Comprehensive Assessment and Policy Suggestions on Building Multi-Level National Service Centers

2019 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. 1950010
Author(s):  
Yi LIU ◽  
Yao LI
Keyword(s):  
Service Industry ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Indicator System ◽  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Producer Services ◽  
Central Cities ◽  
Control Power ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Strategic Layout ◽  
Capital Development

The strategic position of a country’s central cities in the global city network is mainly embodied by the functions of the service industry and high-end producer services in particular. With a view to enhance the economic control power, building a country with considerable strength in the service industry is to build multi-level national central cities capable of performing service functions according to a strategic layout. By looking back on the law of development of central cities of service industry around the globe, we first dug into the issue from the fundamental principles of new economic geography about the formation of industrial clusters; then incorporated influencing factors, such as factor endowment, outward connections, inward connections, institutional factors, market size, knowledge capital, development cost and consumption, into a uniform analytical framework; and established an indicator system for assessing the competitiveness of service industry cluster centers, whereby we assessed the comprehensive strength of 105 cities in building national central cities of service industry. The research results show that it is supposed to enhance China’s leading and controlling capability in the world’s service network by relying on two key cities, i.e. Beijing and Shanghai; and the other 15 cities, including Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Tianjin, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Chengdu, Xi’an, Zhengzhou, Shenyang, Qingdao, Changsha, Kunming and Urumqi, are most likely to become the national central cities of service industry, which can provide comprehensive services or specialized functions.

scholarly journals An analytical framework for employment regulation: investigating the regulatory space

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Inversi ◽  
Lucy Ann Buckley ◽  
Tony Dundon
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Space Theory ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Labour Policy ◽  
Regulatory Approach ◽  
Multi Level

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advance a conceptual analytical framework to help explain employment regulation as a dynamic process shaped by institutions and actors. The paper builds on and advances regulatory space theory. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyses the literature on regulatory theory and engages with its theoretical development. Findings The paper advances the case for a broader and more inclusive regulatory approach to better capture the complex reality of employment regulation. Further, the paper engages in debates about the complexity of employment regulation by adopting a multi-level perspective. Research limitations/implications The research proposes an analytical framework and invites future empirical investigation. Originality/value The paper contends that existing literature affords too much attention to a (false) regulation vs deregulation dichotomy, with insufficient analysis of other “spaces” in which labour policy and regulation are formed and re-formed. In particular, the proposed framework analyses four different regulatory dimensions, combining the legal aspects of regulation with self-regulatory dimensions of employment regulation.

Study abroad, human capital development, language commodification, and social inequalities

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Goldoni
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Human Capital Development ◽  
Capital Development

Abstract Neoliberal discourse has seeped into various practices of higher education and study abroad (SA), emphasizing the value of human capital development through international education and foreign language learning. Applied linguists have been strongly critiquing neoliberal ideologies, and how they reproduce social inequalities. In this study, the examples of Albert, Theresa, and Rebecca, three U.S. undergraduates in Spain, exhibit how elements of neoliberal discourse and the consumerist notion of second language education as a commodity perpetuate social inequalities abroad and at home. These students were part of an ethnographic study (2007–2008) that included 117 U.S. undergraduates enrolled in four academic SA programs in Spain. The stories of Albert, Theresa, and Rebecca are significant because they had traction within their SA cohort. The consumerist notion of education as a commodity was employed as the analytical framework in conjunction with Bourdieu’s concept of capital (1986). This study problematizes the neoliberal logic and the promise of human capital development associated with language learning through SA. It calls for more diversity, equity, inclusion in SA. A social justice pedagogical paradigm is discussed as a valid, alternative approach to help students emphasize humanistic imperatives over individualist imperatives, gain global understanding, and contribute to world justice.

scholarly journals Agricultural Productive Service System Based on the Block Chain and Edge Computing

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Yuqing Wang ◽  
Xueping Han
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Capita Income ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Service System ◽  
Edge Computing ◽  
Per Capita Income ◽  
Producer Services ◽  
Block Chain ◽  
Agricultural Producer ◽  
Per Capita

