刍议绿色食品消费

把握绿色消费的准确含义,消除白色消费的误区.绿色食品要求,受到许多因素的制约,我国对绿色食品消费要分层次,扩大消费需求,要从政策、措施上寻求出路,从体制、机制上进行突破,培育和形成消费热点.     

消费结构:收入分配影响经济增长的一种机制

收入分配对经济增长的影响是当代收入分配理论研究的一个重要课题。经济学家们用边际消费倾向、储蓄—投资、政治经济、教育—生育决策、社会稳定和国内市场规模等不同机制对上述课题加以解释。但若分析我国改革开放以来收入分配的变化对经济增长的影响,以消费结构机制来解释这种影响要更符合我国的实际:改革开放之后的收入差距扩大有利于消费结构演进,从而有利于消费需求持续扩大,使经济增长得到了持续动力。但是,进入本世纪后消费结构升级的结果则要求缩小收入差距,以形成一个可以使消费结构继续升级的更大的高收入群体。     

我国服务型政府的公共服务电子化解读

探讨了电子政府与公共服务改善的相关性问题,剖析了我国电子政府公共服务目前存在的问题,并提出了相应的发展对策。     

论我国征收征用制度中公共利益的界定

公共利益是国家权力的来源,现代政治生活的基石,也是启动国家征收征用的前提和基础.为了防止征收征用的滥用,保护权利人的利益,维护社会的和谐与发展,界定公共利益尤有必要.公共利益的界定标准,应坚持公益性原则、法定性原则、非营利性原则、效益性原则;公共利益的界定方法,应采用立法界定、行政认定、司法裁定的路径.     

媒体关注下的CSR信息披露与企业财务绩效关系研究及启示——基于我国A股上市公司CSR报告的实证研究

企业社会责任(CSR)及信息披露已成为当前社会各界共同关注的热点问题。本文利用独立机构发布的我国A股上市公司CSR报告的评级数据,验证了当前时代背景下我国企业社会责任信息披露与企业财务绩效的关系,以及作为信息传递媒介和公众日程设置者的媒体的关注对于二者关系的影响作用。研究发现,高水平披露社会责任信息的企业的绩效明显高于低水平企业,但是这种作用关系是在媒体关注度这一变量的完全中介作用之下实现的。这一新发现不仅丰富和拓展了企业社会责任及信息披露的理论研究框架,对于基于战略性CSR思维制定相关战略的企业管理者也深具启发意义。     

Optimal Inattention to the Stock Market With Information Costs and Transactions Costs

Information costs, which comprise costs of gathering and processing information about stock values and costs of deciding how to respond to this information, induce a consumer to remain inattentive to the stock market for finite intervals of time. Whether, and how much, a consumer transfers assets between accounts depends on the costs of undertaking such transactions. In general, optimal behavior by a consumer facing both information costs and transactions costs is state‐dependent, with the timing of observations and the timing and size of transactions depending on the state. Surprisingly, if the fixed component of the transactions cost is sufficiently small, then eventually, with probability 1, a time‐dependent rule emerges: the interval between observations is constant and on each observation date, the consumer converts enough assets to liquid assets to finance consumption until the next observation. If the fixed component of transactions costs is large, the optimal rule remains state‐dependent indefinitely.     

Workforce localization in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: issues and challenges

Despite some progress, the issue of equality at work remains more of an aspiration than achievement for organizations in developed economies across the world. In the UK, the debate on equality at work has been rekindled with a Labour government taking office, in 1997, with a commitment to equality generally and for women specifically. Fuelling the debate is the notion of managing diversity, which has emanated from the USA in recent years. This article seeks to explore the current nature of equality at work in the UK and gauge if managing diversity is in any way manifest in current organizational approaches to equality management. The exploration is rooted in four case-study organizations and is conducted through the lens of key organizational stakeholders. Beyond exposing the contemporary nature of equality at work in the case-study organizations, the empirical work allows the issues involved in the implementation of managing diversity in the UK context to be signalled.     

Participation satisfaction and organizational commitment: moderating role of employee's cultural values

This paper explores the moderating role of cultural values on relationships between participation satisfaction (PS) and employees’ organizational commitment (OC). A survey of 1390 employees of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, a Government of India Public Sector Undertaking providing telecommunication services across India, shows that PS is directly related to OC, and is moderated by employees’ cultural values at individual level. The form of moderation reveals: positive and insignificant relationship between PS and affective commitment for employees high in uncertainty avoidance; positive and significant relationship between PS and normative commitment for employees high in individualism/collectivism, low in masculinity/femininity, and low in power distance. No moderation has been found in the relationship between PS and continuance commitment.     

Communicating Food Risks in an Era of Growing Public Distrust: Three Case Studies

The communication and regulation of risk has changed significantly over the past 30 years in Europe and to a noticeable but lesser extent in the United States. In Europe, this is partly due to a series of regulatory mishaps, ranging from mad cow disease in the United Kingdom to contamination of the blood supply in France. In the United States, general public confidence in the American government has been gradually declining for more than three decades, driven by a mix of cultural and political conflicts like negative political advertising, a corrosive news media, and cuts in regulatory budgets. While the former approach is based on an objective assessment of the risk, the latter is driven more by the perception of the risk, consumer sentiment, political will, and sectoral advocacy. In this article, the author examines three U.S.‐based food case studies (acrylamide, bisphenol A, and artificial food colorings) where regulations at the local and state levels are increasingly being based on perceived risk advocacy rather than on the most effective response to the risk, be it to food safety or public health, as defined by regulatory interpretation of existing data. In the final section, the author puts forward a series of recommendations for how U.S.‐based regulators can best handle those situations where the perceived risk is markedly different from the fact‐based risk, such as strengthening the communication departments of food regulatory agencies, training officials in risk communication, and working more proactively with neutral third‐party experts.     

人工智能时代城市的“韧性”与应急管理

在城市应急管理中,强化城市的“承灾能力”和“自恢复能力”,有利于完善现代城市治理体系,提升城市治理现代化水平。从“韧性城市”理论的视角,分析传统城市应急管理的方法和措施在事前预测预警能力、事中处置应对能力和事后恢复重建能力上面临的新问题：应急预警能力有待提高、应急处置措施有待改进、协同应对能力有待加强。我们应抓住人工智能时代科技发展的新机遇,努力做到智能化的预测预警及应急响应,全过程的实时感知及趋势分析,多方面的协同应对与恢复重建,以提高城市应急管理的智能化水平和抵御各种灾害的能力。