Social ＆ Culture

Garnival Held to Celebrate Beijing 2008 Olympics;China Culture Week Opens in Venezuela;Palace Museum to Reopen in June;Chinese Firms Show Modest Increase at World Photo Fair.     

Social & Culture

650 Schools in China's Underdeveloped Areas to install Lightning Rods Chinese engineers have begun installing lightning rods in 650 primary and secondary schools in underdeveloped areas to prevent casualty and economic loss in schools,as part of a national disaster reduction effort. The work is expected to be completed at the end of the year in 14 provincial areas, including Chongqing,Sichuan,Fujian, Guangxiand Guizhou,according to the China Meteorological Administration     

Social & Culture

Beijing Specialty Gives Olympic Patrons A Taste of China The famed Beijing duck is a hot gold medal contender for the most-popular food in the host city of the on-going Olympic Games. The Quanjude roast duck restaurant on the 840-meter-long Qianmen Street,which     

Social ＆ Culture

National Stadium Debuts with Good Luck Walk,Chengdu to Host World Puppet Festival,China Cleaning up TV and Radio Programs,44,000 Overseas College Students Return to China.     

Social CRM连连看

有人说,Social CRM(社会化客户关系管理)正在迅速地从一个单纯的粉丝/好友聚集之地,转变成消费者和企业相峙的阵地。很多时候,客户是品牌开展各项工作的中心,拥有越多的客户资源,驰骋商场就拥有越大的胜算。随着社交     

Social ＆ Culture

SCO Ministers Meet to Boost Cultural Links,Tea, Arts, Craft and Clothing Top Purchase for Tourists in China,20,000 Runners Participate in 1st Lidingoloppet China,2008 HK ＆ Macao Visual Arts Exhibition Opens,Chinese Language Skills Seen As Gateway to Better Job in Cambodia,Musical Summer in Harbin Begins.     

Social ＆ Culture

China Sends Welcoming Message to Worldwide Artists,Beijing Int＇l Education Expo Opens,Chlnu＇s Annual Tourist Arrivals to Top 163 MIn In 3 Yoars.     

Social Public Care Ahead

China faces toughest after-quake reconstruction since 1976.In contrast,with neighbouring Myanmar s lethargic and secre- tive handling of its cyclone ten days earlier, China responded to the earthquake rapidly and with uncharacteristic openness.Within     

Does Corruption Have Social Roots? The Role of Culture and Social Capital

The aim of this work is to analyse the influence of sociocultural factors on corruption levels. Taking as starting point Husted (J Int Bus Studies 30:339–359, 1999) and Graeff (In: Lambsdorff J, Taube M, Schramm M (eds) The new institutional economics of corruption. Routledge, London, 2005) proposals, we consider both the interrelation between cultural dimensions and the diverse expressions of social capital with corruption. According to our results, the universalistic trust (linking and bridging social capital) constitutes a positive social capital that is negatively linked to corruption. In contrast, the particularistic levels of trust (bonding) can constitute a negative social capital directly related to corruption levels. Furthermore, cultures which are favourable to the legitimation of dependency relations and the formation of closed particularistic groups (power-distance and community factors) create a breeding ground for the development of these amoral rent-seeking structures.     

Social TV作用何在?

正不管是在电视和社会关系网络分析领域,还是在代理公司和营销人的疆界里,最近基于电视的社会关系网络服务(Social TV)这一概念变得炙手可热。但是事实上,并不是所有的人都真正理解这个新词汇的内涵。首先为Social TV进行一个简单的解释就是:"双屏幕"体验——人们在看电视的同时,用移动设备在社交网站上分享他们对于正在观看的电视节目的评论,其结果就是会     

Does Social Media Matter? Investigating the Effect of Social Media Features on Consumer Attitudes

The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of social media's features (i.e., entertainment, usefulness, informativeness and irritation) toward consumers’ attitude toward the brand. Subsequently, this study explores the impact of this attitude toward consumers’ brand loyalty, brand awareness and purchase intention. Data for this study was collected through a large public university in Australia. Paper surveys were distributed to students, their friends and members of their immediate families (N = 724). The findings show that entertainment feature has the strongest impact on consumers’ attitude toward the brand's social media use, followed by informativeness, usefulness and finally, irritation. Consumers’ attitude toward a brand's social media strongly influences consumer loyalty, awareness and purchase intention. The findings of this research provide some insights into the impact of different features of social media which will be useful for practitioners and academics interested in social media.     

