Teaching science through designing technology

This paper is a review of the literature related to teaching science through designing technology. The premise of this method is that designing technology presents the students with the context through which they can apply the science concepts they learned and thus enhancing their understanding of these concepts. Despite the promise of this method, teachers attempting it were faced by many challenges such as: (1) teachers did not have a grasp of the complex relationship between science and technology and assumed that technology was simply applied science, (2) the students were not able to transfer their learning of science to designing technology, (3) teachers did not have a deep understanding of the design process and tried to teach it as a linear, context-free process without regard to the context of the problem. The purpose of this paper is to extract from the literature a better understanding of teaching science through designing technology and the elements that teachers need to satisfy in order to increase their chances of successfully implementing this method in the classroom.     

地方政府债券对财政金融系统性风险传导机制的研究

2015年起正式实施的新《预算法》允许地方政府公开发行债券后,全国性商业银行交叉持有地方债,在地方政府债务区域不平衡背景下,银行间交易网络导致地方债务危机的传染性大幅增加,增大引发财政金融系统性重大风险的可能性。本文构建博弈模型对地方政府债券进入银行交叉持有网络后形成的财政-金融风险传导机制开展研究,认为统一金融市场下公开发行债券可以实现风险分散,但是以扩大传染范围和提高传染速度为代价,而且不能完全排除转移支付纾困的统一金融市场对低风险地方政府造成不公待遇。基于此,本文提出应基于金融网络视角对地方财政领域的具体风险制定预案,把握预见性和主动性,防范化解财政金融领域系统性重大风险。     

组织授权与前瞻性人格对员工创造性绩效的交互影响

基于自我决定理论，运用实证分析法对281份有效问卷进行层级回归，考察组织授权对员工创造性绩效的作用机制。结果表明:①组织授权正向预测员工创造性绩效；②心理需要满足在组织授权对创造性绩效影响中起部分中介作用；③前瞻性人格以心理需要满足为部分中介调节组织授权与创造性绩效的关系。由此得出，要有效提高员工创造性绩效，管理者不仅要思考组织授权的“度”，还应密切关注员工人格特质及心理变化。研究结论为企业创新能力提升提供了全新的理论视角，可为企业以人格特质为依据进行人才选拔、培养及晋升提供参考。     

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。     

Corporate social responsibility and trade credit

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting - Prior studies show that higher corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance lowers firms’ cost of debt and equity financing. Using a...     

Counter-arguing as barriers to environmentally motivated consumption reduction: A multi-country study

This research extends previous literature on environmentally motivated consumption reduction (EMCR) with a cross-cultural investigation across 28 European countries. The paper elucidates how European consumers' knowledge and perceived seriousness of climate change inhibit the activation of counter-arguments, with implications for EMCR. More specifically, counter-arguing is a critical barrier to reduce EMCR. The developed model is based on the novel premise that the contingency variables, which qualify the impeding role of this barrier, are anchored at different levels. To account for individual and societal aspects simultaneously, multi-level analysis combines large-scale data from a Eurobarometer (n = 16,095) with secondary data at the societal level (n = 28). The results confirm that counter-arguments as barriers for EMCR and their attenuation through knowledge and perceived seriousness substantially varies across societies. Our results reveal that the collectivism/individualism dimension is most relevant in qualifying the impact of counter-arguments on EMCR. Building on our findings, impact-level-maps of counter-arguments and country clusters aid international marketers of environmentally friendly products to flexibly tailor their marketing campaigns. For policy-makers, our results further highlight that rather than raising knowledge with educative campaigns, perceptions of seriousness should be targeted to foster EMCR and inhibit counter-arguing.     

多层次资本市场的效率研究--以长三角多层次资本市场构建为例

资本市场效率的有效发挥与区域的经济发展水平、金融深化度、投资者理念及行为选择等特征条件密切相关,多层次资本市场是资本市场效率的重要支撑和实现途径。在此分析基础上,本文进而指出长三角地区多层次资本市场的构建和运作效率,是实现区域金融资源优化配置与资本市场制度建设的核心内容。     

Impact of mortgage soft information in loan pricing on default prediction using machine learning

We analyze the impact of soft information on US mortgages for default prediction and provide a new measure for lender soft information that is based on the interest rates offered to borrowers and incremental to public hard information. Hard and soft information provide for a variation in annual default probabilities of approximately 3%. Soft information has a lesser impact over time and time since origination. Lenders rely more on soft information for high-risk borrowers. Our study evidences the importance of soft information collected at loan origination.     

The Influence of Spiritual Traditions on the Interplay of Subjective and Normative Interpretations of Meaningful Work

Journal of Business Ethics - This paper argues that the principles of spiritual traditions provide normative ‘standards of goodness’ within which practitioners evaluate meaningful work....     

What we know about anticonsumption: An attempt to nail jelly to the wall

Despite burgeoning academic interest in anticonsumption, a lack of definitional clarity and overlapping constructs beleaguer the pertinent literature, preventing research in the field from reaching its full potential. This paper aims to strengthen the foundations for advancing knowledge in this fragmented field by (a) undertaking a thorough systematic review of literature; (b) charting the scope of anticonsumption literature based on network analysis and attempting to delineate overlapping areas; (c) providing an integrated framework of anticonsumption research, including antecedents, moderators, and consequences; and (d) suggesting a set of specific research propositions that will enable the field to move forward. Toward these aims, we analyzed 120 anticonsumption papers revealed in the literature review, identifying a number of important anticonsumption-related topics that warrant further investigation. Moreover, we suggest a research framework which reveals antecedents, causal sequences, and consequences of anticonsumption. Finally, a research agenda based on this integrated framework indicates promising areas for future research.