Working Adults and Personal Business Ethics in South East Asia: a Comparative Study in Thailand and Vietnam

Global leaders and managers have been facing new challenges in the twenty-first century since globalization has created a much more integrated and borderless business environment. One of the key issues that they constantly deal with is business ethics. The global economy has made ethical issues become more complex and challenging. Businesses nowadays face urgent demands to act ethically and responsibly. In order for global leaders and managers to manage such a cultural diverse and complex workforce, they must have the ability to understand these complex issues and act ethically. They also need to possess adequate leadership skills to lead an ethical organization in a multinational environment. Thus, understanding and recognizing the cultural differences as well as the ethical standards of people in different countries are critical to the success of global leaders and managers. The purpose of this study is to investigate the perception of working professionals on business ethics in the two high-context cultures in South East Asia: Thailand and Vietnam. Using the Univariate Analysis of Variance method and adopting the widely-used Clark and Clark’s Personal Business Ethics Scores (PBES) measure, this study will compare the level of ethical maturity of the respondents based on a variety of variables including gender, business law course taken, code of conduct, ethics training, and government work experience. The authors will provide a thorough literature review on business ethics as well as the current ethical issues, i.e., bribery and corruption, in the two countries, together with practical suggestions and implications for educators, managers, and employees.     

传统文论诠释中的视界融合问题

在中国社会百年的现代化进程中,文学乃至整个文化观念似总难摆脱“荣今虐古”与“荣古虐今”之二元对立,这在中国文论研究中表现为一直没有很好地解决“视界融合”问题。古文论研究主要是对传统经典的诠释活动,其中传统经典的历史视界与现在研究者的理论视界之间必须保持必要的张力,这种必要张力的废弛是导致学术视域封闭化进而产生“荣今虐古”与“荣古虐今”二元对立的重要原因之一,而古与今、中与西等不同文化视野之间不断的良性的深度融合,乃是超越这种二元对立、充分展示人类文学思想丰富性的必要途径,同时也是中国文论走向融会贯通、综合创造进而形成一种开放的理论视界的重要途径。     

Simplicial Pivoting Algorithms for a Tractable Class of Integer Programs

We present a tractable class of integer feasibility problems. This class of max-closed IP problems was studied in somewhat restricted form by Glover, Pnueli, Hochbaum and Chandrasekaran and has a logic counterpart known as the class of Horn formulas. First we modify the existing algorithms in order to avoid the related recognition problem. Then we show that in order to solve these max-closed IP problems, simplicial path following methods can be used. This is important because these methods are flexible with respect to starting conditions, which make them more suitable than the top-down truncation algorithms that have been suggested.     

贸易与环境实证研究综述

在过去10年中,贸易与环境问题越来越成为学术界和大众关注的热点。贸易与环境问题的复杂性和可靠数据的缺乏限制了贸易与环境的实证研究。该文首先综述了贸易与环境实证研究的背景、主要方向和进展;然后总结了研究的主要方法和观点;最后简要表明作者的观点。该文围绕两个问题进行：①环境政策对国内产业和贸易的影响;②贸易与环境的联系, 贸易政策对环境的影响。     

Regenerative Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Any Distribution

While Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are frequently used for difficult calculations in a wide range of scientific disciplines, they suffer from a serious limitation: their samples are not independent and identically distributed. Consequently, estimates of expectations are biased if the initial value of the chain is not drawn from the target distribution. Regenerative simulation provides an elegant solution to this problem. In this article, we propose a simple regenerative MCMC algorithm to generate variates for any distribution.     

水资源社区自主管理的历史考察——以明清晋陕地区为例

面对严峻的水资源短缺和明清地方政府在水资源管理事务中的强力收缩,晋陕地区水资源呈现出社区自主管理的特点。以乡绅阶层为核心力量的民间水利组织,逐渐承担起水资源管理的任务。他们依靠一系列建立在用水惯例、传统伦理道德和国家水法基础上的水利规约,形成了和谐的用水秩序,保障了社区整体的用水安全,其管理成效具体体现在小型水利工程的兴修、水利纠纷的妥善处理等方面。但是,受监督体制的缺失和狭隘的局部用水观念的影响,作为领导核心力量的乡绅阶层在水管理过程中也不可避免地出现了腐败、渎职等问题,同时,农民阶层对水管理参与权的缺失,也使得这种自主管理的民主性是有限度的。     

郭象美学的本体论

作为魏晋玄学发展成熟阶段的代表人物,郭象吸取了诸家的思想资源,开辟出了一条关于人性的精神本源的思路.由于论证的艰难性,郭象不得不借助牢笼中的语言来摆脱语言的牢笼,通过对造物生成论、自生论的不断否定,向我们展开了人性的生存之根"独化"."独化"在最高旨趣上达到人的天性,人在精神上走向无限.     

The unequal impact of Covid-19 on the lives and rights of the children of modern slavery survivors,children in exploitation and children at risk of entering exploitation

This article discusses the unequal impact of Covid-19 on the lives of the children of survivors of modern slavery, child victims of exploitation and children at risk of exploitation in the UK. It draws on research that has analysed the risks and impacts of Covid-19 on victims and survivors of modern slavery. It explores how pandemic responses may have hindered these children's rights to education, food, safety, development and participation and representation in legal processes. It suggests that the pandemic should be used as an impetus to address inequalities that existed pre-Covid-19 and those that have been exacerbated by it.     

Stakeholder Green Pressure and New Product Performance in Emerging Countries: A Cross-country Study

Despite the burgeoning literature on stakeholder green pressure, research is scarce on how it influences eco-product innovation and new product performance. This article examines stakeholder green pressures as antecedents of eco-product innovation and new product performance in firms operating in resource-constrained countries. Using data gathered from surveys in Vietnam (N = 183) and Ghana (N = 217), we find that the positive effects of stakeholder green pressures on new product performance are serially mediated by environmental sustainability orientation and eco-product innovation. Our findings contribute to ongoing efforts to clarify the mechanisms channelling stakeholder pressures into new product performance in resource-constrained environments.