Mitigating the environmental and social footprint of brownfields: The case for a peripheral CSR approach

Industrial plant closures create a largely unexplored challenge for corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy. Such plant closures lead to brownfield sites: economic assets and large pieces of land that often cannot be redeployed for alternative purposes, except by incurring significant costs. The direct effects of plant closures typically include a rise in unemployment and value chain disturbance (or dismantling), but brownfields are usually also associated with additional social effects and environmental pollution. Here, a proactive CSR strategy means reducing or mitigating the joint, negative social and environmental footprint of industrial plant closures beyond what is mandated by law (which has tended primarily to address direct effects). We assess the various strategies firms can pursue to mitigate negative, post-closure footprints and we distinguish between two alternative strategic options beyond the ‘legal obligations’ approach, namely the ‘core business related’ (core) CSR approach, and the ‘peripheral CSR’ approach. We explore the case of a plant closure by Bekaert S.A., a large, Belgian industrial firm, which adopted a peripheral CSR approach to manage and redevelop a brownfield site. In this context, we identify four enabling conditions for peripheral CSR to be implemented effectively.     

十八大以来关于社会主义核心价值观的研究述要

党的十八大提出了"三个倡导"的社会主义核心价值观,即"倡导富强、民主、文明、和谐,倡导自由、平等、公正、法治,倡导爱国、敬业、诚信、友善,积极培育和践行社会主义核心价值观"。学界围绕概括提出社会主义核心价值观的意义、社会主义核心价值观的内在逻辑、社会主义核心价值观与核心价值体系的关系、如何培育和践行社会主义核心价值观等问题展开研讨。归纳总结十八大以来的相关研究成果,有助于"积极培育和践行社会主义核心价值观",贯彻落实党的十八大作出的决策部署。     

人民币国际化推进路径及其对上海的意义

人民币国际化成功推进的标志是国际市场计价份额的提高，而不是央行储备资产份额的多少。前者帮助中国一劳永逸地避免汇率风险，后者只是让其他国家分享中国的高成长。人民币国际化应采取前期稳健创造需求、后期激进释放供给的推进策略。当前应快速推进（美元与人民币双币种）资本输出，强化海外商业存在；加快金融转型，促进本土资本市场规范而有深度的发展；并从亚洲着手推动国际汇率和短期资本流动的管理。其仿真预测分析结果是2025年人民币国际化程度有可能接近欧元水平。这对上海的意义是：未来5～10年应加强资本市场的基础制度建设，健全为实体经济服务的功能与效率；债券市场发展可有重大突破；涉外现代服务业需要加快发展。     

长白山品牌文化的核心价值及传播

长白山文化是吉林省宝贵的文化资源,是吉林省的品牌文化。大力传播长白山品牌文化,对发展吉林省区域经济,推动吉林文化事业和产业发展,使长自山品牌走出区域、走向世界,有着重要意义。长白山品牌文化的核心价值主要体现在生态、神奇、历史悠久上。长白山品牌文化的传播应注重人际传播,加强口碑宣传;并借助实物媒介,推出具有文化底蕴的特色旅游纪念品;进一步加强大众传播媒介的宣传力度;完善监督机制,加强基础设施建设。     

A Non-cooperative Axiomatization of the Core

We treat a class of multi-person bargaining mechanisms based on games in coalitional form. For this class of games we identify properties of non-cooperative solution concepts, which are necessary and sufficient for the equilibrium outcomes to coincide with the core of the underlying coalitional form game. We view this result as a non-cooperative axiomatization of the core. In contrast to most of the literature on multi-person bargaining we avoid a precise specification of the rules of the game. Alternatively, we impose properties of such games, which give rise to a large class of mechanisms, all of which are relevant for our axiomatization.     

信息技术与云南医药企业管理的变革与创新

信息化建设是云南医药企业实现管理变革与创新、提高医药产业核心竞争力的良好契机。提高云南医药产业核心竞争力的总体思路 ,是以信息技术外溢效应和企业信息化外溢效应为基础提高云南医药企业的核心竞争力以至整个医药产业的核心竞争力     

要素集聚与中国在世界经济中的地位

要素流动是经济全球化的基本特征。中国抓住了经济全球化的历史机遇,通过实现世界资本、技术与管理等生产要素向中国集聚,实现了经济的高速增长。“要素集聚”是世界经济继中心外围结构、垂直分工和水平分工阶段后的新的历史阶段。中国对外开放形成的要素集聚机制创造了世界各类生产要素使用和增值的共同机遇,这是中国对世界经济贡献的特殊方式。要素集聚必然导致资本、生产和出口能力向中国的集中,这种意义上的所谓世界经济失衡是全球化的必然结果。在当代世界经济条件下,要素集聚能力、购买能力和创新能力是三种类型的国家核心能力。总体上讲中国拥有前面的一个半。因此,中国需要扩大需求以增强进口能力;推进改革以形成体制与技术创新能力。同时,还要培育自身的高级要素以实现更高水平的要素集聚。     

Shared contexts and triadic closure in core discussion networks

This paper inquires into structural explanations for triadic closure in networks of confidants with whom one discusses important personal matters. Building upon the assumption that meeting opportunities affect network characteristics, we primarily argue that the social contexts in which network members meet, substantially affect triadic closure. The main empirical findings are (a) that about sixty percent of the triads in core discussion networks are closed triads, which also means that a substantial part of one's strong relations is unconnected, and (b) that meeting network members in the same social contexts is an important condition for, but certainly does not guarantee triadic closure. Importantly, the specific characteristics of social contexts explain why sharing certain contexts positively affects triadic closure, while sharing other contexts does not.     

An exact algorithm for a core/periphery bipartitioning problem

The discrete optimization problem associated with partitioning a set of actors into core and periphery subsets has typically been approached using approximate procedures such as exchange heuristics, genetic algorithms, and simulated annealing. Although these procedures are effective and scalable for large networks, they do not guarantee an optimal bipartition. In this paper, an exact algorithm is presented for a core/periphery bipartitioning problem. Unlike the approximate procedures in the extant literature, this new algorithm, which is based on the principles of branch-and-bound programming, affords a guarantee of an optimal bipartition. Computational results for empirical and simulated data sets reveal that the proposed algorithm is extremely efficient for networks with 40 or fewer actors, and is often scalable for networks with up to 60 actors.     

利用虚拟企业实现供应链管理

人类进入知识时代后,生活方式与生产技术发生了根本的变化,为了适应这种变化,企业必须对组织形式与管理模式进行创新。供应链管理是一种适应时代需要的新型管理模式,而虚拟企业正是一种可以实现供应链管理的组织形式。