转变经济发展方式的难点:基于可持续发展GDP导向的新视角

转变经济发展方式一直是政府和学界关注的焦点.纵观现有的文献资料,对"转变经济发展方式的难点"的问题研究大多是从资源稀缺角度、从宏观的体制因素、政府因素等角度来进行论述,其理论研究还不够具体和深入.尤其是,经济发展方式转变难点中,用GDP作为测量经济发展的工具导向这一体制转变难点的问题并没有得到充分的重视.转变经济发展方式的难点应着重于GDP导向功能的"转变",工具性的改善GDP核算,实现从传统GDP导向转变为可持续发展GDP导向.     

安徽“十二五”区域经济协调发展研究

"十一五"期间,安徽总体经济实力增强,区域经济呈现出良好的发展态势和特征,但仍存在中心城市规模较小、地区发展差距加大、结构性问题突出等问题.在未来5年规划中,安徽应紧紧围绕区域经济协调发展的主线,依托核心城市和重点区域,密切产业联系,合理空间分工布局,加强商务环境建设、合作环境建设、政策环境建设和区域问关系协调机制建设,开创重点突出、特色鲜明、优势互补、联动发展的区域经济新格局.     

和谐、民生与主流媒介话语

通过对2000-2008年间《安徽日报》焦点新闻版429篇有关和谐社会建设内涵报道的实证分析发现,报道议题呈现民生化取向,话语权由党政部门向民间分化,并致力于多元表达渠道的开拓及公共话语空间的建设,显示了和谐社会背景下媒介话语更注重以人为本及关注民生,倾听民声的流变。     

生态女性主义文学批评述论

近年来,国内学界对生态女性主义理论及其与文学关系的探讨渐多,但是直接以“生态女性主义文学批评”为题的论文还较少。以文学为中心视角,在借鉴国内文学研究者的成果基础上,参考了国外学者的专著;既有对该理论的宏观梳理,又有对男女作家自然写作个案的分析,试图对这一新的文学批评做一个相对全面而深入的论述。论文涉及该文学批评的基本概念、形成条件、文本特点和批评特色等。作者认为,生态女性主义文学批评融合了女性主义批评与生态批评二者之长,在生态学术的热烈探讨中,将成为有前途的文学批评。     

金融危机与常州市中小企业几个管理问题研究

2008年全球金融危机的冲击使常州市许多中小企业经营困难,许多隐藏的管理问题不断暴露,管理成为企业应对和走出金融危机的"软肋"。面对新的形势,需要对管理问题进行深度剖析,寻找问题成因,并探索出新的管理理念和思路。研究认为,商学院应该改变管理学专业的教学方式,企业应采取建立现代企业制度、导入精细化管理等多种管理措施以确保企业的持续稳健发展。     

道德风险下带有Knight不确定的最优动态契约设计

本文从概率统计模型本身的不确定性是本质的、不能消除掉的角度出发, 研究了Knight不确定下连续时间委托-代理问题, 其中主要考虑了代理人的道德风险对契约执行过程以及契约存续情况的影响.首先, 建立了代理人延续价值以及委托人预期利润的动态方程.其次, 运用次线性期望下的随机最优性原理, 以更加准确、深刻的方法去刻画实际委托人和代理人经济行为, 进而得到委托人效用值函数的Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) 方程, 并求得委托人对代理人最优支付以及代理人最优努力水平的表达式.最后, 通过理论解的数值模拟, 分析了Knight不确定对委托人和代理人最优策略以及最优契约的影响.     

Subnational FDI Legitimacy and Foreign Subsidiary Survival

We examine how organizational ecology and the strategic choice perspective can be combined to provide more contextualized insights into how multinational corporations (MNCs) can better counter environmental pressures with evolving subnational FDI legitimacy and improve the survival likelihood of their subsidiaries. We consider three organizational identity-based strategic choices, i.e., country-of-origin (COO) agglomeration, expatriate staffing level and subsidiary ownership level. We hypothesize a U-shaped relationship between FDI legitimacy and subsidiary mortality, and that this relationship will be moderated by the level of COO agglomeration at a subnational level. We also hypothesize that with improving FDI legitimacy, the use of higher levels of expatriates and ownership will jeopardize the survival of larger subsidiaries. A longitudinal dataset (2001–2016) for 3025 subsidiaries formed by 1147 Japanese MNCs in China was used in hypothesis testing. Results largely supported our hypotheses. We discuss how an identity-centered approach can contribute to theory and practice.     

