Selecting explanatory factors of voting decisions by means of fsQCA and ANN

This investigation applies fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) and an artificial neural networks method (ANN) with the aim of addressing the determinants of votes regarding managerial proposals presented in corporate meetings. The data refer to companies in the United States banking industry and they cover the period from 2003 to 2013. The results show that the variables that contribute to explain the voting support have changed over time. Thus, during the 2003–2006 sub-period the number of funds voting appears as the most clearly outstanding variable. On the contrary, in the 2007–2009 sub-period there is a heterogeneous set of explanatory features that includes the total volume of assets, the leverage ratio and the return on assets ratio, among others, as the most remarkable factors. Finally, in the 2010–2013 sub-period, there are no specific features or combinations that contribute to voting support, indicating that the explanatory factors are yet to be consolidated after the financial downturn.     

Background factors to innovation performance: results of an empirical study using fsQCA methodology

On the one hand, we have analyzed the relationships between four key constructs: entrepreneurial orientation, online social networks, organizational learning capability and innovation performance. On the other hand, we have observed the importance of correctly using and justifying the calibration in fsQCA given that the obtained results may differ. We developed an empirical study with 209 four-star and five-star Spanish hotels. Using the fsQCA methodology, the results show that in order to obtain innovative results, hotels should combine Entrepreneurial Orientation and online Social Networks along with organizational learning capability.     

Contradictions urbaines et guerre civile

The slum area of Quarantina formed part of Beirut near the coast. Migrants of disparate origins—nomads (Bedouins from Saudi Arabia), Kurds from Turkey, Palestinian refugees, Syrian labourers and uprooted Lebanese peasants from the south-settled on land belonging to state officials and to religious institutions, and gradually built up a network of marginal economic and social life. They soon became considered as dangerous social outcasts—as the pariahs of Christian eastern Beirut and of the Lebanese social hierarchy. Although providing the surrounding industries with a consistent labour force, their activities were feared because of subversive political implications. Communication between Palestinian camps and slum areas of Beirut led to raised political consciousness among the Quarantina inhabitants: the ideology of the Palestinian revolution became the symbol of a new struggle. The interlinking of both causes, that of the Lebanese masses and that of the Palestinian refugees, precipitated the repressive action taken by the conservative forces. Quarantina contained an insignificant proportion of Palestinians; nevertheless its inhabitants could possibly organize into embryonic revolutionary movements and give birth to urban guerilla warfare. The slum also obstructed the expansion of the Christian quarter of Achrafieh and impeded the partition projects of the right-wing Phalangist party. The repressive action meted out to the urban population of Quarantina took a particularly violent form. The men were massacred, shot down before their families. The dwellings were plundered. The site, cleared of its ‘gangrene’, is now ready for the construction of a new tourist complex.     

Contradictions of interactive data analysis

Up to now, interactive statistics seems to have bloomed on a creative mess of contradictions and conflicts. But I believe that if we want to advance beyond the present stage, we must try to overcome those. I shall attempt to identify a few of the more crucial ones, ranging from the basics of interactivity and data graphics to issues of large data and data base management, and to distill specific challenges from them.     

浅议企业战略矛盾

企业战略管理是 2 0世纪 5 0年代在美国兴起的一门新兴管理科学 ,也是一门管理艺术。企业战略管理过程中充满着错综复杂的矛盾 ,归纳起来主要有八大矛盾 :组织与环境的矛盾 ;资源与目标的矛盾 ;旧业与新业的矛盾 ;生存与发展的矛盾 ;专业化与多元化的矛盾 ;引进来与走出去的矛盾 ;竞争与合作的矛盾 ;兴办企业与保护环境的矛盾。认真研究并解决好这些矛盾 ,对搞好企业战略管理 ,实现战略制胜很有必要。     

Contradictions in human resource commitment and employment-at-will policies

Employment in the U.S. appears to be subject to two broad, conflicting influences. Foreign competition and declining productivity have resulted in the suggested development of a commitment strategy in employment relations. Current administration policy towards employment, it is argued, combined with prevailing, notions of employment-at-will are in essential, tension with international standards of employment security and the content of the new industrial relations policies advocated by human resource practitioners and researchers.     

