买方行为、社会网络与服务业的产业政策

服务业是一个经验品市场,买方互惠行为的缺失与锁定行为的存在都会促使卖方降低服务的质量,进而导致服务业市场萎缩,社会网络会进一步强化这种影响.我国服务业当前发展缓慢与这种买方行为引发的市场失灵不无关系.由于现有的产业政策普遍忽略了买方行为对服务业发展的影响,服务业产业政策的设计需要进行调整.     

快速城市化地区社区的社会结构特征——以深圳市五联社区为例

通过对深圳市五联社区社会状况的实地访谈和定量调查,对快速城市化地区社区的社会结构状况进行了研究,力求揭示快速城市化地区社区社会结构运作的基本特征,以深入推进城市化工作,建设和谐社区.     

公立医院引入社会资本的政府角色研究--以山西省为例

政府主导之下,引入社会资本作为公立医院改革的一个重要方向,已经越来越多地成为优化我国医疗服务供给的模式选择。在具体过程中,政府需要通过分析不同级别公立医院现状以及社会资本可能参与的领域,针对性地设计合作模式,选择成熟的社会资本进行合作,加强实施过程的监管。同时公立医院引入社会资本较为复杂,涉及到社会资本方、政府、公立医院和社会公众的利益,政府要协调好公共部门和市场的关系,调动各方参与者的积极性。     

集聚度、社会资本对企业绩效的影响研究

尽管有研究表明社会资本与服务业集聚是服务企业绩效提升的关键因素,吸收能力在社会资本和集聚在企业绩效之间起了中介作用,却鲜有文献深入揭示社会资本、集聚、吸收能力以及企业绩效运作机理。以广东为主的129家服务企业为样本,采用结构方程对其进行实证分析。结果显示,内部社会资本与实现吸收能力显著正相关;集聚度与企业潜在吸收能力显著正相关;外部社会资本与潜在吸收能力以及实现吸收能力均显著正相关。内部社会资本与外部社会资本有共生关系;集聚度与外部社会资本有共生关系,与内部社会资本无显著正相关关系;集聚度及社会资本通过吸收能力中介作用影响企业绩效。     

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。     

私人部门在满足医疗需求方面的作用（上）

本文就私人部门在满足医疗需求方面的作用进行分析,认为如果私人部门能够得到有效监管,并按照社会道德认同的方式进行运转,一国医疗体系就能够受益于私人部门。本部分探讨了医疗体系的基本功能及其目标,介绍了绝对平均主义、两阶层医疗体系和多阶层医疗体系三种分配医疗服务的观点,指出当前用货币价值衡量医疗产出价值是次优选择;而衡量医疗服务分配效率也存在争议。     

How CEO hubris affects corporate social (ir)responsibility

Grounded in the upper echelons perspective and stakeholder theory, this study establishes a link between CEO hubris and corporate social responsibility (CSR). We first develop the theoretical argument that CEO hubris is negatively related to a firm's socially responsible activities but positively related to its socially irresponsible activities. We then explore the boundary conditions of hubris effects and how these relationships are moderated by resource dependence mechanisms. With a longitudinal dataset of S&P 1500 index firms for the period 2001–2010, we find that the relationship between CEO hubris and CSR is weakened when the firm depends more on stakeholders for resources, such as when its internal resource endowments are diminished as indicated by firm size and slack, and when the external market becomes more uncertain and competitive. The implications of our findings for upper echelons theory and the CSR research are discussed. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The impact of corporate social responsibility on investment recommendations: Analysts' perceptions and shifting institutional logics

We explore the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on sell‐side analysts' assessments of firms' future financial performance. We suggest that when analysts perceive CSR as an agency cost they produce pessimistic recommendations for firms with high CSR ratings. Moreover, we theorize that, over time, the emergence of a stakeholder focus shifts the analysts' perceptions of CSR. Using a large sample of publicly traded U.S. firms over 15 years, we confirm that, in the early 1990s, analysts issue more pessimistic recommendations for firms with high CSR ratings. However, analysts progressively assess these firms more optimistically over time. Furthermore, we find that analysts of highest status are the first to shift the relation between CSR ratings and investment recommendation optimism. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Sharing Common Resources in Patriarchal and Status-Based Societies: Evidence from Tanzania

ABSTRACT

In rural African societies, socioeconomic differentiation linked to gender and social status exerts an important influence on the distribution of common-pool resources. Through a behavioral experiment conducted in 2008 in rural Tanzania, this contribution examines the influence of gender and social status on distribution behavior of users of self-governed common watersheds. It finds that men and women with low social status distribute water equally when water is abundant but keep larger shares when water is scarce, although low-status women try to be as fair as possible at the expense of their returns from irrigated agriculture. Men of high social status keep more than half of the available water for themselves, both in abundance and scarcity, and deprive others from sizeable returns from irrigated agriculture. Women of high social status share altruistically when water is abundant and equally when water is scarce, giving up on returns from irrigated agriculture.