This is not a race, this is a farce: Formula One and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway tire crisis

Formula One is the most technologically advanced and financially lucrative form of motorsport in the world with global audiences in the billions over the course of a season. A highly unusual and potentially deadly set of events took place during the Friday practice for the sixth annual United States Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Controversy and blame soon followed. Using Benoit's public relations and image restoration strategy framework, this paper examines the different strategies employed during the crisis by the Formula One teams, Michelin, the Federation Internationale De L’Automobile, Formula One Management, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. An examination of the crisis situation at the United States Grand Prix allows this study to expand Benoit's initial framework into sport as well as examining the implications for public relations and image repair strategies.     

道德原则与道德重构

社会主义市场经济条件下的道德原则应包括三方面内容 :尊重和发展个性的原则 ,公利的原则和和谐的原则。在此基础上 ,建构出具有现代意义的高度发达高度文明的新的经济和价值观念模式 ,正是当代哲学伦理学存在之意义所在     

Organizational contingencies,organizational blogs and public relations practitioner stance toward publics

Public relations practitioners in this study who perceived social media (e.g., blogs) to be a normal part of their organization's day-to-day communication were less likely to choose an accommodating stance toward a key public than practitioners in “low-tech” conditions. Forty-three practitioners with a mean of 14.5 years professional experience participated in a 2 × 2 (contingencies for dialogue × technological orientation of organization) experiment. The data reveal a disconnect between the potential relational benefits of social media and the stance public relations practitioners in this study chose when social media were introduced as a regular part of their working environment.     

Information subsidies and agenda-building during the Israel–Lebanon crisis

This study examined the impact of information subsidies on media coverage during a crisis. Using the July 2006 Israel–Lebanon conflict as a backdrop, this research reviewed access that U.S. military public affairs officers provided the media and analyzed subsequent coverage for the presence of the military's message. Coverage was more neutral to positive than negative. Items containing organizational messages were more positive; those quoting practitioner-facilitated sources introduced organizational messages into coverage and generated more positive coverage. Access to information subsidies had a positive impact on coverage and aided in the successful transfer of attribute salience from practitioners to the media.     

从"亲蒋疏共"到"弃蒋联共"——解放战争时期苏联对华政策的演变及其根源

解放战争时期,伴随着国际形势和美、苏、国共三国四方关系的不断变化,苏联的对华政策也处于摇摆不定,不断变化之中。通过对这一时期苏联对华政策从亲蒋疏共到弃蒋联共演变过程的分析,阐明苏联对华政策的实质是由其大国沙文主义、民族利己主义的这一历史根源和对外政策中维护苏联国家安全的现实战略目标所决定的。     

我国公共人力资源管理现存问题探析

公共人力资源管理在我国呈现出较快的发展势头，这与我国的公共管理面临的国际国内环境关系密切，西方相关的公共人力资源管理理论能否为我所用，关键看其是否与我国国情相适应，这也是国内公共人力资源管理的核心之处。而目前我国公共人力资源管理存在着很多的问题，在实践上缺乏完善的人力资本投资市场，公共部门的优胜劣汰机制还没有真正发挥作用，先进的人才理念还没有真正树立，还没有形成完善的科学用人机制。这些问题的存在，促使我们进一步探索公共人力资源管理的规律，有利于我国管理实践的发展。     

李白与陈子昂

李白对陈子昂非常敬佩,二人在诗歌创作、诗歌艺术主张等方面都有继承关系。李白以复古为革新的文学主张和创作实践与陈子昂一脉相承。李白曾经认真模仿过陈子昂的诗歌,在具体的诗歌语言技巧和构思方面的学习则更多。     

我国粮食生产函数与影响因素分析

利用1978-2005年的相关数据建立粮食生产函数,并以此为基础来探讨影响我国粮食产量的主要因素。研究得出:农业劳动力作为粮食核心要素的地位不会改变;播种面积是影响粮食产量的关键要素;农用化肥仍然是粮食生产物质投入最重要的要素;灌溉面积和农业机械对粮食生产的影响不明显;农村用电量并未能提高粮食产量,相反可能存在一定的替代效用;自然灾害仍然是粮食减产的主要因素;家庭年产承包责任制并非仅仅是"一次性"的效应,农业劳动力的输出和转移也未产生明显的负效应。     

Coming of age

Those of us who study aging have the unique opportunity to live their subject matter. Whether we learn any personal lessons is a matter of our own reflectivity, but personal experience can make us far better scholars than can scholarship alone. As one ponders the life course, it is clear that a number of institutional influences, temporal patterning, and unexpected intervening variables are involved in the unfolding of one's life. Life-long institutional memberships furnish social capital that helps establish parameters for our personal experience, for how we view our personal trajectories and for our ability to cope with the aging process itself. But how to come to terms with unexpected occurrences that alter the anticipated futures we had in mind? Do our scholarly efforts and our experience come together in ways that enrich one or the other? These are the questions I explore in this personal essay.     

Dangerous liaison or perfect match?: Public relations and social marketing

This paper considers a possible match between public relations and social marketing. It positions interchanges between the two as the strongest and most desirable partnership possibility for public relations with any aspect of the overall field of marketing. Working from definitions of social marketing as a profession and academic discipline, it reviews approaches, including textbooks, from the two disciplines in order to compare and contrast their strengths and weaknesses, to examine their perceptions of each other, and to identify the opportunities and challenges that social marketing represents for public relations. The paper also looks at what social marketing might learn from public relations. It concludes that public relations should look at improving the relationship as a matter of urgency in order to augment professional practices; to open up employment opportunities in an expanding market for social marketing expertise; and to improve the social reputation of public relations.