The economic and political arguments for and against social clauses

The globalisation of markets is calling national employment and social legislation increasingly into question, so that not only the international trade union organisations but also the Clinton Administration are calling for workers' rights to be embodied in trade agreements. This article deals both with the fundamental question whether international labour standards serve a useful purpose and the more specific question whether trade agreements are a suitable way of enforcing minimum standards.     

The economic and social impact of telecommunications output

Economists, management researchers and sociologists have all examined the impact of the spread of information and communication technologies. There has until now, however, been relatively little interconnectivity and cross-fertilisation of their fi ndings. The following paper attempts to derive a set of integrated “causality frameworks” and tests the resulting hypotheses using data for Spain.     

The economic,social and political prerequisites of development

Whether development aid promises to be successful depends not least on the conditions prevalling in the developing countries themselves. A study commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation has examined whether it is possible to identify universal requirements for successful development in Third World countries. Its main findings are presented below.     

The effects of social justice and stigma-consciousness on gay customers' service recovery evaluation

This study examines how social justice and the stigma-consciousness level of gay customers influence their service recovery perceptions. The results, based on an experiment involving 379 gay respondents, indicate that distributive justice, procedural justice, and interactional justice significantly affect gay customers' service recovery evaluations (satisfaction) and post-complaint behavioral intentions (negative word-of-mouth and repatronage). Also, higher stigma-consciousness gay customers show more negative service recovery evaluations and behavioral intentions than those with lower stigma-consciousness. Service providers who are interested in attracting and maintaining gay customers should create awareness among their employees about stigma-consciousness.     

Impoverished consumers,Catholic social teaching,and distributive justice

Consistent with the goals of the special issue of Journal of Business Research, this paper examines the 1986 pastoral letter of the U.S. Catholic bishops titled, Economic Justice for All, and its impact on marketing practice for the last 25 years. The brief literature review places this text within the larger context of Catholic Social Teaching and marketing practice, teasing out four testable propositions for examining social and distributive justice. The evidence presented from a variety of secondary sources reveals a lack of sustained progress to meet the goals inherent in the bishops' appeal. To advance their arguments, modifications to the ways marketers are educated, incentivized, and reviewed are posited, with a final secular way of considering these principles.     

We’re all connected: The power of the social media ecosystem

Consumers are adopting increasingly active roles in co-creating marketing content with companies and their respective brands. In turn, companies and organizations are looking to online social marketing programs and campaigns in an effort to reach consumers where they ‘live’ online. However, the challenge facing many companies is that although they recognize the need to be active in social media, they do not truly understand how to do it effectively, what performance indicators they should be measuring, and how they should measure them. Further, as companies develop social media strategies, platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter are too often treated as stand-alone elements rather than part of an integrated system. This article offers a systematic way of understanding and conceptualizing online social media, as an ecosystem of related elements involving both digital and traditional media. We highlight a best-practice case study of an organization's successful efforts to leverage social media in reaching an important audience of young consumers. Then, we conclude with several insights and lessons related to the strategic integration of social media into a firm's marketing communications strategy.     

Conceptual issues for integrated economic and social resource exchange theories*

The objectives of this paper are: (1) to contrast social and economic exchange assumptions, philosophies, reciprocities, valuation processes and problem-solving behaviours for purposes of clarification of social and economic decision situations and as a step toward theoretical integration; (2) to present the position that exchange theory would be more useful in family research if economic and social exchange theories were more successfully integrated; (3) to request the continued co-operation of family theorists in creating a theory which is useful in the interdependent social and economic domains of family life such as management; (4) to clarify the importance of this theoretical integration for more effective teaching and research in family resource management.     

The nature and origins of social venture mission: An exploratory study of political ideology and moral foundations

Although organizational mission is central to social venturing, little is known about the nature and origins of social ventures' missions. In particular, the field lacks a framework for understanding the moral content of nascent ventures' “prosocial” missions that rely on quite different—and potentially conflicting—moral values. We engage in an exploratory study, drawing on moral foundations theory and upper echelons theory to develop framing questions related to the moral discourse in social venture missions and the role of founders' political ideology in relation to this moral discourse. We construct a novel dataset using computer-aided text analysis on the mission statements of over 50,000 nascent nonprofit ventures in the United States, supplemented by voter registration data from 17 states and Washington, D.C. Our findings reveal rich nuance in the moral discourse found in organizations' mission statements. Furthermore, founding teams' political ideologies are strongly associated with the moral discourse in their social ventures' stated missions—and in ways that differ intriguingly from findings in moral psychology at the individual level. We draw on these new insights to develop a roadmap for future research on organizational mission in relation to social venturing, moral markets, mission drift, and political ideology.     

