Bringing Japanese Continuous Improvement Approaches to U.S. Manufacturing: The Roles of Process Orientation and Communications*

Continuous improvement (CI) has played a key role in Japan's quality management. U.S. companies have begun to adopt CI in recent years. This paper studies the implementation of CI in seven U.S. manufacturing companies. We view values as the core concept of culture that impacts CI effectiveness. Using both qualitative and quantitative data with a sample of seven companies, we observe empirically a relationship between process-oriented values and CI effectiveness. We also find that communications involving workers is strongly associated with CI effectiveness. Finally, we find an association between process orientation and communication frequency, and argue that communications act as an intervening variable between process orientation and effectiveness.     

从华为前员工侵犯商业秘密案看我国商业秘密的法律保护

深圳华为公司三名前员工侵犯商业秘密案给我们提出这样一个问题:我国如何在信息技术时代加强商业秘密的法律保护?在立法方面,我国对商业秘密的法律保护已初步形成整体框架,但以世界贸易组织与贸易有关的知识产权的协议来要求,还需进一步完善;执法方面,保护商业秘密的执法面临较大的困难.同时很多中国企业商业秘密和知识产权的保护意识和缜密做法还有所欠缺.     

论李泽厚的实践美学

李泽厚的实践美学大体上可以分为三个时期:20世纪50—60年代前期为萌芽和初步形成时期;70年代末—80年代前期为发展完善时期;80年代后期至今为深入时期。对实践美学的主要概念和命题,如主体性、积淀、自然的人化、内在自然的人化、新感性、人的自然化等进行梳理及对实践美学的形成、发展和深化过程的知识社会学研究,不仅可以使我们更清晰地把握实践美学作为一种学术理论逐渐形成和发展的历史过程,同时也可以使我们对中国的现代性进程研究多了一个视角———一个现代美学学术史的视角。李泽厚对美学的研究从来不是空中楼阁,不是形而上的纯粹思辨,他的所有的问题都植根于现实生活并力图在此基础上为中国甚至整个人类、为每个个体幸福生活寻找出一个方向。李泽厚的实践美学不仅从美学上提出了一系列有价值的命题和学说,而对中国的现代性启蒙产生了重要作用并且必将对新世纪中国社会的精神文化建设发挥重要作用。     

中国地方政府创新模式的可持续研究 ——基于“中国政府创新最佳实践”案例（2011—2016）的QCA方法

基于2011—2016年三届“中国政府创新最佳实践”的30个案例,引入定性比较分析（QCA）,从中层理论的视角,分析了在不同条件组合的情形下,地方政府创新实践可持续案例的特点。研究发现,中国地方政府存在三种主要的创新模式及条件组合：一是试点型创新,对应条件组合为创新扩散、学术关注和上级推广;二是地方型创新,对应条件组合为未创新扩散、未学术关注和未技术创新;三是技术型创新,对应条件组合为创新扩散、学术关注和技术创新。     

VR的审美辨思

VR是当前最新、最热的内容创意领域,是伴随着计算机人工智能发展起来的计算机应用技术,也有人称其为一种新的媒体或一种新的艺术形式。从审美体验来看,它带来了一些新的变化,如临场式沉浸、强烈感官冲击的审美对象、纯粹的审美主体。这些变化的发生,从传统美学的观点来看,究竟是终极式审美还是审美的终结,还需拭目以待。     

第三次分配中慈善捐赠的经验性探讨

国外慈善捐赠看似微不足道,却对于西方社会的稳态定型起到巨大的作用.文章分析了国内慈善捐赠中所存在的问题,针对社会转型期的中国实际,提出了一些关于加强第三领域管理的建设性意见和引领性举措.     

试论由翻译引发的现代标准汉语西化

我国近现代翻译活动对现代汉语标准化的影响主要体现在词汇现代化和语法规定这两个方面,即汉语语法的西化。白话文运动的兴起是现代标准汉语产生和发展的首要推动力,而翻译则被视为一个补充性的机制。     

Non-parametric estimation of reciprocal coordinate subtangent for right censored dependent scheme

The concept of reciprocal coordinate subtangent (RCST) has been used as a useful tool to study the monotone behavior of a continuous density function and for characterizing probability distributions. In this paper, we propose a non-parametric estimator for RCST based on the censored dependent data. Asymptotic properties of the estimator are established under suitable regularity conditions. A simulation study is carried out to examine the performance of the estimator. The usefulness of the estimator is also examined through a real data.     

Model selection for factor analysis: Some new criteria and performance comparisons

This paper derives Akaike information criterion (AIC), corrected AIC, the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) and Hannan and Quinn’s information criterion for approximate factor models assuming a large number of cross-sectional observations and studies the consistency properties of these information criteria. It also reports extensive simulation results comparing the performance of the extant and new procedures for the selection of the number of factors. The simulation results show the di?culty of determining which criterion performs best. In practice, it is advisable to consider several criteria at the same time, especially Hannan and Quinn’s information criterion, Bai and Ng’s IC_p2 and BIC₃, and Onatski’s and Ahn and Horenstein’s eigenvalue-based criteria. The model-selection criteria considered in this paper are also applied to Stock and Watson’s two macroeconomic data sets. The results differ considerably depending on the model-selection criterion in use, but evidence suggesting five factors for the first data and five to seven factors for the second data is obtainable.