Power and dependence perspectives on outsourcing decisions

Since the 1980s outsourcing has been a major topic in both economic and management literature. Economic literature tends to focus on the transaction cost perspective. In management literature the core competence approach prevails. An emerging alternative view on outsourcing is the power and dependence perspective. Aspects of power and dependence become visible in four case studies involving the maintenance of capital assets. In each instance both the buyer and supplier sides of the dyad are examined. The paper concludes with managerial implications and research opportunities.     

企业竞争优势本源的探析———核心竞争力的再认识

国内外学者从不同角度对核心竞争力进行了研究,其中真正深入竞争优势本源的思想却不多。核心竞争力作为企业竞争优势的来源,是通过企业文化力以及在企业文化力作用下产生的学习力和创新力三者的有机结合表现出来的,它分布于企业组织中,是持续地支撑企业竞争优势的能量源。     

大规模定制的战略逻辑分析与战略架构

对大规模定制的已有研究,多是从生产制造模式角度出发。本文基于战略角度对大规模定制进行了有益的探讨,首先对大规模定制的战略逻辑和为企业带来竞争优势的根源进行了分析,然后具体架构该战略体系,具体包括企业的战略定位及竞争力模型分析、面向大规模定制的企业资源和能力的识别与构建和支持大规模定制实现的平台战略框架等．     

基于DS／AHP方法的云南省中小企业家能力关键要素辨识

为有效辨识企业家能力关键要素以全面提升云南省中小企业长短期绩效,首先通过合并同类项的文献整合法对国内外相关研究中所涉企业家能力要素进行归纳与提炼,然后应用DS／AHP方法融合学术界、政府界、从业界三方对不同准则下中小企业家能力要素或要素集的偏好判断信息,最后基于累积标准化似然值大于0．8的要素甄选原则辨识出影响云南省中小企业绩效的企业家能力关键要素。实证结果表明,战略能力、概念能力、机会能力、关系能力、组织领导能力以及学习能力是目前影响云南省中小企业绩效的企业家能力关键要素。     

Corporate social responsibility in the board room – when do directors pay attention?

When do board directors pay attention to corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues? Board directors have traditionally focused on maximizing shareholder profit and viewed corporate governance narrowly as a way to meet this goal. They have paid little or no attention to CSR issues because they see CSR as a contrast to profit maximization. We argue in this article that companies can no longer ignore CSR. We propose that three conditions must be met in order for boards to pay attention toCSR. First, the board must have a mindset that considers CSR as contributing value to the firm. Second, the board must have relevant competences that enable members to understand CSR issues. Third, compensation of top-level management should reflect CSR performance. The first two conditions are directly linked to human resource development because, in order to embrace the specific challenges that CSR possesses, board members must develop an understanding of the CSR field and related challenges and opportunities for the company.     

Organisational Learning and Governance Through Embedded Practices

This article has two principal aims. The first is to reconcile thecompetence based approach to the firm with traditional contractualapproaches, instead of treating them as incompatible. The mainthesis advanced is that firms manage simultaneously competencesand transactions, but they do so in accordance with a specificlexicographic order of priorities. The second aim is to explorein detail the sources of knowledge formation in the firm. Theanalysis privileges anthropological readings which stress the roleof learning – both radical and incremental – within distributed communities of practice.     

Institutionalising a cross-sectional policy area? Ministerial competences for migrant integration in EU member states

Migrant integration is a cross-sectional policy issue and its governance involves a network of actors operating on different regional and government levels. Its emergence as a distinct policy area in many European democracies has reinvigorated the role of state actors, particularly at the national level. National governments face a growing need to coordinate formerly disparate domestic integration measures, yet they are also encouraged by increasing activities and resources that have evolved at the EU level. From an institutional perspective, this spread of both norms and resources is likely to result in the emergence of new governmental actors assigned with these tasks. Yet, little scholarly attention has so far been dedicated to the comparison of ministerial competences for migrant integration across Europe and their relation to integration policies. The paper addresses this gap in a comparative study, presenting data on the ministerial competences in 27 EU member states and Switzerland between 2010 and 2014 and linking them to data on migrant integration policies using the MIPEX dataset. The findings show no general European trend towards top-level institutionalisation and instead reveal substantial differences between Western and Eastern European democracies associated with the respective patterns of integration policies.     

提高教学干事的综合素质是作好教学管理工作的关键

科学化管理形成的过程,也是提高教学干事素质的过程.教学管理队伍的素质水平,是实现科学化、现代化管理的关键.     

New social intervention technologies as a challenge in social work: IFSW Europe perspective

ABSTRACT

This study aims at analyzing the degree of training, use, and practice of the new technologies among the social work professionals in their work environment and at finding out their main reluctance or reservations to a more intensive use of ICTs in the performance of their tasks. For this purpose, a structured and closed questionnaire has been sent to the chairpeople of the professional organizations’ members of the International Federation of Social Workers Europe (IFSW Europe), which also includes Turkey and Israel. The reason for this choice lies in the fact that the representatives for the professional organizations have a privileged view on the situation of the profession from a global perspective and are the key informants on the current situation surrounding the social workers. This study allows us to know, among other results, that the success of ICTs among the professionals will depend on their ability to adapt to the specific professional nature of the social worker in the intervention domain. However, the uncertainty regarding the security of the personal data treatment, regarding the increase of the non included or paid work hours, and also, regarding the increase of professional stress are key factors explaining the reluctance of some professionals to a more intensive use of ICTs.     

把科学发展观贯穿于新的实践——浅谈新时期如何提高中青年干部素质和能力

文章分析了中青年干部面临的形势和挑战,阐述了要提高中青年干部素质和能力必须在树立科学发展观和正确政绩观上下功夫.