Transparency and Resource Allocation of Grassroots Nonprofits in China

VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations - Organizational transparency has become a prominent concern for the nonprofit sector as it expands globally. Transparency...     

关注家庭文明建设提高家长教育素质--评骆风《造就卓越人才-北京大学博士生家庭教育探析》

近20年来,特别是中共十四届六中全会发布《中共中央关于加强社会主义精神文明建设若干重要问题的决议》以来,我国的社会主义精神文明建设取得了重大进展,可以说物质文明建设和精神文明建设“一手硬、一手软”的局面正在逐步改变。但是,我们也必须看到现实中精神文明各个部分发展不平衡的情况,在社会生活的深处,在居民家庭生活中不文明的现象还比较严重。因此,在当前的社会主义精神文明建设过程中既要重视社会层面的精神文明建设,宣传党中央的大政方针,促进思想道德和科学教育的发展,又要重视家庭层面的精神文明建设,继承和发展民族家庭传统…     

Vocational Status,Hukou and Housing Migrants in the New Century: Evidence from a Multi-city Study of Housing Inequality

In the 1960s and 1970s, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union experienced an unanticipated stagnation in the process of mortality reduction that was accelerating in the west. This was followed by even starker fluctuations and overall declines in life expectancy during the 1980s and 1990s. We identify statistically the extent to which, since the 1990s, the countries of the post-communist region have converged as a group towards other regional or cross-regional geopolitical blocks, or whether there are now multiple steady-states (‘convergence clubs’) emerging among these countries. We apply a complex convergence club methodology, including a recursive analysis, to data on 30 OECD countries (including 11 post-communist countries) drawn from the Human Mortality Database and spanning the period 1959–2010. We find that, rather than converging uniformly on western life expectancy levels, the post-communist countries have diverged into multiple clubs, with the lowest seemingly stuck in low-level equilibria, while the best performers (e.g. Czech Republic) show signs of catching-up with the leading OECD countries. As the post-communist period has progressed, the group of transition countries themselves has become more heterogeneous and it is noticeable that distinctive gender and age patterns have emerged. We are the first to employ an empirical convergence club methodology to help understand the complex long-run patterns of life expectancy within the post-communist region, one of very few papers to situate such an analysis in the context of the OECD countries, and one of relatively few to interpret the dynamics over the long-term.     

Vocational Experiences and Quality of Life of Migrants: Overview and Future Research

Quality of life is a complicated concept that has attracted broad attention from multiple disciplines. This article introduces a set of studies that employ diverse approaches to explore how work, vocational, and career experiences shape quality of life among migrants, and proposes a future agenda to extend this stream of research. Specifically, operationalizing quality of life in different ways, research showcased in this special issue has demonstrated how international and intranational migrants achieve, maintain, and enhance their well-being in different life domains. Reflecting on the literature and the showcased studies, this article proposes that future research should advance the current inquiry by better categorizing vocational experiences, uniquely operationalizing of quality of life in migration contexts, taking a more culturally sensitive perspective, and broadening methodological approaches.     

Essential Micro‐foundations for Contemporary Business Operations: Top Management Tangible Competencies,Relationship‐based Business Networks and Environmental Sustainability

Although various studies have emphasized linkages between firm competencies, networks and sustainability at organizational level, the links between top management tangible competencies (TMTCs) (e.g. contemporary relevant quantitative‐focused education such as big data analytics and data‐driven applications linked with the internet of things, relevant experience and analytical business applications), relationship‐based business networks (RBNs) and environmental sustainability have not been well established at micro‐level, and there is a literature gap in terms of investigating these relationships. This study examines these links based on the unique data collected from 175 top management representatives (chief executive officers and managing directors) working in food import and export firms headquartered in the UK and New Zealand. Our results from structural equation modelling indicate that TMTCs are the key determinants for building RBNs, mediating the correlation between TMTCs and environmental sustainability. Directly, the competencies also play a vital role towards environmental practices. The findings further depict that relationship‐oriented firms perform better compared to those which focus less on such networks. Consequently, our findings provide a deeper understanding of the micro‐foundations of environmental sustainability based on TMTCs rooted in the resource‐based view and RBNs entrenched in social network theory. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our findings, and we provide suggestions for future research.     

Asymptotically optimal policy for stochastic job shop scheduling problem to minimize makespan

This paper studies the large-scale stochastic job shop scheduling problem with general number of similar jobs, where the processing times of the same step are independently drawn from a known probability distribution, and the objective is to minimize the makespan. For the stochastic problem, we introduce the fluid relaxation of its deterministic counterpart, and define a fluid schedule for the fluid relaxation. By tracking the fluid schedule, a policy is proposed for the stochastic job shop scheduling problem. The expected value of the gap between the solution produced by the policy and the optimal solution is proved to be O(1), which indicates the policy is asymptotically optimal in expectation.     

藏传佛教对西方心理学的影响

20世纪50年代以来,藏传佛教在西方社会广泛传播,作为东方研究心灵的经验性科学与西方心理学逐步深入地展开对话,深刻影响了西方心理学的发展。首先,藏传佛教对人性的积极态度、对人类意识的深入认识,扩大了西方心理学的研究视野;第二,藏传佛教对自我、意识、情绪等复杂心理过程提供了新的研究方法;第三,藏传佛教推动了佛教冥想的传播,为心理治疗和心理自助提供了一种积极有效的方法和技术。     

斯大林的"民族"定义对中国的"民族识别"影响研究

斯大林关于民族的定义一直影响着中国的民族工作,特别是在20世纪50年代全国上下展开的民族识别中,它成为了识别族群身份、划分族群族属的重要标准。但是,现在在回顾历史的过程中,我们不得不重新思考这个问题。     

论民族关系的本质及其奋斗目标

从世界范围来讲,多民族共处是一种普遍而广泛的现象,所以谋求和谐、共生的民族关系是多民族国家处理民族问题的奋斗目标,当然对民族关系本质的充分认识应当是讨论其奋斗目标的逻辑起点.文章认为民族关系的本质就是民族共同体的利益需求,从这个实质出发,谋求和谐的民族关系的途径就是发展,即寻求民族自身利益的最大化与族际间共同利益的最大化的并举与统一.在这一过程中应将"政治化"与"文化化"的两种政策导向多样化地运用在构建多民族国家和谐民族关系的实践中.     

中国文化对外传播效果研究——对5国16所孔子学院的调查

本文通过对美国、日本、俄罗斯、泰国、黎巴嫩5个国家16所孔子学院的调查发现:当前孔子学院在全球范围内取得了一定的传播效果;但不同层次的中国文化传播效果存在较大差异;中国文化在不同文化圈层,尤其是儒家文化圈层和非儒家文化圈层中的传播效果有很大不同;国与国之间也存在较大差异.本文提出,针对非儒家文化国家,要让中国的物质文化先走出去,行为文化、精神文化可暂时缓行.