提高产品质量水平 推动企业转型升级

本文介绍了如何适应新形势下的国际国内环境,转变原有的发展模式,提高工业企业产品质量水平,增强竞争力。     

长沙太平街湘绣产品的市场调查与分析

长沙是湘绣的发源地,集湘绣的研发、生产、销售于一体,拥有着独特的湘绣文化。太平街坐落于长沙市老城区南部,是一条商业繁荣、游客众多的文化老街,主要以销售长沙当地特产、传统手工艺品、特色小吃等为主,极具湖湘文化魅力,吸引了许多外来游客。笔者以太平街为研究范围,对太平街区域内的湘绣销售情况进行了问卷调查,调查显示,太平街区域内的湘绣产品销售情况与湘绣产品的种类和游客群的构成特征关系密切。基于上述调查结果,笔者对当下的长沙地区湘绣销售的前景和未来湘绣文化产品的推广,进行了分析并提供了新的思路。     

Internal and external factors of competitiveness shaping the future of wooden multistory construction in Finland and Sweden

In transitioning to a renewable material-based bio economy, growing public and industry interest is apparent for using wooden multistory construction (WMC) as a sustainable urban housing solution in Europe, but its business implications are not well understood. In our study, we evaluate, which internal and external factors of competitiveness are shaping the future of WMC, especially in the context of Finland and Sweden. Based on a multi-level perspective of socio-technical transitions, we conducted a three-stage dissensus-based Delphi study. The identified internal and external factors affecting the future competitiveness of the WMC business emphasize the importance of skilled architects and builders and the role of standardized building systems. Based on our results, the key aspects influencing the future competitiveness of WMC in the region are related to the development of technical infrastructure and project-based business networks, while additional changes in regulatory framework are perceived as less important. We conclude that towards 2030, the strong cognitive rules founded in the concrete-based building culture in these countries is likely to inhibit the dynamics of the socio-technical regime level. A change is also needed in the WMC business culture towards more open cross-sectoral collaboration and new business networks between different-sized players.     

Regional evolution and waves of growth: A knowledge-based perspective

The evolution of a regional economy and its competitiveness capacity may involve multiple independent trajectories through which different sets of resources and capabilities evolve together. However, there is a dearth of evidence concerning how these trends are occurring across the globe. Based on the underlying tenets of the streams of research relating to regional competitiveness, knowledge cities/regions, and knowledge-based urban development, this paper seeks to present an empirical approach to establishing such evidence in relation to the recent development of the globe’s most productive regions from the viewpoint of their growth trajectories and the particular form of growth they are experiencing. The aim is to uncover the underlying structure of the changes in knowledge-based resources, capabilities and outputs across regions, and offer an analysis of these regions according to an uncovered set of key trends. The analysis identifies three key trends by which the economic evolution and growth patterns of these regions are differentiated – namely Fifth Wave Growth, Third & Fourth Wave Growth, and Government-led Third Wave Growth. Overall, spectacular knowledge-based growth of leading Chinese regions is evident, highlighting a continued shift of knowledge-based resources to Asia. In addition, a superstructure is observed at the global scale, consisting of two separate continuums that explicitly distinguish Chinese regions from the rest in terms of regional growth trajectories.     

企业加强质量管理和提高经济效益的几点思考

主要阐述了质量管理对企业发展的意义,针对企业在质量管理方面存在的问题,提出了注重人才队伍建设、建立质量管理体系、注意管理目标等强化企业经济效益、提升质量管理的建议,以提升企业的综合竞争力。     

混合云对陕西旅游电子商务的支持研究

私有云运营效率低且公共云安全风险高,为实现混合云架构对电子商务系统经济性和安全性的支持,通过对相关技术和各云服务商解决方案的研究分析,面向陕西旅游业的需求,选择AWS的公共云服务和基于OpenStack构建的私有云,并提出混合云架构。可帮助陕西低成本地搭建旅游电子商务平台,推动旅游信息化,提高陕西旅游服务质量和竞争力。     

建筑钢结构制作成本管控要点分析

钢结构在建筑系统中独特的优势已经被广泛认同,因此,钢结构在各类建筑中应用的比重正在逐年稳步提升。面对不断增加的钢结构制造企业的加入和竞争,如何有效控制好制作成本成为了钢结构制造企业重要竞争力的体现。     

Wild Ways and Paths of Pleasure: Access to British waterfalls, 1500–2000

In Britain the rise of tourism, largely associated with the Romantic taste for landscape, encouraged travel to relatively inaccessible areas. Among travellers in search of the picturesque and the sublime, waterfalls were particularly popular, but these were commonly difficult and dangerous places to visit. The impact of tourism on the evolution of the landscape at waterfall sites over a period during which people travelled to tourist centres on horseback, by coach, by rail and by motor vehicle is examined. Drawing on topographical, travel and tourist literature from the sixteenth century to 2000, together with extensive field observation, the evolution from the 'natural' to the designed landscape, created to meet the needs of, and to attract, visitors, is considered. It is demonstrated how, while facilitating visits to natural attractions such as waterfalls, improved access and the provision of amenities have changed valued landscapes and, hence, the visitor's experience of them.     

The European construction industry and its competitiveness: a construct of the European Commission

The 'European construction industry' is a fiction that tends to obscure its heterogeneous character and to mar studies and policies of the European Commission aimed at improving the internal and external 'competitiveness' of the sector. In order to assess the process of integration in Europe under the impact of its own dynamics as well as Union policies, this paper looks at the dynamics of the sector from three different aspects: as investment, production and labour process. It shows, in particular, the persistent regional and social disparities dividing the industry into separate entities. Political attention tends to focus on a small number of construction companies competing for a few projects which represent the European dimension. Yet, these companies still rely on their respective national bases and local labour from the place where construction is carried out. Persistent divisions between the states are also reflected in the low level of transnational organization of the construction industry. The policy of the European Commission generally ignores these divisions and attempts to establish principles intended to make a whole sector more 'competitive', while its component parts, operating at hugely different levels of productivity, do not even meet on the same market. This paper argues that, instead of trying in vain to introduce a 'knock-out' system of competition in the EU Member States, a targeted approach might help raise productivity in lagging regions and thus improve the basis of competitiveness on global markets.     

Integrating urban and port planning policies in a sustainable perspective: the case study of Naples historic harbour area

ABSTRACT

This paper explores the case of the historic harbour area of Naples, considered highly significant, due to its physical and cultural characteristics, with the aim of reflecting on the contemporary need for building renewed and synergic city–port relations in a sustainable perspective. Focusing on the physical and functional city–port integration, the study investigates Naples harbour planning policy between twentieth and twenty-first centuries in order to identify the limitations of older instruments and to exam the current proposal, finally suggesting perspectives for the future. The analysis highlights the fact that, in the port of Naples, with a landlord governance, the main obstacles to a more inclusive planning policy have been related to land use conflict between on one hand the public interest of the Port Authority and Municipality and the private interest of port operators on the other. In conclusion, the need for city–port plan integration is outlined as a central planning issue so as to combine the economic development of the harbour with social, cultural and ecological themes and to overcome the conflicts between the different actors involved in the complex planning process.