Nuclear licensing in the United States: enhancing public confidence in the regulatory process

A nuclear regulator’s paramount purpose is to utilize its expertise to ensure protection of public safety. But, recent actions by countries, such as Germany, to phase out nuclear power illustrate that public perception of nuclear safety can change swiftly despite a country’s long history of safely operating nuclear power plants. Public trust, acceptance, and involvement in nuclear regulatory decisions, therefore, are critical to a successful nuclear power program. In the United States, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (‘NRC’) has a long-standing practice of conducting its regulatory responsibilities in an open and transparent manner. The NRC, as a regular part of its decision-making process, also reaches out to affected and interested parties and invites their involvement in its regulatory processes. The NRC’s efforts to instill public confidence are an explicit recognition that nuclear safety and security are the public’s business. While the NRC must balance the public’s rights to participate in the licensing process with the applicant’s right to an efficient and timely licensing decision on an application, ultimately the NRC’s decision-making process is more effective and more broadly accepted by the public when it includes participation of a diverse range of interested and affected parties.     

Tensions Arising from Imposing NPM in Australian Public Universities: A Management Perspective

This study seeks to identify the characteristics causing tensions in the move towards a corporate culture in Australian public universities. The findings reveal ongoing structural, competency and behavioral issues contributing to the tensions. Two theoretical propositions have emerged regarding the status of the change process. First, the change to a corporate culture is slow but continuing. Second, universities have accepted that public sector, collegial and corporate cultures have to co‐exist, thus adopting an adapted version of new public management (NPM). These findings provide avenues for further research to confirm both the characteristics and theoretical propositions.     

基于协同创新的科技服务业动态吸收能力运行机制研究——以东风设计院汽车焊装技术服务为例

基于协同创新的视角,探讨科技服务业动态吸收能力的概念内涵。沿循吸收能力整合分析的思路,以创新战略为导向,重点对科技服务业的动态吸收能力运行过程中的学习机制、知识整合机制以及网络调节机制整合框架进行论述。进一步采用单案例纵向研究方法,在实地调研和扎根研究的基础上,对中国情境下的典型科技服务业企业案例进行深度的探讨。选取东风设计院汽车焊装技术服务进行定性案例分析,探讨协同创新理论下科技服务业的动态吸收能力的运行机制。     

山西省科技报告制度建设探讨

科技报告是国家重要的战略性资源,科技报告制度建设对国家科技创新体系具有重要意义。通过借鉴美国及国家科技报告制度建设的经验,初步构建了适合山西省科技报告制度现状的山西省科技报告制度体系框架,为推动山西省科技报告制度建设提供具体参考。     

智慧校园建设中微服务与微应用的构建实践

智慧校园是高校信息化建设的必然选择。基于业务流程重构的微服务与微应用,实现各类流程服务线上操作,目的是解决智慧校园建设中数据不及时、不完整和不唯一等问题。建立应用数据中心,为师生提供方便、快捷、实用的一站式综合服务,以流程驱动的形式提高学校的管理服务水平,推动学校信息化建设发展。     

借鉴美国经验实施对中国服务贸易的开放式保护

中国加入WTO后,时服务业的开放做出了实质性承诺,但在服务业的开放和服务贸易发展进程中,运用合理的服务贸易保护措施,培育服务业的国际竞争力,亦成为我国在服务贸易自由化趋势下的长期任务和对策。中国服务业开放应坚持适度保护和逐步开放原则,此原则体现为开放式保护主义的形式。鉴于中国政府的促进行为还不完善,因此有必要借鉴发达国家的开放式保护经验。     

Dealing With Uncertainties When Governing CSR Policies

As corporate social responsibility involves a voluntary business endeavour to address social and environmental issues beyond legal compliance, governments cannot fall back on hierarchical command-and-control policies to support it. As such, it is complementary with the increasing popularity of public policies known as New Governance policies, where the government is engaged in a horizontal inter-organizational network of societal actors and where public policy is both formed and executed by the interacting and voluntary efforts from a multitude of stakeholders. However, such policies are known to generate substantive uncertainty about the content of CSR and its related issues, strategic uncertainty regarding the behavior of the actors involved and institutional uncertainty related to the interaction process involved in the institutional change. We explore New Governance policy instruments to address these uncertainties in the context CSR and discuss the experiences with these methods in the European Union. Jan Lepoutre is a Ph.D. candidate in Applied Economics at Ghent University, Belgium. In his dissertation, he focuses on the competences associated with small business social responsibility and networks as governmental means to build competences among small businesses. Nikolay A. Dentchev is an independent research fellow at Ghent University, Belgium, and a project coordinator at the corporate venturing department of Fortis Group (Fortis Venturing). He holds a Ph.D. in business economics from Ghent University. His current research is related to entrepreneurship, instrumental stakeholder theory, and management challenges of corporate social responsibility. Aimé Heene is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Ghent University, Belgium. He teaches strategic management for private and public organizations and currently focuses his research on (competencebased) management in public and social profit organizations.     

高校图书馆多维信息资源建设机制探析

在现代信息技术条件下,图书馆信息资源建设应以读者需求为中心,积极构建读者广泛参与的资源采访机制,构建科学快捷的资源数据快速处理机制,建立动态典藏机制,构建多维信息资源宣传和推广机制,以更好地满足广大读者对图书馆信息资源的需求。     

中国服务业吸引FDI溢出效应分析

入世以来,中国服务业加快对外开放,服务业吸引FDI急速增加,并对服务业发展产生重要影响,即溢出效应.为具体检验该溢出效应,文章在对服务业FDI溢出效应进行理论分析基础上,对1997～2005 年中国服务业总体及分行业吸引FDI溢出效应进行实证分析,为中国调整FDI产业流向提供依据.     

服务质量开发过程的质量管理体系

由于服务业在质量管理中存在许多问题,很难找到现成和权威的答案,因此要对服务质量管理所涉及的内容和方法进行分析与研究,借带制造业产品质量开发的步骤和技术,构建一种面向服务质量开发过程的服务质量管理体系构架。