共青团培养大学生实践精神工作思路与平台建设研究

共青团是高校学生中最为重要的青年群众组织,是青年学生工作开展的重要载体,在大学生各种社会实践活动中正确发挥好共青团组织的作用,可以为锤炼大学生实践精神,提高社会实践的效果,培养高素质、技能型的职业技术人才奠定坚实的基础。     

Fourth Generation NGOs: Communication Strategies in Social Campaigning and Resource Mobilization

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have moved from small-scale community relief and services to complex advocacy missions at the international level. NGOs that operate in advocacy and social movement are addressed as fourth generation NGOs. Drawing on the literature of communication strategies in the nonprofit sector, the author investigates how fourth generation NGOs formulate and execute their communication strategies to achieve organizational goals. The author reports an in-depth case study of a single NGO. The results identify recurring themes in constructing and negotiating communication strategies in NGO campaigns for social support and resource mobilization. Organizational structures, public perceptions, and strategic approaches are examined to provide theoretical and practical implications related to understanding NGOs’ strategic communications choices.     

Weaving cotton‐led development? Liberalization,cotton producer organizations,and uneven development in Burkina Faso

This article argues that the politics of scale in a nested hierarchy of cotton governance institutions in Burkina Faso are weighted against smaller producers, with what looks like success from a broader scale producing uneven development at the local scale. We show that at the national level, Burkina Faso has succeeded in increasing its output of cotton lint. At the local level, we see a differentiated outcome where the liberalization‐initiated system of shared liability has improved overall cotton cooperative management but this has come at a significant cost: the exit of poorer farmers from the cotton sector and an increasing debt burden on those individual farmers who remain. The novelty of this article is that it considers producers' institutions as a key level of analysis linking macro‐scale policy decisions to micro‐scale village and farm outcomes. The resulting analysis allows us to focus on the politics of scale, particularly the power relations of different actors and the ability to capture resources at different levels, as well as the role of multilevel institutions in producing differentiated outcomes.     

Finding default? Understanding the drivers of default on contracts with farmers’ organizations under the World Food Programme Purchase for progress pilot

During the past two decades, food assistance policy has shifted toward local or regional food purchases and away from purchases from donor countries. Although most local and regional procurement occurs through hard tendering processes open to large‐scale firms and farms, there is growing interest in identifying how and whether to procure from smallholder farmer organizations (FOs). To date, little is known about the drivers of successful contracting with FOs. We utilize data from the United Nations World Food Programme Purchase for Progress pilot in three East African countries to predict defaults on contracts. We examine four possible explanations: country contexts, FO characteristics, prior experience with contracts, and contract modalities and their relationship to local spot market prices. The single most important predictor of default is the increase in market prices between contract approval and delivery. Yet, although increases in market prices are linked to increases in default, this relationship is decreasing in contract size, indicating search costs associated with breaking contracts. Our findings yield both generalizable and context‐specific insights about whether—and when—procuring from smallholder farmers can be successfully integrated into the food assistance toolkit.     

提高公益性科研院所学术论文数量与质量对策的研究——以湖北省科技信息研究院为例

学术论文的数量和质量直接反映了公益性科研院所的学术水平、科研和创新能力。文章以湖北省科技信息研究院为例,从其学术论文发表现状出发,分析了学术论文数量与质量提高的制约因素,研究表明：提高学术论文数量与质量的对策,首先在于提高员工发表学术论文的意识和积极性,关键在于健全和完善学术论文的管理机制,此外需要进一步提高员工的综合素质和写作能力,并采取跨部门、跨专业合作攻关的方式,以国家重点课题为基础多出高质量论文,提高论文的SCI、EI、ISTP收录率。     

建立甘肃体育中介组织的构想

甘肃省体育产业化进程相对缓慢,体育社会化程度较低,体育产业单位实力普遍较弱,缺乏市场竞争力.针对这一现状,本文提出建立甘肃体育中介组织的构想,旨在开发体育市场,推动甘肃体育事业的快速发展.     

金融组织核心胜任特征模型的构建

文章通过文献检索以及对50名中高层管理者的行为事件访谈,编制了《金融组织核心胜任特征调查问卷》;结合问卷调查的结果,运用因素分析等量化的统计方法,初步构建了包含金融监管能力、战略定位、组织保障、金融创新、队伍素质、责任行政、风险管理水平等7个因素的我国金融组织核心胜任特征模型,分析表明该模型具有较好的信度和效度,对指导我国金融组织和谐构建、提升我国金融组织的核心竞争力具有重大意义.     

西部欠发达地区农业可持续发展中的组织建构

通过分析合作社对农业可持续发展的作用机理,指出合作社是农业可持续发展的基本组织载体,并针对当前西部欠发达地区合作社发展中面临的四大约束,提出了建构合作社的基本对策。     

论新《保险法》中行业协会的法律定位

2009年2月28日,全国人大常委会审议通过了修订后的《保险法》,首次增加了保险行业协会条款。本文首先阐述了上述立法规定的背景和意义,并解释了行业协会作为自律性组织而存在的经济原因,新《保险法》中没有明确行业协会的职能,本文区分了其一般性职能和特殊职能,探讨了国际上关于保险行业协会职能的立法及实践,最后针对中国保险行业协会在履行职能时遇到的问题,提出几点立法建议。     

PLANNING IN AMBIGUOUS CONTEXTS: THE DILEMMA OF MEETING NEEDS FOR COMMITMENT AND DEMANDS FOR LEGITIMACY

This paper argues that ambiguity of context manifested in pressures for legitimacy and commitment affect planning processes. Ambiguity arises from multiple conflicting constituencies and the lack of direct control over resources. Using nonprofit and entrepreneurial organizations as examples of organizations facing ambiguous contexts, we examine their planning practices to develop an understanding of the relationship between commitment, legitimacy, and planning. From this analysis, we articulate a managerial dilemma: the need to use informality and vagueness to gain commitment from diverse interests, and the need to demonstrate formalization of managerial practices to acquire legitimacy from critical resource suppliers. Using elements of this dilemma, we present a new planning framework for organizations in ambiguous contexts that recognizes planning as a strategy for resource acquisition rather than a strategy for resource allocation.