The battle for survival: Innovating firms' strategic signaling behaviors and their impacts on business success during the shakeout period after the standards war

The shakeout period after the emergence of a dominant design is very important to technology followers and niche market producers, who need adjust to significant changes in the competitive landscape. We posit that such innovating firms use strategic signals that address technical-, market-, and standards-uncertainty associated with their innovations to communicate with market participants to reduce participants' perceived uncertainties associated with the innovative products. Studying technology followers and niche market producers in the personal computer industry during its 1982–1989 shakeout period, we found that technology followers and niche market producers differ in their use of technical-, market-, and standards-related signals. Additionally, using event study methodology, we find that technology followers' strategic signals have significant positive impacts on both their own and other followers' stock prices. Meanwhile, niche market producers' strategic signals have significant positive impacts on their own stock prices, but not significant impacts on other niche market producers and technology followers' stock prices.     

The Greek Publishing Industry and Professional Development

In the Greek publishing industry, tradition and the desire for innovation go hand in hand. The industry is influenced by European developments in publishing and bookselling in terms of book promotion methods, the role of chain bookstores and the impact of information technology. Greece shares the features of other small book markets in Europe, whilst retaining the individuality defined by the Greek language and the country’s cultural and social conditions. This article provides an overview of the publishing industry in Greece through a review of the relevant literature and the available statistics. This work also focuses on the need to develop publishing skills through publishing education and continuous professional development.     

The Development of Business-to-Business Magazines in China

Business-to-Business (B2B) publications actually have a long history in China, beginning in the early twentieth century. After 1949, the Chinese economy became planned and regulated by the government, the former B2B magazines became their purpose to explain the government’s industrial policies, chart business direction and exchange developmental experience. As China began its reform and opened to a market economy in the 1980s, traditional published B2B magazines began to reappear. Today almost 3,000 B2B magazines provide information about specific industries and services.     

市场经济对高校德育工作的影响及对策

主要就市场经济条件下给高校德育工作带来的影响展开论述，并提出了改进高校德育工作具体思路和对策。     

论诚信与市场经济

市场经济的成熟与完善离不开诚信意识,诚实信用与市场经济的关系密不可分。当前,在我国社会主义市场经济的建设过程中,出现了社会信用透支和滥用的现象。这种信用机制的严重缺失,若不加以治理,必将成为制约我国市场经济进一步向前发展的瓶颈。因此构建一个良性循环的市场经济诚信机制势在必行。本文从探析诚信与市场经济的内涵与联系入手,结合信用状况对市场经济的影响,提出了一些改善市场经济信用状况的思路与想法。     

基于“关键期假说”的“外语应从娃娃抓起”——兼论小学英语教学中存在的问题

近年来小学英语教学正在我国大面积展开,各种少儿英语辅导班招生也一时异常火爆。面对如火如荼的少儿英语学习热潮,本文从语言习得的关键期入手,回顾了关键期假说正反两方面的证据,进一步探讨了关键期假说对第二语言习得的影响,并在此基础上对我国小学英语教学的现状和存在的问题予以剖析,藉以希望引起有关人士对这一问题的关注。     

浅析输入假设理论对英语专业阅读教学的启示

输入假设是语言学家克拉申二语习得理论的核心部分。本文将重点讨论输入假设理论对英语专业阅读教学的影响,以期为我国英语专业阅读教学研究带来启示。     

范祥盐法改革初探

北宋范祥盐法改革改榷盐制为钞盐制,成功解决了困扰解盐的四大弊端,成为后世盐法改革的模板。而其所创的制度本身成功优化了国家和消费者两者的既得利益,达到了最优化和关键的平衡点,并且改革既适应了陕西路的小形势的需要,集钱于边地,又适应了北宋日益发展壮大的商品经济的需要。     

人民币实际汇率与普雷维什一辛格命题——基于1980～2002年数据的实证研究

基于均衡汇率理论，本文应用简约一般均衡的单方程协整模型，采用真实变量分析了1980～2002年的人民币实际汇率及其与均衡汇率的失调情况，进而研究了不同时期实际汇率表现出高估、低估以及基本平衡时的人民币实际汇率与贸易条件的关系，结果表明：贸易条件与中长期以及短期的实际汇率存在显著的关系，贸易条件的恶化或改善是导致人民币实际汇率升值或贬值的重要原因之一。但是，在不同的发展时期，贸易条件对实际汇率的影响呈现出不同的特点。     

"情感过滤假说"及其在外语课堂教学中的运用

20世纪80年代初，美国语言学家S．D．Krashen提出了著名的“五大假说”，即习得学得假说、自然顺序假说、监控假说、输入假说和情感过滤假说。根据情感过滤假说，情感主要在学习动机、自信心、焦虑等三个方面对学习者的第二语言习得具有重要影响。如何在课堂教学中运用该假说来提高外语课堂教学的效果则是我们外语教师所关心的问题。本文以克拉中第二语言习得理论中的情感过滤假说为理论基础，讨论了这一理论的背景及其界定，尝试性地将情感过滤假说与外语课堂教学结合起来进行研究，提出了在外语课堂教学中如何运用这一理论的一些观点。