农业纵向分工：服务外包的影响因子测度——基于专家问卷的定量评估

将农户的农业生产经营分为9个环节,基于农业生产环节交易特性与农户行为能力两个层面,测度农业生产环节进行服务外包的影响因子。农业生产环节的交易特性细分为专用性、规模性与风险性3个维度,农户行为能力则由排他能力、处置能力和交易能力3个维度表达。基于专家问卷,借助模糊数学和层次分析方法,对影响因子的权重进行定量评估。结果显示,同样的影响因素在不同的农业生产环节中表现出不同的特征,不同的影响因素在同一个农业生产环节中表现出的特征也有所差异。     

不同类型农户土壤保护认知及行为决策研究——以江汉平原368户农户调查为例

利用江汉平原农户调查数据,运用二元选择模型分析不同类型农户土壤保护认知与行为决策。结果表明:不同类型农户的土壤保护认知水平存在差异,且农户的土壤保护认知与其行为决策之间的差距较为明显;户主教育程度、农户土壤保护认知与耕地块数是影响所有类型农户土壤保护行为决策的显著因素;是否租入土地与接受农业技术培训对纯农户土壤保护行为有显著影响;人均耕地面积对I兼农户有显著影响;户主是否兼业与家庭非农就业比例对II兼农户有显著影响;户主年龄对III兼农户有显著影响。由此提出建议:提高各类农户土壤保护认知,缩小农户行为决策与认知差距的关键在于加强土壤保护知识与技术的宣传,培养农户土壤保护意识与技能,并通过土地整理等措施为农户采取土壤保护行为提供便利条件,在保障各方收入来源的基础上,引导土地从III兼农户向专业经营户流转。     

消费者创新性对移动购物行为的影响机制研究--基于计划行为理论视角

计划行为理论是著名的态度行为关系理论,它对个体行为具有良好解释力和预测力。文章基于计划行为理论,实证研究了消费者创新性对移动购物行为的影响机制。结果表明：消费者创新性对移动购物主观规范影响不显著,移动购物主观规范对移动购物意向影响不显著;消费者创新性通过移动购物态度和移动购物知觉控制显著影响移动购物意向,进而显著影响移动购物行为;移动购物意向在移动购物知觉控制和移动购物行为的关系中起部分中介作用。     

LGBTQ Activist Organizations as ‘Respectably Queer’ in India: Contesting a Western View

This study contests the distinction of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) organizations suggested by earlier scholars as ‘respectable’ — i.e. normalizing, professionalizing and conforming to the dominant cultural and institutional patterns — and ‘queer’, meaning challenging the cultural and institutional forces that ‘normalize and commodify differences’. Using Bernstein's model of identity deployment, it is found problematic to distinguish LGBTQ organizations this way because when the actions of LGBTQ organizations are more complex to describe, it is not warranted to conflate identity goals with identity strategies — whether normalizing (respectable) or differentiating (queer). To examine these concerns, a qualitative inquiry was used to study five LGBTQ organizations in India where the intersections of post‐colonial ethnicity, gender, social class and sexuality offer an intriguing context through which to study queer activism. Based on the findings, it is argued from a post‐colonial perspective that when the socio‐cultural and historical existence of non‐homonormative queer communities and practices is strong, LGBTQ organizations challenge the heteronormative and/or other forms of domination to become ‘queer’. But they may simultaneously become ‘respectable′ by conforming to the diversity politics of non‐profit business, donors, and social movement organizations they seek support from, and turn out as ‘respectably queer’.     

On tie breaking in competitive location under binary customer behavior

Ties in customer facility choice may occur when the customer selects the facility with maximum utility to be served. In the location literature ties in maximum utility are broken by assigning a fixed proportion of the customer demand to the facilities with maximum utility which are owned by the entering firm. This tie breaking rule does not take into account the number of tied facilities of both the entering firm and its competitors. In this paper we introduce a more realistic tie breaking rule which assigns a variable proportion of customer demand to the entering firm depending on the number of tied facilities. We present a general framework in which optimal locations for the old and the new tie breaking rules can be obtained through Integer Linear Programming formulations of the corresponding location models. The optimal locations are obtained for the old tie breaking rule for different values of the fixed proportion and a comparison with the results obtained for the new tie breaking rule is drawn with data of Spanish municipalities in a variety of scenarios. Finally, some conclusions are presented.     

A Faith‐Based Advantage?

