“A bulletin board of dreams”: corporate empowerment promotion and feminist implications

This article examines the premises of corporate solutions to gender inequality in the Global South. In feminist debates, businesses’ increasing emphasis on women’s empowerment has been discussed both in terms of increasing feminist impact and the co-optation of feminist demands. To explore the ideological effects of corporate gender practices, focus is placed on the Coca-Cola Company’s global “5by20” campaign, which has the stated aim to empower five million women as small-scale entrepreneurs around the world and, in a “win–win” fashion, to double sales by 2020. Based on interviews and participatory observations in Mexico, this article traces a particular narrative of empowerment, envisioned as a transition from dependency to self-sufficiency and threatened by psychological and cultural restraints rather than material conditions. It shows that self-help and positive thinking are essential affective drives, thus reinforcing market-based, individualized development strategies. In response to feminist debates, the article concludes that corporate gender practices can be seen as part of a neoliberal transposition of equality concerns from a political to an economic domain. In effect, when initiatives such as 5by20 promote the accumulation of “human capital” to enhance gender equality, they simultaneously work to legitimize the inequalities that are necessarily entailed in competitive capitalism.     

跨国公司对外直接投资管理研究

跨国公司对外直接投资管理工作涉及到资金筹措与资本投放两大战略的制定。为了实现公司长期发展战略 ,跨国公司筹资战略是按成本最低化、经营风险极小化 ,公司财务结构总体最佳来运作的。在投资战略上 ,针对不同的国情、产业、产品 ,在并购与创建之间做出最恰当的选择 ,以实现利润最大化或市场最大化     

Assessing the Impact of Office Automation on Employee Productivity and Health

The pressure to increase productivity is driving many industries to automate. By the year 2000 experts foresee that the VDT will be as common as the telephone is today on the desks of office workers. Just as the mechanization of farm and factory work changed our society and economy in the past, so will the automation of white-collar work influence and change the work process and society. This paper will explore the productivity, cultural, health and mental health issues of office automation. We also discuss the role EAP's can play to help business ameliorate or avoid potential problems associated with the darker side of office automation.     

无国籍女人:在传统与现代之间徘徊的族群

广西那坡县百省乡的壮、瑶、苗、彝等民族都有人娶越南女人为妻。这些越南女人既没有加入中国国籍,事实上又自动丧失了越南国籍,成为无国籍女人。无国籍女人在传统民间是被认同的,但是在现代国家管理体制下她们是违法者。首先,她们是非法入境者,要面临被驱逐出境的危险。其次,只要她们生育,即违反中国的非婚生育规定,必须交纳社会抚养费,这使她们被迫陷入更加困窘的境地,成为被边缘化的新族群。     

Mobile locations: construction of home in a group of mobile transnational professionals

Abstract How do professionals constitute their homes under conditions of extensive mobility? The study is based on interviews with professionals working for an international organization who are chronically mobile. Despite their high mobility, they describe little difficulty constructing homes. Home can best be understood here not as a fixed location, but as a set of relationships, to both humans and non‐humans. There are elements of spatial proximity, but also of distance, and homes may be defined by both objects present and excluded. They may be a focal point, but at the same time part of a heterogeneous network that spans localities as well as binds past and present. Home is therefore territorially defined, but only as an extended network rather than as a bounded location.     

软权力论与美国的政治文化传统

美国的政治文化传统是以自由、民主为核心价值观,这一点在外交方面表现出其强烈的理想主义色彩。冷战后美国的国际关系研究都是围绕着这个传统而发挥引申的,约瑟夫.奈的软权力理论就是其中成功的范例。软权力理论将美国历史上固有的使命观、例外论、"天定命运"等思想推陈出新,赋予其崭新的面目和使命,即美国外交应抛弃仅关注美国国家利益的狭隘观念,适时地注入世界利益,使"独善其身"与"兼及天下"合而为一,最终服务于美国霸权,从而使美国的国际关系研究保持了与时俱进、开拓创新的学术活力。     

Trust Networks in Transnational Migration

The sheer volume of migrant remittances to relatively poor countries, including those of Latin America and the Caribbean, nicely dramatizes the genuinely transnational social ties created by long-distance migration. The evidence underlines that migration flows are serious business, not only for the individuals and families involved, but also for whole national economies. Thinking about remittances also allows us to identify some crucial social processes of which most migrants and first-hand students of migration are well aware, but for which we have neither well-established theories, carefully crafted concepts, nor extensive evidence. I mean the creation, use, and transformation of interpersonal trust networks within migration streams.     

我国企业跨国并购的整合能力差距与整合途径探讨

文章分析指出近年来我国企业跨国并购成功率不高的主要原因是企业的国际整合能力不足。据此提出了提高跨国并购整合能力的对策建议:做好兼并后的整合计划和准备;依法合情合理处理好员工的利益问题;文化的整合要与管理的整合同步进行;学习美国GE公司“少食多餐”的并购法则,企业的整合与公司治理的国际化要同步推进等。     

Grounding Childhood (Trans)National Identities in the Everyday

This paper engages with the lived and experiential aspects of (trans)national identities in childhood, through the exploration of an ethnographic biography of a Greek‐Albanian boy in Athens. Through a grounded ethnographic approach, we examine the ways in which he experiences and negotiates his (trans)national identity. Our analysis demonstrates the everyday subtle and sophisticated understanding of the complexities and contradictions of national identities, and the child's own positioning within that. In conclusion, we suggest that interdisciplinary approaches should be assumed in the study of (trans)national identities in childhood, and ones that are grounded in children's own meaning making of their experiences of such identities.     

Do the regulatory standards require religious literacy of U.K. health and social care professionals?

Health and social care professionals need sufficient religious literacy in order to handle the complexities of religious beliefs and practices, including the growing numbers who identify with other belief systems and those who claim to identify with no religion. The extent to which the need for religious literacy has been formalized was examined in an analysis of regulatory frameworks for health and social care professionals in the United Kingdom. Although all but one of the regulators make some reference to religion and beliefs, they are silent on the question as to what is meant by religion and beliefs. Some standards include a requirement not to impose one's own beliefs on others, but there is very little requirement to develop a reflective and self‐critical awareness of one's own stance. Likewise, some standards refer to knowledge and skills required, but greater specificity is required for these to be meaningful.