The influence of gender and culture on Generation Y consumer decision making styles

Through the use of case studies of Cardiff (UK) and Charlotte (USA) this paper provides a comparative study of the retail structure of British and American cities. Three of the most striking contrasts can be seen in the intra-urban location of retail activity, the role of planned and unplanned shopping centres, and in the amount of retail space provision. Retailing in USA cities tends to be more decentralized, with a greater role for planned shopping centres and more retail space than in British cities. Reasons for this are explored.     

Transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge in the development of organic agriculture in Switzerland

The present study analyses transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge in the development of organic farming in Switzerland by using Fleck's theory of thought styles and thought collectives. Three different phases can be identified throughout the historical development. The initial phase lasting from the beginning of the 1920s to the early 1970s contains numerous characteristics of diverse well-established definitions and concepts of transdisciplinarity and represents a successful transdisciplinary process, which has not been perceived as such in the past and present scientific discussion. The second and third phases show an increasing segregation of thought collectives, caused by internal changes such as the establishment of specialised research institutions and external processes like agriculture policy and market development. These developments led to a decreasing degree of transdisciplinarity. We observe an ambiguous trend: the continuously growing and today well-established positive societal recognition of an initially rather little accepted newcomer movement is associated with the gradual loss of its very valuable forms of knowledge co-production and the related philosophical background. In order to maintain the various forms of transdisciplinary co-production of knowledge, one has to reflect not only their results or outcome but also the whole cooperation process, which has led to these results. The understanding of the historical development and characteristic features of knowledge co-production as presented in this study will help to reinforce transdisciplinary research in organic agriculture and research on transdisciplinarity in general.     

从对人性的揭示来看小说《摸彩》的艺术风格

《摸彩》是美国文学史上的重要著作,被认为是短篇小说的经典,广泛用在美国的教材中。它在美国的家喻户晓与它颇有争议的主题思想以及独具特色的写作手法是分不开的。文章从主题和写作手法两方面对《摸彩》进行赏析,指出摸彩的主题涉及人性的暴力与残忍、人性的愚昧与无知、对传统与习俗的盲从、性别差异及阶级等级制度五个方面,并从五个方面概括了《摸彩》的写作风格：鲜明对比的场景设置、海明威式的叙述风格、无处不在的象征主义、大量使用的讽刺反语和哥特式风格的寓言。     

浅析电算化会计系统的内部控制

本文讨论了电算化会计系统对内部控制的特殊要求,同时提出对系统开发和实施的系统发展控制、对计算机会计系统各个部门的管理控制、对计算机会计系统日常运行过程的日常控制。     

Differences in Marketing Managers' Decision Making Styles Within the Asia-Pacific Region

Abstract

Marketing managers around the world are being asked to work with foreign counterparts as never before, but with limited success. This requires integration of decision making styles. The purpose of this study is to apply a management style of decision making measurement technique to selected countries of the Asia-Pacific region to determine the extent of differences in decision-making style among marketing managers.

This study surveys marketing managers within Australia, Hong Kong, The Philippines, Vietnam, New Zealand, and China. Within each country different sampling processes and modes of data collection were used by locally-based associates of the researchers, as appropriate for the country.

The study results indicate that substantive differences do exist between marketing managers from different cultural/national backgrounds within the Asia-Pacific region and these managers differ in their decision-making styles from managers in other parts of the world. doi:10.1300/J042v21n01_06     

工作压力的自我调控

通过对工作压力的众多研究成果进行综合分析发现,对个体而言,在面对压力源时,其认知评价方式和应对方式对是否产生工作压力具有重要影响。因此,应通过改变认知评价方式和应对方式,来减轻工作压力。     

从支持感到员工创造力

基于组织支持理论和自我决定理论,构建组织创新支持感、主管自主支持感、二元工作激情与员工创造力关系模型,检验工作激情的“光明面”、“黑暗面”及其联合作用对支持感与员工创造力的调节效应。结果表明,组织创新支持感、主管自主支持感均对员工创造力有显著正向影响;强迫型工作激情正向调节主管自主支持感与员工创造力之间的关系;和谐型和强迫型工作激情联合正向调节两种类型支持感与员工创造力之间的关系,即当和谐型和强迫型工作激情“双高”时,支持感对员工创造力影响最大。研究表明,只有同时从营造外部环境与增强员工内部动机着手,才能最大限度地提升员工创造力。     

国有控股商业银行监督权配置问题研究

本文首先通过提出一种新的企业观,并结合对股份制商业银行企业特性的分析说明了股份制商业银行应高度重视监督权的配置,接着,对我国现有的股份制商业银行的监督权配置的现状进行了考察并对其低效配置的原因进行了分析,最后,本文提出,可通过战略投资者委派监事这一新的监事会制度来完善我国国有控股商业银行监督权的配置。     

试论监督会计成本及其控制

我国的监督会计体系经过多年的探索、前进,进入了一个新的发展时期,但监督会计成本的居高不下,极大地影响了经济监督运行机制的效率.为此,本文拟从监督会计成本的形成入手,对当前监督会计成本的控制对策进行了广角透视与思考.