公益创投的本土实践分析

本文对公益创投这一社会创新模式的起源、概念和特征进行描述,在此基础上,分析公益创投的本土实践模式,指出公益创投已经在中国显出端倪并产生了一定的作用,同时也存在一定的问题并提出相应的对策。     

信息不对称情况下公益创投的道德风险

本文在阐述公益创投兴起的背景、内涵及在国内的实践基础上,基于舞弊三角理论,以无锡市公益创投为分析对象,通过理顺公益创投运作各主体间的关系,具体分析社会组织在创投项目申报及实施过程中的隐蔽性行为。分析结果表明:社会组织在公益创投各个阶段都存在舞弊的压力、机会和借口,形成不同程度的道德风险,但执行报告和内评估等问责工具的有效性并不高。失真的信息直接影响第三方承办组织的协调、督导及评估职能,最终使公益创投的目标无法实现。最后,基于分析结果,本文以道德风险的"机会"要素作为突破点,从社会组织及创投项目、创投项目综合效应评价体系、专家工作等多方面提出政策建议。     

机构叫苦公益创投:40％自筹资金的门槛,资金限制使用

摘要有别于其他地方的公益创投活动,广州公益创投项目要求按资助资金与自筹资金6:4的要求,配套足额自有资金.而多间公益机构表示,40％的配套资金对于社会组织来说过高,对于小型社会组织来说,自筹资金比较吃力. 机构叫苦公益创投:40％自筹资金的门槛,资金限制使用 广州首届公益创投以1500万福利彩票公益金撬动1100万元社会资金,100个公益项目受益人群超过170万.广州公益圈内由此掀起一股“创投”潮,海珠、越秀、荔湾等区纷纷跟进.今年第二届公益创投的申报项目更是达到317个,比去年增36％.值得一提的是,今年征集的项目中,“其他类”的公益项目数量最多,占了总体36％,意味着本届公益创投活动“创意”项目更多了.     

试析公益创投执行机构的选择标准

公益创投作为一种新的资助方式,近年来在美国和欧洲慈善事业中得到广泛应用。在我国,也正在逐渐被公益行业内越来越多的资助单位使用。这种资助方式为解决公益领域的社会问题提供了很多创新机会,同时也带来了潜在风险。由于创业投资的高风险特性和消费者选择权的天然缺陷,在创投项目选择阶段进行风险评估和风险控制变得格外重要。本文讨论了基金会选择公益创投项目时采用的评选机制、评选维度,分析了不同类型公益项目对资助内容的不同需求及基金会的选择策略。     

洞头县开展公益创投项目活动

6月24日，浙江省洞头县召开社会组织公益创投项目筛选会。经过前期的征集工作，全县18个社会组织共带来了30个公益创投项目。逐一接受来自团县委、县文明办、县新闻单位等相关人员和社工代表的公平、公开、公正的筛选。     

公益帮助公益

《中国企业家》2012年第8期创酷《公益创投第一枪》虽然NGO与公益组织还有一些不同,但我从未认为公益是可以拿来赚钱的,甚至认为谁拿公益赚钱谁就缺德。但我们必须承认,公益人也需要生存,而且公益的企业化反而能够扩大公益的影响力。因此,公益与商业的融合显得十分重要。     

宏碁创投在萧寂中坚守

<正> 在中国二版未开,股票市场低迷的创投寒冬中,宏碁创投(中国)在风险投资行业的一片萧寂中默默地坚守着。尽管宏碁创投(中国)的副总钟东霖自己也不清楚,这一轮中国创投行业的低潮期还要持续多久。但宏碁创投在中国业务的开展,仍然得到了投资者的认可。 在国内著名创投咨询公司清科公司     

商学院开展商学公益讲座的实践策略与长效机制研究——以上海财经大学商学院“商界精英论坛”为例

本文结合上海财经大学商学院“商界精英教育计划”系列公益讲座的开办经验,对选题、宣传、保障及后续服务等实践操作层面及讲座资源的维护、开发等机制建设层面的相关策略进行归纳与提炼,以期为其他商学院在讲座开办方面提供一定借鉴.     

抄底华尔街不容易

记得是在2001年硅谷的一次高科技创投年会上认识了金博士,从此通信不断,只要有机会,我们就相聚,畅谈有关中美战略层面的话题。     

创投热潮在泉州全面开花——政府扶持力度加大 模式创新可供推广

2008年8月11日至12日,2008年福建省(泉州)创业投融资推介会在泉州举行。本次推介会是为了贯彻落实省政府《关于进一步支持中小企业融资若干意见》有关精神,由福建省经济贸易委员会和泉州市人民政府联合举办的。据了解,推介会以"推进投融交流,深化对接成效"为主题,开展了"创投政策宣讲""融资企业与银行签约仪式""创投企业演讲""金融机构设点接受咨询、洽谈""创投机构与融资企业对接"等多项专题活动。来自境内外创投公司、创投咨询服务机构、创业企业、拟创办创投企业、政府部门、新闻媒体等单位共720人出席会议。     

