Growing China’s renewables sector: a developmental state approach

Over the last decade China expanded its renewable energy sector with unprecedented speed. This success story presents a challenge to Western modes of environmental governance, where stakeholder participation is often deemed a necessary pre-condition for effective policy outcomes. Drawing on new research (including previously unpublished interview data), the article first discusses established modes of environmental governance before examining the growth of China’s renewables sector through the theoretical lens of the ‘developmental state’. The article then analyses renewable energy policy design and implementation in China, illustrating how top-down command and control strategies have successfully diffused renewable energy technology from a standing start. We argue that (1) China’s distinct approach to the sector differs from Western modes of environmental governance and (2) this has revealed a new path towards renewable energy diffusion that authoritarian states in particular might regard as an attractive alternative to participatory models.     

How Does Executive Strategic Human Resource Management Link to Organizational Ambidexterity? An Empirical Examination of Manufacturing Firms in China

Despite a plethora of studies that demonstrate the positive impact of strategic human resource management on firm performance, existing knowledge of the processes through which such gains can be achieved remains limited. This study aims to extend our knowledge by investigating the mechanism through which a teamwork‐oriented executive strategic human resource management system impacts organizational ambidexterity. Specifically, by integrating the resource‐based view and information‐processing theory, we examine the mediating role of top management team effectiveness and the moderating role of knowledge–sharing intensity from middle managers to top management teams. Drawing on a multiple‐source and multiple‐respondent survey from 144 manufacturing firms in China, we show that top management team effectiveness partially mediates the effect of the executive strategic human resource management system on organizational ambidexterity. Moreover, knowledge‐sharing intensity from middle managers to top management teams strengthens the effect of the executive strategic human resource management system on organizational ambidexterity. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

The Limits to Artist‐Led Regeneration: Creative Brownfields in the Cities of High Culture

Despite the burgeoning literature on creative cities, seldom explored is the context of cities rich in cultural capital but more orthodox in their approach to preserving the autonomy of culture. This article discusses the status of artistic spaces occupying abandoned industrial premises (‘creative brownfields') in historic cities that traditionally shape their policies around prestigious cultural institutions (‘cities of high culture'). Based on comparative insights from St Petersburg and Lausanne, the article explores the relations and tensions between mainstream cultural governance and creative brownfields. While there is no lack of creative brownfields in these cities, their wider urban impact is found to be marginal; moreover, these sites represent dispersed instances of temporary occupations rather than situated clusters of creative actors. More than coincidental, this (lack of) spatialization is argued to result from a particular governmentality—that of high culture—which disregards, rather than promotes, spaces of alternative cultural governance. The article conceptualizes creative brownfields in cities of high culture as the ‘soft infrastructure' of cultural production, in contrast with those in ‘creative cities' as the ‘hard infrastructure' of urban production. The article also calls for a recognition of the local context of regulation and accumulation in understanding the cultural/urban interplay.     

Corporate governance structure and product market competition

This article assesses the effects of the competitive structure of a product market on a firm’s corporate governance structure. Our model demonstrates that shareholders strategically determine the corporate governance structure, including the manager’s stock ownership and his controlling power over the firm, in order to maximize their utility in the product market competition. We find that the manager’s stock ownership is lower and his controlling power over the firm is higher when the firm’s product is more profitable or when competition within the product market is more severe. The inefficiency of the wealth transfer from shareholders to the manager also affects the corporate governance structure.     

企业社会责任与企业治理整合研究

为了推动企业社会责任的发展,迫切需要将企业社会责任与企业治理相整合.这不仅是一个现实选择的问题,而且是一个理论上有待于研究并给予明确回答的问题.通过对这一问题的探讨,认为两者整合的客观基础是企业社会责任发展中存在的外部性问题;两者整合的理论是利益相关者理论;两者整合的实现机制是建立利益相关者共同治理模式.     

高管权力、内部控制与公司价值

从内部控制角度出发,以我国2008—2013年度沪深两市A股上市公司为研究样本,在研究内部控制与公司价值之间关系的基础上考察公司高管权力配置结构对两者之间关系的影响,并进一步分析不同产权性质下内部控制与公司价值之间的关系以及高管权力对两者关系的影响,结果表明：完善的内部控制有助于提升公司价值,高管权力过于集中会削弱内部控制的有效性并抑制内部控制对公司价值的提升作用;与国有上市公司相比,非国有上市公司的内部控制对公司价值存在显著的提升作用,但在高集权的情况下,无论是国有上市公司还是非国有上市公司,内部控制均不能对公司价值起到显著的提升作用。     

党政领导干部经济责任审计评价机制的构建

经济责任审计评价是我国经济责任审计的核心内容和关键环节,我国党政主要领导干部经济责任的评价是在充分民主的背景下开展的,不仅要关注“取之于民、用之于民”,更要强调“利于民”。经济责任审计评价应该努力构建长效机制：首先,进行各利益相关主体的需求期望分析;其次,确定制度目标、制定相应的评价标准和体系并形成经济责任审计评价制度;再次,对执行主体的行为不断进行反馈分析并制定相应的推动措施来保证制度的良性运行,包括党政领导干部的心理转换分析、审计机关的审计质量提升和社会公众的监督平台构建;最后,逐渐形成执行主体自动趋向制度目标的评价机制。     

实践社团情景下的知识转移机理——基于效用理论的探索性研究

实践社团成员知识转移程度与个体知识效用大小紧密相关。初步探讨了实践社团情境下个体知识效用与知识转移之间的相互关系。基于效用价值理论和系统论,提出个体知识效用函数及界定知识效用影响因素。同时,分析在实践社团特定环境中个体知识转移机理,为团队知识共享研究提供一个新的切入点,也为组织知识学习与创新提出新理论依据。     

金融市场发展对企业生存期限影响研究 ——基于银行与股票市场的数据分析

利用中国工业企业数据库,从银行业市场和股票市场入手,分析企业生存的决定因素,结果发现: 银行业市场的发展对企业存续时间有着正面的作用,股票市场的发展对企业存续时间有着负面的作用;在不同样本分类下,这一影响存在着异质性。同时,治理环境变化是影响企业生存的又一因素,良好的治理环境能够发挥金融市场发展带来的正面效果,降低金融市场发展带来的负面作用。     

大学学院层级教代会建设研究与实践

随着大学内部管理体制改革进程中管理重心的下移,结合多年来的管理实践,从学院层级的治理和民主管理这一视角,我们着力提炼新的管理思想,倡导建立二级教代会,践行民主管理思想,奠定和谐校园的建设基础。