把握社会矛盾,构建和谐社会

在体制转型过程中,我国社会产生了一系列的矛盾。在社会主义市场经济条件下,这些社会矛盾具有鲜明的利益性,近年来,这些矛盾呈现愈演愈烈、复杂、解决起来难度大的特点,构建社会主义和谐社会,解决这一系列社会矛盾,我们必须坚持以科学发展观统领经济、社会发展全局,必须着力构建和谐政党,让全体人民共享发展成果。     

关于文化竞争时代企业矛盾的认识与分析

矛盾无时不在,无时不有,任何事物的发生、发展乃至消亡,都是自身矛盾运动及环境矛盾影响的结果,这已是人类的共识。那么,矛盾规律在现代企业处于文化竞争阶段的内涵是什么?如何把握与应用?就成为企业领导人必须关注的课题,成为企业能否走向成功的关键所在。     

高等学校政府拨款存在的矛盾和对策

对高等教育投入制度的研究是高等教育理论界、政府部门和高校共同关心的话题。文章通过回顾历史沿革,采用实证研究的方法,揭示教育资源在配置和使用过程中存在的现实问题,特别是关涉制度、体制和机制等方面问题,向政府和高校提出重新审视现有的拨款体制、改变现阶段结构性经费不足问题、重视预算管理等建议,从而既要确保政府拨款的科学性,提高财政资金的使用效益,用时又须充分发挥学校的自主办学权,促进高等院校健康、快速地发展。     

会计信息供求矛盾及协调问题

会计作为一个信息系统，必须保证其传递的信息满足使用者的需求。但是现行的会计信息需求结构和会计信息的供给结构存在着矛盾的环节和不协调的方面，对信息使用者及市场经济运行产生的不良影响，解决这些矛盾环节和不协调方面是现代会计发展的必然趋势。     

Learning the Organisation: Confusions and Contradictions For New Managers

Diane Preston, who is Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Loughborough University Business School, draws on a study of graduates from four sites of a multinational chemical company to discuss the process of socialisation of new managers. She argues that of particular significance is the new managers’ relationship with their own manager; where the manager is supportive and encouraging, this creates a positive lens through which other organisational activities are seen.     

市场经济运行中的利益分配矛盾解析──以旧城改造为例

市场经济体制下的旧城改造是一项牵扯矛盾多而又复杂的社会工程,其中拆迁阶段的利益冲突尤为激烈.旧城改造意味着利益关系的重构,阐明了利益分配矛盾的成因,从制度、技术和实施三个层面提出了改良措施.     

基层党组织在化解社会矛盾和处置突发事件中的作用研究

研究和探索基层党组织建设的新路子、新模式,强化党组织化解各类社会矛盾和处理突发性事件的能力,是企业提高经济效益、实现科学发展及和谐发展至关重要的组织保证。文章以南宁市交易场三楼商场党组织的实际工作案例,分析企业党组织在化解社会矛盾和处置突发事件过程中如何更好地发挥主力军作用,并从思想教育、组织建设、制度建设等方面入手,创新活动载体,紧紧抓住群众路线的工作核心,发挥基层党组织的战斗堡垒作用和党员的维稳核心作用,实现早发现、早疏导、早化解,使矛盾纠纷化解在基层。     

提高我国粮食综合生产能力面临的矛盾与对策

一、提高粮食综合生产能力面临的矛盾和问题(一)耕地与水资源,是影响我国提高粮食综合生产能力的关键性因素我国是一个资源约束型国家。目前,人均耕地水平仍居世界低水平,不及世界平均水平的47%,并且呈现出以下几个特点:(1)耕地分布极为不均衡。人均耕地大于0.13公顷的12个省(区),主要分布在东北和西北。南方四省(广东、福建、江苏、浙江)和北京、天津、上海人均耕地不足0.067公顷。(2)耕地质量不高。长江流域及其以南地区,水资源量占全国的80%,但耕地仅占全国的38%。(3)耕地退化严重。受荒漠化影响,我国干旱、半干旱地区,40%的耕地不同程度…     

