跨国公司企业公民行为评价体系构建研究

企业公民行为是企业社会责任在理论与实践的继承与发展,其相关理念逐渐被认可并成为一个发展趋势。随着国外跨国公司不断进入中国市场和快速发展,在华跨国公司承担企业社会责任出现了主体缺位的现象。文章通过阐释跨国公司企业公民行为的内涵,即公司股东及高层管理者等在公司治理过程中表现出企业公民的权利与义务行为,并对企业公民经济行为、企业公民社会行为、企业公民道德行为与企业公民自然行为4个一级指标及相关二级指标、衡量指标的内涵进行详细阐述;最终从4个一级指标、10个二级指标与32个衡量指标来构建跨国公司企业公民行为评价指标体系,以此规范在华跨国公司治理行为,促进在华跨国公司发挥更大的经济社会等效益与价值。     

韩国自由经济区发展演化过程及启示

自由经济区作为经济全球化和区域经济一体化的产物,近年来已变成加快各国尤其是发展中国家经济发展的增长极、城市化的驱动力以及制度创新的重要平台。东北亚地区是世界上仅次于北美、欧盟的第三大经济区,并已经成为全球重要的制造业中心。作为具备连接东北亚大陆和海洋区位优势的新兴工业化国家,韩国自由经济区不仅是本国实现经济发展目标,扩大贸易以及增加就业,优化产业结构的重要途径,还是参与经济全球化与区域经济一体化的重要手段。国内外学者的相关研究集中在韩国自由经济区的成本效益分析、理论基础以及对比分析等方面,有关其发展演化规律及动力机制仍然缺少系统性的归纳与研究。文章采用文献归纳、案例分析等方法,依据经济地理、贸易理论、系统发展演化理论总结归纳了韩国自由经济区由加工制造型向科技型、综合型和跨国区域经济一体化发展演化的规律及模式;在此基础上分析了推动韩国自由经济区发展演化的国际环境、国内政策、区内条件和区外条件等动力因素;最后分析探讨了韩国自由经济区演化规律及动力机制对我国建设自由贸易区的参考意义。     

欧盟大型科研基础设施概述及政策走向

欧盟研究区建设的主要目标是统筹科技优势资源,集中一切力量为当今世界面临的经济社会挑战提供科技与创新解决方案。科研基础设施是其重要组成部分,为跨成员国和跨不同区域的科技人员提供高效的联合研究平台,创造研发创新机遇,促进知识积累与经验共享。本文对欧盟及其成员国科研基础设施建设状况及其未来发展路线图进行总体研究,就其建设与运行的管理结构、资金投入、法律安排、程序运作、评估方式、国际合作,以及未来政策走向进行系统分析,为我国的大型科研基础设施和创新体系建设提供有益的线索和经验借鉴。     

农村资金互助组织的生发基础思辨--基于社会资本视角

社会资本是以信任、互惠和社会规范为基础的人际关系及关系网络,封闭性的社会结构是社会资本发挥作用的条件,也是社会资本产生消极功能的根本原因。本文通过在农村资金互助组织的生发基础研究中引入农村社会资本,对组织所处的农村社会网络、规范和信任进行分析,发现农村社会结构的相对封闭性在组织设立初期起到积极作用,但它制约组织的长远发展和成员的创新活动。     

Board size,corporate regulations and firm valuation in an emerging market: a simultaneous equation approach

We investigate the association between board size and firm valuation for a sample of 169 firms from 2002 to 2011 in South Africa (SA). The SA corporate context is interestingly and uniquely characterised by an urgency to meet affirmative action regulations, such as black empowerment in board appointments, limited qualified and experienced directors, especially black directors, concentrated ownership, weak enforcement of corporate regulations and greater government ownership. These features make SA corporate boards perform a weaker agency (advisory, monitoring and disciplining) role than Western European and US boards, but a stronger resource dependence role, by providing access to resources, such as business contacts and contracts. This suggests that any positive impact of board size on firm valuation is likely to depend on the effective execution of the resource dependence role more than the agency role. Our results suggest that board size has a positive association with firm valuation, consistent with larger boards providing better access to resources. Overall, our results support the resource dependence role of boards more than their agency role. The results are robust across a raft of econometric models that control for different types of endogeneity, as well as different types of accounting and market-based firm valuation measures.     

INVESTMENT BEHAVIOUR,CORPORATE CONTROL,AND PRIVATE BENEFITS OF CONTROL: EVIDENCE FROM A SURVEY OF UKRAINIAN FIRMS

We analyse the impact of ownership and corporate control on firms’ investment using the 2001 survey of Yacoub et al. on Ukrainian firms. The model explains investment by output, financial and soft budget constraints, and corporate control (and ownership) categories potentially enjoying private benefits of control. We find that the corporate control model fits better than the ownership model, a negative relationship between state and employee control and firms’ investment, and evidence for the presence of soft budget constraints. A negative relationship between firms’ investment and the relative size of non‐monetary transactions strengthens the conclusion of private benefits of control impacting investment.     

Unlikely Pivotal States in Competitive Free Trade Agreement Diffusion: The Effect of Japan's Trans-Pacific Partnership Participation on Asia-Pacific Regional Integration

How can a state with dysfunctional trade politics spur the negotiation of major free trade agreements (FTAs)? Using the case of Japan's participation in the trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), we develop an analytical framework on FTA diffusion that takes into account multidimensional (economic, legal and political) competitive pressures, and the ability of states to act as pivots in triggering FTA cascades. We disaggregate the makeup of a pivotal state into two main components – capability and credibility – and underscore Japan's significant latent capabilities, but also its serious credibility shortcomings. The TPP's boost to Japan's credibility raised the possibility of significant economic, legal and political externalities for specific countries which responded by accelerating FTA initiatives that had long stalled: the trilateral China–Japan–Korea FTA, a 16-state East Asian FTA and the Japan–European Union trade negotiations. This study extends the theoretical frontier in policy diffusion studies by clarifying the combination of factors that allows some states, but not others, to activate the externalities behind the dissemination of defensive FTAs.     

Governance Reforms and Growth: Some Ideas from Economic Theory

Ideas from the theory of incentives and organization are deployed to examine how some aspects of economic governance—primarily protection of property rights, enforcement of contracts, and oversight regulation—can be improved for achieving better economic growth and development. Some suggestions for reform of governance institutions in developing countries are offered.     

企业社会责任的动态演进机制研究

从企业承担社会责任的两个维度出发,结合特定制度及相关因素,厘清企业社会责任的演进机理。企业社会责任行为在相应条件具备时,围绕情境化、概念化、规范化以及定型化四个阶段循环演进,从而形成企业社会责任的动态发展模式。明晰企业社会责任动态演进机制,把握企业社会责任的内在演生特质,为企业更好地履行社会责任提供了路径参照。     

燃气行业国家控制型公司治理模式分析

对燃气行业中的国有独资及国有控股两种国家控制型公司治理模式进行了问题分析和对策研究,认为中国燃气行业应从从政企分离,董事会、监事会、经理层等方面进行公司治理模式改革。