Assessing the market values of soccer players – a robust analysis of data from German 1. and 2. Bundesliga

The paper examines to what extent a player's market value depends on his skills. Therefore, a data set covering 28 performance measures and the market values of about 493 players from 1. and 2. German Bundesliga is analysed. Applying robust analysis techniques, we are able to robustly estimate market values of soccer players. The results show (1) that there are significantly underrated and overrated players and (2) that a player's affiliation to a certain team may contribute to his market value. We conclude that a club's reputation affects the market values of its players and that star players are in tendency overrated.     

‘Scarier than another storm’: values at risk in the mapping and insuring of US floodplains

How do people respond to the ways in which insurance mediates environmental risks? Socio‐cultural risk research has characterized and analyzed the experiential dimension of risk, but has yet to focus on insurance, which is a key institution shaping how people understand and relate to risk. Insurance not only assesses and communicates risk; it also economizes it, making the problem on the ground not just one of risk, but also of value. This article addresses these issues with an investigation of the social life of the flood insurance rate map, the central technology of the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), as it grafts a new landscape of ‘value at risk’ onto the physical and social world of New York City in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Like other risk technologies, ubiquitous in modern societies as decision‐making and planning tools, the map disseminates information about value and risk in order to tame uncertainty and enable prudent action oriented toward the future. However, drawing together interview, ethnographic, and documentary data, I find that for its users on the ground, the map does not simply measure ‘value at risk’ in ways that produce clear strategies for protecting property values from flooding. Instead, it puts values‐beyond simply the financial worth of places‐at risk, as well as implicates past, present, and future risks beyond simply flooding. By informing and enlarging the stakes of what needs protecting, and from what, I argue that plural and interacting ‘values at risk’ shape how people live with and respond to environmental risks that are mediated by insurance technologies.     

Predatory purchasing practices in global apparel supply chains and the employment relations squeeze in the Indian garment export industry

While the literature has long acknowledged worker rights abuses in global apparel supply chains, less attention has been paid to the recent worsening of certain decent work deficits and its causes, which this article links to predatory purchasing practices arising from growing power asymmetries. These practices, illustrated here by the garment export industry in India, exert downward pressure on wages and incite non‐standard forms of employment and greater verbal and physical abuse as productivity demands rise. They can be addressed through pricing mechanisms that cover the cost of decent work, appropriate State regulation and worker involvement.     

论档案价值与档案价值实现

依据档案价值的特性及档案价值实现的规律,对档案价值与档案价值的实现进行了思考。人们只有对档案价值的客观性、潜在性、多元性及其具体表现形式有了深刻的了解,才能切实做好档案利用工作,最大限度地开发和利用档案资源,充分发挥档案的价值。     

知识经济时代下人力资源价值评估

随着知识经济时代的到来,企业成长乃至国家竞争力的增强,都依赖于知识和掌握知识的人才。知识作为生产要素的重要组成部分,成为经济增长中的关键因素,生产和传播知识的人力资源取代物质资源成为企业最重要的战略性资源。因此,正确评估人力资源价值是现代经济必须要解决的一个关键问题。通过借鉴国内外人力资源价值评估理论和方法研究,分析了我国人力资源价值评估的必要性和可行性;全面总结了现行人力资源价值评估方法,进行了比较分析和评价,提出了基于实物期权的人力资源价值评估模型,并将该模型在某企业中应用,对其人力资源价值进行评估,与传统的经济价值评估法相比较,验证了可操作性和合理性。     

研发网络架构与网络价值：综述及概念模型

本文聚焦于企业的研发网络,通过综述企业研发网络架构方面的相关文献,识别出研发网络架构的三大维度（网络成员组合、网络结构属性及网络关系特征）及其主要内容,并基于此分析了中心企业的研发网络架构对该网络的网络价值的影响机制。结合企业战略目标及具体诉求及企业外部环境的权变影响,本文提出了一个围绕网络价值最大化命题,以研发网络架构为基点、网络价值为终点的理论研究框架,讨论了现有研究结论及未来可能的研究,为中心企业选择研发合作伙伴、配置网络成员、部署网络结构及管理成员关系提供借鉴。     

刑事诉讼目的的新表达

刑事诉讼目的是刑事诉讼法学研究的基本理论问题,迄今为止,以惩罚犯罪和保障人权相统一的刑事诉讼目的论、正当程序和保障人权统一的目的论、发现真实与保障人权的目的论、实施刑事实体法的目的论以及纠纷解决的目的论都存在理论上的缺陷。刑事诉讼目的应当是以观念形态表达出来的国家和参与诉讼的当事人对于刑事诉讼结果的正当期望,是在正当法律程序保障下,发现事实真相,实施刑事实体法,解决刑事纠纷,实现实体公正。     

如何理解价值的两个定义

价值的两个定义——政治经济学定义(支持劳动价值论)和哲学定义(支持效用价值论),各有自己的适用条件和范围,可以并存。正本溯源,价值的政治经济学定义才是价值的定义;在经济学范围,价值的政治经济学定义才是价值的定义;面对今天价值概念泛化的现实,价值的哲学定义才是价值的定义。     

研究范式、价值理论与自然观

自然是人类最早的家园,对于自然的观念必然会影响到人类对待和处理人与自然关系的态度和方式.经济学中关于商品价值问题的争论,不仅与各个理论特有的研究范式密切相关,而且这些研究范式又与其特有的关于经济活动中人与自然关系的观念紧密地联系在一起.这在马克思政治经济学的价值理论中表现得尤为明显,并在一定程度上对目前正在形成的生态经济学的价值理论和研究范式产生了积极的影响.     

公共空间视野下上海现代市民叙事的空间化特征

"上海现代市民叙事"是指穆时英、刘呐鸥、叶灵凤、施蛰存等作家创作的、反映20世纪30年代上海市民生活与价值观的现代市民叙事文学."公共空间"则是在这些叙事文本中呈现出来的实实在在的"物质空间".在20世纪30年代市民叙事中公共空间大量出现,文本中的公共空间在推动情节发展、塑造人物性格、影响叙事视野、改变修辞方式上都发挥了很大的叙事功能.它使20世纪30年代现代市民叙事呈现出全新的空间化特征,也标志着现代市民深层价值秩序的逐步形成.公共空间给我们进一步考察都市生活与市民叙事之间的关系提供了一个有效的途径.