Information systems project manager soft competencies: A project‐phase investigation

This article investigates the soft competencies by project phase that information systems (IS) project managers require for project success. The authors conducted 33 qualitative interviews to collect data from a sample of 22 IS project managers and business leaders located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The authors identified the key competencies for each of the IS project phases (initiation, planning, implementation, and closeout). The competencies were sorted into competency categories: personal attributes (e.g., eye for details), communication (e.g., effective questioning), leadership (e.g., create an effective project environment), negotiations (e.g., consensus building), professionalism (e.g., lifelong learning), social skills (e.g., charisma), and project management competencies (e.g., manage expectations). Each of the most important competencies is discussed and interconnections among competencies identified. How this research can be used by the practitioner and academic communities and the broader implications of this research are examined.     

大学英语教学与大学生社会文化能力培养

社会文化能力在跨文化交流中极其重要。培养大学生社会文化能力,大学英语教学应把语言知识教学和文化知识教学结合起来,让学生从语言中学文化知识,在文化环境中理解语言知识。     

企业核心能力、动态能力与可持续发展

在当今不确定性环境下,企业的动态能力与可持续发展已是学术探讨的一个重要命题。文章通过对企业核心能力、动态能力及其与可持续竞争优势之间关系的讨论,在强调企业资源能力的前提下,使企业能力与动态的市场环境变化相适应,在组织惯例和业务活动过程中运用知识和经验,不断提高资源利用效率,创造出满足顾客或市场需求的产品和服务。同时,通过有关核心能力的理论回顾,以动态能力和价值过程为基础,整合资源、能力、市场、产品和知识等五要素,使之相互影响互为作用,使企业能力保持长期可持续发展。     

论隐喻能力在外语教学中的培养

现代隐喻研究主要是认知隐喻观和语法隐喻观,两种隐喻观虽从不同视角研究隐喻,但共同认为隐喻不仅是一种语言现象,更是一种人类认知、思维现象。隐喻能力培养的途径主要有四：制定教学大纲时要考虑隐喻能力;安排教材内容时要体现隐喻能力;引导隐喻思维;设计评价体系时要激励隐喻思维能力。     

资本概念拓展与企业核心能力理论范式演变

随着科学技术的进步、生产力的发展、经济形态的变化和企业性质的变迁,企业资本已从传统的"物质资本"范畴发展成为一个由物质资本、人力资本、知识资本和社会资本等资本子范畴组成的体系,建立在这一基础上的资本理论即为新资本理论。企业核心能力历经物质资本主导型、人力资本主导型、知识资本主导型、社会资本主导型等范式的演变。历史地看,这些资本类别与核心能力范式分别代表和适用于古典企业、传统公司制企业、新经济条件下的知识型企业及网络组织。     

提升核心竞争力的企业文化建设措施探讨

在我国央企大力实施“走出去”战略之际,集团化、集约化发展思路使企业合并重组成为必然。不同企业文化背景的员工融合,成为急需解决的问题。核心竞争力的形成是企业长久发展的支撑点。基于核心竞争力的形成方法找出企业文化建设中的不足,根据核心竞争力的目标,提出企业文化建设的改进措施,为形成具有核心竞争力的企业文化提供途径。     

From new-product development to commercialization through networks

The research on research and development (R&D) networks is plentiful but network relations in commercialization of innovations attract surprisingly little attention. This study analyzes how firms combine resources and utilize their relations in order to ensure the success of their innovations. The theoretical basis combines literature on innovation, industrial networks, and innovation networks. The study includes two cases on commercialization networks. The results indicate that an innovating firm needs resources to engage in customer education, distribution, marketing communication, relationship mediation, and credibility building when moving from R&D tasks to commercialization tasks. To acquire these resources, the firm needs to experience changes in network relations. Accordingly, the innovating firm needs particular commercialization competence in terms of accessing, mobilizing, and organizing relational resources.     

基于优势资源观的企业持续竞争优势研究

从优势资源观的角度来探讨企业的持续竞争优势。企业的竞争优势的源泉来自于企业拥有的优势资源,优势资源也是核心竞争力的来源;核心竞争力是形成竞争优势的关键,最后通过扩展竞争优势并获得持续的竞争优势。文中提出了基于优势资源观的企业持续竞争优势模型,并讨论了如何构建企业的持续竞争优势。     

Influence of Students’ Interactions Abroad on Developing Intercultural Competence

Study-abroad programs represent one of the initiatives implemented by universities to internationalize curricula and prepare students to perform in a globalized society. The purpose of this research was to evaluate how intercultural interactions influence the development of intercultural competence. Results from a sample of 158 students indicate that students’ intercultural contacts have a significant positive effect on their change in intercultural competence, which is calculated as the difference between the measures before and after going abroad (b = .236; s.e. = .104; β = .289; p < .05). These findings confirm that mere exposure to foreign environments does not automatically result in effective learning; thus, universities should set conditions to facilitate active engagement between visiting students and national hosts.     

学生英语能力考核评价现状及问题分析——以保险职业学院为例

科学正确的教学评估对实现课程目标,改进教学方法,提高教学质量都起到至关重要的作用,作为交流工具的英语,其交际等实用能力的考评尤为重要,本文对高职院校的学生英语能力考核评价之现状进行调查研究,对其存在问题进行分析,并提出完善英语能力考核评价之建议.