Identifying Worldviews on Corporate Sustainability: A Content Analysis of Corporate Sustainability Reports

Companies commonly issue sustainability or corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports. This study seeks to understand worldviews of corporate sustainability, or the corporate message conveyed regarding what sustainability or CSR is and how to enact it. Content analysis of corporate sustainability reports is used to position each company report within stages of corporate sustainability. Results reveal that there are multiple coexisting worldviews of corporate sustainability, but the most dominant worldview is focused on the business case for sustainability, a position anchored in the weak sustainability paradigm. We contend that the business case and weak sustainability advanced in corporate sustainability reports and by the Global Reporting Initiative are poor representations of sustainability. Ecological embeddedness, or a locally responsive strategy that is sensitive to local ecosystems, may hold the key to improved ecological sensemaking, which in turn could lead to more mature levels of corporate sustainability worldviews that support strong sustainability and are rooted in environmental science. This must be supported by government regulation. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

旅游管理专业人才培养模式构建与实施效果评估

旅游管理专业“四轮驱动型”人才培养模式是为了顺应我国目前旅游业快速发展对旅游专业人才素质提升的需求提出的。本文建构了“四轮驱动型”人才培养模式体系,以湖北大学旅游管理专业为例提出了“四轮驱动型”人才培养模式的实施方案,并对该模式进行了评估。     

产品生命周期的研究

产品生命周期是指一代产品进入市场后需求存续变化的周期,而不是指需求量、销量波动变化的周期。我们应当研究细分市场的产品生命周期,根据市场某种特性质变的界面来划分产品生命周期的阶段,才更具有营销意义。现行流行的划分产品周期阶段的四种方法。缺乏理论依据,在应用中有较大的随意性。为此,提出了综合判断法,根据多个判据的组合,定位了产品生命周期阶段之间的界面,并提出了对应的营销策略。     

超临界350MW电厂四大管道国产化应用分析

目前超临界机组四大管道采用进口产品带来的一系列问题,如价格昂贵,采购周期长,管道制造过程质量无法监督控制,造成电厂基建费用增加,建设周期长,现场安装前检验发现诸多质量缺陷等。通过对国内钢厂所生产的四大管道化学成分、性能指标分析及调研已应用国产化四大管道情况,为某350MW电厂机组四大管道国产化提出建议。     

特殊条件下客运站工程施工组织设计

施工组织设计能有效地把施工生产合理地组织起来,使工程的设计和施工、技术和经济、前方和后方有机结合起来,它有着重要的指导作用。文章以该车站工程的施工环境、特殊条件为基础,对施工组织设计进行深入研究,并结合实际工程概况制定了有效的解决措施;该工程又将"四新"技术切实有效地融入了施工组织设计中,从而保证了建设项目优质、高产、经济和安全。     

“四港合一”背景下广西北部湾港口发展现状研究

首先分析了广西北部湾钦州港、防城港、北海港、铁山港实现"四港合一"的必要性以及可实现的增效效益,接着分析了"四港合一"面临的困境,提出了实现"四港合一"的发展对策。     

Assessing time-varying stock market integration in Economic and Monetary Union for normal and crisis periods

In this paper, we examine the stock market integration process amongst 17 Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) countries from January 2002 to June 2013 over a normal period as well as for the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and Eurozone Debt Crisis (EDC) periods. We classify the economies in three groups (A, B and C) based on their GDP to examine whether the economic size influences financial integration. Seven indicators are used for the purpose, namely, beta convergence, sigma convergence, variance ratio, asymmetric DCC, dynamic cointegration, market synchronisation measure and common components approach. The results suggest that large-sized EMU economies (termed as Group A) exhibit strong stock market integration. Moderate integration is observed for middle-sized EMU economies with old membership (termed as Group B). Small-sized economies (termed as Group C) economies seemed to be least integrated within the EMU stock market system. The findings further suggest presence of contagion effects as one moves from normal to crisis periods, which are specifically stronger for more integrated economies of Group A. We recommend institutional, regulatory and other policy reforms for Group B and especially Group C to achieve higher level of integration.     

“三从四德”与封建女性行为规范的形成

董仲舒由“阳尊阴卑”出发,确立了“夫尊妇卑”的伦理规范,并在此之上,提出“夫为妻纲”的道德准则。在这一准则的指导下,董氏又继承了刘向对“三从”的解释,将原本属于礼制规范的“三从”,扩大为女性行为规范。后,班昭在认可女性“卑弱”身份的前提下,详细阐释了《周礼·天官》中的“四德”,使之成为禁锢女性行为的枷锁。     

大学文化与大学内涵发展研究——以中南林业科技大学为例

我国大学未来的发展模式是从重视规模增长的外延式发展转变到依靠质量提高的内涵式发展的轨道上来。中南林业科技大学以文化建设为引导,以＂求是求新、树木树人＂为学校文化核心精神,以学科引领为龙头,以教育提质为中心,以人才强校为根本,以管理创新为保障,坚持走内涵式发展道路。     

坚持“四个统一”着力抓好基层思想政治教育

思想政治教育在继承和发扬优良传统的基础上,必须坚持＂四个统一＂,切实在内容、形式、方法、手段、机制等方面进行创新和改造,不断增强基层思想政治教育的时代感,加强针对性、实效性、主动性。