Revisiting the outsourcing debate: two sides of the same story

Although outsourcing of organisational functions has become a popular practice amongst organisations, the literature provides a myopic and simplistic view of the phenomenon by focusing on either single functions or taking monadic views of a single party. The design of our study overcomes these weaknesses by including the following features: a range of organisational functions were included; the unit of analysis was the outsourcing contract; the level of analysis was at the dyadic level where both service providers and receivers presented their views and the approach was a qualitative one. In practice, this involved interviews with managers in service receiving and providing organisations that were in charge of 10 separate outsourcing arrangements. Using agency theory as a theoretical anchor, we contribute to the outsourcing debate by highlighting its complexity and areas of convergence and divergence between service receivers and providers, thereby suggesting a contingent approach towards implementation of outsourcing arrangements.     

Leerstände: A Photo Project

ABSTRACT

Contrary to previous belief, there are now known to be substantial numbers of household inventories for nineteenth-century England and Wales. This article discusses what, and how, this “new” source can add to our understanding of the domestic cultures of the period. It describes how these inventories, read through the lens of a material-culture approach in both aggregate and interpretive analysis, not only offer unprecedented grounded evidence for how a sample of “unremarkable” Victorians laid out and equipped the spaces of their homes but also bring to light stories of intention, choice, and change in the furnishing, equipment, use, and meaning of domestic spaces.     

行政诉讼第三人之确定标准及类型化新论

行政诉讼第三人制度的现行法律规定过于原则,导致理论与实务争议颇多,不利于第三人制度的有效实施。行政诉讼第三人的类型化分析是走出这一困境的有效途径。在行政过程论的视野中,以＂行政主体——行政行为——行政相对人＂为基本结构,可以将第三人划分为行政主体层面的第三人、行政行为层面的第三人和行政相对人层面的第三人等三种类型,这一...     

教育行政赔偿制度研究——以海峡两岸的教育行政赔偿为视角

海峡两岸在教育行政赔偿问题上存在一些区别,通过案例分析和两岸相关法律的比较,如赔偿法规、行政侵权归责原则、教育赔偿主体、赔偿程序等的比较,从中可得到一些启示,对健全和完善我国相关法律法规有一定的参考价值和借鉴意义。     

再析表见代理性质与被代理人过失

表见代理虽发生有权代理的效果 ,但将其归为有权代理却有诸多弊端 ,将其认定为无权代理则更具有合理性。对于表见代理是否应以被代理人过失为要件 ,应视构成表见代理的各种情形而定。     

转型时期学校组织地位的重新确认——论高等院校的第三部门属性

在计划经济体制的影响下,一直以来我们都将教育事业及学校看成附属于政府部门的事业单位,这种定位是导致政府对学校管理高度集权的直接原因。然而在社会经济体制转型的过程中,教育越来越突显它的独立性。市场经济所产生的社会结构变化要求建立一种新的理论思路来对学校,特别是高等院校进行重新定位,这不仅给高校管理注入了新的理念,而且有助于推动高校管理体制的改革。本文从教育的功能及性质等方面阐述了将高校定位于第三部门组织的必要性及可行性。     

行政诉讼重作判决的比较及其启示

正确、有效地适用重作判决有利于实现撤销判决之实效,维护客观法秩序。为了更好地发挥行政诉讼重作判决的制度功能,应当将之与我国类似判决形式进行比较,主要是撤销判决与履行判决。同时要将重作判决与英国、奥地利的类似判决形式和法国、德国、日本的撤销判决效力制度进行比较。这些比较对我国行政诉讼重作判决的适用具有重要启示。     

关于上市公司引入独立董事制度的法律经济学思考

国有上市公司引入独立董事制度,是我国国有企业改革、完善上市公司治理结构的重要举措.从法律经济学的角度比较独立董事制度为上市公司带来的成本和收益,分析独立董事制度本身存在的制度性缺陷及该制度与我国现行公司法律制度契合所需的制度创新成本等,由此得出上市公司不应盲目引入独立董事制度的结论.     

论行政复议的救济作用

行政复议是我国解决行政争议的一项重要法律制度。其通过对行政行为的事后审查,来弥补行政相对人受损的合法权益。但现实中行政复议的救济作用却十分有限,这既有制度上的原因,也有人为因素的影响。因此,改革完善行政复议制度,杜绝影响其作用发挥的人为因素,实属必然。     

Ethics and Choosing Appropriate Means to an End: Problems with Coal Mine and Nuclear Workplace Safety

A common problem in ethics is that people often desire an end but fail to take the means necessary to achieve it. Employers and employees may desire the safety end mandated by performance standards for pollution control, but they may fail to employ the means, specification standards, necessary to achieve this end. This article argues that current (de jure) performance standards, for lowering employee exposures to ionizing radiation, fail to promote de facto worker welfare, in part because employers and employees do not follow the necessary means (practices known as specification standards) to achieve the end (performance standards) of workplace safety. To support this conclusion, the article argues that (1) safety requires attention to specification, as well as performance, standards; (2) coal-mine specification standards may fail to promote performance standards; (3) nuclear workplace standards may do the same; (4) choosing appropriate means to the end of safety requires attention to the ways uncertainties and variations in exposure may mask violations of standards; and (5) correcting regulatory inattention to differences between de jure and de facto is necessary for achievement of ethical goals for safety.