With the rapid development of the service sector in economic growth, productive service industry has become a growing field of people’s attention. Agricultural productive services are a supporting point to promote the development of modern agriculture, and at the same time, they also point out the direction for promoting the transformation of the agricultural development mode, which has very important strategic significance. In order to analyze and improve the rural productive service system and solve the “three rural” issues, this article designs an agricultural productive service analysis framework from the perspective of farmers, statistics of the investment in agricultural productive services in a certain region from 2015 to 2019, the expenditure of agricultural productive services in agriculture, forestry, fishery, and animal husbandry, and per capita wage income and operating income of farmers in the area under agricultural productive services, and in the process of agricultural production, farmers need agricultural productive services from the perspective of the whole process, land preparation, seeding, pest control, fertilization, and harvesting risks. The data in this experiment are stored in a distributed manner through the block chain, and the data are stored in the corresponding part in the chronological order; the data are transmitted to the edge server of the experimental network in the way of point-to-point transmission, and then edge computing technology is used to calculate and analyze the data collected in the experiment. The final result shows that, in this region, the input of the main agricultural producer service industry is growing very fast, the scale of productive services is expanding, and more and more attention is paid to the producer services in the process of agricultural production, but the internal composition of agricultural producer services is unbalanced. With the continuous improvement of the scale of agricultural productive services, the per capita income of farmers and the per capita income of management are also increasing year by year. When the scale of agricultural productive services reaches 0.09 in 2019, the per capita wage income of farmers has reached 3900 yuan, and the per capita income of farmers has reached 3750 yuan. And in the perspective of various risks in agricultural production, the higher the risk coefficient, the stronger the risk preference of farmers and the higher the risk investment in agricultural production services.

Research on Innovation Performance Evaluation Index System of the Productive Service Industry Cluster Based on the Process of Network Innovation

2013 ◽  
Vol 869-870 ◽  
pp. 856-859
Author(s):  
Liang Hu Xu ◽  
Ming Cao ◽  
Qing Miao
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Index System ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Evaluation Index System ◽  
Evaluation Index ◽  
Industry Cluster ◽  
Performance Evaluation Index ◽  
Performance Evaluation Index System

In this paper, from the perspective of network innovative process, we comes up with the basic assumption, that is, the network innovation can promote absorptive capacity of industrial clusters products so as to improve the innovation performance of the enterprises in cluster. On the basis of this, this paper adopts correlation analysis method to verify the influence extent of productive service industry cluster innovation network on innovation performance. Therefore, we find critical influencing factors of network nodes and set up the innovation performance evaluation index system of productive service industry cluster.

scholarly journals Can Industrial Co-Agglomeration between Producer Services and Manufacturing Reduce Carbon Intensity in China?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (15) ◽  
pp. 4024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuochen Li ◽  
Dongri Han ◽  
Shaosong Feng ◽  
Lei Liang
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Emission Reduction ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Threshold Level ◽  
Carbon Intensity ◽  
Producer Services ◽  
Wheel Drive ◽  
The Impact

Climate change poses unprecedented challenges for humanity. Reducing carbon intensity is an inevitable choice for tackling climate change and promoting sustainable development. China has made some emission reduction commitments in the international community to promote the decoupling of China’s economic development from carbon emissions. The realization of the industrial structure from the “single-wheel drive” of the manufacturing to the “two-wheel drive” economic development model of the service industry and the manufacturing has become a key measure to achieve China’s economic intensive development. According to resource misallocation situation in different regions, this paper explored the impact of the collaborative agglomeration between producer services and manufacturing (hereinafter referred to as industrial co-agglomeration) on carbon intensity. The research results show that the carbon intensity is decreasing year by year, and the degree of intensification of China’s economic growth continues to increase. Moreover, the effect of industrial co-agglomeration to promote carbon emission reduction is significantly limited by the degree of misallocated resources, and there is a double threshold effect. Specifically, in areas where resource allocation is reasonable, industrial co-agglomeration can produce significant agglomeration effects and promote carbon intensity reduction. Once the degree of misallocated resources exceeds a threshold level, the agglomeration effect will turn into a crowding effect, resulting in an inability to reduce carbon intensity. We comprehensively analyzed the driving factors for reducing carbon intensity and proposed policy pathways for achieving China’s carbon intensity target.

Study on Spatial Planning Pattern of Urban Producer Services

2012 ◽  
Vol 253-255 ◽  
pp. 106-109
Author(s):  
Xin Gang Yang
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Industrial Structure ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Master Planning ◽  
Producer Services ◽  
Industrial Parks ◽  
Industrial Chain ◽  
Neighborhood Center

As producer services have the characteristics of cluster development in the urban space, rational guidance on spatial patterns of producer services by means of urban planning is able to promote the industrial structure readjustment and spatial structure optimization, and enhance the development of urban modern service industry. Based on characteristics, composition, added value and industrial chain links of producer services, this article has presented that spatial distribution of urban producer services has two patterns: cluster area and supporting center, which respectively belong to two study areas: urban master planning and detailed planning. On the basis of different cluster scales and correlations, this article also has proposed three spatial patterns: industrial parks, characteristic blocks and industrial neighborhood center.

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