Changes in Argumentation Performance:Effects of Teacher-Student Collaborative Assessment

This paper compares the effectiveness of one-semester-long instruction of teacher-student collaborative assessment(TSCA)and trained peer review assessment(TPRA).Dependent variables include occurrence of structural elements of the simplified Toulmin model,and improvement of argumentation substance which refers to the quality of reasoning reflected in Toulmin structural elements.Eighty-one sophomore English majors from TSCA group(n=41)and TPRA group(n=40)were asked to construct two argumentative essays at both the beginning and the end of the semester.The results reveal that the TSCA group produced significantly more counterargument claims and rebuttal data.Additionally,the TSCA group significantly outperformed TPRA group in constructing stronger counterargument claim,rebuttal claim and rebuttal data.

Multi-Stakeholder Business Models： Designing Out Wicked Problems

The paper is a part of an ongoing study, labelled as ＂Designing out wicked problems＂ - a design science research （DSR） study with the purpose of developing, implementing, and evaluating a methodology framework for designing multi-stakeholder business models. The objective of the current paper is to evaluate the business model design framework within a DSR framework. The research is conducted as three-year case study at three sites： The Danish police, with a key player in the Danish energy sector, and the municipality of the Danish capital, Copenhagen. The research method is action research, with a structure of planning-action-evaluation process conducted with the case owners - as well as design science methodology, where an artifact （the multi-stakeholder business model design concept） is created, evaluated and altered to improve its functionality. The finding of this study is that the maturity of the application domain - the type of problem the concept is trying to solve - as well as of the concept itself, is low. The conclusion is thus that the knowledge contribution of the study is of a unique invention character which will lay the foundation for further evaluation and research.

双创教育升级背景下高校师生共创模式的构建——基于扎根理论的研究

高校老师和学生作为学校创新创业教育改革的主体,对创新创业教育高质量发展具有重要影响。针对如何激发老师和学生的主体活力和内驱力,助力高质量发展创新创业教育的问题,以新时代师生共创关系为研究对象,通过程序化扎根理论的研究方法,构建创新创业教育升级背景下高校师生共创的“金字塔”模式。从“道”的层面上,提出基于“需求+互补+共赢”三位一体的师生共创理念;从“术”的层面上,提出基于“技术+项目+公司”循序渐进的师生共创路径;从“器”的层面上,提出基于“制度+硬件+软件+资源”多元协同的师生共创保障体系。通过系统阐述师生共创的理念、路径和保障,将传统高校师生单向、线性和相对静态的关系升级为闭环、共创和可持续的新型关系,助力师生成为创新创业教育改革的共建者、共商者和共享者,为我国创新驱动发展战略的实施,高校创新创业教育“升级版”的打造提供理论参考。

高校科技成果转化中师生共创模式的经济学分析

加快推进产学研深度融合是深入实施创新驱动发展战略的重要环节,而师生共创模式无疑是产学协同创新的新模式。运用经济学分析方法对师生共创模式进行分析,为现有研究领域提供补充。师生共创模式的特点首先是教师方具备科研资源、人脉资源等,在多方主体博弈中发挥先行作用,提供核心科技成果并对科技成果转化进行方向的指导和后续的帮助;学生方具有企业家才能,具备科技成果转化相关知识与能力及创业的时间和精力。其次是师生之间信任成本、沟通成本低。调研发现,师生共创模式在团队组建、融资以及管理机制方面还存在一些问题,并有针对性地提出了改进建议。

Economic Studies in Business Platforms: Completely New Approach in Microeconomics

With the global rise of Web 2.0 a completely new type of business models—business platforms has arisen and nowadays Amazon,Apple,Google,Facebook are convincingly taking over the lead in global business world(Simon,2011).These four flagship business platforms are followed by countless other platforms in all spheres of business and contemporary life(eBay,Airbnb,Uber,etc.).However,the MBA study courses that could cover all sides of business platform microeconomics and explain their enormous economical success are rarely provided in Europe and still not existed in many countries including Latvia.This paper describes the author’s research of specific microeconomics characteristics of business platforms,the different ways of thinking in marketing,competition and money making strategies in business platforms,platform business determinants,detailed comparison of traditional(“pipe”)business models and business platforms,the strengths and weaknesses of platform business models.As the result of this research,author has elaborated the original MBA study course—“Business Platform Microeconomics”and its detailed plan is attached in references of this paper1.In conclusions,author expressed how specifics of business platform microeconomics define completely different main components of the business model in business platforms in comparison to traditional“pipe”type business models,what is explaining the enormous economic success of this new business model—business platforms.

Research on the Platform-Based Retail Business Model Innovation

With the rise of the platform economy,the retail industry is facing great pressure to shift from a traditional growth model to a platform-based growth model.The one-sided market theory applicable to the traditional business models cannot adequately explain business model innovation in the platform-based growth model.Based on a systematic analysis of the platform economy theory,business model innovation theory,value co-creation theory,and dynamic capability theory and in light of the characteristics of the retail industry,this paper proposes that to achieve platform-based growth,retail business model innovation should be focused on changing the ways to create customer value and capture enterprise value and leveraging modern information systems to achieve value co-creation during the transformation of key business processes ranging from procurement and sales to distribution.In addition,enterprises must get rid of the mindset of making profi ts from the difference between buying and selling prices and should instead explore new sources of revenue through linking dividend and information value.As platform operators,retail enterprises need to develop dynamic capabilities through the interaction of heterogeneous resources of various platform participants and especially the introduction of social resources,so as to propel innovation in retail business models and ultimately the transformation from traditional growth to platform-based growth.