Employees’ prosocial behavioral intentions through empowerment in CSR decision-making

This study theorizes and empirically tests a conceptual framework to understand how a company can better motivate its employees to carry out persistent prosocial behavior and develop positive organization-employee relationships through corporate social responsibility (CSR) involvement. A managerial approach, employee participative decision making in CSR, is examined for its impact on the prosocial behavioral outcome among employees and the relational outcome for the organization. Furthermore, a psychological mechanism that emphasizes employees’ perceived need satisfaction is examined as the underlying explanation that drives the effectiveness of the managerial approach. The study results support that empowering employees to co-construct CSR decisions with top management is effective in satisfying employees’ basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. This in turn increases the employees’ intention to maintain long-lasting involvement in CSR and improves their relationships with the company. This study provides important implications for public relations professionals and organizational leaders on how to improve their internal CSR communication and involvement practice and cultivate desirable organization-employee relationships.     

Tweeting about emergency: A semantic network analysis of government organizations’ social media messaging during Hurricane Harvey

While social media like Twitter have been increasingly adopted by public-sector organizations, it remains less explored as to how government and emergency management (EM) organizations use these platforms to communicate with the public in response to emerging natural disasters. Extending the Situational Crisis Communication Theory (SCCT) to the realm of social media, this study examines the emerging semantic networks from 67 government and EM organizations’ official tweets during Hurricane Harvey over a three-week period. It identifies how multiple crisis response strategies—including instructing information, adjusting information, and bolstering—are constituted of different issues, actions, and organizational actors before, during, and immediately after the disaster event. Results suggest that government agencies use the strategy of instructing information predominantly before and during the disaster, whereas adjusting information and bolstering strategies are utilized more during post-disaster recovery. The study offers theoretical and practical implications of using a semantic network approach to studying organizational crisis responses.     

Ventriloquism,racism and the politics of decoloniality in Ecuador

ABSTRACT

This article discusses two forms of discrimination against indigenous people: ventriloquism and open racism, and argues that a transition from paternalism to open intolerance has taken place in Ecuador in the context of governmental emphasis on natural resource extraction. Ventriloquism, when non-Indians speak for indigenous people, is analysed through the Sumak Kawsay (Good Living) policies of the government of Rafael Correa (2007–2017). Public racism is examined by looking at government repression against indigenous leaders and communities and Presidential speeches. The article concludes that the state’s ventriloquist and racist discourses and practices are equally rooted in the country’s colonial past. These findings are contrasted with the writings of scholars that have called the government of Mr. Correa decolonizing. The article examines the ways in which decolonial theorists informed and promoted the policies of this regime, and argues that decolonial scholars have been insufficiently self-critical and reflective of their own complicity with the state’s repressive project vis-à-vis indigenous communities.     

Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to Understand Motivation to Register Births in Lombok,Indonesia

Despite government interest in promoting birth registration, more than a third of Indonesian children do not have a birth certificate, affecting the realisation of both their human and citizen rights. While barriers to registering children's births in Indonesia have been assessed, there is limited research on how communities perceive the importance of having a birth certificate. This study used focus group discussions to explore parental motivations around birth registration. The results of a thematic analysis found that perceived use of birth certificates, perceived control over the application process and social norms related to certificate ownership affect the intention to apply.     

Rendering sexism invisible in workplace narratives. A narrative analysis of female entrepreneurs’ stories of not being talked to by men

Entrepreneurism is widely regarded as being one way in which women can sidestep the sexism of male‐dominated institutionalized work environments and enter into a world in which men and women operate on a level playing field. Yet, in a corpus of stories of female entrepreneurs’ experiences, we noted that being ignored by men was a constant theme. Taking a social constructionist and narrative approach to identity, we analyse the gendered identity work that female entrepreneurs do in these stories and we seek to explicate the process through which female entrepreneurs do not evaluate being ignored by men as sexism‐in‐action. Using positioning theory as an analytical tool, we analyse these stories at three different levels: the here‐and‐now interaction between interviewer and storyteller; the there‐and‐then identity work of the characters in the storyworld; and the wider societal Discourses that the storytellers enact, and which are enacted by such identity work. Findings indicate that despite making gendered difference, inferiority and lack of agency relevant, the stories are not evaluated as sexism‐in‐action because the female entrepreneurs enact a postfeminist and neoliberal Discourse of freedom, autonomy and choice, rather than a feminist Discourse of discrimination and sexism.     

