Social ＆ Culture

Garnival Held to Celebrate Beijing 2008 Olympics;China Culture Week Opens in Venezuela;Palace Museum to Reopen in June;Chinese Firms Show Modest Increase at World Photo Fair.     

Social & Culture

650 Schools in China's Underdeveloped Areas to install Lightning Rods Chinese engineers have begun installing lightning rods in 650 primary and secondary schools in underdeveloped areas to prevent casualty and economic loss in schools,as part of a national disaster reduction effort. The work is expected to be completed at the end of the year in 14 provincial areas, including Chongqing,Sichuan,Fujian, Guangxiand Guizhou,according to the China Meteorological Administration     

Social & Culture

Beijing Specialty Gives Olympic Patrons A Taste of China The famed Beijing duck is a hot gold medal contender for the most-popular food in the host city of the on-going Olympic Games. The Quanjude roast duck restaurant on the 840-meter-long Qianmen Street,which     

Social ＆ Culture

National Stadium Debuts with Good Luck Walk,Chengdu to Host World Puppet Festival,China Cleaning up TV and Radio Programs,44,000 Overseas College Students Return to China.     

Social CRM连连看

有人说,Social CRM(社会化客户关系管理)正在迅速地从一个单纯的粉丝/好友聚集之地,转变成消费者和企业相峙的阵地。很多时候,客户是品牌开展各项工作的中心,拥有越多的客户资源,驰骋商场就拥有越大的胜算。随着社交     

Social ＆ Culture

SCO Ministers Meet to Boost Cultural Links,Tea, Arts, Craft and Clothing Top Purchase for Tourists in China,20,000 Runners Participate in 1st Lidingoloppet China,2008 HK ＆ Macao Visual Arts Exhibition Opens,Chinese Language Skills Seen As Gateway to Better Job in Cambodia,Musical Summer in Harbin Begins.     

Social ＆ Culture

China Sends Welcoming Message to Worldwide Artists,Beijing Int＇l Education Expo Opens,Chlnu＇s Annual Tourist Arrivals to Top 163 MIn In 3 Yoars.     

Social Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics: Does Social Equal Ethical?

This editorial to the special issue addresses the often overlooked question of the ethical nature of social enterprises. The emerging social entrepreneurship literature has previously been dominated by enthusiasts who fail to critique the social enterprise, focusing instead on its distinction from economic entrepreneurship and potential in solving social problems. In this respect, we have found through the work presented herein that the relation between social entrepreneurship and ethics needs to be problematized. Further, we find that a range of conceptual lenses and methodological approaches is valuable as the social entrepreneurship field matures.     

Social Public Care Ahead

China faces toughest after-quake reconstruction since 1976.In contrast,with neighbouring Myanmar s lethargic and secre- tive handling of its cyclone ten days earlier, China responded to the earthquake rapidly and with uncharacteristic openness.Within     

Social TV作用何在?

正不管是在电视和社会关系网络分析领域,还是在代理公司和营销人的疆界里,最近基于电视的社会关系网络服务(Social TV)这一概念变得炙手可热。但是事实上,并不是所有的人都真正理解这个新词汇的内涵。首先为Social TV进行一个简单的解释就是:"双屏幕"体验——人们在看电视的同时,用移动设备在社交网站上分享他们对于正在观看的电视节目的评论,其结果就是会     

Does Corruption Have Social Roots? The Role of Culture and Social Capital

The aim of this work is to analyse the influence of sociocultural factors on corruption levels. Taking as starting point Husted (J Int Bus Studies 30:339–359, 1999) and Graeff (In: Lambsdorff J, Taube M, Schramm M (eds) The new institutional economics of corruption. Routledge, London, 2005) proposals, we consider both the interrelation between cultural dimensions and the diverse expressions of social capital with corruption. According to our results, the universalistic trust (linking and bridging social capital) constitutes a positive social capital that is negatively linked to corruption. In contrast, the particularistic levels of trust (bonding) can constitute a negative social capital directly related to corruption levels. Furthermore, cultures which are favourable to the legitimation of dependency relations and the formation of closed particularistic groups (power-distance and community factors) create a breeding ground for the development of these amoral rent-seeking structures.     

中国Social2.0潮流将超越美国

美国是多应用构成的多平台,而中国是单应用构成的单平台。Social2.0时代最理想的结构恰恰是中国结构,而不是美国结构今天大家都看到微博很火,但实际上这只是一个大潮流的开始,即社会生活的网络化。     

Is There a Gold Social Seal? The Financial Effects of Additions to and Deletions from Social Stock Indices

This study investigates the financial effects of additions to and deletions from the most well-known social stock index: the MSCI KLD 400. Our study makes use of the unique setting that index reconstitution provides and allows us to bypass possible issues of endogeneity that commonly plague empirical studies of the link between corporate social and financial performance. By examining not only short-term returns but also trading activity, earnings per share, and long-term performance of stocks that are involved in these events, we bring forward evidence of a ‘social index effect’ where unethical transgressions are penalized more heavily than responsibility is rewarded. We find that the addition of a stock to the index does not lead to material changes in its market price, whereas deletions are accompanied by negative cumulative abnormal returns. Trading volumes for deleted stocks are significantly increased on the event date, while the operational performances of the respective firms deteriorate after their deletion from the social index.     

How and When Socially Entrepreneurial Nonprofit Organizations Benefit From Adopting Social Alliance Management Routines to Manage Social Alliances?

Social alliance is defined as the collaboration between for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Building on the insights derived from the resource-based theory, we develop a conceptual framework to explain how socially entrepreneurial nonprofit organizations (SENPOs) can improve their social alliance performance by adopting strategic alliance management routines. We test our framework using the data collected from 203 UK-based SENPOs in the context of cause-related marketing campaign-derived social alliances. Our results confirm a positive relationship between social alliance management routines and social alliance performance. We also find that relational mechanisms, such as mutual trust, relational embeddedness, and relational commitment, mediate the relationship between social alliance management routines and social alliance performance. Moreover, our findings suggest that different types of social alliance motivation can influence the impact of social alliance management routines on different types of the relational mechanisms. In general, we demonstrate that SENPOs can benefit from adopting social alliance management routines and, in addition, highlight how and when the social alliance management routines–social alliance performance relationship might be shaped. Our study offers important academic and managerial implications, and points out future research directions.     

Social Security Fund Ready to Enter International Market

“Mekong River Regional Development Project advocated by Asian Development Band (ADB) has been implemented. Trans-Asia Railway and Trans-Asia Highway are being discussed. It is a good opportunity for Asian Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) to cooperate and financing these large crossboarder projects.”     

China''''s Social Security System for the Urban Poor

China'ssocialsecuritysystemiscomposedofthreefields:basiclivingsecurityforunemployedstaffandworkers,unemploymentinsuranceandminimumlivingseeurityforurbaninhabitants.Thebasiclivingconditionofunemployedstaffandworkersareguaranteedbyemploymentservicecent...     

Social Security Fund Ready to Enter International Market

Vice-Chairman of the Board of the National Social Security Fund Council. Feng Jianshen. revealed recently that. from now on. China plans to use five years or even a longer thne to make the total social security fund assets reach RMB 1 tillion and build the National Social Security Fund Council into a world first-rate old-age pension administrative agency.Feng emphasized that after three years' operation, social security fund has entered into a crucial period. The key lies in innovation, which, first of all, means