Self-employment and family life: constructing work–life balance when you're ‘always on’

This study explores how men and women who are self-employed and have children living at home construct work–life balance. Guided by the concept of work–life fit, in-depth interviews were conducted with 22 parents who were self-employed and had at least one dependent child. Using thematic analysis, the first theme, ‘in control,’ related primarily to schedule flexibility but also extended to income opportunities and, sometimes, to job security. Feelings of control were experienced and expressed in relation to shortcomings of previous job experiences, business location, and preferences for raising children. The second theme, ‘always on,’ meant that parents expected to be both readily accessible to children and available to clients, while continually pursuing income opportunities. This contributed to time pressure, although some viewed participation in volunteer and children's activities as a form of business networking. Work–life balance was described in terms of time, activity, or experience. Most participants believed self-employment contributes positively, but some questioned whether work–life balance is possible. Parents mostly followed traditional gender role patterns. Some fathers resisted this arrangement and saw self-employment as a way to participate more actively in family life. Implications and directions for further research are discussed.     

企业储备财务柔性能否提高企业绩效？ ——基于会计稳健性的调节效应

以2012—2021年沪深A股上市企业作为研究样本,研究了财务柔性对企业绩效的影响,并引入会计稳健性探究其对两者关系的调节作用。结果表明：企业储备财务柔性能提高企业绩效,特别是在大规模企业和非国有企业中,财务柔性的正向促进作用更加显著;会计稳健性能增强财务柔性对企业绩效的正向影响。据此,企业应从动态视角来关注财务柔性,增强储备财务柔性的意识,并提高对会计稳健性重要性的认识,以提升企业绩效,促进企业长远发展。     

论企业柔性价值的功能,成本与价值

运用价值工程理论 ,提出了企业柔性功能、柔性成本及柔性价值的概念 ,分析了三者之间的关系 ,指出企业不应盲目追求高柔性、而应努力提高柔性价值 ,并讨论了提高企业柔性价值的途径     

Commitment vs. Flexibility

We study the optimal trade‐off between commitment and flexibility in a consump‐ tion–savings model. Individuals expect to receive relevant information regarding tastes and thus they value the flexibility provided by larger choice sets. On the other hand, they also expect to suffer from temptation, with or without self‐control, and thus they value the commitment afforded by smaller choice sets. The optimal commitment problem we study is to find the best subset of the individual's budget set. This problem leads to a principal–agent formulation. We find that imposing a minimum level of savings is always a feature of the solution. Necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for minimum‐savings policies to completely characterize the solution. We also discuss other applications, such as the design of fiscal constitutions, the problem faced by a paternalist, and externalities.     

试论大学可持续发展的几个问题

大学的可持续发展是社会可持续发展的前提条件之一,要实现大学的可持续发展必须建立高品味的大学文化,建设一流的师资队伍并使组织机动化。     

满族的民间祭祀管窥

随着历史的演变 ,满族的社会群体逐渐稳定为四种类型。不同类型的满族群体在相异的地理环境和文化的影响下 ,其民间祭祀的内容和形式也发生了不同的变化 ,表现出满族民间祭祀的稳定性和变更性相统一的文化特点。     

西方国家劳动力市场的灵活化改革

20世纪80年代以来,西方各国的劳动力市场发生了根本性的变革。这种变革的总趋势就是对由于实行凯恩斯主义充分就业政策和福利国家政策所形成的刚性劳动力市场,进行新自由主义的灵活化改革。本文集中了分析劳动力市场灵活化改革的发展趋势、根源及其影响。     

Laziness or liberation? Labor market policies and workers' attitudes toward employment flexibility

This study examined the relationship between labor market policies and employees' willingness to make concessions in order to avoid unemployment. In contrast to previous work that analyzed the behavior of employers and the unemployed, we examined how labor market policies influence employees' flexibility. Multilevel modeling techniques were applied to a data set that was created by combining individual‐level data from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) with country‐level information from the Organization for Cooperation and Economic Development. The main findings of our analyses were that dismissal protection and unemployment benefits do make a difference to employees' willingness to make concessions, and that the relationships between the willingness to make concessions and labor market policies are nonlinear. Substantively, these nonlinear relationships suggest that employees' willingness to be flexible is negatively associated with both “too much” and “too little” social protection.     

创业型领导、组织学习与战略柔性关系

基于高阶理论、战略创业理论,探究影响新创企业的战略柔性的两个重要因素:创业型领导和组织学习,并将利用式学习、探索式学习作为中介变量引入创业型领导与战略柔性的关系中。通过对197家中国新创企业的调查分析,结果表明:创业型领导对新创企业的利用式学习与探索式学习均有显著的正向影响,同时创业型领导、利用式学习与探索式学习都对新创企业的战略柔性有显著的正向影响;利用式学习、探索式学习在创业型领导与战略柔性的关系中有部分中介作用。     

The effect of supplier development on outsourcing performance: the mediating roles of opportunism and flexibility

Abstract

In this increasingly competitive business environment, firms utilise outsourcing as a strategic tool to leverage globally dispersed resources so that they may focus on their core competencies and improve efficiency. The more firms rely on outsourcing, the more they depend on their suppliers, and the more important it is to manage and develop suppliers in order to achieve and maximise the benefits of outsourcing. This paper explores the impact of supplier development on outsourcing performance. Structural equation modelling was used to analyse data collected from 213 manufacturing firms in China. The results indicate that supplier development has a strong direct positive impact on outsourcing performance, and that supplier development also leads to enhanced outsourcing performance through reducing outsourcing opportunism risk and improving outsourcing flexibility. In addition to making a contribution to current theories of outsourcing, our findings also provide outsourcing managers with practical understanding and insights about the role of supplier development in enhancing outsourcing performance.