Gender diversity in senior management,strategic change,and firm performance: Examining the mediating nature of strategic change in high tech firms

Only recently have enough women joined senior leadership positions in high tech firms for research on senior management gender diversity in high tech industries to be possible. We propose that senior management gender diversity fosters strategic change in high tech firms, especially under conditions where alliance formation intensity and top management team (TMT) educational background diversity are high, because the breadth of opportunity and knowledge associated with these conditions facilitates implementation of new ideas. Results show that both inter-organizational strategic alliance formation intensity and TMT educational background diversity positively moderate the relationship between senior management gender diversity and strategic change. We also find support for a moderated mediation model whereby a gender-diverse senior management positively impacts strategic change, which ultimately improves firm performance when the firm exhibits high alliance formation intensity and has a TMT that is diverse across educational background.     

基于DEMATEL-ANP的战略性新兴产业创新能力评价研究

战略性新兴产业已经悄然成为新时代经济社会发展的“领头羊”。针对战略性新兴产业的特征和发展现状,建立DEMATEL-ANP的战略性新兴产业创新能力评价模型。在方法厘清复杂指标之间的网络关系基础上,利用方法确定指标的权重,综合DEMATEL和ANP两种方法的结果,计算得出指标的混合权重,并以云南省战略性新兴产业2016年度的数据为例实证分析其创新能力。结果显示：管理创新能力和技术创新能力对战略性新兴产业的创新能力起到关键性的作用,管理和制度的创新能力在创新过程中影响产业技术和市场的创新。     

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.     

Campus partnerships for promoting equity,diversity and inclusion: A case study of the NCBI Model for reducing prejudice and intergroup conflict at Florida State University Libraries

This article will explore collaborations between the University Libraries and the campus community in implementing diversity and inclusion initiatives on campus through participation in the National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI). The article will take an in-depth look at the prejudice reduction and discrimination trainings conducted in the FSU Libraries, and how the trainings contributed to implementing the Libraries' strategic initiative for diversity and inclusion. These partnerships between the Libraries and the campus community exemplify successful collaborations needed to achieve preeminent institutional goals like diversity and inclusion. FSU has been recognized for Higher Education Excellence in Diversity, and is a national Diversity Champion since 2014 (Insight into Diversity: online).     

新农村建设视野下消除农民贫困的战略思考

建设社会主义新农村是中国现代化进程中的重大历史任务,农民贫困是建设新农村的重大障碍,在分析新农村建设中农民贫困的主要原因的基础上,提出了消除农民贫困、建设新农村的十条途径.     

构建企业战略联盟

构建企业战略联盟是加强中国现代企业国际竞争力的重要方式。战略联盟的核心思想即为“竞合”,改变传统的以竞争对手消失为目标的对抗性竞争,为合作而竞争,靠合作来竞争以寻求企业竞争优势。     

普通高校继续教育的本质、功能与战略转型

通过对普通高校继续教育本质和功能的探讨,分析了普通高校继续教育存在的主要问题,提出了普通高校继续教育战略转型的基本思路,目的就是为了完善普通高校继续教育的体制、机制和模式,充分发挥普通高校在继续教育和终身教育中的作用和优势。普通高校继续教育是对大学后在职从业人员进行的知识更新教育,是一种高层次的非学历教育,是终身教育的重要组成部分。普通高校继续教育具有传播最新科学技术、搭建校企合作桥梁、构筑终身教育体系等三大功能。目前,很多普通高校在举办继续教育的实践中,存在偏离继续教育本质的倾向,如继续教育被边缘化、以学历教育为主、没有形成与社会的联动机制、教学方法落后、教学内容陈旧等,削弱了继续教育的功能,影响了办学水平和培养质量。普通高校继续教育必须实现战略转型,包括教育结构转型、体制机制转型、办学模式转型和教学建设转型等。     

政策不确定性与企业粗放型创新:激励效应与选择效应

创新驱动政策下,地方政府为“创新”而竞争,企业创新呈粗放式模式,投入力度虽不断增强,但专利成果却量多质低。本文研究发现：(1)受新上任政府为“创新”而竞争的政策激励,政策不确定性对企业粗放型创新投入具有明显的促进作用。(2)政策不确定性对粗放式创新质量的影响存在着选择效应,面临政治冲击时,仅“功利性”的策略性创新企业专利申请数量短期内急剧增加,而以提升创新能力为目的的实质性创新专利数量并未显著增加。(3)在以专利数量等为政府资源分配的重要参考指标驱动下,政府补贴这一政策工具在政策不确定性与粗放型创新之间发挥了传导作用。本文结论意味着专利数据考核指标,政府补贴等“非市场”因素增强了企业粗放型创新行为,但并不利于创新质量的提高。     

基于资源依赖理论的企业技术标准战略联盟机制与模式研究

本文研究以资源依赖理论为基本理论,从技术经济分析的理论入手,一是分析了技术标准战略联盟的形成机理;二是研究了技术标准联盟的资源分类,分析了技术标准联盟资源聚合的内在机理,论证了影响技术标准战略联盟的影响因素;三是在此基础上,从技术联盟的机制和要素分析入手,研究了技术标准战略联盟的不同模式及各个模式的运作方式及相互转换机制。     

战略联盟：企业组织形式的重要创新

战略联盟：作为企业组织关系中的制度创新，已成为现代企业强化其竞争优势的重要手段。本阐述了战略联盟的基本思想，动因和理论基础，结合中国实际，提出了一些相关建议。