Identifying social innovations in European local rural development initiatives

Social innovation is attracting increasing attention in research and policy, heightened by continuing austerity across Europe. Therefore, this paper examines earlier research into community-led local development (CLLD) initiatives in rural areas of Europe to develop our understanding of the meaning and scope of rural social innovation. We draw on a Schumpeterian view where innovations emerge from new combinations of resources that bring about positive changes and create value in society. A Schumpeterian social innovation framework is derived as the basis for re-analysing data from previous evaluations of LEADER policy in five different national contexts. This elicits a clearer understanding of social innovation in a rural development context, identifying different processes and outcomes that create social value. As the CLLD agenda and the demand for innovation in Europe gather pace, our aspirations are to inform future research and other initiatives on how to integrate social innovation into the design and evaluation of new rural development policies and programmes.     

井冈山时期士兵委员会制度在社会管理创新中的民主价值传承

形成于井冈山斗争时期的士兵委员会制度在中国土地革命斗争史上发挥了不可磨灭的贡献,作为特定时期的政治产物,它体现了党和军队先进的政治价值取向。新时期的社会管理创新需要凸显民主价值的核心,对士兵委员会制度内蕴的民主价值进行解读,以利于重塑士兵委员会制度在我国社会管理创新中的借鉴意义和应有的价值传承。     

农村经济社会转型期基层政治制度和农民政治观念的变革与调整

农村经济社会转型是一个自发的基于市场化改革而产生的社会宏观变迁,它的剧烈变动最终都体现和反射到农村政治机制和农民政治生活之中。日趋活跃的市场经济推动着农村社会主体的分化、利益的多元化、结构的分层化。利益成为人们关注、追求和维护的重点。而正是对利益的愈加认清和重视。就愈加需要对利益的表达渠道和机制进行调整和规范,特别是随着市场化发展而日渐觉醒的农民的民主意识、法治理念、权利思维、平等观念的不断增强,使得农民以前所未有的热情关注和参与农村社会政治事务。农村现有的基层政治制度和农民政治观念面I临着变革和调整的重任。     

Social Return on Investment of an Innovative Employment Option for Persons with Developmental Disabilities

Common Ground Co‐operative (CGC) provides training, administrative, and job coach support to five social enterprises for which persons with developmental disabilities are the non‐share‐capital partners. This study examines the use of social return on investment (SROI) as a means of determining the value of program impacts related to quality‐of‐life changes for enterprise partners and their families. The process of conducting this SROI analysis is described and analyzed in terms of its utility in employment services for persons with developmental disabilities.     

What's In It for the Volunteers?

This article reports on a social return on investment (SROI) analysis of volunteers of the Good Food Market program, a food access initiative run by FoodShare Toronto, one of Canada's largest food‐justice organizations. Unlike conventional SROI research, which typically focuses on the entire ecology of an organization or program, this article focuses solely on isolating the return volunteers receive on their investment of time, skills, energy, and the like—an SROI of volunteering. The article reviews the challenges of adapting the SROI methodology to the context of volunteer benefits and finds that ultimately SROI is a useful tool for articulating the value of volunteering.     

老字号品牌价值共创机理及对策研究——基于服务主导逻辑视角

将服务主导逻辑的思维范式引入老字号企业中来,结合消费文化和社会情景价值理论探讨该领域中品牌价值的共创机理,基于理论假设构建研究框架。以北京、上海、福建三个地区的不同行业老字号品牌企业为实证研究对象,对企业员工和消费者进行访谈和问卷调查。通过修正的初始量表,基于PLS-SEM方法对收集的309份有效问卷调查数据应用SPSS22.0和Smart PLS2.0进行分析,验证消费者情感价值共创的中介作用及互联网媒介交互的调节作用。分析结果表明,消费者与老字号企业共同创造价值,历史悠久的老字号品牌企业关注基于互联网媒介下不同利益相关者的互动和协同才能创造品牌价值共创的最理想点,最后为老字号品牌管理提供有益的建议和应对策略。     

跨国公司与中国企业捐赠行为的比较研究

企业捐赠是企业以资金、实物或参与的方式支持社会公益事业的行为,是企业自觉履行社会责任的重要方面。通过对跨国公司与国内企业捐赠行为的比较,我们发现,二者在捐赠理念、捐赠策略和决策机制方面表现出明显的差异。前者主要以“企业公民”为捐赠理念,后者则以“回报社会”和“慈善”为主要理念。本文分析了造成这些差异的社会原因,除了二者处在不同发展阶段所形成的差距以外,还有中西方在社会发展、传统文化之间的差异,以及对企业与社会关系认知的差异,由此形成企业捐赠的不同模式。     

《水浒传》的"社会风俗史"意义及其"精神意象"

《水浒传》特殊的“集体累积”成书过程,决定了它是“历史成份”极其稀薄的“英雄传奇”小说,其绾结短篇的特点,使众多“英雄好汉”的出身经历和聚义故事成为这一鸿篇巨制的主体内容。这些主要源于宋元民间“说话”的故事,保留了大量社会生活“原生态”的描写,使《水浒传》在一定程度上具有了“社会风俗史”的意义。在漫长的成书过程中,《水浒传》不仅在叙事艺术上经历了反复锤锻,同时也积淀、凝聚了“近古”以来中国社会广大民众普遍的观念意识和情绪心理,形成了带有时代特征的精神意象。     

被征地农民就业与参保意愿及政策建议——基于西安市调查的分析

通过问卷调研,对被征地农民的就业与参加社会保障的现状、意愿及其影响因素进行研究。首先,被征地农民的就业率低主要原因是缺乏市场竞争意识,就业意愿与就业能力有偏差。其次,政策宣传力度不够和被征地农民社会保障制度存在缺陷,是被征地农民参保意愿低的主要原因。除此之外,征地补偿标准不合理、被征地农民市民化程度低,是造成被征地农民"弱势"地位的深层次原因。对此,应根据被征地农民的需求,建立多种形式的就业培训和就业扶助,尤其扶持有意向的被征地农民自主创业;为实现与城镇社会保障的对接,应建立多层次的被征地农民社会保障体系。     

A global meaning of supply chain social sustainability

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to help reduce tensions in supply chain social sustainability (SCSS) decisions by providing a common global, contextual definition of social sustainability. This exploratory study utilised an inductive structured interview method to capture SCSS concept meanings. Those interviewed are from, have lived, and worked in developed economies, emerging economies and the base of the pyramid (BOP) economies. The results present a new global baseline definition of SCSS to inform theory and practice by finding that SCSS meanings differ not only between the different levels of economic development, but also within the levels as well. Culture, community and whether basic human needs are met all weigh into perspectives of what this concept is and should entail; a broad, contingent definition is most appropriate moving forward for sustainability planning and execution. Further research with stakeholders in more countries and communities is needed to validate our proposal.