Note passing as gendered practices of public ambiguity in a hyper‐masculine organization

This article explores a surprising and seemingly mundane organizational practice: passing notes during professional meetings. Based on 34 in‐depth interviews with women in a hyper‐masculine organization — the Israeli military — this study focuses on what I term gendered practices of public ambiguity. It demonstrates how these practices shed light on three interrelated paths to power at work: (i) practices of public intimacy between men; (ii) practices of women's degradation by men; and (iii) practices of recognition claims by women. The tension between the publicity inherent in the routine passing of notes and the ambiguity of their contents calls for a more nuanced theorization of gendered power practices, which transcends the accepted dichotomy of doing and undoing gender, reproducing or challenging the symbolic gender order. The findings show that gendered micro‐practices can become polysemic symbolic spaces in which women redirect the flow of power, if only temporarily and locally, and turn it into a multidirectional and multi‐agentic resource. The conceptual contribution of these findings is discussed in terms of the positioning of women in hyper‐masculine environments as pragmatic subjects who (re‐)construct mechanisms of power out of the restricted repertoire available to them.     

民事简易程序的域外法比较

对两大法系代表性国家的民事简易程序制度从受案范围、启动方式、审理组织、审理方式、裁判形式、小额诉讼程序6个方面对民事简易程序进行了较为系统、全面的比较,以便了解国外完备的民事简易程序制度,同时为我国民事简易程序的完善提供可资借鉴的先进经验。     

Hard thresholding regression

In this paper, we propose the hard thresholding regression (HTR) for estimating high‐dimensional sparse linear regression models. HTR uses a two‐stage convex algorithm to approximate the ?₀‐penalized regression: The first stage calculates a coarse initial estimator, and the second stage identifies the oracle estimator by borrowing information from the first one. Theoretically, the HTR estimator achieves the strong oracle property over a wide range of regularization parameters. Numerical examples and a real data example lend further support to our proposed methodology.     

Fast and approximate exhaustive variable selection for generalised linear models with APES

We present APproximated Exhaustive Search (APES), which enables fast and approximated exhaustive variable selection in Generalised Linear Models (GLMs). While exhaustive variable selection remains as the gold standard in many model selection contexts, traditional exhaustive variable selection suffers from computational feasibility issues. More precisely, there is often a high cost associated with computing maximum likelihood estimates (MLE) for all subsets of GLMs. Efficient algorithms for exhaustive searches exist for linear models, most notably the leaps‐and‐bound algorithm and, more recently, the mixed integer optimisation (MIO) algorithm. The APES method learns from observational weights in a generalised linear regression super‐model and reformulates the GLM problem as a linear regression problem. In this way, APES can approximate a true exhaustive search in the original GLM space. Where exhaustive variable selection is not computationally feasible, we propose a best‐subset search, which also closely approximates a true exhaustive search. APES is made available in both as a standalone R package as well as part of the already existing mplot package.     

Environmental practices and firm performance in emerging markets: the mediating role of product quality

Environmental practices have not received as much research attention in emerging market contexts as traditional topics like quality. However, the importance of environmental practices for a firm’s production strategy has been increasing at an unprecedented level across the globe. Our research objective is, therefore, to investigate the interplay between environmental practices and quality in the pursuit of firm performance. Relying on 492 responses from Turkish manufacturers to test our hypotheses, we show that environmental practices directly improve the quality of products over and above the effect of quality management practices in emerging markets. Product quality, in turn, is important for increasing firm performance, acting as a mediator for the positive effects of environmental practices on performance. Thus, we reveal that product quality functions as an instrumental conduit between environmental practices and firm performance in emerging markets like Turkey where stakeholder pressures are weak, and regulations are often not properly enforced.     

话语前提特定意义的选择

在特定语境中 ,话语的含义只有一个 ,却可能有多个前提 ,一个前提也可能有多重意义。那么 ,在会话过程中 ,说话者是如何设定话语前提的 ,听话者又是如何对话语前提进行选择和理解的 ?本文从分析前提感知的失误入手 ,运用逻辑分析方法 ,从认知语用学角度考察听话者对预设前提的感知 ,分析选择前提特定意义的原则、策略和过程 ,进而提出前提空间定位的心理模式。笔者认为前提的选择有逻辑 -语义分析、语用推理和整合等三种不同等级的策略 ;话语前提的选择是感知 -推理 -理解 -选择的探索性过程。由此得出结论 :认知环境是话语前提的决定性因素 ,话语前提的正确选择可再现话语的语境表征 ,为话语内涵的理解提供信息表征和推理依据———基于真值条件的最佳关联     

技术创新资本作用机理的研究

本文从理论上解释了创新资本在发展中国家和欠发达地区技术创新中的作用机理和特异性。提出：由于发展中国家产业结构体系的技术经济特征与发达国家具有显著差异,在其技术创新活动中创新资本的作用与效应也不同于发达国家。以中国工业企业数据为样本进行的实证分析结果对理论分析的结论给予了支持：在中国,R＆D投资对技术创新的促进作用约4倍于风险投资的相应作用,与美国等发达国家的情况呈现出背离趋势。因此,对于现阶段的中国产业结构体系而言,风险投资对技术创新的激励效应并非最优,需要匹配以适宜形式的R＆D投资才能够取得更优的技术创新产出效率。     

透视新制度经济学视野中的国家法与民间法

新制度经济学关于正式制度与非正式制度的分类及对两者在制度结构、制度绩效、制度联动和制度变迁等方面关系的阐释,恰是用来释解我国学者语境中国家法与民间法论题的对应框架,并为我们提供了一种看待国家法与民间法关系的新颖理论智识,对在该论域研究的知识增量中吸纳国外先进经验和输入其他学科方法具有重要的借鉴和启发意义。     

浅析农村社会存在的违法行政问题--由"精神病人死得其‘锁''"引发的思考

农村存在大量违法行政现象的主要原因是由于行政执法者和农民的法律意识淡薄、农村社区的行政执法监督机制不健全、缺乏相应的物质条件等方面的因素,以及由此导致的执法存在乡村习俗与国家法的“合作”、执法过程中的“低成本”运作、以及由此导致的法律权威尚未树立等问题。从我国法治建设的进程、农村的经济发展和权力运行模式和农民主体意识的养成等方面看,农村通往法治的路仍然相当漫长。     

孟子性善论的源与流

“性善论”是孟子思想的基础,孟子被认为是孔子思想的继承者,然而孔子却未对“善”作过专门论述。老子称“上善若水”,孟子“道性善”,二人有关“善”的思想是否存在某种渊源？在人人都对“善”充满美好向往的先秦时代,荀子为什么针对孟子的“性善论”提出“人之性恶”？董仲舒在审视孟苟人性论的基础上提出了“性三品说”,“性三品说”能否成立？厘清他们之间的思想关系,这些问题就会得到合理的解答。