Why and How Does Social Responsibility Differ Among SMEs? A Social Capital Systemic Approach

Research suggests that organizational justice (procedural, distributive, and interactional justice) has important impacts on work-related attitudes and behaviors, such as organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). In this article, we explore the extent to which individualism moderates the relationship between organizational justice and OCB (organizational obedience, participation, and loyalty) among citizens in Kyrgyzstan. We make additional contributions to the literature because we know very little about these constructs in this former Soviet Union country, Kyrgyzstan, an under-researched and under-represented region of the world. Results of our data collected from 402 managers and employees in Kyrgyzstan offer the following new discoveries. All three justice constructs are related to OCB. Individualism moderates only the distributive and interactive justice to OCB relationships. We develop an intricate theory with provocative implications: Procedural justice produces obedience. For “individualists,” interactional justice inspires loyalty and, interestingly, distributive justice “can only buy” participation, but “can’t buy” loyalty. Therefore, for individualists, interactional justice outweighs distributive justice for organizational loyalty. Based on Kyrgyz citizens’ justice, OCB, and individualism, our theory reveals novel insights regarding culture, money attitude, and intrinsic motivation and provides critical and practical implications to the field of business ethics.     

中国Social2.0潮流将超越美国

美国是多应用构成的多平台,而中国是单应用构成的单平台。Social2.0时代最理想的结构恰恰是中国结构,而不是美国结构今天大家都看到微博很火,但实际上这只是一个大潮流的开始,即社会生活的网络化。     

Social Security Fund Ready to Enter International Market

Vice-Chairman of the Board of the National Social Security Fund Council. Feng Jianshen. revealed recently that. from now on. China plans to use five years or even a longer thne to make the total social security fund assets reach RMB 1 tillion and build the National Social Security Fund Council into a world first-rate old-age pension administrative agency.Feng emphasized that after three years' operation, social security fund has entered into a crucial period. The key lies in innovation, which, first of all, means     

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect Information Asymmetry?

In this study, we examine the empirical association between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and information asymmetry by investigating their simultaneous and endogenous effects. Employing an extensive U.S. sample, we find an inverse association between CSR engagement and the proxies of information asymmetry after controlling for various firm characteristics. The results hold using 2SLS considering the reverse side of information asymmetry influencing CSR activities. The results also hold after mitigating endogeneity based on the dynamic panel system generalized method of moment. Furthermore, the CSR–information asymmetry relation is amplified in high-risk firms due to managers’ efforts to build a good reputation. Last, we find that CSR engagement is inversely associated with reputational risk measure and lower predicted value of reputational risk is positively associated with lower information asymmetry measures. We interpret these results as supporting the stakeholder theory-based, reputation-building explanation that considers CSR engagement as a vehicle to build and maintain firm reputation thereby enhancing the information environment.     

Social Security Fund Ready to Enter International Market

“Mekong River Regional Development Project advocated by Asian Development Band (ADB) has been implemented. Trans-Asia Railway and Trans-Asia Highway are being discussed. It is a good opportunity for Asian Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) to cooperate and financing these large crossboarder projects.”     

China''''s Social Security System for the Urban Poor

China'ssocialsecuritysystemiscomposedofthreefields:basiclivingsecurityforunemployedstaffandworkers,unemploymentinsuranceandminimumlivingseeurityforurbaninhabitants.Thebasiclivingconditionofunemployedstaffandworkersareguaranteedbyemploymentservicecent...