Identities in transition: the case of emerging market multinational corporations and its response to glocalisation

ABSTRACT

In this article, we critically review the extant literature and develop a conceptual framework for a sophisticated understanding of the multiple levels of influences that shape the nature and extent of ‘organisational identity’, a topical, multi-disciplinary and important area. We contribute by identifying and noting, both, the common theoretical and practical influences that shape an organisation’s identity especially maintaining the focus in relation to emerging market multinationals and its response to glocalisation. Our review and framework also points to the most common explanations that are evident in this cross-disciplinary field and points to the gaps and novel sets of identity influences that are needed to be unbundled and demystified in this arena, as several of these influences exist in practice, though they are not adequately studied through the lenses of organisational identity. We classify areas for future research based on recent contributions to the field and list identified gaps to invite further scholarship in this critical area of study and practice.     

论回族二元一体的道德律——由回族二元一体的文化结构所想到的

本文从"回族二元一体文化结构是对伊斯兰文化的发展"生发开去,重点从回族伊斯兰教精神信仰与儒家思想伦理的结合上阐释其道德律,分别从"内功与外功"、"真理与伦理"、"心法与宗法"三方面分析伊儒相通、德德相济的二元结构,最后论述回族二元一体道德律对当前践行"八荣八耻"社会主义荣辱观的重要启发。     

‘Disability is not a word we use’: Social workers' professional judgements about support for disabled young people leaving care

Disabled young people leaving care often experience a more complex transition to adulthood than other youths. Still, policy and services can fail to recognize the intersection between a young person's care experiences and disability. Drawing on data from a qualitative interview study with 14 social workers who work with aftercare in the Norwegian child welfare services, we investigate social workers' professional judgements about support for this subgroup of the leaving care population. Our analysis uses the theoretical construct of institutional logics and shows that social workers did not include concepts of disability in their judgements about support for these young people. Instead, the social workers' considerations were guided by three other organizing principles: a ‘medical logic’, an ‘activation logic’ and an ‘aftercare logic’. We discuss these findings in light of critical disability studies and argue for a more nuanced understanding of disability in social work practice with care leavers. Highlighting disability rights and going beyond diagnosis and categorisations of disabled people can challenge a medical model approach to service provision.     

Beyond the purely commercial business model: Organizational value logics and the heterogeneity of sustainability business models

The business model has been conceived as a commercial logic of value proposition, creation, exchange and capture. However, its underlying conceptual structure of an organizational value logic holds promise also for application beyond a purely commercial context, for partially commercial and even noncommercial organizations. This paper unlocks this potential by conceptualizing homogeneous and heterogeneous organizational value logics shaped by a variety of institutional logics. Homogeneous value logics are dominantly shaped by individual institutional logics, such as the value logic of businesses shaped by an institutional logic of the commercial market, or that of a churches shaped by an institutional logic of religion. Heterogeneous value logics, however, are co-shaped by two or more institutional logics. The application of these concepts is exemplified in the context of sustainability business models, which are built on a heterogeneous value logic that combines elements from commercial, sustainability, welfare and government logics. The paper contributes to the business model discussion by extending it to partially commercial and noncommercial organizations; by creating a conceptual space between value logics and institutional logics; and by proposing the meta-logic of value proposition, creation, exchange and capture, a novel analytical tool for the study of organizations shaped by plural institutional logics.     

论胡锦涛的党史观

胡锦涛在总结与研究中国共产党历史方面形成了独特而深刻的见解。它以科学发展观为切入视角,以＂两个历史决议＂为指导,创造性地提出了＂以史育人＂的党史责任观,将党史研究与政党建设、先进性教育、理想信念紧密结合,实现了对马克思主义史学理论的丰富和发展,为新时期中共党史研究奠定了坚实的理论基础。     

Toward an historically informed Asian model of public relations

This paper undertakes a meta-analysis of the 51 historiographies of public relations in Asia-Pacific countries to identify common themes, threads and theoretical insights. The authors propose a set of necessary components for the study of Asia-Pacific public relations drawn from a historical perspective that differs from the paradigmatic underpinnings of the major Western models. They draw conclusions about epistemological and practice differences between public relations in the West and in the Asia-Pacific region in a globalizing world.     

现代科学和黑格尔辩证法

自19世纪进化论诞生以来，演化、发展的观点日渐成为当代科学的核心概念。由存在的科学进入到演化的科学，已经成为20世纪科学思想的突出特征之一。这种科学思想，与富涵历史感和辩证法的黑格尔《逻辑学》，有着广泛的一致性。由此设想，撰写综合辩证法新成就、包涵当代科学思想的概念体系的逻辑学，既与数学化命题体系逻辑学并进，也对吸纳科学思想不足的现代哲学有所补益。