当代中国马克思主义大众化科学内涵研究综述

党的十七大报告提出了“马克思主义大众化”的科学命题后，学术界就马克思主义大众化的涵义、路径、机制、原则、意义以及马克思主义大众化应注意的问题等进行了深入的研究与探讨取得了一系列的理论成果。目前学术界从不同的角度对马克思主义大众化的内涵进行了概括和分析，大体可归纳为以下几个方面。     

The role of trust in supervisor in participative budgeting systems

This study examined the relationship between budget participation and managerial performance as mediated by trust in supervisor and explored the moderating role of budget-goal difficulty on budget participation, trust in supervisor, and managerial performance. One-hundred-fifty-eight useful responses were drawn at random from subordinate managers of manufacturing companies listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. The mediating effect of trust in supervisor was examined by path analysis. Subgroup analysis was used to examine the contingency effect of budget-goal difficulty on the mediating role of trust in supervisor between budget participation and performance. The findings support our hypotheses and demonstrate the mediating effect of trust in supervisor and the moderating effect of budget-goal difficulty.     

The effect of pseudo‐immediacy on intertemporal choices

An interesting phenomenon, which we dub the ‘pseudo‐immediacy effect’, was detected in intertemporal choices. The majority of our participants preferred the smaller but sooner (SS) outcome to the larger but later (LL) outcome when a pseudo‐immediacy reward was framed, but a higher proportion of participants preferred the LL outcome to the SS outcome when the pseudo‐immediate format was removed. Such a shift violated the invariance principle which requires that the preference order between options does not depend on the manner in which they are described. With reference to the pseudo‐certainty effect reported by Kahneman and Tversky in 1984 Kahneman, D. and Tversky, A. 1984. Choice, values, and frames. American Psychologist, 39: 341–50. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], our findings typically support the notion that risk and delay are psychologically equivalent and that the same psychological process underlies risk and intertemporal choice.     

Volatility of accounting earnings

The theoretical derivation of the volatility of accounting earnings is an important topic. Not only does it concern the uncertainty in earnings measurement, but it also allows for an objective comparison between different accounting allocation procedures. An accounting allocation that yields a lower volatility of earnings can be desirable because it makes periodic earnings better estimates of underlying long-term earnings of a firm over time. Based on this information, accounting professionals can make more rational judgements of the most appropriate accounting method to be used in preparing financial reports. This paper shows how to calculate the volatility of earnings under uncertainty across a range of different scenarios.     

Greasing the wheels of bank lending: Evidence from private firms in China

Bribery, rather than firm performance, largely determines the extent to which private firms access bank credit in China. Bribery enables an economic outcome whereby firms with better economic performance are awarded larger loans. These firms also pay more in terms of bribes. Although satisfactory firm performance does determine whether firms can access loans, it does so only for loans originated by the big-four banks. For loans originated by smaller banks, performance is not essential for firms to secure loan access. Our evidence sheds light on the surprising finding of earlier studies that Chinese banks use commercial logic in their lending practices despite being endowed with a weak institutional framework.     

机构投资者持股、盈余管理与市场反应

由于会计信息的专业性,个人投资者往往难以从会计数据中识别盈余管理;而作为投资专家的机构投资者能否识别盈余管理,并将其融入到市场价格机制中则成为人们关注的焦点。通过检验机构投资者持股对公司股票累计超额报酬率和盈余管理之间关系的影响,研究发现:机构投资者持股较高的股票的超额报酬率与正向操纵性应计利润显著负相关,说明机构投资者股东能从会计信息中识别公司的盈余管理行为,并将其反映到市场价格机制中去。     

长三角文化的累积与裂变：吴文化——江南文化——海派文化

中华文化主要是由南北二元耦合的，北方以黄河文化为标识，南方以长江文化为标识。长江文化主要分三个组成部分，即巴蜀文化、荆楚文化和吴越文化（按照地域概念命名）。其中吴越文化由于历史的原因一般由“吴文化”概念来涵盖，按照地域来说，就是长江中下游文化，主要指今天我们所说的长江三角洲地区。     

Effects of corporate governance on risk taking in Taiwanese family firms during institutional reform

Can internal corporate governance mechanisms (such as boards of directors) and external corporate governance mechanisms (such as institutional reform) promote risk-taking behavior in family firms? This paper argues that conflicts between majority and minority owners, known as principal–principal conflicts, and cronyism in the board of directors affect firm risk taking. Moreover, institutional corporate governance reform to appoint outside directors may not have an immediate effect on reducing these problems. Based on a sample of family firms in Taiwan, we find that outside directors reduce the negative relationship between family ownership/involvement and risk taking. However, when their influence is examined further, it is found that in those sample firms that went public after institutional reform, outside directors did not improve the relationship between family ownership/involvement and risk taking.