Social Comparisons in Ultimatum Bargaining

Experiments are used to examine the effects of social comparisons in ultimatum bargaining. We inform responders about the average offer before they decide whether to accept or reject their specific offer. This significantly increases offers and offer‐specific rejection probabilities. For comparison, we consider another change in informational conditions: telling responders the total pie is $30—ex ante it was either $15 or $30—affects offers and rejection probabilities roughly as much. Our results are consistent with people’s dislike for deviations from the norm of equity but inconsistent with fairness theories, where people dislike income disparity between themselves and their referents.     

New Labour and Community Protests: the Case of the Govanhill Swimming Pool Campaign, Glasgow

Taking the case study of a community based protest against the closure of a swimming pool in Glasgow, this paper seeks to raise important critical questions about some of the key ideas informing New Labour's urban policy agenda: social capital and active community. It argues that normative notions of active citizenship seriously conflict with bottom-up community protests, highlighting in the process issues of power and inequality. Against claims that New Labour is promoting government through community, here we claim that in the context of this community protest, there was government against community.     

Out of the Mouths of Babes: Business Ethics and Youths in Asia

A model of corporate ethics and social responsibility (CESR) was developed and empirically tested among Chinese business undergraduates in Hong Kong and Singapore. As predicted, it was found that CESR beliefs were negatively related to Machiavellianism and two Confucian concepts, guanxi (interpersonal connections) and mianzi (face). CESR beliefs were also lower among Hong Kong than Singaporean youths. The negative effects of guanxi, mianzi, and Machiavellianism were more pronounced for the Hong Kong than Singapore sample. Implications of these findings are discussed and directions for future research suggested.     

Symmetry and order in the portfolio allocation problem

Summary. This research studies the role of multivariate distribution structures on random asset returns in determining the optimal allocation vector for an expected utility maximizer. All our conclusions pertain for the set of risk averters. By carefully disturbing symmetry in the distribution of the, possibly covarying, returns, we ascertain the ordinal structure of the optimized allocation vector. Rank order of allocations is also established when a permutation symmetric random vector is mapped into the returns vector through location and scale shifts. It is shown that increased dispersion in the vectors of location and scale parameters benefit, ex-ante, investors as does a decrease in the rank correlation coefficient between the location and scale parameter vectors. Revealed preference comparative static results are identified for the location and scale vectors of asset returns. For most issues addressed, we arrive at much stronger inferences when a safe asset is available. Received: August 8, 2000; revised version: January 8, 2001     

转型背景下的社会心理优化

社会转型带来的一项艰巨工作就是解决人们的不良社会心理问题.如何从理论上探索优化社会心理的方法.这是当前构建和谐辽宁急需解决的理论问题.通过对辽宁地区不良社会心理的特点、不良社会心理的形成原因与机制的解析,提出优化社会心理要发挥舆论导向、营造社会公正公平环境、切实解决民生问题、建立有效心理疏导机制、不断提高科学思维能力等心理疏导路径.     

企业社会责任若干问题探析

企业社会责任一直是社会关注的热点问题,文章对企业社会责任的性质、企业社会责任的范围与结构以及企业社会责任法律化等问题进行了分析,对有争议的一些问题进行了梳理与厘清,并提出了企业社会责任法律化应遵循的若干原则。     

信用认知对农户借贷还款行为的影响研究——基于河南省的实证分析

信用认知是影响农户拖欠借款的重要因素,并且认知程度越深,拖欠贷款的可能性越低.家庭外出务工人数、家庭公共费用缴纳情况、区位年平均家庭收入显著地影响农户拖欠借款的行为,而户主年龄及其受教育水平、纯收入及借贷利率对农户拖欠借款行为没有产生显著的影响.     

上市公司社会责任信息披露：问题与对策

企业社会责任是企业与社会经济发展到一定历史阶段的产物。从长期来看,企业积极履行社会责任可以提高生产效率,增强企业凝聚力,有助于帮助企业避免风险,促进企业的持续发展。在国际大环境的推动下,我国越来越重视企业的社会责任。目前,在年报中披露企业社会责任信息已成为上市公司一项基本信息披露职责。本文分析了我国上市公司社会责任信息披露存在的问题、剖析问题的原因,并针对性提出改进建议。     

科技特派员制度对农民科学素质提升的实践与思考

农民在我国的人口构成中占据相当大比例,提高他们的科学素养,对于改善其生活质量、实现全面小康生活目标至关重要,同时也关系着我国新农村的建设与发展。文章通过阐述广西科技特派员工作发展状况,强调了科技特派员制度是提高农民科学素养的有效途径,并提出进一步利用农村科技特派员提升农民科学素质的思路。