Whether Professional Training Matters: Attitudinal Antecedents to the Turnover Intentions of Social Workers in Guangzhou,China

This study aims to identify whether the professional training of social workers has an effect on the attitudinal antecedents of turnover intention. This study investigated 395 trained and 353 non-trained social workers from the Integrated Family Service Centers in Guangzhou, China. It was found that professional education did not significantly alter the attitudinal antecedents to turnover intention. In both groups, a higher feeling of burnout or a lower level of organizational commitment produced a higher intention of turnover. Furthermore, the significant influences of burnout and organizational commitment were found to be respectively mediated by job satisfaction with professional association or job satisfaction with organizational environment. This study not only provides insights into the stabilization of the emerging workforce of Chinese social workers, but also poses serious questions about social work education.     

“扎瑙津事件”:哈萨克斯坦政治现代化进程的拐点

2011年12月16日哈萨克斯坦国庆日爆发的"扎瑙津事件"是哈萨克斯坦独立20年来规模最大的一起骚乱事件,这是治理缺失背景下国际金融危机深化、现代信息条件下多元力量伸展之后的社会转型现象之一部分,这一事件使得哈萨克斯坦由原来的威权体制向更富有弹性的威权—民主型体制转型面临严峻挑战。     

The making of new regionalism in the cross-boundary metropolis of Hong Kong-Shenzhen, China

In the age of globalization, new regionalism has become a new trend of regional development. This study examines the making of new regionalism in South China, using the case of Hong Kong-Shenzhen region. By tracing the process of Hong Kong and Shenzhen integration during the past three decades, the research finds three stages in Hong Kong-Shenzhen regionalization after the late 1970s, namely, the emergence of informal regional society from below, the transitional regional society and formal regional society, with reference to Hettne’s concept of regionness. Hong Kong’s internal economic, political and societal difficulties and external changing conditions are conducive to Hong Kong government’s re-regulation toward a more positive stance on cross-boundary regionalization. Although intense economic and social interactions exist between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, a cross-boundary regional community has not emerged yet. The slow development of cross-boundary regional community is different from European case. The active participation of the governments aims to facilitate cross-boundary economic and infrastructure development and planning. This can take place well before reaching higher level of regionness: the formation of a regional community or the regional institutionalized polity.     

Novel criteria to exclude the surrogate paradox and their optimalities

When the primary outcome is hard to collect, a surrogate endpoint is typically used as a substitute. However, even when a treatment has a positive average causal effect (ACE) on a surrogate endpoint, which also has a positive ACE on the primary outcome, it is still possible that the treatment has a negative ACE on the primary outcome. Such a phenomenon is called the surrogate paradox and greatly challenges the use of surrogates. In this paper, we provide criteria to exclude the surrogate paradox. Our criteria are optimal in the sense that they are sufficient and “almost necessary” to exclude the paradox: If the conditions are satisfied, the surrogate paradox is guaranteed to be absent, whereas if the conditions fail, there exists a data-generating process with surrogate paradox that can generate the same observed data. That is, our criteria capture all the observed information to exclude the surrogate paradox.     

毛管压力曲线分布特征的确定

本文严格建立了常见的几种不同毛管压力曲线分布在统一座标系下的分布特征,从而使目前在毛管压力中存在的各种不同分布能在同一座标系下进行判断。分布类型的确定,重点在于对结果的检验,这有利于避免结果的多解性和人为性的影响。文章通过对正态分布几个公式的意义进行数学描述,用x~2分布的数值代入进行计算的结果,进一步阐明正态分布的标准曲线与实际曲线的差异对结果参数的影响,因此,仅用概率论方法进行假设检验还不够,必须用统计学参数进行检验;仅用曲线的特征参数不能正确判断曲线的分布特征,必须用实际曲线与标准曲线的拟合法才能确定。在此还解释了经常遇到的统计学参数(用矩法求得的结果)与正态分布法结果不同的现象。     

网络政治中农民抗争的转型及治理

在网络政治的范式中，农民的网络抗争可谓随处可见，他们利用网络工具进行利益表达。通过案例法和关键词研究法获得研究数据，并对此进行分析，发现农民抗争发生了三个转变：线上抗争增多；问责机制更为强烈；情感诉求更为丰富，对问题被解决的期盼性更强。而要解决这类问题，就需按照依法治村的要求，从线下而不是线上入手，对农民反映的问题进行根治，从而减少农民在网络上的抗争内容与烈度。在依法治村的框架内，村民或村干部“踩线不越线”的行为如何根治，基层政府没及时回应村民诉求的问题如何根治，村民在表达利益时策略性地造谣基层干部如何根治等，都是十九大报告所提出的加强基层建设的重要内容。     

Comparative strategic management: An emergent field in international management

In this article we present an important yet understudied field in international management—comparative strategic management across nations. Although the strategic management discipline traditionally uses the firm as a unit of analysis, and indeed firms within the same nation or industry are often heterogeneous, as argued by the resource-based view, we observe something more. We note a sustained and systematic pattern of strategic management issues at the national-level. We explicate that a unique bundle of national-level institutional, competitive and socio-cultural conditions function together with a repertoire of distinctive capabilities or weaknesses for most firms, incubating certain national-level patterns of corporate-, business-, and international-level strategies adopted by most firms within the nation. To further illustrate we use BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) to showcase why and how we advance the study of comparative strategic management (CSM). In our quest to guide future research on CSM, we present a rudimentary yet overarching framework of comparative environments, comparative capabilities, and comparative strategies among firms operating in BRIC countries.     

关于建立城乡基层党组织互帮互助机制的探索与思考

本文以广州汽车工业集团有限公司党委与增城派潭、梅县丙村等开展城乡基层党组织互帮互助活动为基础,结合自身工作实践,通过阐述实践成效、基本经验等,对建立城乡基层党组织互帮互助机制进行了积极的探索与思考。     

论中国特色社会主义理论体系的主题

中国特色社会主义理论体系,是包括邓小平理论、＂三个代表＂重要思想以及科学发展观等重大战略思想在内的科学理论体系。它始于20世纪70年代末,主要探索和回答什么是社会主义、怎样建设社会主义,建设什么样的党、怎样建设党,实现什么样的发展、怎样发展等重大理论和实际问题而逐步发展起来的。它们之间一脉相承,一以贯之。笔者认为,统领中国特色社会主义理论体系的主题是＂什么是社会主义的优越性、怎样体现社会主义的优越性＂。     

马革裹尸何处还——马援征武陵蛮殁地新考

东汉伏波将军马援南征武陵蛮,病死军中,后当地形成广泛的马援崇拜民俗。通常认为马援身故之处是沅水壶头山,今据史料考证及民间采访,认为应是澧水上游的张家界天门山。