Explaining autonomy variations across value‐chain activities in foreign‐owned subsidiaries

This article is one of the first to combine the asset bundling model and neo‐configurational perspective to explain autonomy variations across different value‐chain activities in foreign‐owned subsidiaries. We develop tentative answers to three research questions based on survey data of subsidiaries located in Taiwan and Thailand. We use fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis technique to analyze the data. We found that competence bundles in primary and support activities are key for autonomy development across basic and advanced value‐adding activities. Strong relationships with local business networks are more important for autonomy development than links to universities or governmental institutions. The global city location plays a lesser role than expected and the geographic distance is a hindrance to autonomy development in basic as well as advanced value‐chain activities.     

Adolescent consumption autonomy: A cross-cultural examination

Adolescents are an important market segment globally not only for their spending power as adolescents but also for their future spending power as adults. One variable that impacts current and future spending power is the degree to which adolescents are autonomous consumers. This study reports on depth interviews conducted with adolescent girls in France and the United States for the purpose of identifying dimensions of adolescent consumption autonomy based on adolescents' perceptions. Four dimensions of adolescent consumption autonomy are identified, including attitudinal, emotional, functional and financial. Similarities and differences between the two cultures are discussed, and implications for marketing and future research are identified.     

健全党组织领导的充满活力的村民自治运行机制

如何“健全党组织领导的充满活力的村民自治机制”,是推进农村政治建设、完善农村自治制度的一项重大课题。笔者认为。当前要在领导机制、工作机制、决策机制、监督机制和村民民主法治意识培养机制等方面着力推进。     

我国行政管理体制改革对村民自治的影响分析

根据现代系统理论,我国的行政管理体制可以看作是一个系统;行政管理体制和村民自治都属于上层建筑范畴这个大系统。用系统理论对我国的行政管理体制和村民自治之间的关系进行分析,可以为通过行政管理体制改革推进我国农村基层民主建设以及实现二者的互动提供理论支持。行政管理体制改革滞后已成为制约我国村民自治开展的体制瓶颈。村民委员会组织法难以解决村民自治中的行政干预问题。村民自治的进展取决于行政管理体制改革的广度和深度。     

浙商创新的理论与实践——“浙商创新：从模仿到自主”研讨会观点综述

浙商是中国改革开放以来兴起的主要出身于农民和基层百姓的“草根商人”,是中国民营经济的典型代表,开始走的主要是模仿和模仿创新的道路,现在面临诸多压力和挑战,需要加强和提高自主创新。与会者在浙商创新的理论和实践两个层面既各抒己见,又充分交流,就创新主体、模仿创新、自主创新、从模仿到自主的创新,以及制度创新、技术创新、商业模式创新和不同发展阶段的不同类型创新等发表了许多有见地和有价值的观点。     

Organisational Whistleblowing Policies: Making Employees Responsible or Liable?

This paper explores the possible impact of the recent legal developments on organizational whistleblowing on the autonomy and responsibility of whistleblowers. In the past thirty years numerous pieces of legislation have been passed to offer protection to whistleblowers from retaliation for disclosing organisational wrongdoing. An area that remains uncertain in relation to whistleblowing and its related policies in organisations, is whether these policies actually increase the individualisation of work, allowing employees to behave in accordance with their conscience and in line with societal expectations or whether they are another management tool to control employees and protect organisations from them. The assumptions of whistleblower protection with regard to moral autonomy are examined in order to clarify the purpose of whistleblower protection at work. The two extreme positions in the discourse of whistleblowing are that whistleblowing legislation and policies either aim to enable individual responsibility and moral autonomy at work, or they aim to protect organisations by allowing them to control employees and make them liable for ethics at work.     

从“三元悖论”谈我国人民币汇率制度的选择

作为经典的汇率制度选择依据--"三元悖论",长期以来一直被学术界所信奉,同样在我国,近年来关于人民币汇率制度的选择问题也是一直以此为基石.认为人民币汇率制度的选择主要依据是我国中央银行的货币政策自主,然而本文将利用Mendel-Fleming和Mendel-Fleming-Dornbusch两个模型去分析,得出即使在国际资本完全不自由流动下的固定汇率政策以及在国际资本的完全自由流动情况下的浮动汇率政策都无法完全得以实现,从而理清了我国人民币汇率制度选择时依赖于中央银行货币政策自主的模糊认识.     

论认知语法配价理论中的自主／依存关系

认知语法主张用象征单位来解释语法。从认知语法的角度阐释认知语法中自主／依存关系在语音极和语义极中的体现可知：在语音极中,元音和事物是自主的,而辅音和关系却是依存的;在语义极中,无论什么时候两个成分组合成一个配价关系,如果一个结构D依存于另一结构A,那么在某种程度上,A是对D中一个凸显子结构的阐释。在此基础上,将自主／依存关系输入到语音极和语义极的语法中,例如对词根与非词根、中心词与边缘词、补足语与修饰语等的区分上,可知自主／依存关系的输入对上述关系的区分简单易行、通俗易懂、合情合理,具有较强的解释力。     

The Determinants of Married Women's Autonomy in Indonesia

Abstract

This paper investigates the determinants of married women's autonomy in Indonesia using the 2000 Indonesian Family Life Survey 3 (IFLS3). It considers the role of kinship norms and the effect of labor force participation on married women's autonomy. The measure of autonomy is based on self-reported answers to an array of questions relating to decision-making authority in the household. They include own-clothing, child-related and personal autonomy, physical mobility, and economic autonomy. The analysis examines if variations in women's autonomy are due to the prevailing kinship norms related to marriage in the community. In keeping with the anthropological literature, the analysis finds that living in patrilocal communities reduces physical autonomy for married women, whereas living in uxorilocal communities improves personal and child-related decision-making autonomy. Estimation results show that labor force participation, higher educational attainment, and increases in household wealth all have positive effects on married women's autonomy in Indonesia.     

Mother's autonomy: impact on the quality of children's healthcare in India

Given the poor condition of children's health in developing countries, this article seeks to examine two hypotheses concerning healthcare for children. First, does mother's autonomy influence the quality of child healthcare and, second, which is related to the first, whether mother's autonomy reduces the apparent gender bias in child healthcare. Using household survey data from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in India the article finds that for the most part as the mother's autonomy (measured several different ways) increases, the quality of care for children improves. The results also indicate that gender bias exists in the provision of quality healthcare for children. Male children generally receive better quality care. However, for several measures of female autonomy, an increase in such autonomy reduces the bias. The results of this analysis have important policy implications and provide additional insight into the state of affairs of children's health in rural India.