Transformer in navigation: Diverse government roles for open innovation in China's high-speed rail

Based on a longitudinal case study of China's high-speed rail embedded in the emerging economy context, we focus on what role the government plays and how that matters to open innovation (OI) for competitive advantage. By linking the OI literature with the national political institutions literature to motivate our research question, we propose a statist-based OI view to differentiate diverse government roles, investigating how government adopts roles in a combined way to push OI in stages. Our findings suggest that government is an important strategic decision-maker for OI. Specifically, the government plays various roles as commander, protector, cultivator, and intermediator, reflecting state activism derived from national political institutions, to construct institutional-level OI for domestic OI activities, and inbound and outbound OI across national borders. We find government can deliberately and strategically use its diverse roles in a combined way to push OI for competitive advantage through the industrial evolutionary process over time. Our study contributes to the OI literature and integrates the strategic management literature with the study of OI to provide new insights to explain the origins of competitive advantage from the state perspective.     

Postretirement work and volunteering by poverty groups informed by role theory

This study uses role theory to examine the association between postretirement work and volunteering among retirees and to determine whether this association varies across poverty status. Data came from the 2012 wave of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). The sample was restricted to respondents of older retirees (N = 6,619). We found that postretirement work positively influenced volunteering. However, poverty can be a risk factor of volunteering among older retirees. The positive effect of post-retirement work was found to be more significant in the near-poverty group. We provide an empirical foundation to help inform volunteer programs for retirees.     

学前儿童性别角色教育现状调查研究——以东北八个地级市为例

采用自编问卷调查了学前儿童性别角色教育现状，发现当前学前儿童性别角色教育过程中存在的问题主要集中体现在性别角色教育意识、性别角色教育内容、性别角色教育形式和性别刻板印象四个方面，其中尤其以性别刻板印象问题较为明显或严重。在对上述问题深入分析的基础上，提出了相应的教育策略，主要包括加强对在职学前儿童教师培训，提升其学前儿童性别角色教育的意识；根据学前儿童的身心发展特点选择适宜的性别角色教育内容与多种多样的教育方法；采取适当措施尽量淡化性别的刻板印象；性别角色教育还应体现出渐进的发展阶段性特点等。     

邓小平四川藏区民主改革思想与实践

民主改革是20世纪中后期中国共产党采取协商方式，领导部分边疆民族地区上层人士及劳动人民，开展以废除奴隶制或农奴制、消除剥削压迫、土地改革为中心的社会改造。建国初期，邓小平等依据民主主义的任务，结合民族地区实际，提出采取协商方式、实行宽大措施开展土改的构想。再经总结，提升为民主改革（和平协商土地改革、直接过渡），载之宪法，成为共产党的“既定方针”，改造部分民族旧社会形态。即使采取协商方式开展改革，也有可能遭到反对。针对叛乱，邓小平确定“政治争取为主与军事打击结合”的方针，组织群众，平息叛乱，保障改革、坚决改革。在改革上，邓小平及时作出指示，引导改革顺利开展，确定“发动群众、上层协商”的改革方针。“发动群众”表明改革依靠群众；“上层协商”反映用“赎买”施以改革，从而形成有中国特色的社会改造方式。文章通过对为什么要改革、怎样改革、依靠谁改革，以及如何对待叛乱的分析，阐述了邓小平对民主改革的认识，也是邓小平解决部分民族地区社会形态的理论成果。     

唐诗与魅的世界

在“世界的祛魅”中，如何返回魅的世界，是现代哲学思考的重要问题，同时也应该从中国传统的思想中汲取智慧。唐诗作为中国古代诗歌的典范，具有丰富的诗歌智慧与美感经验，可以为我们重新激活，使现代人有所受用     

State‐led industrial development,structural transformation and elite‐led plunder: Angola (2002–2013) as a developmental state