西方国家维护社会公平的理论和实践对我国的启示

社会公平作为社会主义的本质要求,是衡量社会全面进步的重要尺度,也是社会主义和谐社会的深厚基础,文章通过论述西方国家维护社会公平的理论和实践经验,提出了实现我国社会公平的几点思考.     

企业思想政治工作探析

企业管理与思想政治工作创新是保持企业活力、促进企业可持续发展的长期的战略性工作,对于一个企业来说加强管理与思想政治工作就像是给企业注入新的活力和新的血液.     

公平理论在劳资管理中的运用

首先介绍一家中外合资企业薪资收入和人员流失的情况.该合资公司为了便于管理,不直接雇佣员工,而是通过劳务公司作为第三方来间接雇佣,这样,员工所有的保险、医疗以及其它由社会提供的福利保障都是由用人单位通过现金的形式直接支付给劳务公司,而其具体的管理和运作都是有劳务公司负责,这也是许多外国公司常用的一种管理员工的方法,这样,公司的员工就来自多家劳务公司.下表是该公司同一岗位、不同渠道来源的员工的薪资统计表.     

The role of self-service technologies in restoring justice

As an increasing number of customers choose to interact with service firms via technology, there is an urgent need to understand whether consumers react differently to technology-based failures/recovery efforts than human failures/recovery efforts. Using resource exchange theory as a framework, the present investigation examined the role of failure mode (SST vs. face-to-face encounter) and recovery mode on customers' fairness perceptions. Results from Study 1 suggest that compensation offered by a front-line employee might be more effective in restoring justice with traditional failures (match condition) than with SST failures (mismatch condition). Findings from Study 2 further support the matching hypothesis in terms of distributive justice. On the other hand, human touch seems more effective in restoring interactional fairness than on-line recovery. The follow-up study extends the matching hypothesis to satisfaction with problem handling and repurchase intent. Managerial implications of these findings are discussed.     

The economic outlook for 1976

While in the United States economic growth finally broke through scoring in excess of 12 p.c. in real terms in the third quarter of 1975, there was some slowdown in the recovery toward the end of the year. What is to be expected in the internal and external economic sphere during 1976, while the election contest is heating up?     

让统计工作服务社会经济发展

随着经济的发展,企业之间的竞争也日益激烈,统计工作的作用也愈加的明显.在市场经济的大背景下,只有充分认识到统计工作的重要性,充分发挥统计工作对社会和经济发展所起的积极作用,才能促进企业的发展,使社会和经济步入一个新的台阶.     

国资委研究局副局长楚序平：企业履行社会责任 推动经济发展方式转变

企业履行社会责任最重要的是要回应利益相关方的关切,各个利益相关方在不同时期有不同的期望和关注。就当前来讲,我国社会各界最期望企业履行社会责任的重要议题是“转变经济发展方式,实现可持续发展”。在经济复苏的过程中,我们必须以应对国际金融危机为契机,加快经济发展方式的转变,解决经济发展中存在的深层次结构性问题。     

关于社会主义思想与实践发展的思考

邓小平的社会主义本质理论科学地概括了社会主义实践的经验教训和发展要求,对马克思主义的社会主义认识作了深入的阐述;江泽民重新规定了社会主义社会是人的全面发展和进步的社会,进一步丰富和升华了社会主义本质理论.     

新时期如何加强社会经济管理的现实思考

随着社会主义现代化建设步伐的加快,新时期我国的社会经济管理的发展取得了一定的成效.同时经济管理工作作为社会发展的重要支柱,是国家建设中的主要课题,社会经济管理的稳定发展是新时期社会建设的根本目标伴随着社会主义经济管理结构的变化,经济体制的改革,社会经济管理中产生了很多新的问题和情况.我国新时期的社会经济管理工作任重而道远.本文对新时期如何加强社会经济管理进行了论述