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What does a thriving music scene have to do with a city's economic growth? According to economist Richard Florida in his recent study, "It signals the rise of regional ecosystems that are not only open to new sounds and new ideas, but have the siz...

    沃尔玛服务顾客的秘诀之一就是“三米微笑原则”。它是由沃尔玛百货有限公司的创始人山姆·沃尔顿先生传下来的。每当他巡店时，都会鼓励员工与他一起向顾客作出保证：“…我希望你们能够保证，每当你在三米以内遇到一位顾客时，你会看着他的眼睛与他打招呼，同时询问你能为他做些什么。”

　 这就是我们所说的“三米微笑原则”，它是山姆先生从孩提时就得到了印证的原则。他总是雄...

     企业的生产经营活动其实是一个价值创造过程，而每个环节的价值创造联结在一起，就形成了价值链。价值链的开始是原材料供应，然后是零配件的生产、制造和装配、批发分销，最后是零售产品或服务最终用户。在经济全球化条件下，企业价值链已经超越了国家的边界，形成了全球价值链。要完成产品的设计到销售，一般要经过四个环节，即设计环节、生产环节、营销环节和销售环节，这四个环节已经在全球范围内实现分工。在一般情况下，产品越复杂，环节的标准化程度越高，全球性的价值链配置方式和配置机制就越...

    在世界经济发展的实践中，国际产业转移是发达国家和发展中国家都普遍关注的问题。发达国家可以通过产业转移调整产业结构，实现全球战略目标，发展中国家可以通过承接产业转移加快产业结构升级和经济发展。当前，随着我国经济的迅速发展和对外开放的扩大，国际产业转移对我国经济发展的影响也进一步加深。因此，掌握国际产业转移的特点和趋势，主动地有选择地利用国际产业转移加快我国经济发展，提高产业竞争力，就成为一个重要的研究课题。

　 一、当前国际产业转移的特点和趋势...

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    有香港立法会议员建议，要把香港茶餐厅申请为联合国非物质文化遗产。调查显示，大部分市民对此举双手赞成。确实，如果说什么能够代表香港，茶餐厅当之无愧，看看现在在内地城市流行的港式茶餐厅，就可以理解茶餐厅文化的影响力。不过内地的茶餐厅是否真正体现了茶餐厅在香港人生活中的地位？这倒有一点值得商榷。内地的茶餐厅都是装潢精美的，价钱也和香港看齐。也就是说，在香港只属于最普通消费的茶餐厅，在内地变得高档起来。

　 难...

Guanxi. It's the first word any businessperson learns upon arriving in China. Loosely translated, guanxi means "connections" and, as any China veteran will tell you, it is the key to everything: securing a business license, landing a distribu...

First there was the "new economy," then there was the "knowledge economy," and now we have the "creative economy."

Call it what you will, but the nation is arguably attaching more importance to "chuangyi&qu...

(Richard Florida) 

Every so often the question of what really drives economic development comes up. Sometimes it’s because someone raises the question about causality in my own 3Ts theory of economic development. Other times, it&r...

"We were going to kill each other if we stayed cooped up in this old room in my house," Wil.

"We need flexibility. That's really the key," Kate.

"I don't need a full-time office. I just need [them] when I ...

The City of Toronto is becoming increasingly divided by income and socio-economic status, says a new report issued today by the Centre for Urban and Community Studies (CUCS) at the University of Toronto. No longer a “city of neighbourhoods,&rdquo...