Development in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics

This paper outlines the ICT statistical developments that the ABS has undertaken over recent years. These developments have been on both the supply side (ICT industry) and the demand side (use of IT by sector). The content of ABS ICT surveys has changed significantly over the last few years and are expected to develop further in line with industry changes and emerging policy needs.
Recent developments in household collections have been the inclusion of IT use questions in the 2001 Census of Population and Housing and in various ABS social surveys such as Children's Participation in Culture and Leisure Activities. Annual business IT use surveys are now conducted and include topics such as Internet commerce and IT security. Biennial ICT industry surveys are conducted to provide data on ICT production, imports and exports, ICT industry employment, performance and structure information. An Internet activity survey is run every six months and provides regional Internet access details and infrastructure details on Internet service providers.
A major development for 2002–03 will be the compilation of an ICT satellite account. ABS intends to produce an ICT Information Development Plan to guide its future statistical development work in the ICT field.     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis

Several US counties and local governments have recently considered a novel solution to the foreclosure crisis. They plan to use eminent domain to compel the owners of mortgage debt—and specifically of private‐label mortgage‐backed securities—to sell the debt to the government at a price reflecting the loan's market value. The government would then restructure the debt and resell it to new investors. The plans are striking because—in contrast to both development‐driven eminent domain and the federal subprime bank bailout—they would force investors to assume asset devaluation and increased long‐term risk. Notably, the plans have emerged as an instance of financialization‐focused politics in suburbs and suburban cities of color, specifically majority‐black and ‐Latino/a suburbs. Local support for the plans, we argue, is rooted in the long‐term disinvestment of these ‘suburbs of exception', which became targets of subprime lending and eventually sites where the ‘financial exception' has been localized. But these demographic shifts, fragmentation and fiscal pressures have at the same time created a suburban political terrain in which the plans have gained their strongest political support.     

Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization

Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role in the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the importance of serendipity and identified important individual- and organizational-level antecedents. However, the literature has been dispersed and the boundaries of the concept have been blurry, leading to a lack of conceptual clarity and structure, and thus limiting validity and managerial actionability. Based on a systematic literature review, I synthesize existing management-related research on serendipity and explicate the emergence and composition of serendipity in the organizational context. I first identify three necessary conditions that differentiate serendipity from related concepts such as luck or targeted innovation: agency, surprise, and value. Then, I draw from the literature on sensemaking, event-based theorizing, and quantum-based approaches to management to conceptualize the process of cultivating serendipity in the organizational context as a process of enabling potentiality and materialization, and develop a multi-level theory of (cultivating) serendipity. This conceptualization contributes to our collective understanding of how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) organizations can leverage the value in the unexpected, which opens up fruitful avenues for further research.     

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh A critical overview

NGOs in Bangladesh have been recognized as effective change agents in the socio-economic arena throughout the world. Their contributions in micro credit, non-formal education and primary health care are widely known. NGOs play a significant role in society. NGO accountability, as a result, has become a critical issue. NGO accountability in Bangladesh has been examined here in relation to patrons, clients and themselves. Of the three relationships only accountability to patrons is in a near satisfactory state. Accountability to clients is handicapped by lack of opportunities of beneficiaries to participate meaningfully in NGO policy making. Accountability to themselves is adversely affected due to the adherence to a strictly hierarchical system and the influence of founding and charismatic NGO leaders.     

Towards an Asian model of human resource management? A comparative analysis of China,Japan and South Korea

There has been much discussion regarding the possible decline and weakening of national systems of human resource management (HRM). Yet, culture and institutions are often cited as the major stumbling blocks to this outcome. Such constraints may dissipate in the analysis, particularly if ‘regional clusters’ are considered where geographic and cultural closeness and ‘openness’ to similar economic pressures exist. In such cases, it might be postulated that convergence in HRM will occur. We argue that China, Japan and South Korea represent such a cluster. This article examines these countries, to see if a degree of convergence is taking place and if it is towards an identifiable ‘Asian’ model of HRM. A model of change is presented that distinguishes between levels of occurrence and acceptance. Details of the development and practice of HRM in each country are then set out. The article ends with a discussion and implications section and a brief conclusion.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

Multinomial distributions applied to random sampling of particulate materials

When sampling a batch consisting of particulate material, the distribution of a sample estimator can be characterized using knowledge about the sample drawing process. With Bernoulli sampling, the number of particles in the sample is binomially distributed. Because this is rarely realized in practice, we propose a sampling design in which the possible samples have a nearly equal mass. Expected values and variances of the sample estimator are calculated. It is shown that the sample estimator becomes identical to the Horvitz–Thompson estimator in the case of a large batch-to-sample mass ratio and a large sample mass. Simulations and experiments were performed to test the theory. Simulations confirm that the round-off error due to the discrete nature of particles is negligible for large sample sizes. Sampling experiments were carried out with a mixture of PolyPropylene (PP) and PolyTetraFluorEthylene (PTFE) spheres suspended in a viscous medium. The measured and theoretical variations are in good agreement.