A policy capturing analysis of federal district and appellate court sexual harassment cases

A policy capturing analysis of 206 federal district and appellate sexual harassment cases showed that federal judges were moderately consistent in their judgments, with 29% of the variance in case outcomes accounted for by the regression model. Judges used Victim's Reaction, Form of Harassment, and Coercion, to make their ruling, and these three cues accounted for 20% of the variance in judgments. Appellate judges were slightly less consistent than district judges, and there were differences in judgment policy between appellate and district level cases. These findings are consistent with key aspects of the EEOC's Guidelines on Sexual Harassment and suggest that federal judges use the Guidelines to make their judgments. The model could be used by potential plaintiffs or defendants in sexual harassment cases to generate a prediction of the likely outcome of their case, to decide whether to pursue the case in court or seek a settlement.     

Private and Social Incentives for Vertical Contract Disclosure

We follow the framework in Arya and Mittendorf's 2011 Rand Journal of Economics paper but extend their analysis by investigating supplier(s)' equilibrium choices of disclosure or confidentiality regarding their contract terms with the downstream retailers. In the case of a common supplier, we find that the unique subgame perfect Nash equilibrium (SPNE) is for the supplier to choose disclosure. This private incentive is opposite to social incentive, which calls for the regulator to choose confidentiality. In the case of dedicated suppliers, however, there are multiple SPNE due to coordination issues between the suppliers. The case which maximizes social surplus – disclosure – can be supported as a SPNE, together with the case of confidentiality, which maximizes supplier profits at the cost of everyone else. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Governance of Corporate Responses to Climate Change: An International Comparison

In response to pressures from governments, investors, non‐governmental organizations and other stakeholders, many large corporations have adopted a variety of carbon and energy management practices, taken action to reduce their emissions and set targets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Using the case of international retailers, this article examines whether, and under what conditions, non‐state actors might be capable of assuming the governance roles that have historically been played by national governments. This article concludes that external governance pressures can, if they are aligned, robust and of sufficient duration, have a significant influence on internal governance processes and on corporate strategies and actions. However, the specific actions that are taken by companies – in particular those that require significant capital investments – are constrained by the ‘business case’. That is, companies will generally only invest capital in situations when there is a clear financial case (i.e. where the benefits outweigh the costs, when the rate of return meets or exceeds company targets) for action. That is, the extent to which external governance pressures can force companies to take action, in particular challenging or transformative actions that go beyond the boundaries of the business case, is not at all clear. This is particularly the case if the business case weakens, or if the opportunities for incremental change are exhausted. In that context, the power of non‐state actors to force them to consider radical changes in their business processes and their use of energy therefore seems to be very limited. Copyright © 2016 The Authors. Business Strategy and the Environment published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd     

Optimal Hedging Strategies and Interactions between Firms

This paper studies corporate risk management in a context of financial constraints and imperfect competition in the product market. The paper shows that interactions between firms affect their hedging strategies. As a general rule, firms’ hedging demands decrease with the correlation between their internal funds and investment opportunities. Moreover, when a firm’s hedging demand is high in the case where investments are strategic substitutes, its hedging demand is low in the case where investments are strategic complements and vice versa.     

中国情境下案例教学中大学生学习障碍调查

本文针对案例教学中学生参与热情与投入程度不高的现状,以556名本科生为研究对象,采用统计分析的方法,识别出中国情境下案例教学中大学生面临的主要学习障碍及其对不同阶段学习者参与行为产生的影响.在此基础上,基于我国现有本科教育的资源条件约束,从社会文化心理、授课对象差异、案例教学流程等方面提出了克服案例教学中大学生学习障碍、促进参与行为的对策建议,以提高西方案例教学在我国本科课堂中的适用性.     

The skilled revolt against general unionism: the case of the BL Toolroom Committee

During the 1970s, the position of craft workers became increasingly acute: their traditional differentials over semi-skilled and unskilled workers were eroded to an unprecedented degree; and their privileged position within their trade unions was weakened. Here Hugh Scullion examines developments through a case study of the BL Toolroom Committee.     

煤灰熔融性测定的影响因素探析

煤灰熔融性是影响电厂锅炉是否结渣（俗称结焦）及其严重程度的主要因素，直接关系到电厂锅炉的安全与经济运行。     

老字号全聚德成功上市的启示

全聚德股份公司的成功上市，为中华老字号企业进行自身机制转换，利用资本市场加快发展进行了有益探索，提供了成功案例。     

案例教学在服装国际贸易课程中的应用

由于国际贸易专业课程具有较强的实践性与操作性,因此,在明确教学目的的前提下,教学中应用案例教学,精心选取典型、真实、贴近生活的案例运用于课堂教学中,有利于提高学生学习积极性,有助于培养学生分析问题,解决问题的能力及创新能力。本文运用能再现国际贸易全程的综合性案例,整合国际贸易专业各方面的专业知识,尤其是对于服装设计专业的学生进行分析,以此提高学生的学习兴趣以及学员综合运用所学知识分析问题、解决问题的综合能力。     

The Rules of the Game: Union Solicitation in the Twenty-First Century Workplace

Even though union membership has declined steadily over the last 20 years, unions are dramatically increasing their efforts to organize the workplace. As a consequence, union solicitation drives are on the rise. While the case law in this area is relatively settled, many managers in nonunion environments are generally unfamiliar with the federal case governing union solicitations. This article examines the federal case law surrounding union solicitation and provides some practical guidelines for managerial conduct for dealing with union solicitation drives. It also discusses future directions in an interconnect world.     

