and red queen effect etc., deduces the ecological model of enterprise' competition, and further analyzes enterprises' competition strategy; strategy R and strategy K. on the basis of enterprises' practices, Therefore enterprises' competition ecosystem theories have further been deepened and enriched.
文摘In the course of pushing forward the overall growth capacities of the mining industry and getting adapted to the tense competition after China抯 entry into WTO, it is quite necessary to speed up the process of fostering large state-owned coal group enter-prises. This strategical proposal is made on the basis of a comprehensive analysis of the main problems challenges faced by the coal mining industry is made on. The main prob-lems with Chinese coal mining industries discussed include: over-competition with a low convergence, severe waste and loss of mine resources with poor exploitation techniques, disordered operation with few industrial entry barriers, heavy welfare burdens from low socialization. The accession of WTO provide Chinese coal mining industry with chances to push forward the reforms and structural shift in the enterprises, expedite the estab-lishment and perfect of coal mining market mechanism, expand their international market share as well as introduce foreign investment, and with challenges from high technology, knowledge economy, and information revolution. The solutions to the foster of large-scale coal mining group enterprises, as well as the possible points to note and the policy pro-posal are advanced.
文摘In the increasingly fierce market competition, economic efficiency of enterprises is the fundamental for enterprise' s development and survival; accounting plays an important role in enterprise management. The appearance of accounting industry is to meet the economic needs of management within the organization and gradually developed, its main functions is to improve operating efficiency and to establish and provide a variety of data and information, such as internal management needs. Based on this, the paper makes an analysis about the role that industry accounting play for corporate financial management in China.
文摘Based on systematical research on the conception evolution of ecological enterprise, theoretical and practical development of constructing ecological enterprise, the paper makes conclusion that ecological enter- prises are developing into a new stage in which governments are launching some pilot projects about construct- ing ecological enterprises. And after that, governments should make policies to spread construction of ecological enterprises, to construct ecological enterprises in legal system and conforming to the standard as soon as possibly. So that, the basic units of ecological economy that fit to the conditions of China will be set up.
文摘The decision system based on network economy is the foundation of enterprise's making good winning in its market. This paper describes the decision makers' utility model based on network economy, considers the roles decision-makers not only play in the enterprises are decision making, coordinating, controlling and monitoring, but also they are mainly designers, executants and educators in the mode of network economy
文摘The financial implication of the adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices is still an obscure field of study, because studies suggest controversial results. Thus, this research aimed to examine the relationship CSR and economic performance of the companies of corporate sustainability index (ISE) of mercantile and futures exchange of Silo Paulo stock exchange (BM&FBOVESPA). The amount of companies allowing online access to their responses of the ISE questionnaire determined the sample of this research. Thus, for the study period from 2011 to 2012, it has been possible to access the responses of 12 companies, composing the overall sample of this research. The results of the regression analysis allow to statistically assert that for the sample used, environmental performance (EP) contributes to improving economic performance, measured by all financial metrics used: return on equity (ROE), return on assets (ROA), and net profit (NP). Statistically, it is only possible to say that social performance (SP) contributes to improving NP. In terms of market metrics, none of the null hypothesis was rejected, i.e., in any cases, it has been possible to affirm, on a statistical base, that SP and EP contribute to improving the market value (MV) and systematic risk. Thus, it is understood that the stakeholder theory has potential to explain the Brazilian situation regarding the aspects of CSR and financial ones under the accounting and the shareholder theory explains this relation, when viewed with the aid of market measurements.
基金Supported by the Soft Science of Shandong Province(No,A200418-3)and the Item"Eco-planning and Environmental Management in the Coastal Area of China"of the Environmental DevelopmentAgency of Canada(No.CIDA-Tier-1).
文摘Is the adoption of best practice in business associated with improved environmental performance? And what methods can he used to assess and compare the environmental practices and performance of different companies? In this paper, through case anatysis, the business environmental practices and performance of five companies in the manufacturing sector were examined and scored. Assessing these companies practices and performance according to “The best practice model” designed by Australian Manufacturing Council (AMC. 1994). The finding shows that there is strong correlation between environmental practices and performance of companies (r=0.85, p〈0.05), and indicates that corporate paying attention to environmental issue will improve its all performances in business.
文摘Identification and responsiveness towards customer needs is a notion that rests deeply in the heart of the marketing concept, and has been discussed in various fields of business and economic literature. At the same time literature in port economics and management has proposed various means for analyzing market conditions, overcoming competitive pressures in the port industry and pursuing sustainable competitive advantage. In line with this discussion, albeit with a significant time delay, port economics and management literature has also proposed the use of marketing strategies as a strategic tool towards achieving port competitiveness. However, the early approaches to port marketing, mainly based on consumer marketing principles, where followed by scarce references, mainly dealing with particularities of marketing implementation in ports and terminals. This paper attempts to provide a solid theoretical background to the notion, the need and the applicability of the marketing concept in the container port industry. It investigates the preconditions under which port marketing strategies are designed and formulated, by measuring the level of market orientation of ports and terminals. Furthermore, it attempts to examine the impact of market orientation on port performance, under the mediating role of marketing tactics and the moderating effect of the ports'/terminals' internal and external environment.
文摘With the rapid development of economy and constant improvement of social market economy system, the trade between countries is becoming more frequent and the competition is more intensified. As the main body of economy market, enterprises' competition is also expanding and strengthening, and fierce competition makes the disadvantaged enterprise withdrawal and also promotes the new enterprise. But the growing enterprise wants to grow sturdily, which is affected by many factors. It needs to face many challenges and cope with various problems. Some problems may not be in place, and they can not find any guidance examples, and this needs enterprise to analyze and choose. Slightly careless, emerging enterprises will be nipped in the cradle. This paper analyzes the operation management mode for the growing enterprise, based on this, it finds out the operation concept and proper operation mode suitable for the long-term development of enterprise, inorder to provide help for relevant stat^t: