Self,Career and Nationhood: The contrasting aspirations of British and French elite graduates

There is increasing interest in the emergence of a ‘global middle class’ in which high achieving young graduates increasingly look to develop careers that transcend national boundaries. This paper explores this issue through comparing and contrasting the aspirations and orientations of two ‘elite’ cohorts of graduates. Interviews with students at the University of Oxford, England, and Sciences‐Po, France, reveal very different ambitions and allegiances. Our Oxford respondents portray their futures as projects of self‐fulfilment as they build portfolio careers by moving from job to job and from country to country with limited social allegiances – epitomizing the nomadic worker of the transnational elite. Our Parisian respondents, on the other hand, display strong allegiances to the nation, state and civic duty. Their projects of the self involve reconciling their personal aspirations with strong allegiances to France. The paper concludes by discussing the significance of these differences. It argues that the enduring role of education in the formation of national identities should not be overlooked and that more detailed research is needed on the contextual specifity of transnationalism and the (re)production of elites.     

构建有效的英语课堂提问策略

本文通过对英语课堂提问的现状调查，对提问中出现的主要问题及对应的策略进行探讨。     

Global Governance in the Making: Prospects for a New World Order in Tackling Economic Injustice

One of the proposed solutions to economic justice is the concept of global governance, a world order wherein nations, formerly self-seeking and sovereign, would unselfishly cooperate towards solving problems with worldwide repercussions. Is this a utopian ideal or is this an immediate reality? To what extent is this possible, much less achievable?     

高职公共英语改革问题探讨

高职公共英语课程是高等职业教育的一个有机组成部分,其目的是为社会培养生产、建设及管理第一线需要的高技能人才,培养学生实际应用语言的技能,特别是用英语处理与未来职业相关的能力。我国的高职、高专英语改革已经步入深化与发展阶段,但仍存在诸多问题,应通过多种对策以促进改革目标的实现。     

On square ordinal contingency tables: a comparison of social class and income mobility for the same individuals

Summary.  Square contingency tables with matching ordinal rows and columns arise in particular as empirical transition matrices and the paper considers these in the context of social class and income mobility tables. Such tables relate the socio-economic position of parents to the socio-economic position of their child in adulthood. The level of association between parental and child socio-economic position is taken as a measure of mobility. Several approaches to analysis are described and illustrated by UK data in which interest focuses on comparisons of social class and income mobility tables that are derived from the same individuals. Account is taken of the use of the same individuals in the two tables. Additionally comparisons over time are considered.     

A conceptual framework for evaluating designs for corporate innovation

Innovation is becoming mandatory for an increasing number of organizations in order to sustain competitive advantage. This paper explores how designs for corporate entrepreneurship fit within other dimensions of a strategy configuration. To do this, first, seven innovation-related problems are diagnosed. The specific problem patterns arising in three representative approaches to corporate innovation efforts (internal research and development, joint ventures, and acquisition) are discussed. Next, issues related to strategy configuration are examined. The problem-accommodating characteristics associated with specific environmental domain choices and with two routes to competitive advantage are proposed. Hypotheses that reflect the problem characteristics of innovation approaches with the problem propensities resulting from organizational choices of domain and competitive advantages are offered. Specific directions for future research, as well as the practical applications of these concepts, are discussed.     

"入世"与我国企业战略内核的进阶--核心竞争能力的视角

本文以我国加入WTO作为企业发展的环境变化背景,通过解析和应用企业核心竞争能力的思想内涵,探索我国企业发展战略内核的演化过程.文章首先分析指出,企业核心竞争能力的思想为企业揭示出企业在市场中的竞争优势并不是简单的产品市场竞争优势,而是包括制度、组织形式以及技术等层次在内的多种竞争优势的整合.根据回顾文献,并结合20多年的中国经济改革,文章将我国企业在宏观经济改革背景中的发展路径,折射到核心竞争能力的思想框架中,进行记录和分析,归纳整理出企业的发展路径是在政府主导型的制度变迁作用下,逐渐打破封闭体系,走向开放体系的过程;战略内核经历了从简单的重视规模到突出机制,再到加强灵活性,面对"入世"的制度现实,正日益注重发展和规范的互动效应演进过程.     

产业集群中跨国子公司战略地位与母子关系的演进

本文首先基于理论分析,指出优势产业集群中的跨国子公司完全有可能成为跨国公司竞争优势的来源。由此,文章分析了集群中跨国子公司存在的四类知识流以及影响四类知识流方向和流量大小的三种重要影响因素,并根据后两个因素区分了集群中子公司在跨国公司内部战略地位上的差异。基于战略与结构的孪生性,本文论述了集群中跨国公司母子关系的变迁,分析了集群中子公司的双重根植性。     

企业归核化战略及其对我国企业的启示

20世纪80年代以来,归核化战略在全球迅速兴起,资源基础论和价值链理论为这一战略的兴起和发展提供了理论基础。与此同时,为了应对这一战略带给我国企业的巨大机遇,我国企业最现实的选择就是本着“学习、合作和竞争”的原则,尽快参与到国际供应链之中,逐步谋求发展与壮大。在参与的过程中,我国企业还必须充分考虑战略步骤、链条选择和参与方式等相关问题。