马克思哲学的历史主义根基:遗忘与重建

自产生之日起,历史主义理论就一直为它内含的矛盾所困扰:既要对事物的相对性和暂时性给予肯定,又要为其寻求确定性根据。在历史主义的诸种类型中,只有与决定论相结合的历史主义,才能避免相对主义的困扰,合理地处理这一矛盾。黑格尔以思辨形而上学为基础的历史观,只是虚假地克服了历史主义所必须面对的这一难题。马克思哲学既主张超越性的理想,又要在现实的历史中为这一理想的实现寻找必然性根据,因此它在以历史性原则揭示人的自由的同时,又以科学认知为自由的实现安置了客观性和确定性的基座,构建了一种特殊类型的历史主义。长期以来,由于遗忘了马克思哲学的这一历史主义根基,就出现了单纯从认知进路上和单纯从规范进路上解释马克思哲学的两种倾向。对于完整理解马克思哲学来说,重建它的历史主义根基具有根本性的意义。     

凝视生命，凝练对词语的激情

怀藏对词语的激情,穿越厚重的文化空间,渴望用修辞手段来支配词语的命运,从而以“灾异”的风格描摹词语的魅力,这应该是刘恪的《词语诗学》的抱负之所在,同时这也就完成了当代诗学的一次大胆的创化。搜罗集体记忆的碎片,通过编织文本的艺术来呈现人类文化历史的残像余蕴,实现宏大的历史与微渺的体验之间的沟通,《词语诗学》体现了全球时代中国诗学的一种可能走向。     

政府干预理论:证券监管的必要性和适度性

证券市场具有市场的一般特征,同时具有高风险和高效集资的独有特征.当证券市场同样面临市场失灵的问题时,政府监管部门有责任对市场进行有效干预.在政府宏观干预理论视域下,结合一般市场与证券市场的共性与特性之比较,探讨证券监管的必要性及证券监管"度"的把握,对于优化证券市场具有一定的理论意义和现实意义.     

改革开放以来中国民族理论若干问题研究述评

改革开放30年来,在国内外大势的影响下,中国民族理论研究经历了诸多的变化,但总趋势是:在探讨中发展,在摸索中前进。本文所论及的民族概念问题、民族形成问题、民族结构与民族属性问题、民族意识与民族关系问题,只是改革开放以来中国民族理论研究领域中很少但却是比较重要的几个问题。适逢改革开放30年,对这几个问题的研究成果进行归纳、概括和总结,无疑将有助于进一步推进中国民族理论研究的深入和发展。     

从马克思主义的国家学说看达赖集团分裂祖国的反动本质

西藏自古以来就是中国的一部分,这无论是过去还是现在都是全世界各国所公认的事实.以达赖为首的民族分裂集团,自1959年叛逃后,在国外长期从事民族分裂活动,利用国际上提供的各种场合,到处宣称"西藏自古以来是一个独立国家"的反动谬论,利用混淆古代国家与现代国家的概念,不仅搞乱了人民群众的思想,模糊了人民群众的视线,同时也造成了极大的危害,为其推行"民族独立"的分裂活动张目.我们必须以马克思主义国家学说为指导,牢固掌握西藏自古以来就是中国的一部分的科学内涵,牢固树立正确的马克思主义祖国观,以实际行动抵制达赖的民族分裂活动,积极维护祖国统一和民族团结,为建设团结、富裕、文明、和谐的社会主义新西藏而努力奋斗.