Notions of justice in payments for ecosystem services: Insights from China's Sloping Land Conversion Program in Yunnan Province

China's Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) pays millions of farmers to convert cropland in upper watersheds to tree plantations. It is considered one of the world's largest payments for ecosystem services (PES) scheme for its reliance on financial incentives. This paper examines the outcomes of the SLCP by way of a case study from the Yangliu watershed in Yunnan province. It focuses on the notions of justice embedded in state policy and held by villagers and local state officials in order to understand the observed outcomes in terms of people's participation in the implementation of the SLCP, land use changes and livelihood effects. Villagers, local state officials, and state policy share a primary concern about distributive justice despite significant differences in their specific notions. The shared concern underlies the villagers’ positive reactions to the SLCP, which among other factors, have led to the intended expansion of tree plantations and a livelihood transition in Yangliu since 2003. The insights from Yangliu suggest the need to consider justice for a fuller understanding of the dynamics and outcomes of the SLCP and other PES schemes worldwide as the notions of justice applied by the involved actors may influence land use and livelihood dynamics in addition to the other factors considered in research this far.     

How does social distance impact customers’ complaint intentions? A cross-cultural examination

This study examines the impact of social distance between focal customers and other customers (in-group versus out-group) on complaint intentions in a cross-cultural (i.e., collectivist Chinese versus individualist American) context. Results from a between-subjects quasi-experiment suggest that social distance moderates complaint intentions across the two cultural groups. When dining out with their families (i.e., in the presence of in-group members), American customers (versus Chinese) are more likely to voice complaints about service failures. However, in the presence of strangers (i.e., out-group members), complaint intentions are uniformly high for both American and Chinese participants. Moreover, concern for face (CFF) is the underlying mechanism explaining customers’ reactions to service failures. Specifically, when service failures are observed by strangers, CFF mediates the impact of culture on complaint intentions while the role of culture is more salient in the presence of family members.     

Urban vs. rural destinations: Residents’ perceptions,community participation and support for tourism development

This paper investigates and compares the effects of residents' perceptions of the impacts of tourism on community participation and support for tourism development across urban and rural world heritage sites (WHSs). Partial least squares – structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), has been employed to perform the analysis. The results reveal significant differences between the effects of residents' perceptions and community participation on support for tourism development in urban and rural destinations. However, the findings did not support any differences between the effects of positive perceptions on community participation, and the indirect effects of negative perceptions on support for tourism development. This study makes a significant theoretical contribution to the urban and rural tourism and residents’ perceptions literature by comparing rural and urban WHSs residents. Furthermore, this study has a number of practical implications for the local authorities of rural and urban WHSs.     

Unique but integrated: The role of individuation and assimilation processes in teen opinion leadership

Opinion leaders propel the diffusion of innovation and exert a significant influence on the marketplace. This influence is especially pronounced during adolescence, a period marked by increasing reliance on peers and the emergence of a tension between two countervailing needs: assimilation and individuation. A survey of 1142 adolescents reveals that these developmental needs affect adolescent opinion leadership in the critical clothing market. Adolescent opinion leadership relies on a balance between desires for assimilation (i.e., centrality within the peer network) and individuation (i.e., need for uniqueness); adolescents' susceptibility to peers' normative influence and gender moderate these relationships. Adolescents who occupy central positions within their peer network tend to be opinion leaders, though only if they are not susceptible to normative influence. Position within the peer network is a key for girls, whereas need for uniqueness is a key for boys. These differences implicate different approaches for managers targeting adolescent males and females.     

高职院校国际合作办学转型提升的思考

从我国高等教育的可持续发展角度提出了高职院校国际合作办学转型发展的工作思路,介绍和分析了高职院校国际合作办学的现状,对高职院校国际合作办学中存在的问题进行了详细的分析,并提出了相应的对策和建议。     

家庭旅游决策研究的中国化理论视角与分析思路

家庭作为社会结构的基础单元，一直是社会科学领域的重点研究对象。比较而言，国外旅游研究领域虽长期重视家庭旅游决策研究，但其理论成果的本土化应用仍值得质疑，重要原因之一是不同社会文化背景下消费者行为内涵与表现的独特性。由此，文章在国外相关研究成果的分析上提出了家庭旅游决策研究的本土化理论视角（现象学视角——发现问题；社会学与心理学视角——提炼与解析问题；管理学视角——解决问题）与分析思路（家庭结构；意识形态；内容与结构组成）。以期该命题的中国本土化研究能归于本源，凸显中国本土社会文化下家庭旅游决策行为的基本风貌。     

地方院校大学生自主创业现状调查

通过对地方院校大学生自主创业的现状进行问卷调查,研究大学生自主创业面临的困难。结果表明:地方院校大学生在自主创业能力、创业环境、创业教育等方面面临严峻的问题。针对以上问题对如何引导大学生自主创业提出了具体的建议与措施。     

浅谈高校考风建设与诚信教育

考风是校风的重要组成部分,是一所大学传统底蕴和办学理念的集中体现。良好的考风考纪是提高人才培养质量的必要因素,是维护学生评价工作的严肃性和权威性的保证。可是在当前高校中,考风不正是一个相当普遍的问题,这不仅违反了考试公平、公正原则,而且无法正常反映出教与学的效果,考风不正的原因有很多,诚信教育的缺失是主要方面。本文对当前高校考风中存在的种种问题进行了系统分析和总结,然后针对这些问题,从多个方面入手提出相应的对策。     

民办医学高校教学基地建设的影响因素浅析

民办医学高校教学基地建设是制约学校发展过程中存在的诸多难题之一,而这一难题在很大程度上关系到教育功能的实现。探析其影响因素,对民办医学院校破解发展难题具有现实意义。