Replication: Emotional well-being and unemployment – Evidence from the American time-use survey

We use data from the well-being module of the American Time-Use Survey (ATUS) 2010–2013 to reexamine the relationship between unemployment and emotional well-being. We replicate two previous studies (Krueger & Mueller, 2012; Dolan, Kudrna, & Stone, 2017) which have produced differing findings on this relationship, and analyze what factors cause the differences in their outcomes. We find that the results critically depend on the definition of employment statuses and the choice of well-being measure. The unemployed appear sadder and more in pain than the employed, but no other emotion queried in the ATUS has worse values for the unemployed than for the employed. Aggregate emotional well-being measures suggest that unemployment is not negatively related to emotional well-being. Applying a wider instead of narrow definition of unemployment tends to result in better emotional well-being scores for the unemployed, mainly because job leavers and new or re-entrants into the labor market report better emotions than the group of people who are unemployed due to an involuntary job loss.     

复杂性研究对整体论的复兴与超越

复杂性研究的总特征是对传统的还原论持批判态度,并且试图建构复杂性范式来超越沿用了数百年的还原论,因此,在一定意义上复杂性研究的兴起为整体论提供了一次复归的机遇。但是,复杂性研究并不等同于整体论,它在超越还原论的同时也同样需要超越整体论。所以,复杂性研究与整体论的关系是既复归又超越,而不是简单的等同关系。复杂性研究既要经过还原论的洗礼又要引入整体论的思想和方法对它进行补充。     

透视《了不起的盖茨比》中美国梦的幻灭

菲茨杰拉德的代表作《了不起的盖茨比》深入批判了“美国梦”的实质,强烈谴责道德沦丧、腐败之风盛行的美国社会。“爵士时代”美国梦的两个特点足以分析“美国梦”的虚幻及破灭的原因,亦足以揭露社会的黑暗。     

李白诗中时间意象的审美意蕴

李白是中国文学史上最伟大的诗人之一,其浪漫主义的诗风豪放飘逸。但是,我们却忽视了诗人＂伤感＂的一面,春花、秋月、流水、美酒、白发都成了李白书写心中伤逝情怀的意象。而这些意象无不或显或隐地透露出其思想中的时间意识。     

Complexity and Competition

Extensive‐form market games typically have a large number of noncompetitive equilibria. In this paper, we argue that the complexity of noncompetitive behavior provides a justification for competitive equilibrium in the sense that if rational agents have an aversion to complexity (at the margin), then maximizing behavior will result in simple behavioral rules and hence in a competitive outcome. For this purpose, we use a class of extensive‐form dynamic matching and bargaining games with a finite number of agents. In particular, we consider markets with heterogeneous buyers and sellers and deterministic, exogenous, sequential matching rules, although the results can be extended to other matching processes. If the complexity costs of implementing strategies enter players’ preferences lexicographically with the standard payoff, then every equilibrium strategy profile induces a competitive outcome.     

Complexity and Adaptivity in Supply Networks: Building Supply Network Theory Using a Complex Adaptive Systems Perspective*

Supply networks are composed of large numbers of firms from multiple interrelated industries. Such networks are subject to shifting strategies and objectives within a dynamic environment. In recent years, when faced with a dynamic environment, several disciplines have adopted the Complex Adaptive System (CAS) perspective to gain insights into important issues within their domains of study. Research investigations in the field of supply networks have also begun examining the merits of complexity theory and the CAS perspective. In this article, we bring the applicability of complexity theory and CAS into sharper focus, highlighting its potential for integrating existing supply chain management (SCM) research into a structured body of knowledge while also providing a framework for generating, validating, and refining new theories relevant to real‐world supply networks. We suggest several potential research questions to emphasize how a CAS perspective can help in enriching the SCM discipline. We propose that the SCM research community adopt such a dynamic and systems‐level orientation that brings to the fore the adaptivity of firms and the complexity of their interrelations that are often inherent in supply networks.     

知识管理与企业核心竞争力的培育

本文分析企业核心竞争力的知识属性,综合出核心知识竞争力和核心能动力是其构成维度,为利用知识管理培育企业核心竞争力提供了理论前提。并以复杂性科学理论为工具,根据企业核心竞争力培育过程中的知识流,指出了利用知识管理培育企业核心竞争力的具体措施,为知识经济形势下培育企业核心竞争力和建立它与知识管理的有机联系提供理论启示。     

中英文时间表征的对比探析

从时间的似真表征和隐喻表征对比分析可以发现汉语和英语时间表征上的异同。操汉语的人是基于客观真实时间顺序和主观想象时间顺序来构建其句子和概念的,其时间表征多为似真表征方式,英语里虽也有某种程度的似真表征,但说英语的人更多的是依据形态语法和抽象原则来表征时间关系的;时间的隐喻表征在两种语言中既有相同之处也有很大差别,这主要源于不同文化的价值观和认知方式     

从噪声产生有序的原理：非指导性的学习和做梦

文章从两个方面阐述了生物的自组织亦即其复杂性的问题：一、生物后天行为的性状不是机械地由遗传基因决定的,而是由基因组与细胞内理化环境（包括被基因决定产生的蛋白质）之间的相互作用所形成的调节机制决定的;二、生物的自组织和复杂化是通过生物在充满随机作用的环境中自主地摸索自身行为可以遵循的概率性规律、从而减少自身结构中的冗余性以增加异质性而实现的。     

A journey around decision-making: Searching for the “big picture” across disciplines

This paper carries out an interdisciplinary literature review to develop an updated framework that integrates all aspects of decision-making. It proposes a framework that combines the evolutionary perspective with the complexity theory to integrate the ontological communalities between the examined disciplines (operational research, psychology and management). Decision-making is regarded as a systemic, multi-tiered information-based process, founded on the interaction of the decision-maker with the environment in a sort of learning path which co-evolves through variation–selection–retention mechanisms nourished by environmental feedback.Such a complex-coevolutionary perspective provides valuable insights concerning some as-yet-unexplored aspects of decision-making, such as inter- and intra-individual differences in decision-making, as well as the interaction of ‘rational’ and ‘intuitive’ processes or some contradictory evidence (regarding ‘fractionated expertise’ and ‘escalation of commitment’).Practical implications on management education are highlighted, as well as methodological limitations and needs for further studies. The journey is not yet over and probably never will be, but, from an evolutionary perspective, it is the journey, not the arrival, that matters.