Response strategy to environment context factors using a lean and agile approach: Implications for firm performance

Based on the environment-strategy performance perspective and dynamic capabilities framework, we develop a theoretical model and hypotheses specifying how supply chain collaboration as a response to environment context factors – competitive intensity, supply uncertainty, technological turbulence and market turbulence, using a lean and agile strategy may influence firm performance. We test the model using partial least square structural equation modelling on data collected from a field survey with responses from 152 manufacturing firms representing a variety of industries. Empirical findings generally support the relationship between collaboration and firm performance using a lean and agile strategy. Also, for firms in industries that face environments characterised by high supply uncertainty and competitive intensity with, technological turbulence, the study finds evidence of a direct relationship between these environmental factors and supply chain collaboration. The findings provide an initial strategic response framework for appropriately aligning a lean and agile supply chain strategy through collaboration with environment context factors to achieve firm performance improvements.     

话语含义的判别和听力理解

语义层面上语用含义的话语理解是大学英语教学的难点之所在。为加强薄弱环节,须从“会话含义”和“关联”理论出发,揭示话语中交际意图传递的规律和特征,并结合实例分析听力理解过程中可能出现的信息推理障碍及原因。     

福利多元主义视角下的社区福利

随着经济体制的改革,“单位人”向“社区人”转变,社区福利成为社会成员普遍性的需求。但目前我国的社区福利存在着行政化、非专业化等一系列问题,社区内缺少成熟的、有活力的社会团体,严重影响了社区居民对于福利的可及性和可得性。本文尝试从福利多元主义的视角,在福利服务领域引入非营利组织,并重点讨论政府的角色转变以及与这些志愿组织和社会团体的合作关系。     

供应链企业间的合作轨道模型

文章主要介绍了轨道模型在供应链企业合作中的应用 ,根据合作程度的不同 ,伙伴企业处于以核心企业为中心的不同轨道。文章分别从静态和动态的角度运用轨道模型分析了企业间合作关系以及这种合作关系的变化。一方面使企业间的合作问题简单化 ;另一方面 ,轨道模型便于对合作问题进行深入的定量化研究。     

庭审会话中的言语策略和权力控制--律师-证人庭审会话分析

在庭审特殊的语境下,参与会话的角色之间的权力分配是不均等的,法官的权力最高,其次是律师,其掌握着庭审会话的主动权,而证人只是被询问的一方,其权力极为有限,所拥有的言语权也最少。通过分析询问中律师一证人间的会话发现,律师借助封闭性问话、重复问话等言语策略对证人实施权力控制。同时,证人除在言语上对律师表示尊重外,也努力通过各种应答言词策略争取更多的主动权。两者之间对权力的控制主要表现在他们不同的言语策略上。     

学科教学知识新突破:教学策略“U-S”双向共创机理

教学策略由学科知识、教学知识、学生心理引导和教学监控等条件性知识以及教师教学经验、反思、行为习惯等组成,具有理论与实践一体化特征。其中知识部分属于学科教学知识(PCK)范畴,具有情境性和多种知识融合的特征。学科教学知识的“特殊整合”,不仅需要相应的学科知识和教学知识,还需要情境性教学经验。然而,中小学教师有经验缺理论、高校教师有理论没经验的问题普遍存在,形成教学策略与教学行为之间双向转化的瓶颈。为此,大学和中小学教师需要以外部利益驱动构建协同共创平台,在相同教学旨趣吸引下组成优势互补的研发团队,形成突破教学策略转化瓶颈的分层赋能与共创机制。“大学―中小学”(“U-S”)协同共创,应注重从教学策略理论知识传授到教师教学行为转变、从学习名师经验及其教学策略创新到新教学策略文本形成的转化与共创过程,形成特色鲜明的学科教学策略知识,将其以陈述性、程序性、策略性知识形式融入师范生实训教学,进而实现对现有学科教学知识的新突破。只有构建“U-S”共同体,协同实现教学策略的“理—实”双向共创,才能赋予教学策略以“内容、形式和旨趣”三个维度的理论和实践生命力,才能发挥双方优势,形成规模更大的教学策略创新平台。     

Practice Wisdom Meets Evidence-Based Practice: Building Capacity in Agencies

Agencies have a need to develop and evaluate therapeutic practices that show efficacy in treating specific client problems. University-agency collaborations combine the wisdom of practitioners with research skills that appraise evidence of efficacy, operationalize concepts and skills, and identify and implement evaluation methods. This article discusses the processes involved as practitioners and administrators collaborated with university researchers to transform a well-established mutual aid (MA) model of group work into an evidence-based model that showed efficacy in preventing substance use with adolescent populations. A case study will include the phases of the collaboration including relationship building, reviews of similar programs, identification of appropriate evaluation measures, development of a curricular-based manual and analysis and interpretation of the data for use in applying for funding. Implications for agency practice that respond to current demands in social services will be discussed.     

The service system challenges of work with juvenile justice involved young people in the Hunter Region,Australia

Current policies suggest that collaborative approaches are core to working effectively with juvenile justice involved young people. However, there is little research examining the workings of multi‐agency and collaborative endeavours in this field, or the experiences of the human service workers facilitating these connections. This paper reports on qualitative research that resulted from the Juvenile Justice and Education Equity in the Hunter Region project. Thirty‐eight human service workers were interviewed about their perceptions of the workings, strengths and challenges of the service system that supports young people who come into contact with the Children's Court in the Lower and Upper Hunter regions of New South Wales. Data analysis revealed three key themes related to (1) service gaps, cycles and maelstrom; (2) pursuing authentic service engagement; and (3) insider–outsider dynamics in service provision. Findings are discussed in relation to emerging practice and research agendas.     

Producing information: communication and collaboration in the South African scientific community

Prior research has investigated the relationships between communication, collaboration and production of information/knowledge. Most of this research has been conducted either in developed countries where the internet facility is highly advanced or in developing countries with little internet access. Investigations in countries that fall in between these two extremes are rare. This study of respondents from higher education institutions and research institutes examines the relationship between collaboration and internet use, as well as productivity and internet use in the South African scientific system which has become a strong contributor to science in Africa.