This study explored whether religiously affiliated nonprofit schools participating in Milwaukee's long‐standing school voucher program engage in more fundraising and perform better on academic indicators than nonsectarian nonprofit schools. The analysis of three years of organizational‐level voucher school data reveals that a higher percentage of religious affiliated schools engage in fundraising, and that religious schools affiliated with umbrella organizations have higher test score indicators than nonsectarian schools. The author concludes that the religious advantage is likely in part a result of the broader access to networks and resources available to religious schools associated with umbrella organizations like a Catholic archdiocese or Lutheran synod. The results are relevant to policymakers who are considering implementing a reinvented government approach to the provision of public goods, as well as leaders of nonprofit corporations who seek to maximize performance.     

The Attributes of Effective NGOs and the Leadership Values Associated with a Reputation for Organizational Effectiveness

Building on prior research characterizing organizational effectiveness as a social construction, this article identifies the perceived attributes of effective transnational nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and the leadership values associated with higher reputations for organizational effectiveness. Results are based on an in‐depth, mixed‐method interview study of 152 NGO leaders located in the United States and representing all major sectors of organizational activity. Among the twenty‐nine attributes that leaders identified in peer organizations that they regarded as particularly effective, leaders stressed instantiation of sound principles or strategy, a grassroots approach, large organizational size and resources, being collaborative, singleness of focus, campaigning abilities, funding and fundraising prowess, global scope, and quality people. Furthermore, statistical analysis reveals that NGOs with leaders who value similarities with peer organizations, grassroots approaches, diversity of strategies, dedication, professionalism, and distributed organizational structures have significantly higher reputations for effectiveness.     

多孔介质内流体相态特征超声波探测研究进展

目前有关烃类流体相态的研究已较为成熟,能为油气田的高效开发提供相应的理论指导和技术支持。但研究成果大多忽略多孔介质对流体相态的影响。为此,在充分考虑流体与多孔介质相互作用的基础上,开展多孔介质内流体相态特征的研究十分必要。随着研究的不断深入,超声波探测技术不受压力温度限制、不改变流体成分、检测成本低、对人体无害等优点逐渐得到重视,并在多孔介质内相态研究领域逐渐得到了应用。在参考国内外相关文献资料的基础上,简述了超声波的探测机理,重点综述了超声波探测在多孔介质内天然气水合物、凝析油气相态特征研究的应用进展,并指出了目前存在的主要问题及今后的研究重点。     

The mobility problem in Britain: new findings from the analysis of birth cohort data

Social mobility is now a matter of greater political concern in Britain than at any time previously. However, the data available for the determination of mobility trends are less adequate today than two or three decades ago. It is widely believed in political and in media circles that social mobility is in decline. But the evidence so far available from sociological research, focused on intergenerational class mobility, is not supportive of this view. We present results based on a newly‐constructed dataset covering four birth cohorts that provides improved data for the study of trends in class mobility and that also allows analyses to move from the twentieth into the twenty‐first century. These results confirm that there has been no decline in mobility, whether considered in absolute or relative terms. In the case of women, there is in fact evidence of mobility increasing. However, the better quality and extended range of our data enable us to identify other ‘mobility problems’ than the supposed decline. Among the members of successive cohorts, the experience of absolute upward mobility is becoming less common and that of absolute downward mobility more common; and class‐linked inequalities in relative chances of mobility and immobility appear wider than previously thought.     

Increasing inter‐generational social mobility: is educational expansion the answer?

Reforms which increase the stock of education in a society have long been held by policy‐makers as key to improving rates of intergenerational social mobility. Yet, despite the intuitive plausibility of this idea, the empirical evidence in support of an effect of educational expansion on social fluidity is both indirect and weak. In this paper we use the raising of the minimum school leaving age from 15 to 16 years in England and Wales in 1972 to estimate the effect of educational participation and qualification attainment on rates of intergenerational social class mobility. Because, in expectation, children born immediately before and after the policy was implemented are statistically exchangeable, the difference in the amount of education they received may be treated as exogenously determined. The exogenous nature of the additional education gain means that differences in rates of social mobility between cohorts affected by the reform can be treated as having been caused by the additional education. The data for the analysis come from the ONS Longitudinal Study, which links individual records from successive decennial censuses between 1971 and 2001. Our findings show that, although the reform resulted in an increase in educational attainment in the population as a whole and a weakening of the association between attainment and class origin, there was no reliably discernible increase in the rate of intergenerational social mobility.