The value of project management to organizations in Canada and Germany,or do values add value? Five case studies

Five case studies have been conducted: four in Canada and one in Germany. The authors of this article were particularly interested in understanding the value of values and meaning in the context of project management implementation and project environments. The article first summarizes the authors' particular approach. It then discusses the five case studies and their findings. These findings will be grouped around the concepts of value of project management and meaningful work. In conclusion, the findings of this study will be summarized across all five case studies and based on a comparative content analysis.     

High-risk clients and mental health care management.

A framework characterizing high-risk psychiatric patients by their probability of hospitalization and lengthy stay is introduced. Risk curves are then developed for each patient showing the potential impact of mental health case management on patient risk. Preliminary empirical analysis reveals that although most patients benefit from the case management intervention, some 30% of the client population may face an increase in risk of hospitalization and lengthy stay.     

Learning in a competitive field: MBA students' improvised case studies of IHRM

Recent management research on improvisation has sought to identify ways that unplanned change and structure are linked when novel solutions appear and develop during action. This article examines an improvised learning approach to the traditional case study method, in which Master of Business Administration (MBA) students learn through preparing and delivering their own case studies. The process of improvised learning is explained within the context of teaching international human resource management/organizational behaviour and analysed by applying Bourdieu's theory of practice which understands the participants' learning to be situated within a competitive social field.

It is concluded that MBA students learn from this improvised approach provided that the professor's role accommodates being a case study expert with the roles of teaching and learning consultant. The concept of competitive field is recommended as a tool for management educators' reflection upon enabling MBA students to develop their capabilities in designing and delivering management learning sessions.     

Locally minimum variance unbiased estimator in a discontinuous density function

The exact forms of the locally minimum variance unbiased estimators and their variances are given in the case of a discontinuous density function.     

I: making maastricht work

Giles Keating, chief economist of Credit Suisse First Boston, puts the case for the Maastricht agreement on monetary union after the Danes said 'No' in their referendum.     

Organizational Identity and Place: A Discursive Exploration of Hegemony and Resistance

abstract    This paper analyses how three distinct cohorts of workers in a recently merged UK-based College of Further Education understood their group and their organization's identities. We focus in particular, but not exclusively on how the groups' shared understandings of 'place' informed their identity accounts. Identities are theorized as being constituted within discursive regimes, and place treated as a discursive resource on which individuals and groups may draw in their attempts to author versions of their selves. In our case, understandings of place were also a resource on which some people drew in nostalgic reminiscence, and others used to fantasize about their preferred futures for the college. Framed by our intention to identify plurivocal native interpretations of place and identity in ways that promote the reading of polysemy back into case research, the contribution this paper makes is threefold. First, it adds to efforts to theorize organizations and identities as unstable social constructions constituted through acts of languaging. Second, it illustrates how different groups of local actors with distinct histories and value preferences may draw on their place of work in order to author contrasting versions of their organization's identity. Finally, our paper analyses the attempts made by senior managers and groups of other staff to define their organization in particular ways, as hegemonic 'moves' in an ongoing struggle for control over the organization as a discursive space.     

IT企业员工压力分析及对策

在竞争日益激烈的新经济时代,企业员工的生活压力、工作压力与日俱增,员工的压力问题已成为企业管理者必须面对的尖锐问题。文章分析了IT企业员工压力产生的根源,提出了缓解员工压力的爱心管理策略,为新形势下开发人力资源提供了一条有效途径。     

Ethnic minority business and the employment of illegal immigrants

Based on detailed case histories of South Asian workers and their co-ethnic employers in the West Midlands clothing and catering industries, this paper examines the use of illegal immigrant labour in small ethnic minority firms and attempts to tease out its implications for the migrants themselves, their employers and the broader national interest. To establish a proper context, we begin with a review of the recent literature on the structural changes – principally the confluence of globalization and post-industrialism – which have generated a seemingly unstoppable flow of labour migration; and the official state policies that have forced much of it underground. Our own case histories are seen as one of countless local expressions of this clash between economic and political imperatives, a clash which effectively criminalizes employers and workers for providing a positive economic and social contribution to the wider good. In the present case, it is only by employing immigrant labour that struggling entrepreneurs can survive in hyper-competitive sectors of the economy and the stark choice is between official tolerance of law-breaking or driving many of these enterprises to the wall.     

IT企业员工压力分析及对策

在竞争日益激烈的新经济时代,企业员工的生活压力、工作压力与日俱增,员工的压力问题已成为企业管理者必须面对的尖锐问题。文章分析了IT企业员工压力产生的根源,提出了缓解员工压力的爱心管理策略,为新形势下开发人力资源提供了一条有效途径。