Fostering social capital in an international multi-stakeholder issue network

Scholars have theorized that public relations contributes to societies and communities by bringing attention to pressing public issues and fostering social capital in civil society networks. However, the extant research has studied civil society networks of NGOs, donors, and the media in transitional countries. This study extends the public relations model of civil society in two ways. First, it broadens the scope to an international context. Second, it draws from the multi-stakeholder issue network perspective to conceptualize a civil society network as a space where stakeholders of an issue mix their interests as they collectively address a pressing public issue. The literature on international and multi-stakeholder networks suggest that the international scope and the mixing of interests across sectors may restrict the production of social capital. The results from the social network analysis suggests that the mixing of interests across sectoral and geopolitical boundaries did not restrict the production of social capital. Rather, the patterns of the relationships among those on the core and those on the periphery of the network restricted the production of social capital. Such finding demonstrates how public relations’ functions like relationship building can have profound influences on social capital and civil society networks. The implications for public relations theorizing and research are discussed.     

北京市现代制造业的产业组织结构分析

北京现代制造业的发展已有4年时间,对其发展状况和存在问题有必要从不同角度做出一个基本判断。本文主要从产业组织学的角度分析北京现代制造业产业组织结构的现状,探讨其存在的问题,并提出优化北京现代制造业产业组织的对策与建议。     

Subjective Quality of Life in Zhuhai City,South China: A Public Survey Using the International Wellbeing Index

The study of subjective quality of life and its connotations in the People’s Republic of China is at a preliminary stage. Although there is an emerging body of literature on this topic, there are few datasets representative of the general public, particularly in Mainland China. This paper reports the findings of a public survey (N = 449) conducted in Zhuhai City, South China using the International Wellbeing Index (IWI). There were four main aims: (1) to judge whether residents were satisfied with their lives; (2) to compare the data with recent findings from Hong Kong and Macau; (3) to investigate the equivalence of the IWI in terms of its psychometric properties; and (4) to determine the applicability of the ‘Theory of Homeostasis Wellbeing’. The data indicated a moderate level of personal (PWI score = 64.4.) and national (NWI score = 57.4) wellbeing, consistent with recent findings from Hong Kong and Macau. The PWI score was within the normative range for non-Western countries, which indicates that the residents were, on the whole, satisfied with their lives. Although previously reported objective measures of quality of life in Zhuhai are lower than in Hong Kong and Macau, this is not reflected in this study’s subjective measures. This finding was interpreted in terms of the ‘Theory of Subjective Wellbeing Homeostasis’, and the specific situation in Zhuhai, as there seems to be an absence of factors (i.e., no harsh economic or social situation) which could drive subjective wellbeing below normal. Last, that the IWI demonstrated good psychometric performance in terms of its reliability, validity, and sensitivity, and concurred with previous published reports, it seems that the scale’s robustness generalises to Chinese samples.     

论法的价值合理性

合理性是现代法的重要特征之一 ,一项法律制度只有符合了形式合理与价值合理双重标准才是真正合理的。建立价值合理的法律体系是当代中国法治建设的必经之路。     

身份政治与民族国家认同焦虑——对香港国际学校的一种解读

以香港的身份政治为背景,探讨香港国际学校是如何在一种奇特的身份政治中运作,以摆脱民族国家认同焦虑。     

企业应用新会计准则应关注的问题

新会计准则将于2007年1月1日在上市公司率先执行，并鼓励大型、中型企业执行，新准则带来的不是传统意义上的会计制度更新，而是对企业财务人员职业的一次挑战，它需要财务人员运用职业判断去处理复杂的会计业务。针对企业在应用新会计准则中可能遇到的问题和一些难以理解的问题，作出较为详细的解答。     

高职院校体育教学ISO质量管理主体意识的现状与提升研究

本文指出高职体育教学ISO质量管理主体意识的提升是实现高职体育教学的科学、标准化和规范化的基础。     

从现代国家与社会关系看村民自治的未来走向

从国家与社会关系的角度来审视村民自治,村民自治是平衡农村社会与国家关系的有效形式;要实现国家与农村社会的良性互动,就要完善现有的乡政村治格局并使之日趋合理：扩大乡镇民主,软化乡镇权力;完善民主自治机制,提高村民自治能力;培育和发展乡村民间组织,提高农民组织化程度。     

人口计生系统学习型组织推广的思考

人口与计划生育系统学习型组织由“点”到“面”的推广是完全有必要的。在推广的早期、中期和后期各有几项重点工作,包括完善人口与计生目标管理责任制的指标体系,普及学习方法和学习工具的应用,强化学习型组织推广的评估。这些推广工作将有助于人口计生综合改革的深入发展。     

How Women Engineers Do and Undo Gender: Consequences for Gender Equality

The image of engineering as a masculine profession has reproduced the perception that engineering is unsuitable for women. While various strategies have been used to try to increase the number of women entering engineering education and employment, their success has been limited. At the same time it has been argued that the way gender is ‘done’ in work can help diminish or increase inequality between the sexes. Using empirical research exploring women engineering students’ workplace experiences, this article considers how gender performance explains their behaviour and attitudes. Butler implied that doing gender can result in our being ‘undone’. This was specifically found to be the case for the women students in this study, who performed their gender in a particular way in order to gain male acceptance. In doing this they utilized certain coping strategies: acting like one of the boys, accepting gender discrimination, achieving a reputation, seeing the advantages over the disadvantages and adopting an ‘anti‐woman’ approach. These strategies are part of women's enculturation and professionalization in engineering, yet they also fail to value femaleness. In ‘doing’ engineering, women often ‘undo’ their gender. Such gender performance does nothing to challenge the gendered culture of engineering, and in many ways contributes to maintaining an environment that is hostile to women.