Happiness of economists

We study the importance of economists’ professional situation towards their life satisfaction based on a unique survey of mostly academic economists. On average, economists report to be highly happy with life. Satisfaction is positively related to spending more time on doing research. The lack of a tenured position decreases satisfaction. However, the extent to which the uncertainty created by the tenure system affects satisfaction varies with the contract terms. The effect is stronger if the contract expires in the near future or cannot be extended. Publication success has no effect if it is controlled for academic rank and the contract duration. The finding suggests that publications are rather a means to an end, for example, to acquire a tenured position. While the perceived level of external pressure also has no impact, the perceived change of pressure in recent years is positively related to economists’ life satisfaction. An explanation is that economists have accepted a high level of pressure when entering academia but are not willing to cope with the recent increase.     

高校学历证书在线即时电子注册工作中的问题与对策

论述了高校毕业生学历证书电子注册制度的5个特征，讨论了高校学历证书在线即时电子注册工作中存在的问题，提出了相应对策。     

研究生学术品质对硕士论文质量的影响

自高校研究生扩招以来,研究生硕士论文的质量问题引起了不少专家、学者的注意。造成研究生硕士论文质量下降的原因是多方面的,但其中研究生的学术品质是一个非常重要的原因。该文着力探讨研究生学术品质对研究生硕士论文质量的影响及如何培养研究生良好的学术品质。     

高师生学业成绩与家庭因素的相关性调查分析

通过对在皖高师院校学生个人及家庭情况抽样问卷调查分析后发现:高师生学业成绩总体上与其所在家庭经济收入、父母期望水平等因素有显著正相关,还与所在年级高度相关。高师院校要教育学生端正学习态度;灵活制订课程计划;引导学生树立正确的消费观念;保持与学生家庭的联系。     

提高高校图书馆图书利用率的途径

本文针对目前高校图书馆普遍存在的图书利用率低的问题 ,从采访、编目 ,特别是流通等方面提出改善这种状况的一些行之有效的途径。     

先收费后服务对消费者心理的影响

收费时机是定价策略的一个重要组成部分，企业采用先收费的定价策略容易忽略消费者的感受，对品牌关系、态度及行为、甚至对企业的长期利益都可能带来不利影响。本文探讨了先收费对消费者心理的影响机制，并从消费者和企业关系规范的角度提出先收费具体契合哪种社会规范，发现当先收费不符合预期惯例时，消费者的感知风险提高、感知价值（包括感知体贴和感知信任）受损，且便利感受下降，进而影响其态度和行为意愿。所以，先收费被更多地认为是传递了企业想要与消费者建立交易型关系而非互惠型关系的信号。     

The Development and Positioning of Business Related University Tourism Education

Abstract

The teaching of tourism at a higher education level has become well established in British universities, but in the UK, as elsewhere in the world, the place of tourism studies within the academic curricula remains uncertain. The paper considers the diversity and complexities of tourism studies through a categorisation of journal articles, and through an investigation of the underlying debates that have influenced the design of academic curricula in the UK. The paper concludes that tourism, at least at present, should not be regarded as discipline but as a field and that the most common approach in the UK has been to emphasise the business studies subjects. The University of Northumbria's established undergraduate travel and tourism management course is presented as a case study of this approach to the subject field.     

Purposes and paradigms of management accounting: beyond economic reductionism

Neo-classical economics does not of itself provide an adequate explanation of current management accounting practice and research. Ideas from several other disciplines have been used in an attempt to facilitate a more complete understanding of management accounting. There now exists a multiplicity of ‘ways of seeing’ management accounting which adds richness to the literature. This paper first describes a number of the current theoretical-paradigmatic approaches, and then offers a typology for understanding them. It is suggested that each of these schools has different insights to offer the study of management accounting and that attempts to privilege one school over another should be avoided. Management accounting is seen as fulfilling a multiplicity of purposes which can only be understood by analysing the actions of the management accounting actors involved.     

刍议中文学术论文之必要冗余与错误冗余

在中文学术论文中,冗余既可能是必要的语法手段,也可能是没有任何意义的错误使用。在行文时应当对其功能加以甄别,以达到正确处理句内和句间衔接关系的目的。