基层党组织在化解社会矛盾和处置突发事件中的作用研究

研究和探索基层党组织建设的新路子、新模式,强化党组织化解各类社会矛盾和处理突发性事件的能力,是企业提高经济效益、实现科学发展及和谐发展至关重要的组织保证。文章以南宁市交易场三楼商场党组织的实际工作案例,分析企业党组织在化解社会矛盾和处置突发事件过程中如何更好地发挥主力军作用,并从思想教育、组织建设、制度建设等方面入手,创新活动载体,紧紧抓住群众路线的工作核心,发挥基层党组织的战斗堡垒作用和党员的维稳核心作用,实现早发现、早疏导、早化解,使矛盾纠纷化解在基层。     

Knowing What You Don’t Know? Discourses and Contradictions in Knowledge Management Research

ABSTRACT Even though knowledge management scholars generally advocate explicit management of knowledge, there is research that cautions against the unintended consequences of such efforts. Some researchers go as far as arguing that knowledge and management are contradictory concepts ( Alvesson and Kärreman, 2001 ). This paper explores the apparent double‐edged nature of knowledge management by developing a theory‐based framework that highlights different fundamental assumptions about knowledge and its management. This framework, which is an adaptation of Burrell and Morgan's four paradigms of social and organizational inquiry, distinguishes among a neo‐functionalist, a constructivist, a critical and a dialogic discourse. We use the contradiction of managing tacit knowledge, which has been highlighted in the knowledge management literature, as an analytical device to explore the four discourses in more detail. We show how notions of knowledge, and what it means to manage knowledge, vary across the four discourses. We conclude that all four discourses need to be appreciated, understood and represented in knowledge management research for this area of inquiry to deal with the rich and problematic nature of managing knowledge in practice.     

Contradictions of the Climate-Friendly City: New Perspectives on Eco-Gentrification and Housing Justice

As local governments and corporations promote ‘climate friendliness’, and a low-carbon lifestyle becomes increasingly desirable, more middle- and upper-income urban residents are choosing to live near public transit, on bike- and pedestrian-friendly streets, and in higher-density mixed-use areas. This rejection of classical forms of suburbanization has, in part, increased property values in neighborhoods offering these amenities, displacing lower-income, often non-white, residents. Increased prevalence of creative and technology workers appears to accelerate this trend. We argue that a significant and understudied socio-environmental contradiction also occurs where the actual environmental outcomes of neighborhood transformation may not be what we expect. New research on greenhouse gas emissions shows that more affluent residents have much larger carbon footprints because of their consumption, even when reductions in transportation or building energy emissions are included. We describe an area in Seattle, Washington, the location of Amazon's headquarters, experiencing this contradiction and show a distinct convergence of city investments in low-carbon infrastructure, significant rises in housing prices and decreases in lower-income and non-white residents. We conclude with a discussion of a range of issues that require more attention by scholars interested in housing justice and/or urban sustainability.     

When Production and Consumption Meet: Cultural Contradictions and the Enchanting Myth of Customer Sovereignty

ABSTRACT The central cultural contradiction of capitalism, argued Bell some 25 years ago, was the existence of rationalized, disciplined production alongside free and hedonistic consumption. This paper argues that this thesis, although overstated, has resonance within contemporary capitalism. The paper then considers the question of how this contradiction is managed when production and consumption meet directly within the service interaction. On the production-side rationalization is joined by customer-orientation, and on the consumption-side management promotes consumption of the enchanting myth of sovereignty. Here the customer is meant to experience a sense of being sovereign. At the same time the space is created for the customer to be, potentially, substantively directed and influenced to follow the requirements that flow from the rationalized elements of production. Key aspects of the service interaction, including the menu and its presentation, the display of empathy and aesthetic labour, and the use of naming within the service interaction, are analysed in terms of the promotion of the enchanting myth of sovereignty. Consumption, however, is a fragile process, and remains, to an important degree, 'unmanageable'. The analysis, therefore, also examines how the promotion of the enchanting myth of sovereignty systematically creates the conditions for the myth's negation.     

城中村多元矛盾与冲突解决路径探索——以温州为例

根据社会学冲突理论,城中村的多重矛盾和冲突既是社会变迁的产物,又是社会变迁的动力.通过对温州城中村的实地考察,以及对表现出来的矛盾冲突的分析,进而看到其深层根源.解决城中村多元矛盾与冲突的路径一方在村庄和村民.另一方则是政府及相关部门,需要双方共同做出努力.