我国公共图书馆理事会建设特征探析

伴随事业单位分类体制改革的推进,我国公共图书馆理事会建设的实践逐步展开。这一改革由政府主导,自上而下推动,理事构成凸显去行政化、多元化,理事会定位多元,但职能发挥受限,理事会相关制度框架初步确立,实际执行状况并不乐观。公共图书馆理事会建设的理想与现实差距较大,有待我们通过实践探索去进一步的调整和完善。     

Algorithms,advertising and the intimacy of surveillance

ABSTRACT

This article develops the notion of the intimacy of surveillance, a characteristic of contemporary corporate marketing and dataveillance fueled by the accumulation of consumers’ economically valuable digital traces. By focusing on emotional reactions to targeted advertisements, we demonstrate how consumers want contradictory things: they oppose intrusive and creepy advertising based on tracking their activities, yet expect more relevant real-time analysis and probabilistic predictions anticipating their needs, desires, and plans. The tension between the two opposing aspects of corporate surveillance is crucial in terms of the intimacy of surveillance: it explains how corporate surveillance that is felt as disturbing can co-exist with pleasurable moments of being ‘seen’ by the market. The study suggests that the current situation where social media users are trying to comprehend, typically alone with their devices, what is going on in terms of continuously changing algorithmic systems, is undermining public culture. This calls for collective responses to the shared pleasures and pains while living alongside algorithms. The everyday distress and paranoia to which users of social media are exposed is an indicator of failed social arrangements in need of urgent repair.     

The present state and future trends of blended learning in workplace learning settings across five countries

This article reports survey findings related to the current status and future trends of blended learning in workplace learning settings from diverse cultures. This particular survey was conducted of 674 training and human resource development professionals from five different countries, mostly from the Asia-Pacific region (i.e., China, South Korea, Taiwan, United States, and the United Kingdom). The results show that blended learning will become a popular delivery method in the future of workplace learning not only in Western countries but also in Asian countries. Still, the respondents indicated that there were several barriers to blended learning; one of the most noticeable issues was their lack of understanding of blended learning. There is a pressing need, therefore, to provide practitioners with guidance on how to implement blended learning in their organizations. Additionally, among the countries surveyed, the results of the present study revealed that there were significant differences in the current level of adoption of blended learning, the respondents’ attitudes toward and perceptions of blended learning, and the content areas taught by blended learning. Respondents’ predictions related to emerging instructional strategies, technologies, and evaluation techniques for blended learning are also reported.     

企业社会责任传播与公共关系制度化——解析香港中华电力案

本文从公共关系学的角度探讨企业社会责任的行为模式,解析企业社会责任行为以论证公关制度化的必要性,以及通过公关制度化的过程以强调企业社会责任战略传播的可行性。本文在讨论企业社会责任的理论假设的基础上,引入公关制度化的要求,分析香港中华电力控股有限公司的案例,认为公关在引领企业社会责任战略形成与实施方面,具有独特的作用;一个能够有效引领企业社会责任长效行为的公关,是制度化的公关。     

浅论企业决策与信息支持

信息是决策的基础。决策效率和决策正确性依赖于高效的信息活动。本文对此进行了探讨。     

我国企业社会责任缺失的表现和对策研究

企业社会责任是个综合性的概念,承担社会责任是企业可持续发展的必由之路。本文评介了国外关于企业社会责任的定义和理论,认为这些定义和理论对我国企业同样具有适用性和指导作用。我国企业在履行社会责任方面存在不足,突出表现在:环境责任严重缺失,劳动关系有较多矛盾,缺乏商业伦理道德。为了促进我国企业更好地履行社会责任,我们要建立健全强有力的外部监督约束机制,建立健全企业内部监督制约机制。     

企业CIS战略导入与运行的思考

CIS (Corporate Identify System,企业形象识别系统)战略是企业取得长期稳定发展的助推器,企业导入CIS要注重时机的选择,在导入和运行过程中,要避免陷入常见的误区.     

The Persistent Impact of Language on Global Operations

In studies of firms' internationalisation, language has tended to be bundled into 'cultural and psychic distance boxes'. In this article, an attempt is made to unbundle the impact of language through (a) an examination of the way in which language influences the pattern of foreign market expansion; and (b) an analysis of how a firm may try to cope with language diversity by adopting a common corporate language. We conclude that attempts to impose a common corporate language may hinder or alter information flows, knowledge transfer, and communication.     

Investors’ choices between cash and voting rights: Evidence from dual-class equity crowdfunding

This paper examines for the first time dual-class equity crowdfunding as a digital ownership model. Unique to this context, companies can set an investment threshold under which no voting rights are granted, making the issuance of Class A vs. Class B shares, depending on individual investors. Using a sample of 491 offerings on the UK platform Crowdcube from 2011 to 2015, we find that a higher separation between ownership and control rights lowers the probability of success of the offering, the likelihood of attracting professional investors, as well as the long-run prospects. Different from small investors, professional investors care about the implementation of a threshold for the attribution of voting rights and often bid the Class A threshold exactly. Family businesses, although less attractive to small investors, are relatively safer investments, because of their lower chances of failure.     

The effect of technological imitation on corporate innovation: Evidence from US patent data

Technological imitation may play a crucial role in motivating firms to innovate. However, theoretical predictions and empirical findings on the role of imitation have not yet reached a consensus. One major gap in the previous studies is that the empirical tests are based on samples consisting of only one industry over a short period of time. This study uses a novel measure of industry-level technological imitation proxied by quick citations by competitors to examine the relationship between imitation and innovation. Using US patent data for the period 1977–2005, we find that there are inverted U-shaped relationships between the degree of industry-level technological imitation and industry-level innovation activities and between the degree of industry-level technological imitation and the value of firm-level innovation. Our results suggest that positive externalities from the interactions among firms during the innovation process outweigh the negative effects of free-riding concerns on firms’ innovation activities and incentives to innovate up to a high degree of technological imitation, while free-riding concerns outweigh the positive externalities when the level of technological imitation is extremely high. The sector-by-sector analyses show that the relationship between technological imitation and the quantity and market value of innovation are not very different across Pavitt sectors. A comparative analysis on the role of imitation between agglomerated and non-agglomerated industries suggests that the positive effect of a moderate level of imitation and the negative effect of an excessive level of imitation are more pronounced for agglomerated industries. The results suggest that creating innovation clusters, such as Silicon Valley in the United States and Shenzhen City in China, and allowing different innovators to cooperate, imitate and compete with each other would be very effective in promoting corporate innovation. However, an excessively high level of technological imitation is more detrimental for firms in innovation clusters because it lowers those firms’ incentives to innovate more radically.