Local Venturing as Compassion Organizing in the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster: The Role of Localness and Community in Reducing Suffering

In contrast to models of compassion within existing organizations, this grounded theory study examines how ventures emerge relying on localness and community in direct response to ‘opportunities’ to alleviate suffering in the aftermath of a natural disaster. While a natural disaster is a surprising disruptive event devastating a local community, that local community is nested within a broader community, which can be a source of abundant resources. Ventures created in the aftermath of a natural disaster, given local knowledge and unencumbered by pre‐existing systems, procedures, and capabilities, are highly effective at connecting the broader community with the local community through customizing resources to meet victims' needs and to quickly delivering these resources to alleviate suffering.     

利用社区资源做好老干部服务工作的探讨

当前,离休老干部工作正面临着离休干部进入"高年龄、高发病期"和老同志居住日渐分散的新特点,传统的服务方式不太适应客观实际的需要,正面临着越来越严峻的挑战,必须进行创新,不断解决离休老干部日益存在的实际困难。为适应离休干部高龄养老和服务管理的需要,利用社区资源做好离休干部服务工作,是当前和今后做好离休干部服务管理工作的重要内容,也是做好新形势下离休干部工作的有效途径。     

国际旅游岛的价值分析

自从国务院发布了《国务院关于推进海南国际旅游岛建设发展的若干意见》后,海南省有了新的发展机遇。本文对海南国际旅游岛的战略价值和生态资源价值进行认识,并为海南国际旅游岛创造共同价值和长远价值做分析研究,在达成国际旅游岛比发展有污染的低端工业更有价值的共识基础上,对旅游中生态价值进行价值分析,在开发这种旅游资源的基础上,采取人为行政和立法的方式来保护这种核心价值,利于海南省创造更多的价值。     

城市老年人步行能力与建设其适合的居住区户外环境的研究——以南京市为例

参照国民体质监测方法测试10米步行速度,对调查区域附近部分人、车流量较大道路宽度直接测量和对路口交通信号灯时间值直接观察,调查测定了334名(其中男136名,女198名)60岁以上南京市城市老年人步行速度,了解老年人居住区的住区道路、信号交叉口、住宅建设、公共设施等户外环境的基本情况。结果表明:70岁及以上的老年人即使在健康状况允许快走的前提下仍有一部分无法在绿灯时间里通过街道,与60-69岁组相比呈现急剧上升的趋势。通过分析城市老年人步行能力和居住区户外环境现状,建议优化老年人居住区的交通;完善城市老年人的住宅建设,加强无障碍设计;配齐公共设施,加强社区服务。     

中国程序员阶层——一股待觉醒的力量

本文通过考察中国信息产业发展进程,发现程序员已经作为一个阶层出现。随后,在给出该阶层明确的划定基础上,创造了一个社会三层次研究模型,进而总结出该阶层的先进性和局限性。总之,中国程序员阶层是一股待觉醒的力量。笔者创造性地提出该阶层是位于新兴的虚拟社会和进步的现实社会当中的新时代的"士"等观点,并给出了阶层应当担负起的崇高的特殊的历史责任。最后指出,该阶层的觉醒应由自身的发掘、成长,以及政府的引导、支持来实现。     

基于云计算的社区教育系统研究

通过介绍云计算概念、模型,分析了基于云计算的社区教育系统体系结构以及社区教育云计算方法,并提出了社区教育云的实现。旨在把握云计算的实质内涵和发展趋势,以及在社区教育信息化建设中能够把握基于云计算的教育系统未来发展。     

试论高校图书馆馆员素质

在图书馆工作的构成要素中,馆员的素质是关键要素,它直接决定着图书馆服务工作的质量高低,是图书馆事业的关键。本文通过分析高校图书馆馆员素质要求和现状,提出提高馆员素质的方法。     

美国社区学院促进教师专业发展的内部运行机制探究——帕洛玛社区学院个案分析

促进教师的专业发展被认为是确保学生和学校可持续发展的重要手段之一,美国社区学院在促进教师专业发展的过程中面临着许多挑战和问题,同时也一直在寻求解决问题的策略。帕洛玛社区学院作为美国社区学院的一个代表,在促进教师专业发展做了非常有益的探索,尤其在建构教师专业发展方面的内部运行机制如机构建设、整体目标、发展内容、制度约束、成效评估等方面给我国高等职业教育教师专业发展带来许多可借鉴的启示。     

Equity and asset growth among Subchapter S banks

Since 2004, commercial banks in the United States have been allowed to elect Subchapter S (hence Sub-S) status with up to 100 shareholders. That limitation may promote more effective monitoring of bank managers by shareholders which can, in turn, explain previous findings of superior performance among Sub-S banks. The present research focuses on the possibility that the shareholder limitation also constrains opportunities for bank growth, or a slow growth hypothesis for Sub-S banks. Using a differences-in-differences regression approach for a sample of community banks (i.e., less than $1b in assets) from 2004 to 2014, and controlling for initial assets and urban location, it is found that annual growth in real assets and equity was significantly higher among banks that never held Sub-S status than for banks that always held Sub-S status, and that banks switching to Sub-S later grew significantly faster than those that always held Sub-S status. Fixed effects regressions show that switching to Sub-S status significantly reduced equity growth, with asset growth significantly reduced after 2008. In conjunction with earlier findings, the results suggest that the availability of Sub-S status helped to protect and strengthen community banks across a time period including substantial financial turmoil.     

Defining and Defending a Progressive Market Square: Bringing Institutionalist Development Discourse in Line with the Reality of Post-Soviet Transition Experiences

Abstract:

This article is a response to two crucial ideas about progressive institutional change: the first is J. Fagg Foster’s principle of “minimal social dislocation,” which asserts that socio-economic changes should be implemented gradually, to avoid unraveling the social fabric of the community; the second is Karl Polanyi’s principles of redistribution of rights and powers by relevant authorities and reciprocity, a symmetrical and highly personalized exchange system, which is likewise a protective mechanism that society employs against anonymity and disintegration brought about by unregulated market. Using lessons learned in the thirty-year transition to market in post-Soviet countries, this article argues that to commence progressive institutional change in the honesty- and transparency-resistant cultures of former Soviet states, impersonal exchange and impartial rule of law must be given far greater weight than personalization of contacts and continuation of cultural traditions.