“I feel and think,therefore I am”: An Affect-Cognitive Theory of management decisions

I propose an Affect-Cognitive Theory to comprehensively understand how decisions occur in organizations. To this aim, I first review the assumptions of sensemaking and decision-making streams of research, especially the influence of bounded rationality, affective states and their relationships with cognition; then, I integrate them on the common basis of socially situated cognition. This new theory emphasizes the role of affective states in determining/being determined by cognition and its errors, pointing out decision makers’ affect as the result of multi-level adaptations to the physical and social environment. Management decisions are path dependent but not immutable; they, indeed, bank on the predominant feeling resulting from the modifying interactions and regulations of decision makers with their physical and social environment. Here, decision makers are proposed as “emotional cognizers” overcoming the thinking-feeling dichotomy that has often featured in the study of management decisions. This theory is beneficial for behavioral strategy, offering the needed assumptions to intertwine human cognition, emotions, and social behavior.     

Formal governance,interfirm coordination,and performance in partnerships: An empirical investigation of a mediation model

This study investigates the extent to which formal governance mechanisms such as contracts and equity ownership affect interfirm coordination and partnership performance. We analysed data from a survey of 301 Korean firms to show that interfirm coordination partially mediates the relationship between contract completeness, defined as the extent to which a contract specifies task operations and contingencies, and partnership performance. Furthermore, we find that more complete contracts can attenuate the negative effects of equity ownership on coordination, and that this effect is particularly strong when partner tasks are interdependent and relational norms are weak.     

纯粹的矛盾--卡夫卡的理性与非理性

卡夫卡研究几乎穷尽了西方各种理论,从理性与非理性之关系观望卡夫卡的思想视阈和文本世界无疑又是一种新的尝试。卡夫卡在创作中呈现出的是一个无底的棋盘:理性与非理性、逻辑与感觉、表象与精神、梦境与真实在不确定性中显示出可调和性。此外,面对卡夫卡充满空位与悖谬的文本,纯粹的文化批判将远离他创作的本质内涵与精神诗意。     

中美陪审制度比较研究

通过中美陪审制度在历史、文化传统方面的比较,找出陪审制度发挥不同作用的根源是文章的主旨。美国陪审制深受个人主义文化传统的影响,弥补了法律形式合理性的缺陷,而中国陪审制由于缺乏陪审所需要的历史文化传统和相应的制度,不能有效发挥作用。     

从经济学视角谈科学育才之路

在现阶段高校毕业生面临着社会对他们的有效需求不足的问题,从而必须面对社会对高素质人才的需求同高校毕业生供给相对过剩这一结构性供需矛盾。本文从经济学角度分析产生这种矛盾的原因,进而提出只要高校学生工作措施得当,政策有针对性,就有可能缓解上述供需矛盾。     

创业管理:管理工作面临的新挑战

进入新世纪以来,创业与创业精神受到广泛关注,人们并不单纯研究个体的创业行为,而是将创业与创业精神拓展到已经存在的公司甚至是大公司,拓展到非赢利组织和整个社会,创业与创业精神成为动态复杂环境下管理者的思维模式和行为准则。创业管理作为一门新兴的交叉学科已经受到广泛关注,创业管理是对传统管理理论的一种挑战。本文以个体创业与公司创业的差异为主线,揭示了创业管理领域的一些具有创新性的研究课题,希望对创业管理理论和实践的探索能够起到推动作用。     

马德新思想要义

马德新坚持务实的民族观、理性的宗教观和宽容的文化观,在极其复杂的社会环境下,试图通过政治活动与学术活动,为中国伊斯兰教和云南回族寻求一条理性的发展道路,为云南回汉冲突寻找一个可行的解决方案。由于种种原因,他的理想未能实现。但我们以为马德新务实的民族观、理性的宗教观和宽容的文化观今天依然有可取之处。     

涉外民事诉讼中管辖协议的效力认定简

协议管辖是意思自治原则在国际民事诉讼中的具体体现。在协议管辖制度下,当事人之间是否订立了管辖协议,是确定受诉法院管辖权的一个重要考量因素。而如何认定涉外民商事合同中管辖协议的效力,是其中的核心问题。涉外管辖协议的有效性必须满足形式要件和实质要件的要求。分析国际公约对管辖协议的要件要求能够对比出我国的相关法律规定存在的不足,在此基础上结合协议管辖的发展趋势对我国的协议管辖制度提出完善建议。     

Exploring Partial Order of European Countries

Partial Order Theory has been recently more and more employed in applied science to overcome the intrinsic disadvantage hidden in aggregation, if a multiple attribute system is available. Despite its numerous positive features, there are many practical cases where the interpretation of the partial order can be rather troublesome. In these cases the analysis of underlying dimensions could be useful to uncover particular data structures. The paper shows a way of addressing the problem with the help of an actual case study, which deals with European opinions on services of general interest. In particular, a partial order of countries is firstly provided and then a method to detect dimensions is discussed and applied. The analysis stems directly from the Partially Order Set (poset) and Lattice theory with particular references to dimension theory and Formal Concept Analysis. The study is eventually able to pinpoint role and relevance of different attributes characterizing EU countries which are used to define the partial order.

论西方经济学的教学与形式逻辑思维方法的培养训练

由于缺乏形式逻辑的培养训练，必然导致大学生思维和方法上的障碍。而单一的辩证逻辑思维定势和泛化倾向，则表明大学生们并没有真正把握辩证逻辑的方法。这两个问题在很大程度上制约了大学生分析和解决问题技能的提高。因此，在西方经济学教学中，加强大学生的形式逻辑思维培养训练实属必要。此外，教师必须对西方经济学的“内部争论”和“外部批判”进行正确的分析和评判，以免大学生产生思想上的困惑和学习上的障碍。