管理层能力、投资银行声誉与并购绩效反应

公司并购中管理层能力的相对缺陷需要投资银行等中介机构的决策辅助。以2007-2013年上市公司并购为样本,实证检验管理层能力、投资银行声誉对并购绩效反应的影响。研究发现：在管理层能力显著提升并购绩效的基础上,选聘适当的投资银行能够进一步强化正面效应,但需要确保管理层能力与投资银行声誉的协同与匹配。当管理层能力较强时,无论是高声誉投行还是低声誉投行均能显著提升并购绩效,但当管理层能力较弱时,即使是高声誉投行,其并购绩效提升效果也并不显著,由此表明管理层能力的基础性和投资银行参与的局限性。本研究可为公司并购选聘适当的投资银行提供技术标准。     

加强反洗钱情报机制的法制建设——以我国金融情报机构为例

情报信息工作的重要性已日益为反洗钱工作实践所证明。源于西方国家反洗钱实践的金融情报机构,从诞生之日起便以相应的法律规定作为其独立履行职责的保障。与国际标准相比,我国金融情报机构存在着法律地位未予突出、法定职权保障不足、法律属性未能厘清、报告范围较为狭窄等法律问题。应借鉴金融情报机构国际立法的有益经验,从金融情报机构自身建设及以特定非金融行业促进金融情报机构建设两方面着手,加强我国金融情报机构法制建设。     

转型期旅行社核心竞争力探析

核心竞争力的培育是旅行社确立竞争优势的关键。目前旅行社在培育核心竞争力方面存在规模弱小、品牌缺乏、产品服务无特色、技术滞后等问题．提升旅行社核心竞争力应该从明确定位、品牌运营、信息技术、创建先进的企业文化等方面着手。     

清初河务机构中管河都水分司探析

黄运两河治理上关国计,下系民生,治理险要河段关系更为重大。清初河务系统的设置尚未完善,各管河机构职掌重叠繁杂相互掣肘,难以对之兼摄,于是政府设管河都水分司对之进行治理,此机构《大清会典》略有提及并不详尽。目前史学界对管河都水分司的考察并不多见。通过治河书、清实录及档案等资料,对管河都水分司的设置沿革及职掌的变化进行考察,并以此为切入点,分析清初治河政策的变化。     

家政服务机构的法律地位与法律责任

我国关于家政服务机构在经营模式、市场准入条件、法律性质及其法律责任方面都缺乏明确的法律规定,导致了家政服务关系中的很多法律关系不明确,家政服务人员的权益得不到有效的法律保障.依照法理和相关法律规定中介制家政服务机构应属于居间人,会员制的家政服务机构从事居间行为属于居间人,从事派遣行为属于用人单位.居间人承担合同法规定的的居间人责任,用人单位承担劳动法规定的用人单位的法律责任.家政服务员应赋予劳动者应有的法律地位,并通过完善监督、保险、诉讼等法律救济路径保障其权利.     

监管与经济激励:中国行政法学面临的新课题

针对建设市场经济和兑现入世承诺、融入全球经济一体化进程的双重挑战,中国的行政管理体制改革不断深入,这就给行政法学研究带来了新的研究课题:行政法学科关怀的重心不能仅停留在司法审查层面,还应关注监管政策形成实质层面的问题;行政组织法的讨论也不能仅限于传统行政部门,还应对政府监管机构这一特殊行政组织做出回应;行政行为理论应更加重视经济激励型的监管形式;而行政程序理论则面临着从强调“形式合法性”向重视“实质合法性”转型的问题。     

Agency-Related Barriers Experienced by Families Seeking to Adopt From Foster Care

ABSTRACT

Although about 100,000 children in foster care await adoption, families approved to adopt encounter obstacles in the adoption process. This nationwide longitudinal study identified agency-related barriers faced by prospective adoptive parents. A pur-posively recruited sample of 300 families seeking to adopt from foster care completed an in-depth, semi-structured telephone interview and quarterly follow-up surveys until they either finalized a foster care adoption (n = 98) or discontinued (n = 102) the process, followed by an exit interview by telephone. Findings revealed the top barriers encountered were adoption process logistics (n = 185, 92.5%), agency communication and responsiveness (n = 159, 79.5%), agency emotional support (n = 130, 65%), availability of services (n = 65, 32.5%), and juris-dictional and interjurisdictional issues (n = 52, 26%). Policy and practice implications are provided with recommendations for improving procedures, services, support, and communication to better retain prospective adoptive parents and improve adop-tion outcomes.     

The space between us: feminist values and humanitarian power dynamics in research with refugees

ABSTRACT

International humanitarian and development agencies striving to promote gender equality and women’s empowerment sometimes neglect to recognise the power hierarchies present in their own engagement with communities. Drawing on research on Syrian refugees and humanitarian workers in Jordan, this article explores the research and monitoring and evaluation practices of international humanitarian agencies. It suggests that the emphasis on generating evidence has resulted in more transactional and less relational engagement with refugees. This paper asks how feminist values can inform research with refugees, and explores how these values may provide less-extractive ways of engaging with displaced populations.     

Risk Communication as Government Agency Organizational Practice

The dynamics of organizational risk communication is an understudied topic in risk research. This article investigates how public officials at six government agencies in Sweden understand and relate to risk communication and its uses in the context of agency organizational work on policy and regulation. Qualitative interviews were used to explore the practitioners’ views on some key topics in the academic literature on risk communication. A main finding is that there is little consensus on what the goals of risk communication are; if, and how, uncertainty should be communicated; and what role is to be played by transparency in risk communication. However, the practitioners agree that dissemination (top down) to the public of robust scientific and expert knowledge is a crucial element. Dialogue and participation is used mainly with other agencies and elite stakeholders with whom agencies collaborate to implement policy goals. Dialogue with the public on issues of risk is very limited. Some implications of the findings for the practice of risk communication by government agencies are suggested.     

经济全球化条件下旅行社业务的经营特点以及对导游人员的素质要求

经济全球化说到底是人才的竞争。现代旅行社由于服务定制化、组织结构扁平化、市场营销环境变化等方面的原因,迫切需要高素质的导游人员。本文阐述了其中的主要原因以及高素质导游人员的几点培养思路。