A Changing Nexus Between Unemployment and Suicide in Taiwan: Before and After Labor Welfare Improvement in the Late 1990s

The 2009 economic crisis in Greece had harsh implications on the Greek society. The crisis led to high and increasing unemployment rates, which previously found to relate to increases in suicide rates, health risking behaviors and increased risk of mental health problems. The public’s perceptions regarding the consequences of the crisis are crucial to their recovery. In order to get a comprehensive and thorough view of the public’s perceptions, which will allow to draw conclusions and recommendations for a possible effective intervention program, the current study assessed the perceptions of a representative sample of the Greek adult population (N = 3002) in three sampling waves: December 2011, March 2011 and November 2012. These assessments included questionnaires designed to evaluate perceptions of current quality of life, economic decline, coping with economic and occupational commitments, physical and psychological health, wellbeing, health related behaviors, attitudes towards emigration, sources of support and political and social trust. Findings showed significantly higher perceptions of financial uncertainty and difficulties coping with economic commitments. Participants generally rated their psychological health lower than their physical health. Trust ratings were also found to be generally low, especially for younger populations. Younger populations also showed a more willing attitude towards emigrating out of Greece, compared to older populations. Coping measurements revealed a strong possible tendency to go back to the traditional ties of confidence and trust in family and friends as sources of support. In light of the results, we recommend to build programs that see the family and the local community as a resources of resilience and coping.     

Effects of Social Network on Human Capital of Land-Lost Farmers: A Study in Zhejiang Province

The International Wellbeing Index covers two complementary measures, the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) and the National Wellbeing Index (NWI). The focus group study reported here tested the understanding of the NWI when translated into isiXhosa, a language spoken by 6 million South Africans, or 16% of the country’s population. A challenge for the NWI in measuring national well-being is the tendency for meaning to get ‘lost in translation’ in the wording of the instrument, owing to the disparities that exist between levels of living in developed and developing nations. The focussed discussions with native isiXhosa speakers conveyed the different shades of meaning associated with the six domains that make up the NWI. The isiXhosa keywords for the domains of social conditions, the natural environment, national security, and management of the country’s affairs (government) were readily understood, but discussants asked for further clarification of keywords for the domains relating to the economy and business. Conversations showed up the close link between personal and national well-being: discussants drew upon their personal and parochial life experiences along with their knowledge of current affairs to evaluate the nation’s quality of life. They described the social contract between citizens and their government to create a ‘caring society’ that promotes well-being across key domains of national life. Many of the reference standards used to evaluate national well-being were ones postulated to influence personal well-being (Michalos A.C, Social Indicators Research 16(4): 347–413 1985 ). The study also pointed to a potential problem for longitudinal studies if the bipolar satisfaction scale, formerly used to measure the International Wellbeing Index’s PWI and NWI, is changed to a unipolar one. Findings from this pilot study confirm the potential of the NWI as a tool for measuring national well-being cross-culturally.     

A local search approximation algorithm for a squared metric <Emphasis Type="Italic">k</Emphasis>-facility location problem

We consider a scheduling problem where machines need to be rented from the cloud in order to process jobs. There are two types of machines available which can be rented for machine-type dependent prices and for arbitrary durations. However, a machine-type dependent setup time is required before a machine is available for processing. Jobs arrive online over time, have deadlines and machine-type dependent sizes. The objective is to rent machines and schedule jobs so as to meet all deadlines while minimizing the rental cost. As we observe the slack of jobs to have a fundamental influence on the competitiveness, we parameterize instances by their (minimum) slack. An instance is called to have a slack of \(\beta \) if, for all jobs, the difference between the job’s release time and the latest point in time at which it needs to be started is at least \(\beta \). While for \(\beta < s\) no finite competitiveness is possible, our main result is an online algorithm for \(\beta = (1+\varepsilon )s\) with Open image in new window , where s denotes the largest setup time. Its competitiveness only depends on \(\varepsilon \) and the cost ratio of the machine types and is proven to be optimal up to a factor of Open image in new window .