Do your tax problems make tax evasion seem more justifiable? Evidence from a survey experiment

Taxpayers often view tax rules and filing processes as complicated. I study whether the perceived tax uncertainty among peers makes tax evasion more acceptable among the general public. I find strong supportive evidence for this hypothesis using a survey experiment and a large representative sample of the German population. Providing randomized information that others are uncertain about how to file their taxable income decreases individual support for tax compliance. This suggests that subjects judge tax evasion less harshly in response to this peer information. Studying related heterogeneous treatment effects, I find that both older and left-wing subjects are more responsive to tax uncertainty of others. Less harsh views on evasion are persistent for very high compliance levels in a follow-up survey.     

The role of biomass energy consumption and economic complexity on environmental sustainability in G7 economies

This paper empirically examines the effect of biomass energy consumption and economic complexity on environmental sustainability in G7 economies. The current study attempts to report a comprehensive analysis of biomass energy and economic complexity on ecological and carbon footprints and carbon emissions. We employ data from 1990 to 2019 and adopt robust panel econometric techniques that account for the analysis's cross-sectional dependence. We conduct cointegration analysis, pooled ordinary least squares (OLS), system generalized method of moments (GMM) and conditional quantile model for our empirical analysis. The empirical findings show that both biomass energy consumption and economic complexity are detrimental to the ecological footprint and carbon footprint. Additionally, we find that globalization positively affects the environment, while we find some evidence that bureaucratic quality improves environmental quality. Finally, in line with other research, we find that economic growth has detrimental effects on the environment. Our results suggest that policymakers should be more cautious in promoting biomass as a clean energy source and that the G7 economies should take advantage of their leading position in innovation to invest more in sustainable practices and investment.     

Toward a non-organizational theory of human resource management? A complex adaptive systems perspective on the human resource management ecosystem in (con)temporary organizing

The emergence of the temporary organization has ushered in a new logic of organizing accompanied by paradigm-shifting challenges with respect to how the evolving nature of work, workers, and collective effort are to be understood. To capture the complexity inherent in this new order, and to broaden our focus from the organization to the enfolding ecosystem within which temporary organizing must be situated and understood, we engage in problematization to develop a multi-level framework for theorizing the contemporary human resource management ecosystem. Curating insights from complexity science, we conceptualize this ecosystem as a complex adaptive one and we propose a framework that integrates key structural (open boundaries and relational constitution), emergent (contextual and complex causality), and temporal (dynamic and adaptive) properties. To deepen lines of inquiry around these defining elements, we advance a series of propositions for testing, and we outline a range of theoretical, methodological, and practical implications that arise from our work.     

论科技经济一体化的本质

文章认为科技经济一体化是科技经济化与经济科技化趋势下所呈现的科技与经济相互交叉、渗透、融合,并最终导致科技与经济合而为一的现象和动态过程,它具有历时与共时、分化与整合相统一,以及自组织和复杂性等特征,其本质就是作为一个开放系统的动态演化过程。     

Environmental degradation,energy consumption and sustainable development: Accounting for the role of economic complexities with evidence from World Bank income clusters

The anthropogenic consequences of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption, economic growth, and air transport have been assessed enormously in the literature. However, given the complexities in many economies of the world today, it is important to reassess the ecological concerns of these factors in light of the Environmental Kuznets Curve framework. Therefore, this current study investigates the global assessment using data from World Bank Development database from 1995 to 2016. Evidence from the method employed, sys-GMM, revealed that the economic complexities index increases the carbon emission in low-income groups while it significantly decreases the carbon emission for upper-middle and high-income groups. For the combined group, the EKC hypothesis holds, and ECI significantly hampers carbon emissions. For the other variables, it is worthy of note that (1) economic growth contributes to the high carbon contents across the income group especially for low-income, upper-middle-income and high-income group; (2) the effects of air transport on carbon emission is positive for lower-middle-income and high-income group and negative for the upper-middle-income group; (3) the use of coal rents and energy use leads to high release of carbon contents across all the income groups; and (4) a significant increase in the utilization of energy leads to increase in carbon contents except for lower-income group, it leads to a decrease. From this empirical assessment, vital energy policy directions are suggested.     

基于契约属性研究的人力资本定价模型

从人力资本的特性出发,研究发现人力资本定价的界限是人力资本在企业价值创造中的贡献价值而非其全部价值,还发现人力资本与企业间的契约不仅可以把人力资本的贡献价值从其全部价值中剥离出来,而且决定着人力资本的价值贡献机理.随后,在对企业中人力资本契约属性分析的基础上.创造性地构建出人力资本的契约矩阵,实现了对人力资本价值贡献特征的归类,并最终得出了一种基于契约属性研究的人力资本定价模型.     

包税制的兴起与衰落:交易费用与征税合同的选择

在 1 9世纪甚至 2 0世纪初以前 ,包税制都是许多国家赖以征税的一个重要机制。但是 ,对于它的研究一直很少 ,也不深入。最近 ,在欧美等国 ,一种变形的包税制又开始出现。在我国的某些地方 ,税务机构也尝试着将某些税收承包给非政府机构。因此 ,研究历史上的包税制也具有一定的现实意义。本文运用交易费用理论和历史社会学的研究成果探索了包税制在近现代史上兴起和衰落的原因。     

惯例多元性：研发联盟何以提升治理绩效

网络组织内部结构优化与运行效率提升离不开惯例这一重要的知识资源，作为描述联盟组织行为方式的一般术语，联盟惯例表现为稳定的做事方式、标准化的作业程序和统一的行为准则等多种形式，并且在协调主体之间合作关系、增强组织内部稳定程度以及提升经验信息交流效率等方面发挥着重要作用。基于上海、南京和杭州地区261家企业调研数据，从惯例多元性视角出发，将联盟惯例解构为行动逻辑、内隐规范和交互共识，研究不同治理机制下联盟企业提升合作绩效的问题，同时揭示多元联盟惯例在研发联盟治理过程中的作用机理。研究结果表明：契约治理机制与研发联盟绩效之间存在倒U型关系，关系治理机制与研发联盟绩效之间存在正向关系；联盟惯例的3个维度对其调节效应不同，其中，行动逻辑和内隐规范对契约治理机制与联盟绩效之间的关系均有显著正向调节效应，而交互共识对契约治理机制与联盟绩效之间的关系有显著负向调节效应，同时，交互共识对关系治理机制与联盟绩效之间的关系有显著正向调节效应。     

编辑系统的复杂性分析

应用系统工程、信息论、复杂性理论等理论与方法,对编辑工作进行了复杂性分析,提出了一些评估复杂性的基本概念、定义、原理;对编辑过程性质和运行特性进行了分析,对编辑理论研究范围进行了扩展。     

科学方法论研究──组织复杂科学的基本方法与主要工具

对复杂性研究的理论与评价方法研究现状进行了分析,总结了研究企业组织复杂性科学的基本方法与主要工具,提出了基于熵信息的结构复杂性研究理论与方法。