Introduction. Ce que les écrits font au travail

As is known, large numbers of writings circulate within every kind of professional environment. As a result, there is extensive research on the formats, uses and roles of writings in work. However, the approach taken here is not to describe what is done with writings in work. The central hypothesis rests on a performative vision of writings, one that gives them the power to act, agency. It can be summed up as follows: what do writings “do” to work? Studying work through its writings is a way to connect two dimensions that are too often kept separate: situated activities on the one hand, organizational functions on the other. Indeed, writings are material and robust — though not always lasting — traces of concrete activities, and they provide a handhold for the rigorous analysis of work as close as possible to its conditions of realization. However, writings travel and circulate. They form links between workers, groups, workshops, services, firms, without which production could not take place. They stretch work beyond its source. To track them is therefore to shift the field of enquiry to moments other than the present of the observed situation, and also to other nearby, surrounding workspaces. This brings out the procedural and interactive dimensions of organizations, their integrating capacity. Exploring what writings do to work is therefore not only to place oneself at an intermediate level between situated action and organized action. For the sociologist, it is a way of connecting these two perspectives “on paper”, by embedding the analysis of the actual work in spatially and temporally broader collective actions, and by documenting organizational analysis on the basis of observed work situations. It is a way of contributing to a more extensive ecology of activity, more clearly anchored within its organizational envelope.     

RFM customer analysis for product-oriented services and service business development: an interventionist case study of two machinery manufacturers

Journal of Management and Governance - This study examines how original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can segment their product-oriented services customers with the help of a recency, frequency,...     

试论倾听技巧在少数民族预科汉语教学中的作甩

人的一切实践活动都离不开听,听力是人类直接获得信息最为重要的手段之一。少数民族预科汉语教学的目标是培养“听、说、读、写”的能力,而“倾听技巧”在实现这一目标的过程中所起的作用是显而易见的。因此,汉语教师在努力探讨自身在提高课堂教学效果的同时,也有必要探讨倾听技巧在教学中的作用,只有教师和学生互相认真倾听对方心声,课堂气氛才能活跃。文章拟对倾听技巧在少数民族汉语教学中的作用及师生双方在课堂上如何运用倾听技巧进行探究。     

撒拉语和土库曼等语的关系

任何一种语言都有地域特征,撒拉语既有古突厥语的特点,同时又因与周边语言的联系而有自己新的发展。它的突厥语特点代表了几种历史层面,这种层面反映出与不同突厥语群的联系。由于复杂的共时特征和与历史记载的差距,对于撒拉语进行分类是很困难的。根据如下两方面的论述:1和乌古斯语的发生学关系;2和南西伯利亚语和克普恰克语长久的联系,本文提出自己的观点,不同意撒拉语与现代维吾尔语有发生学关系的看法。     

Imagining ‘Burma’: a historical overview

Burma faced independence in 1948 as a deeply divided country. The British had ruled the area, which now was declared the ‘Union of Burma’ under two entirely different administrative systems. ‘Burma Proper’ was basically populated by the ethnic Burmans, Arakanese, Mons and Delta Karens, whereas the ‘Frontier Areas’ were populated by the Shan people, Salween Karens, Kachins, Karennis, Chins and various subgroups of the aforementioned. The same year, as independence was granted, the Union of Burma plunged into a civil war, which still continues. This article discusses the ethnic categories created by the colonial authorities and looks into how these ethnic categories have been – and continue to be – imagined, invented, manipulated and politicised. The article looks into how the Burmese authorities dealt with the ethnic diversity in the first constitution of 1947 by dividing the country into ethnically based ‘states’ and ‘divisions’ and how the international community of today continues supporting these colonial categories.     

战略三脚架视角下跨国并购的合法化组态与困境研究

基于新兴经济体企业国际化“战略三脚架”理论模型,应用模糊集定性比较分析方法,深入解析了2014—2018年的跨国并购案例,明确了制度距离、跨国并购经验、行业相关性与社会责任行为对跨国并购绩效的“联合效应”,识别出跨国企业实现高绩效跨国并购的三种合法化组态,分别为理性趋同型、主动迎合型与嵌入发展型合法化组态,同时总结出跨国企业需要突破非高绩效跨国并购的三大困境。研究成果不仅丰富了跨国并购理论,而且有助于推进中国企业的国际经济合作,真正打造全球供应链领先企业。     

On multivariate separating Hill estimator under estimated location and scatter

We consider estimating the tail-index of a distribution under the assumption of multivariate ellipticity. Recently, a separating Hill estimator for multivariate elliptical distributions was proposed. This estimator is an affine invariant alternative to using the marginal observations in tail-index estimation and is hence unaffected by, e.g. change of units of measurement. However, the separating Hill estimator depends on the location and scatter of the elliptical distribution, which, in practice, have to be estimated. The effect of replacing the true location and scatter of the distribution by estimates has previously been only examined through simulations. In this article we show that the error caused by replacing the location and scatter of the distribution by estimates indeed is asymptotically negligible. This fact is essential for the practicality of the separating Hill estimator. In addition to providing the theoretical results, we present simulation results on the asymptotic behaviour of the estimators.     

Smashing containers,queering the international through collaging

This article explores the potential of collage epistemology to cultivate queer intellectual curiosity about international relations. It argues that collaging and queering share many points of departure: in both, objects are taken from their conventional contexts and assembled into new relational constellations. The article draws from pedagogical work where collages were used in university teaching on the politics of gender and sexuality. A set of collages made by students are interpreted and brought into a dialogue with queer theorizing. The article suggests that collaging involves smashing a variety of containers that social sciences inquiry often operates with. It troubles not only established conceptions of sexuality and intimacy but also territoriality and theorizing. On this basis, the article concludes that collaging offers a fruitful modality of thought, analysis and expression for queer world-making projects.