西安市利用外商直接投资（FDI）的现状及对策

通过对西安市利用外商直接投资的现状分析，揭示了西安市在利用外商投资过程中存在的主要问题，并提出了要改善投资软硬环境、加大大项目的招商引资力度、创新招商引资方式及改革招商引资用人机制等方面的对策。     

非政府组织在应对公共危机中的角色与地位探讨

针对非政府组织的特性,分析了非政府组织在应对公共危机时扮演着政府“助理”的角色,指出非政府组织在危机处理中的作用及其面临的困境,从管理主体、社会层面、制度建设上提出发展和完善非政府组织的具体措施。     

“We open doors others do not!”: Position and power of foreign institutional networks

Foreign institutional actors (INAs) can act as a liaison between firms and authorities and other power players to navigate bureaucratic structures, both as resource and legitimacy providers in the host market. Building on institutional theory, this study draws from broader organizational sociological literature, to explore the structural position of INAs in a host country context, and engages with fundamental questions of legitimacy, status, and power. It responds to repeated calls that more studies in international business research are needed on the impact of institutional differences, how to obtain legitimacy, and enhance the home country support networks. To understand INAs' position, specifically within the social structure of a bureaucratic host environment, our study uses in-depth interviews with elite actors from the support networks. Japan is chosen for this study as a host market, because it is the European Union's second largest trading partner in Asia, has a strong central bureaucracy, and historically and currently remains a challenging market for Westerners due to complex market entry barriers. The findings provide a new theoretically derived empirical model demonstrating the positional leverage of these INAs, to “open-doors” into a complex environment and offer a nuanced understanding of their formal and informal structural positions of power. The findings also demonstrate a significant overlap between organizational legitimacy and the exemplary status of these INAs in the bureaucratic environment, which enhances and empowers their leverage to reach authorities, press, and other important actors in the market.     

山西省农村文化活动的现状和对策研究

农村文化建设是全面建设小康社会的内在要求,是树立和落实科学发展观、构建社会和谐的重要内容。以山西省沁源、平遥和沁水3个县的27个村共360个农户为调查对象,对山西农村居民的文化生活现状进行了分析。结果表明目前山西农村居民主要的文化活动有过节、赶集、喜事等传统文化活动,打麻将、打扑克、看电视等自我娱乐文化活动,还有极少数村民自编自演的文化节目活动;农村文化活动呈现着缺乏带头能人、乡政府和村委较少组织文化活动、剪纸等技能性的文化逐渐衰落等现象。同时,经济收入水平、组织、基础设施和村庄人口数量对捉村文化活动有较大的影响;农村文化建设需要从增加资金投入、加强组织、举办节目比赛和培养农村文化能人等方面采取措施。     

个人的出现及其身份与人格的关系——以现代私法为分析视角

私法中的个人是文艺复兴、宗教改革、启蒙运动和近代自然科学革命等人类四大解放运动的结果,本身就意味着自由孤独的个人形象。人必然有身份,在私法中具有私法身份。私法中的身份是洗净了特权与歧视的差异身份。人格平等与身份差异是尚未完成的私法现代性的组成部分。     

河南省NGO现状探析

文章在对河南省NGO进行实证调查的基础上,检视了河南省NGO发展的现状,进而剖析NGO存在的功能异化,最后尝试提出NGO发展脱困的路径选择。     

The illusion of independence: Spun-off firms’ risk-taking as a function of status and attachment to the parent firm

This paper examines the post-divestiture behavior of spun-off firms. Drawing on the spin-off literature and middle-status conformity theory, we argue that spun-off firms—as newly independent and publicly traded firms—tend to limit their risk-taking behavior to match the expectations of a crucial audience, i.e., security analysts. Following the logic of middle-status conformity theory, we hypothesize that firms with mid-level status are particularly susceptible to analysts' pressures, whereas high- and low-status firms are free to take greater risks. Crucially, however, we propose that this relationship is less pronounced for spun-off firms that are more attached to their parent firms, as formal and informal linkages between these two types of firms can endure beyond the separation and limit spun-off firms' independence. Using a dataset of 102 spin-off transactions occurring between 1995 and 2010, we find empirical support for a U-shaped relationship between spun-off firms' status and risk-taking. This relationship is attenuated when spun-off firms are more attached to their parents. We contribute to the spin-off literature by demonstrating that a spun-off firm's post-divestiture behavior is determined by the capital market audience's expectations and the attachment to the parent firm. In so doing, we also contribute to the literature on middle-status conformity theory by identifying a boundary condition of the theory. Additionally, we make a methodological contribution by combining ideas from the spin-off and institutional theory literature to develop a particularly comprehensive measure of attachment.     

Coloured South Africans: a middleman minority of another kind

Beginning in the 1940s, a literature on middleman minorities emerged to demystify the intermediary economic niche that Jews had occupied in medieval Europe. They were viewed as ethnic entrepreneurs occupying the economic status gap. In the 1960s, scholars began to systematically apply middleman minority theory to colonial societies and to American society. South Africa also has classic middleman minorities: immigrants from South Asia. This article identifies Coloured South Africans as a middleman minority of another type: semi-privileged proletarians. It also offers a typology contrasting ethnic entrepreneurs to semi-privileged proletarians.     

Nonlinear models of distribution of talking in small groups

This paper develops a mathematical model of the distribution over time of talking in discussion groups. Researchers of small group processes and social inequality have long recognized that interaction in small discussion groups is usually not equally distributed and that being a person who talks more than others is associated with having higher status outside the group and greater prestige and influence within the group. There is also a history of mathematical approaches to describing this phenomenon. As an addition to this literature, here a nonlinear dynamical system model is presented and used to develop computer simulations that are compared with data from a laboratory study of real four-person discussion groups. The model is based on theoretical assumptions about group processes including individual differences in volubility, status generalization, deference hierarchies and norms of taking turns and of fairness. While none of these alone make predictions that match the data, when they are all combined simulations are produced that closely match the data in both changes over time and differentiation among members. The dynamical system using the parameters as estimated for these data reaches a fixed point, which may help understand how groups structures become stable under some conditions but not others.     

北京街头无照经营商贩生存状况调查研究

对城市无照街头商贩的管理和服务问题,以往无论是政府还是学者都从“管理论”的视角去研究这一问题,很少有从商贩本身的角度或需要进行切入。本文以北京市无照商贩的生存状况为研究起点．通过社会调查了解北京街头商贩的工作情况、生活质量、各种关系及需求,最终使读者及相关部门对街头无照商贩的生存处境和需求有一个较清楚的认识,同时也为这一问题的合理解决,实现商贩和城市的共同、和谐发展提供了意见和建议。