Discursive strategies for internal legitimacy: Narrating the alternative organizational form

A significant body of academic work has explored the ways in which hybrid organizations seek to secure external legitimacy. However, there is a more limited understanding of the ways in which organizational units in hybrid organizations seek to acquire internal legitimacy – legitimacy which is conferred by internal stakeholders. This study draws on more than a century of communications in a Dutch cooperative bank to uncover how a major organizational unit enacted distinct discursive strategies to seek internal legitimacy. The paper extends prior work by showing how internal legitimacy work – the efforts to shape, reinforce, or suppress internal legitimacy judgments – in a hybrid organization is a dynamic process whereby an internal unit generates multiple complementary narratives to promote a fit between its own attributes and the legitimacy evaluations by internal audiences. In addition, it shows how internal legitimacy work can promote this fit by attempting to manipulate not only the impressions of the internal unit's attributes, but also its audiences’ understanding of wider cultural norms of the day, on which their legitimacy judgments are based. In this vein, the paper highlights how discursive internal legitimacy work seeks to generate a taken-for-granted organizational position for the internal units concerned.     

Integrating commercial and residential pickup and delivery networks: A case study

This paper presents a strategic analysis of the network design problem faced by pickup and delivery companies operating in metropolitan areas and serving two or more classes of customers. The focus is on a division that treats commercial and residential customers separately, a situation motivated by their respective geographic densities and the size and frequency of their demand. In constructing driver work areas, it is necessary to take into account expected demand, vehicle capacity, time on the road, and the aspect ratio of the individual territories. This leads to a capacitated clustering problem with side constraints that has been the subject of intense research over the last decade.     

呼吁·反思·监督—论社会工作者之于山西煤炭政策

山西煤炭工业在拉动经济快速增长的同时，带来了严重的环境污染，包括大气污染、土壤污染和水污染。防治煤炭污染，必须依靠煤炭政策。社会工作在影响山西煤炭政策方面应扮演呼吁者、反思者和监督者的角色。而要有效扮演这三种角色。必须具备一定的主观要件与客观要件。     

A Canadian experience with an intervention programme for vulnerable families: lessons for German social work and policy

Schools are an important community resource that can foster social connections and enhance the health and wellbeing of children and families in Germany through information, health promotion and interventions. While developing social connections between the school and vulnerable families—those who are most limited in their access to other sources of information, education and intervention—is complex and challenging, it is nonetheless critical. This paper reports on the role of Families and Schools Together (F&ST), a school-based intervention aimed at vulnerable families, in building and promoting the social connections, or social capital, that strengthen families and communities. Thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews revealed that programme participants perceived an increase in their social capital in all three of its dimensions (bonding, bridging and linking). The paper highlights the importance of social capital in building stronger, more resilient families and of strengthening relations between parents and schools, and contributes to the sharing of experience and views on matters concerning families in Germany.     

会话“不合作”现象论析

话语的产生与理解是语用学研究的一个核心课题。 6 0年代末美国著名语言哲学家Grice提出的合作原则 ,可以用来解释会话双方是如何得以成功地进行交际的。然而 ,人们至今对会话合作的本质关注不足 ,更没有形成统一的认识。本文从会话中大量出现的表面不合作现象析出 ,会话合作是基于人类理性信念的一种常规性期盼。会话不合作有表面与实质之区分。表面不合作是针对合作期盼而主动选择的一种背离 ,是交际者实施交际策略、表达特定语用意义的一种手段 ,反映了语言使用的顺应特性。实质不合作可能是蓄意的 ,也可能是非故意的。Grice提出的合作原则不应被看作是用来制约或调节会话行为的规定 ,而是交际者赖以表达和理解意义的一种理论构筑 ,是建立会话连贯性、推导会话含意的机制。唯此 ,才能更好地认识其理论价值。     

中国参与中东经济事务的全球视角分析

全球视角既是中国参与中东经济事务的难点,也是中国扩大国际影响的着力点。以全球视角参与中东经济事务的含义有二:在具体层面上,应正视与中东国家经贸关系存在的问题,从推动双边关系的平稳发展来实现整体顺利参与;从整体角度看,中国应以中东经济事务为平台妥善处理与世界大国关系,推动能源领域的国际化和市场化。中国需从石油美元视角审视贸易顺差和人民币币值问题,超越“瓜达尔港式”命题,加速向国际社会的全面融入。     

Major Hazard Information Policy in the European Community: Implications for Risk Analysis

The main impetus to the development of information about major industrial hazards in the European Community comes from the so-called Seveso Directive, which defines an information network and requires the generation and transmission of information as the basis for accident prevention and risk management. This important policy development, which calls for the formal identification and analysis of major hazards and the communication of risk information to members of the public, presents new opportunities and challenges to risk analysis and research in Europe. This paper briefly reviews the accidents that gave rise to the Directive and shaped its content, and then summarizes its requirements. The status of its implementation in the EC Member States is discussed, with special emphasis given to the comparison of safety analysis practices, the Major Accident Reporting System (MARS), and risk communication. Some new research directions stimulated by the Directive are identified.     

美国在巴以和平进程中的角色调整

伊拉克战后的安全问题令布什政府的外交政策备受国内外批评,使得后布什时代的美国政府将解决巴以问题作为突破口,一改往日对巴以问题的冷漠态度,转而主动推动巴以和平进程,采用多重"遏制战略"和"平衡战略"以实现自身角色的调整。然而,由于巴以问题的复杂性和美国全球霸权结构的利己性,布什政府的角色调整对于巴以和平进程具有双重绩效。     

中东热点问题走向和中国外交政策及其实践

2007年中东地区形势动荡不安，继续成为国际形势变化的焦点。巴以争端、伊拉克问题和伊朗核问题三大热点依然是影响中东局势演变的主轴。由于地区内外因素的变化，热点问题出现了值得注意的新动向。本文探讨了中东地区局势演变的主要动因、最新走向以及中国应对中东热点问题的政策及其实践。     

试论清朝满蒙联姻政策的特点及其积极影响

满蒙联姻政策是清朝民族政策一个最为重要的组成部分,同前代相比,清朝的满蒙联姻具有制度性以及大规模、多层次、持续性等特点。这种联姻政策所形成的姻亲关系,对满蒙两族的长期和好、对清廷统辖与治理边疆蒙古地区乃至利用蒙古族的军事力量,起到了重要的作用。同时对于促进满蒙汉各族在政治、经济、风俗文化各方面的互相融合也起到了不可忽视的积极作用。