Waves of migration: a new situation

An attempt is made to forecast migration trends affecting those countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union. "The new migratory trends are characterized by at least three fundamentally important elements: the ouster of the newly arrived population from the social niche that it had recently occupied, emigration from overpopulated regions, and growing emigration beyond the borders of the former Union."     

桂林房地产开发与山水特色景观保护矛盾分析

通过对桂林市山水景观及城市建设所面临问题的分析,文章提出了桂林山水特色景观保护这一课题,并运用外部不经济理论分析了桂林城市建设尤其是房地产建设与山水景观保护之间的矛盾.最后,提出了桂林在未来的城市建设房地产开发中应采取的特色景观保护措施.     

长三角地区投资环境评价研究

长三角地区是我国经济最活跃的地区之一。该文选取长三角地区的16个城市作为研究对象,提出了投资环境评价指标,并运用粗糙集理论和特征向量法对该地区的投资环境进行评价,最后得出16个城市的得分和排序。     

论学习型区域

在知识经济和经济全球化背景下，学习型区域是一个真正具有可持续发展潜力和竞争力的区域。本文从分析区域是知识创造与学习的重要载体出发，探讨学习型区域的内涵和主要特征，认为学习型区域是一个包含区域创新系统、柔性地方生产系统及集体学习等三方面内容的创新区域，论文最后分析了学习型区域的形成与发展过程。     

The Effect of Respondent Experience/Knowledge in the Elicitation of Contingent Values: An Investigation of Convergent Validity,Procedural Invariance and Reliability

Tests of convergent validity and procedural invariance were used to investigate whether individuals lacking direct experience with a commodity can provide valid responses to contingent-valuation questions eliciting ex post use values. Convergent validity between samples with and without experience was shown to hold for dichotomous-choice responses, but not for open-ended responses.     

关于私营企业发展外向型经济的思考

近年来，借助良好的经济基础、政策环境、人才聚集和地缘优势，无锡的私营经济发展十分迅猛，己成为国民经济和各项社会事业快速发展的不可或缺的重要力量。截止2004年底，无锡共有私营企业6万多家，其中私营企业集团近70家，从业人员50多万人。无锡私营企业总注册资本己具相当规模，是国有及集体企业注册资本总数的1．07倍。私营经济发展的领域也在不断拓宽。但是，对照全球经济一体化和我国加入WTO的背景和形势，     

我国能源强度的最优规模实证研究

我国能源现状与经济增长的高能源依赖性表明．经济增长需要最优能源强度。最优能源强度及其存在性，可通过实证得出，实际能源强度与最优值的差距也可进行测算。研究结果表明，近年来我国实际能源强度高于最优值，处于不断上升的趋势，最终会实现能源强度最优规模。     

Professional design and primary children

An analysis of the way in which primary age children design, particularly when working with a professional designer, suggests that there are several similarities in approach between the two. This observation is supported by evidence from developmental psychology, which has stressed the crucial role which play performs in developing children's inventiveness and ability to solve problems. Subsequent research focusing on children's designing suggests that this play is fundamental to designing activity, and extends naturally into the more formalised activities of drawing and modelling. Through playing and using narrative language to describe their actions, children are learning to interpret their own mental images. To develop these images and make them more concrete children use their hands in drawing and modelling whilst drawing on their accumulated personal knowledge about the activity of designing, in a similar way to that in which professional designers make use of their own, highly sophisticated skills to bring an idea to concrete fruition. By comparison with some of the rigid models of the design process described in schools, designers and children may have more in common than we realise.     

Towards an ethical dimension of decision making in organizations

There is a growing need to increase our understanding of ethical decision making in U.S. based organizations. The authors examine the complexity of creating uniform ethical standards even when the meaning of ethical behavior is being debated. The nature of these controversies are considered, and three important dimensions for ethical decision making are discussed: leaders with integrity and a strong sense of social responsibility, organization cultures that foster dialogue and dissent, and organizations that are willing to reflect on and learn from their actions. Leaders with integrity demonstrate consistency between vision and action that promotes trust, regularly concern themselves with developing moral standards, and are proactive agents of change in an increasingly complex world. Organizational cultures that support dialogue suspend judgments and increase their capacity to think together towards new levels of understanding. Ethical concepts evolve in these organizational cultures, and actions are informed and responsible. Organizations that reflect on their actions engage in double loop learning so that the time taken to reflect on the past and present leads to a more judicious and ethical future. In essence, the authors point to organizational guidelines for ethical decision making that lead to an increase in members' capacity to think and act ethically. Jonathan Z. Gottlieb is a consultant to organizations and a Ph.D. Candidate in Organizational Psychology. His interests include organization redesign, leadership and team development, ethics, and role definition for organization development practitioners. Jyotsna Sanzgiri is Dean of Organizational Psychology Programs at the California School of Professional Psychology — Alameda. She received her Ph.D. in business Administration and her M.B.A. Her interests include organizational theory and core values across cultures, and the historical underpinnings of organization development and behavior.