From 2002 to 2013, Angola engaged in large‐scale state‐led reconstruction and development alongside an elite‐led appropriation and seizure of national assets. Until the oil price shock, Angola had been succeeding in promoting rapid economic growth, and possibly even significant social development, alongside a massive grab of wealth and power by local elites. Today, though an economic crisis has taken hold, frequent predictions of the country's imminent collapse have yet to be fulfilled. This article reviews the state's development planning and expenditure with a focus on public investment and industrial development to determine to what extent Angola during this period might be considered a developmental or petro‐developmental state. It is argued that, while more significant than generally thought, petro‐developmental outcomes were and are limited by the autocratic and neopatrimonial tendencies of the Angolan elite. Nevertheless, limited success with structural transformation may have lasting effects. Following its long civil war, the conditions existed for Angola to follow a new path of state‐led development. Though it may now be more difficult, structural transformation and economic diversification remain the only path to economic and social development.     

Core self-evaluations mediate the association between leaders' facial appearance and their professional success: Adults' and children's perceptions

Although the link between facial appearance and success is well established, the mechanisms responsible for this association have remained elusive. Evolutionary theory suggests that perceived leadership characteristics should be important for men's self-concept. Drawing on implicit leadership theory and evolutionary perspectives, we therefore examined the associations between first impressions based on facial appearance, core self-evaluations (CSEs), leadership role occupancy, and career success among a sample of working men. In Study 1, we found that CSEs mediated the relationship between individuals' facial appearance and measures of their success as leaders. In Study 2, we replicated these results using children's ratings of facial appearance, thus suggesting that basic properties of the targets' faces communicated their leadership ability more than the perceivers' life experience or acquired knowledge. These results suggest that people may use facial appearance as a diagnostic tool to determine the leadership ability of others.     

习近平新时代观的理论生成探讨

理顺习近平关于“中国特色社会主义进入新时代”的逻辑理路，有助于系统论证“新时代”的科学性和理论性。从方法论上看，习近平新时代观是应用马克思主义立场观点和方法得出的正确结论。从理论归因看，中国社会主要矛盾的转化作为习近平新时代观生成的主要标志，源于马克思主义关于矛盾运动的基本理论。从理论定位看，习近平新时代观展现的是中国发展的特殊阶段，内含着中国对自身发展的时代定位与目标趋向，渗透着中国与世界在共同发展中的新阶段、新高度、新未来，是对中国发展方向的顶层设计。     

A qualitative case study of a Korean former addict’s existential self‐interpretation and identity transformation

This study explored the case of a former addict, focusing on his existential self‐interpretation and identity transformation process. This study began from the question of whether philosophical processes related to existential self‐interpretation could lead to the formation of the concept of bottoming out and of identity transformation. To answer this question, the study analyzed the case of a male in his mid‐forties who was addicted to drugs for approximately 30 years and has only recently maintained abstinence. The study used the phenomenological approach to determine the meaning drugs held for him in each stage, and what drug‐related identity he had in each stage. Further, this study identified the integrative implications of these meanings in terms of existential self‐interpretation and identity transformation. The four different identities the man identified for the four stages of his life were juvenile delinquent, gang member, half‐gangster, and breadwinner, and the associated meanings drugs had for him during each period were “glue,” “filthy,” “leeches,” and “abstinence,” respectively. Finally, this study elucidated the integration of these meanings through the hermeneutic circle, identified the social welfare implications of the findings, and developed educational recommendations.     

旅游发展对女性角色变迁的影响研究--以大理周城白族女性为例

女性参与旅游发展是目的地获得可持续发展的重要前提。缺乏旅游发展对女性角色变迁影响的分析，仅将女性参与作为一个必然的过程而不是文化、经济和政治的过程，是女性参与旅游发展在实践中不能获得真正进步的原因。通过对国内外旅游研究中旅游发展对女性角色变迁的影响研究成果进行介绍，以云南大理周城为例，通过田野调查结果的抽样分析，剖析了周城近21年的旅游发展对周城白族妇女角色变迁影响的主要表现、女性角色变迁对大理周城旅游发展的积极意义和消极影响，提出在金融信贷和旅游发展项目中应充分考虑女性的需要，重视社会性别意识，积极改善女性参政议政环境，加强少数民族女性人力资本投资，以互联网为途径整合线上线下营销渠道，提高女性的文化营销能力。