Making Sense of Organizations in Public Management: A Back-to-Basics Approach

This article addresses some basic facts and ideas about organizations as a way of concluding the symposium. It identifies different types of organizations in terms of their legal-structural characteristics, and considers aspects of their legal power, ownership, financing, staffing, and outsourcing. It ends with some suggestions for further related research on organizations.     

跨国公司海外子公司的发展和演化——基于海外子公司特有竞争优势的综述

跨国公司海外子公司的发展和演化是跨国公司中比较年轻的一个分支.这一分支中的研究主要从子公司的角度考察跨国公司母公司和子公司之间的关系及其变化.20世纪90年代以来知识基础观的兴起为跨国公司海外子公司的特有竞争优势的培养提供了新的力量视角.在这一领域的理论和实证研究都有很强的理论和实际意义.     

试析我国农业补贴政策

文章在论述了我国农业补贴政策演变的基础上,分析了我国农业补贴政策的现状及其目前存在的问题,并提出了完善对策,即建立完善农业补贴长效机制,探索一条高效的政策执行渠道,以此来提高中国农业补贴政策的效果。     

子公司异质性特征对企业集团绩效影响研究述评

传统企业理论将企业集团所属子公司视为无差异整体,但集团下属子公司在行业分布、成立年限、发展规模和能力成熟度等方面存在着显著的差异,这被称之为子公司的异质性特征,这些异质性特征会对集团总部的管理控制造成不同程度的影响。在回顾国内外相关文献的基础上,对子公司异质性特征的内涵、存在必要性、测度方法及子公司异质性与企业集团整体绩效表现的关系进行了系统梳理与总结。基于分析,提出了子公司异质性特征研究的整合模型,并对该领域未来可能的重点研究方向进行了展望。     

论刑事附带民事诉讼中的精神损害赔偿

我国现行法律对刑事附带民事诉讼中公民的精神利益保护不力,因此尽快确立刑事附带民事诉讼中的精神损害赔偿是非常必要的。完善刑事附带民事诉讼中精神损害赔偿制度,应将民法和刑法两极保护紧密相连,并要明确扩大精神损害赔偿的范围,扩大提起精神损害赔偿主诉的主体范围以及加害人的能力、赔偿数额等一系列相关问题。     

跨国公司海外子公司角色演进的机制分析

关于跨国公司理论研究的重点已由过去的母子关系研究转向对跨国公司海外子公司成长与发展的研究。跨国公司海外子公司的成长与发展受到母公司指派、东道国环境和海外子公司自身选择三个方面因素的影响。在这种特殊机制的影响下,海外子公司在跨国公司网络体系中的角色随成长的不同阶段发生着变化和演进。在海外子公司战略地位日趋重要的发展过程中,海外子公司在跨国公司价值链体系中承担的责任越来越多,海外子公司的战略自主权也得以不断提高,而海外子公司对母公司的依赖程度却不断降低。     

‘In England,they don’t call you black!’ Migrating racialisations and the production of Roma difference across Europe

This article draws on long-term fieldwork among Slovak Roma migrants, identifying processes through which a haunting figure of the Roma migrant emerges across Europe, to argue for more differentiated accounts of continuing and emerging forms of racialisation. It explores how the movement of Roma (whose bodies are marked by their racialised ‘darkness’ in Slovakia) to Britain granted them a temporary escape from this modality of branding while simultaneously exposing them to different categorisations within a re-configuring classificatory matrix. The article develops the concept of ‘migrating racialisation’ in order to empirically trace how historically developed forms of racialisation in Slovakia migrate across Europe through the movement of Roma and non-Roma migrants from Eastern Europe, as well as through particular forms of knowledge circulating within transnational fields constituted not only by Roma migrants themselves but also by various institutions for ‘managing’ or ‘researching’ ‘the Roma’. This concept allows us to analyse how the recent forms of racialisation simultaneously draw on heterogenous histories and nation-state formations, social conditions and sedimented bodily dispositions, which are re-adjusted to new social conditions, discourses and emerging forms of knowledge produced about Roma migrants over the last decade in British and European contexts.     

用氢作涡流室柴油机副燃料的可能性研究

用 S195柴油机为试验样机,采取在进气过程中吸入少量氢气的方法,通过台架试验及分析,探讨了用氢作为涡流室柴油机副燃料的可能性及其实用价值。结果表明,吸入副燃料氢能显著改善燃烧,提高发动机性能,但保证性能良好的许用吸氢量具有一定限度,并存在最佳值;用氢作副燃料时,仅需适当增大涡流室通道截面比,而无需变动燃烧系统其它参数,即可获得较好效果。     

The ℓ1 oblique procrustes problem

In this paper, we reconsider the well-known oblique Procrustes problem where the usual least-squares objective function is replaced by a more robust discrepancy measure, based on the ₁ norm or smooth approximations of it.We propose two approaches to the solution of this problem. One approach is based on convex analysis and uses the structure of the problem to permit a solution to the ₁ norm problem. An alternative approach is to smooth the problem by working with smooth approximations to the ₁ norm, and this leads to a solution process based on the solution of ordinary differential equations on manifolds. The general weighted Procrustes problem (both orthogonal and oblique) can also be solved by the latter approach. Numerical examples to illustrate the algorithms which have been developed are reported and analyzed.     

Corporate Transformation to the Multilayered Subsidiary Form: Changing Economic Conditions and State Business Policy

Despite the prevalence of corporate change in the last decade, researchers have not examined whether a change occurred in the corporate form. The analysis here presents a historical case study of a large U.S. corporation and quantitative data on the largest 100 U.S. industrial corporations. The case study examines the effects of changing economic conditions and state business policy on the corporate form. This study demonstrates that the corporation changed to a multilayered subsidiary form (MLSF): a corporation with a hierarchy of two or more levels of subsidiary corporations with a parent company at the top of the hierarchy operating as a management company. Whereas rising debt and increasing competition in the 1970s and 1980s undermined corporations' capacity to accumulate capital, changes in state business policy in the mid-1980s provided the political-legal structure for corporations to restructure their assets as subsidiary corporations tax free. Changes in state business policy also provided a means for corporations to merge, acquire, and spin-off subsidiary corporations tax free. Quantitative data on the 100 largest U.S. industrial corporations show that while the multidivisional form decreased, the MLSF increased between 1981 and 1993. Findings support a capital dependence framework. The MLSF constructs liability firewalls among corporate entities and creates internal capital markets, reducing dependence on external capital markets.