Change agency as performance and embeddedness: Exploring the possibilities and limits of Butler and Bourdieu

In this paper, we explore the dual role of human agency in maintaining the status quo and generating change. Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu offer differing conceptions of change agency in relation to organization and transformation of gender relations. Focusing on how those approaches would work, we analyse an empirical case study on a particular change process: getting women the right to vote in the Swiss cantons of Appenzell. We contribute to the current use of Butler's and Bourdieu's theories in organization studies in three main ways. First, we explore stability and change from the lenses of these two scholars. Second, we illustrate how change agency looks from these two distinct perspectives. Finally, we offer an empirical analysis that identifies the main elements of change agency in the two frameworks and discuss the possibilities and limitations of bringing these two approaches together to better understand change agency.     

The run length distributions of the R,s and s2 control charts when is estimated

R, s and s2 charts with estimated control limits are widely used in practice. Common practice in control-chart theory is to estimate the control limits using data from the process and, once the process is determined to be in control, to treat the resulting control limits as though fixed. While there are empirical rules for setting up the control charts using past or trial data, little is known about the run length distributions of these charts when the fact that control limits are estimated is taken into account. In this paper, we derive and evaluate the run length distributions associated with the R, s and s2 charts when the process standard deviation a is estimated. The results are then used to discuss the appropriateness of the widely followed empirical rules for choosing the number m of samples and the sample size n.     

A Study of Interval Censoring in Parametric Regression Models

Parametric models for interval censored data can now easily be fitted with minimal programming in certain standard statistical software packages. Regression equations can be introduced, both for the location and for the dispersion parameters. Finite mixture models can also be fitted, with a point mass on right (or left) censored observations, to allow for individuals who cannot have the event (or already have it). This mixing probability can also be allowed to follow a regression equation.Here, models based on nine different distributions are compared for three examples of heavily censored data as well as a set of simulated data. We find that, for parametric models, interval censoring can often be ignored and that the density, at centres of intervals, can be used instead in the likelihood function, although the approximation is not always reliable. In the context of heavily interval censored data, the conclusions from parametric models are remarkably robust with changing distributional assumptions and generally more informative than the corresponding non-parametric models.     

地区官员腐败与企业代理成本——基于中国上市公司的实证研究

与已有围绕腐败对经济增长、财富分配、社会稳定等宏观效应的研究不同,文章将宏观制度环境与微观企业决策有机结合起来,重点考察官员腐败对企业代理成本的影响效应和传导机理.基于中国A股上市公司2000-2012年面板数据的实证研究表明,官员腐败显著提升了企业代理成本.具体表现为,随着企业所在地区官员腐败程度的上升,企业费用率显著增加,资产利用率则显著降低.研究还发现,相对于国有企业,官员腐败对非国有企业代理成本的影响效应更明显;同时,市场化改革也有利于缓解官员腐败对企业代理成本的影响强度.     

实践性学习教学模式在公关实务教学中的运用

实践性学习教学模式源于美国实用主义教育家杜威的教育理论“从做中学”,以培养学生的实践能力与职业能力为主导思想。在实践性、应用性、操作性较强的公关实务课教学实践中运用此种模式,主要经历了课堂内“演示——模拟”和进入社会组织真实参与公关活动的过程。实践性学习教学模式可以促进培养对象在校期间多种能力的形成与提高,多年的教学实践验证了此种教学模式的可行性和有效性。     

高等职业教育要走特色办学之路

走新型工业化道路,必须发挥科学技术作为第一生产力的重要作用,提高劳动者素质,培养数以千万计的高素质的专门人才,这为高等职业教育的发展提供了大好机遇。但目前高等职业教育定位不准,办学没有特色,培养的学生不能很好地适应社会需要,造成高职毕业生就业困难,高职院校不同程度地出现生源紧张。为加快培养高职人才的步伐,教育部将缩短高等职业教育学制,由三年制转为两年制,这就要求高等职业教育必须找准自己的定位,以就业为导向,突出办学特色,在专业设置、课程设置和培养模式等方面加大改革力度,建立起与社会主义市场经济相适应的具有自身特色的高等职业教育体系。     

Games Played Through Agents

We introduce a game of complete information with multiple principals and multiple common agents. Each agent makes a decision that can affect the payoffs of all principals. Each principal offers monetary transfers to each agent conditional on the action taken by the agent. We characterize pure‐strategy equilibria and we provide conditions—in terms of game balancedness—for the existence of an equilibrium with an efficient outcome. Games played through agents display a type of strategic inefficiency that is absent when either there is a unique principal or there is a unique agent.     

A case study of failure to thrive and inter‐agency work

Social workers and medical professionals have an ambiguous relationship. Though expected to work together within the child protection regulations of the Children Act 1989, there are many tensions. In general, social workers and health visitors enjoy close working relationships, but tensions are frequently experienced as one proceeds higher up the medical hierarchy. The reasons for this may be numerous, but in practice may obstruct speedy action in detection and prevention of disease which is social in aetiology — yet all professionals have an important role. I hope to demonstrate this in the following case study, where ‘failure to thrive’ took 18 months to evidence but, without inter‐agency working, might have proved fatal to the child. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

中美大学社团现状与管理模式比较——以河北工程大学与北卡罗来纳州立大学为例

[摘 要]通过对比河北工程大学和北卡州立大学学生社团的发展现状和管理模式,包括学生社团数目、组成及社团的审批、管理、经费、活动、资源等各个方面,对高校学生社团的发展和管理提出了几点建议。     

动态经济系统分析的经济计量模型与方法

综述可有效阐明动态经济系统长期关系和因果关系的因果测度理论. 首先简要介绍多变 量时间序列的协整过程及与此相关的若干概念,并总结了在经济计量学领域评价较高的多变 量自回归模型的统计识别方法. 基于多变量时间序列协整过程的向量自回归模型,较详细讨论 了多变量时间序列间各种因果测度的定义及其沃尔德检验. 所述单方向因果测度及其统计检 验理论作为C1W. J . Granger 非因果性理论的扩张,不仅可以检验两组时间序列间的因果影响 存在与否,还可以定量描述影响的程度. 单方向因果测度理论为分析复杂经济系统提