Who Controls the Controller? People Reaction to Social Control Agent's Decisions about Organizational Misconduct

Social control agents (SCAs) discipline organizations and draw the line between appropriate organizational behaviour and misconduct. While prior research focuses on the SCA-organization relationship, we theorize how a key audience (people) interacts with an SCA depending on its decisions to sanction or not organizational misconduct. Building on sociological and organizational research on social norms and their enforcement, we expect that people are more likely to agree with an SCA that sanctions a behaviour that violates rule-based as opposed to value-based norms. Violations of rule-based norms generate more agreement because such norms are less ambiguous and ascertaining when they are violated is easier to establish. As people agree more with SCA decisions to sanction rule-based violations, we expect that the propensity of people to resort to the SCA increases. We find support for our hypotheses with a survey, a series of experiments, and the analysis of complete data on complaints by UK citizens to the Advertising Standards Authority – the UK SCA on advertising – over the period 2007–10. Our paper contributes to research in organizational misconduct by showing how SCAs are both an evaluating entity and an evaluated one and by shedding light on how people co-determine what an acceptable or unacceptable behaviour is. Our paper uniquely links macro- and micro-level studies on corporate misconduct, putting centre stage that SCA's authority essentially depends on a key audience's agreement with the SCAs' underlying norms that underpin their decisions.     

国防科技工业跨部门合作治理网络动态演化研究

随着国防科技工业治理复杂性提升以及传统治理理论失灵，准确厘清包含军民两大治理主体、公私两大职能部门治理机构间合作网络、关系结构与演化过程，已成为我国国防科技工业治理现代化的重要议题。基于“元治理”理论思想，以1998-2018年发布的614条政策为研究样本，应用社会网络分析法，对不同时期国防科技工业治理网络结构、机构间互动关系、主体角色定位进行考察。结果表明：关系网络是随着国防科技工业政策变迁不断演化的自组织网络，网络结构由“松散”向“耦合”转变、网络核心由“单核”向“多核”转变、治理模式由“碎片化回应”向“协同共治”转变；个体节点在不同时期展现出不同的角色定位，主要表现为协作主导者、牵头主导者、互惠跟随者以及边缘跟随者4个群体，并得出核心机构角色演变规律。最后，从“元治理”视角对国防科技工业异质主体跨部门合作治理关系进行再审视，并提出相应治理策略。     

Public Enterprise Privatization: A General Equilibrium Analysis

This paper develops a general equilibrium model to examine the short‐run and long‐run optimal privatization policies. By assuming that all firms are public firms initially, the paper focuses on how the degree of product differentiation γ and the average efficiency of the industry influence the determination of the optimal privatization policy. The paper shows that privatization decreases the more efficient firms' outputs while increases the less efficient firms' outputs in the short run, and reduces all firms' outputs in the long run. The paper also shows that the larger is γ and the smaller is the number of firms, the more privatized will be the public firm in the short run. Moreover, as γ or the entry barrier f_E is sufficiently small, full privatization is the best policy in the long run. On the contrary, as γ and f_E are large enough, partial privatization is optimal.     

The Effects of Pollution Taxes on Urban Areas with an Endogenous Plant Location

This paper has integrated space into the effect of a direct pollution control on the pollution damage of heavily populated areas like CBD. This integration gives us some new insights into the effectiveness of a pollution tax as a pollution control device when the plant location of the firm is endogenized. It is shown that when the plant location is endogenous, as pollution taxes become higher, the firm moves its plant towards the CBD, causing higher pollution damage to the CBD residents, if the production function exhibits decreasing returns to scale.     

基于环境保护的绿色技术创新分析

环境保护是人们日益关注的难题 ,绿色技术创新是实现环境保护的重要举措之一 ,而绿色技术创新本身需要借助各方面的力量。因此 ,绿色技术创新对环境保护具有重要意义。     

试论建设现代保险企业特色文化

企业文化是现代企业的灵魂,是企业核心竞争力的重要组成部分。保险企业要增强市场竞争力和长远发展力,就必须认真学习和继承中华传统文化之优秀管理思想,努力汲取西方企业文化中的科学因素,努力打造具有中国特色的优秀保险企业文化。     

同群效应对创业路径选择的影响

通过分析典型案例探究了同群效应对创业路径选择的影响机理。研究发现:同群者的流动经历和创业经历对创业者的创业认知和创业资源的整合能力具有积极作用;同群者中的家庭成员即强连带关系促使创业者选择创新型创业路径,而同群者中的组织成员即弱连带关系促使创业者选择模仿型创业路径。     

The impact of third-country effects and economic integration on China's outward FDI

The study employs a spatial econometric model to explore the impact of third-country effects and economic integration on China's outward FDI (OFDI). The results show that the pattern of China's OFDI tends toward a complex FDI without third-country effects. The degree of economic integration and host country's political risk both have a negative influence on China's OFDI. Furthermore, greater cultural proximity between China and the host country, as well as greater per capita income (market size), both have significant benefits to China's OFDI. The host country's market opportunity has a significant negative effect on China's OFDI.