企业战略与环境的适应性:一个复杂适应系统的视角

企业战略的重要特性之一是它对环境的适应性,它强调企业组织能够运用自己的资源去适应组织外部环境和内在条件的变化。企业环境是不确定的,面对不同层次的不确定性环境,企业的适应性战略主要包括外包战略、联盟战略、柔性战略。     

香港高等教育社会适应性办学模式的质量问题及其启示

香港高等教育进入普及教育阶段后,学校的发展采用社会适应性办学模式,其模式在处理数量与质量上有顾此失彼,转型初期出现了诸如生源、师资、素质教育等质量问题。在实施社会适应性办学模式过程中(尤其九七年香港回归后),政府各界与学校一道推进了改革,从教育目标、课程建设、合作交流等方向可窥视他们的大胆尝试。     

Conditional median absolute deviation

We introduce conditional median absolute deviation to characterize how the local variability of one quantitative random variable varies with another one. A two-step estimation procedure is proposed and the resultant estimator possesses an adaptiveness property. Simulation indicates that this estimator is much more efficient than its competitors such as the conditional semi-interquartile range.     

Dynamic multilevel governance for sustainable transformation as postnational configuration

Modern societies are increasingly having to cope with profound socio-political transformations, such as the transition from fossil energy production and consumption to more sustainable energy systems. Transformations ignite dynamics, processes, and forces, which induce new challenges for traditional structures and orders because major changes in society and politics are shifting from established manners, customs, and modes of behavior to new norms and values. Transformations cause epistemological uncertainty and complexity and challenge ontological fundaments and ethical convictions. National structures alone are not adequate to the task of handling the corresponding challenges because the capacity of domestic politics and regulations is too weak to achieve eligible political outcomes that can guide and structure transformations. In this light, I argue for a form of dynamic multilevel governance as a postnational configuration that has the capability and power to reform and transfigure institutions, structure and agency, hierarchies, cultural fabrics, socio-technical systems, and infrastructures toward new social and political orders. I theoretically and normatively conceptualize and justify three major governance framework conditions as hallmarks of dynamic multilevel governance, namely inclusiveness, adaptiveness, and distributed and differentiated deliberation. These capabilities produce reflexive authority with transformative and structuring power to tackle transformation issues. My notion of dynamic multilevel governance relies on thoughts in new institutionalism, network theory, deliberative democracy theory, discourse ethics, and different concepts of governance. I combine theory, normative justification, and institutional feasibility.