Theoretical perspectives on strategic environmental management

Strategic Environmental Management (SEM) incorporates into firms' core strategies the transformation of products and processes that they believe an environmentally concerned society will increasingly demand. Significant threads have to do with the discovery of cost savings and market opportunities from reducing environmental impacts. SEM, like the environmental regulation hypothesis associated with Michael Porter, implies that society's efforts to reduce external environmental costs often lead to identification of hitherto-ignored or undeveloped profit possibilities. This would be surprising from the standpoint of neoclassical economic theory, to the extent that SEM utilizes available information about the potential costs and benefits of projects. Within the framework of evolutionary, capabilities-based theories of the firm, however, this discovery and its exploitation in SEM make perfect sense. Capabilities theory would imply that firms' intrinsic path dependence may previously have obscured such opportunities. This paper examines the theory of SEM, its implications for neoclassical and capabilities theories of the firm, and survey results drawn from the author's work with member companies in a regional pollution prevention roundtable. RID="*" IDI have enjoyed the able and insightful research assistance of Justin Vernon. Cooperation from the companies that participated in the survey, and financial support from Allegheny College and its Center for Economic and Environmental Development, are gratefully acknowledged. Reviewers for this journal provided numerous, valuable suggestions. Responsibility for the material herein remains mine alone.     

浅析人力资源管理理论研究新进展与成果运用

随着人类社会过渡到以知识为基础的知识经济时代,人力资源的重要性已超过自然资源和资本成为第一战略资源。如何有效地构建现代人力资源管理体系,并发挥人力资源的优势,就显得尤为重要。     

高校家庭经济困难学生资助体系问题分析及对策研究

高校目前建立的多元化家庭经济困难学生资助体系,对家庭经济困难学生进行资助,但还存在一些不足。本文围绕以学生为本的核心思想,结合新形势新背景,通过分析高校家庭经济困难学生资助情况现状,指出家庭经济困难学生资助工作体系存在的问题,并提出一些建议,以期完善该体系。     

浅析中国古典园林的美学特征

本论文主要从建筑美学角度上阐述中国传统建筑包括造园艺术的审美内容,主要表现在三个方面,即环境气氛给人以意境感受,造型风格给人以形象知觉,象征涵义给人以联想认识。中国建筑史的史实证明,中国的传统建筑就是按照这条线索在探求最美的形象和最高的审美价值。较早地认识到了从环境、造型和象征手法三个方面去探求最佳的交汇点。建筑园林也不例外,是一种现实的艺术实践活动。     

基于人机环境的链杆平衡模型在施工中的应用

根据在建筑工程的施工进度项目管理中人、机、环境等因素对施工进度的影响程度,应用项目管理中决策树的数学思想,建立人、机、环境一体化的链杆平衡管理建筑工程施工进度控制模型,研究了我国施工企业在施工项目进度控制方面的综合资源平衡问题,发现利用综合能力数来评价人、机、环境一体化对施工项目进度的影响,能有效地发挥人、机、环境一体化管理对施工过程进行控制的效应,从而使得施工项目进度最大限度的得以实现,并通过调整各分项工程的综合能力数来优化及合理分配资源。     

河南省县级医院网上信息服务现状调查研究

随着互联网的兴起,电子医务成为医院发展的一条新路。本文调查了河南省的县级医院的电子医务开展状况,并对其发展的现状及存在的问题做了相应的分析。     

交往型大学生思想政治教育工作模式研究

交往型大学生思想政治教育工作是为了加强大学生思想政治教育实效性,促进大学生个性化发展而实施的创新举措,它形成了高校学生和辅导员之间深度交流的新型互动模式,体现了"人本化"育人理念和主体间性的交往行为。笔者根据自己的实践经验分析了交往型大学生思想政治教育的内涵和本质,探索建立了交往型大学生思想政治教育工作模型。     

Pricing a contract of linking home reversion plan and long-term care insurance via the principle of equivalent utility

Home reversion plans allow homeowners to tap into the value of their house and live in it until their death. The article considers a contract linking home reversion plan and long-term care insurance, which could better prepare seniors for their retirement and long-term care needs. Here, we assume the product exposes an insurer to two risks: the uncertainty of nursing care cost from disable, and the home value decreasing in real estate markets at the time of sale. Because the market is incomplete, we apply the principle of equivalent utility to price the contract under exponential utility.     

Strong measures of group coherence and the probability that a pairwise majority rule winner exists

A Pairwise Majority Rule Winner (PMRW) exists for a voting situation if some candidate can defeat each of the remaining candidates by Pairwise Majority Rule. The PMRW would be very appropriate for selection as the winner of an election, but it is well known that such a candidate does not always exist. This paper concludes a series of studies regarding the probability that a PMRW should be expected to exist in three-candidate elections, by introducing the notion of a strong measures of mutually coherent group preferences. In order for voting situations to be reasonably expected to fail to have a PMRW in a three-candidate election, voters’ preferences must be generated in an environment that is far removed from the situation in which there is a strong-overall-unifying candidate. So far removed, that it is extremely unlikely that a PMRW will not exist in voting situations with large electorates for a small number of candidates.     

西岭秋喝银多金属矿矿床地质特征及找矿前景分析

西岭秋喝银多金属矿位于鄂拉山中段,是青海省铜、铅、锌、锡、金、银矿的重点规划区之一。长期以来,矿区仅进行金矿的普查工作,工作思路单一、局限性大,虽发现了多处金异常区,但没有实质的突破。通过对区内的以往资料的综合研究分析,结合邻区(索拉沟银多金属矿床)的找矿模式,进行了综合找矿,并取得了一定的突破。但从目前的矿体规模看,均为小矿体,因此能否在已有矿体的周围找到新类型矿床(就矿找矿),在浅成热液矿床或矿化蚀变的深部取得找矿的重大突破十分必要。在此基础上建立了该区的成矿地质特征,并对该区的成矿前景进行了浅析。