Novel approaches to the regulatory control of financial services providers: The importance of cultural context

This study investigates the effectiveness of a public sector financial management initiative. Specifically, the powers awarded to the Irish Financial Services Ombudsman (FSO) in 2013 to name and shame malfeasance by financial service providers (FSPs) in its annual reports. As the first country to award such powers to its public sector financial ombudsman, Ireland represents a novel setting in which to test the impact of regulatory disclosure as a way to promote accountability and transparency. Our results show that the number of complaints lodged against malfeasants dropped in the immediate aftermath of this and, following a one-year lag, so did the percentage of complaints lodged that proceeded to a full investigation and legally binding finding. Despite the failure of such strategies in some jurisdictions, the Irish experience indicates that regulatory disclosure can, in line with Neo-Durkheimian institutional theory and consistent with the accounting and accountability literature, have considerable impact where and when contextual preconditions are met. These findings have important implications for the operationalisation of regulatory disclosure as an accountability enhancing measure in other jurisdictions.     

Network embeddedness in the internationalization of biotechnology entrepreneurs

This study investigates how entrepreneurs of biotech enterprises embed in domestic and international networks so as to internationalize. We advance a contextual framework of embeddedness of internationalizing entrepreneurs, providing a contribution (i) by synthesizing and applying existing conceptual insights from the networking literature to provide a more culturally sensitive view of getting embedded for international entrepreneurship in the biotech industry and (ii) by adding insights into the practices and (micro)processes of how and in what ways embeddedness integrates with the internationalization of biotech entrepreneurs. Our study involves six entrepreneurs from Canada, Finland, and New Zealand. Context-specific embeddedness was studied by exploring the (i) type, (ii) strength, (iii) locality, and (iv) importance of the international and national network ties among internationalizing entrepreneurs. We found differences in relation to the locality of universities and research institutes, role and type of financiers, and customer focus in internationalization. For instance, while customers were central to the embeddedness of Canadian and New Zealand entrepreneurs, Finnish entrepreneurs had no focus on their customers, but acted solely through sales channels and partners. The customer focus of New Zealand entrepreneurs was mainly international, whereas it was domestic in the case of Canadian entrepreneurs.     

Enhancing employee creativity in the Chinese context: The mediating role of employee self-concordance

This study applies the theory of self-concordance and adopts the multi-level analysis approach to examine the mediating effect of employee self-concordance, a core component of intrinsic motivation, on the relationship between social-contextual factors and creativity using hotel industry data obtained from Mainland China. The hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) results from a multisource sample reveal that the three social-contextual variables (i.e., organizational modernity, empowering leadership, and coworkers support and helping) were associated with employee self-concordance, which in turn was associated with employee creativity. Moreover, employee self-concordance fully mediated the three social-contextual variables and creativity. This study shows that organization environment plays a significant role in predicting employee creativity. The implications of the findings for future research and their practical applications in the hotel industry are discussed.     

工作情景中的目标取向研究进展

工作背景中的目标取向研究是成就动机理论的重要分支,其研究经历了从单一维度到多维度的过程.早期的目标取向强调个体成就动机、个体水平是主导性的分析层面,随着概念内涵的丰富,研究层次也拓展到人际比较层次与团队层面.由此研究进展趋势和路径看,未来目标取向的研究主要是团队或更高层次的把握、情景因素与目标取向的关系以及不同层次的形成与交互关系.     

习语翻译中的关联缺失与关联重建

由于交际语言、交际对象及认知语境的变化,习语翻译过程中出现关联缺失现象,译者在尽力保留源习语语言、文化意义及交际意图的同时,应充分考虑译文读者的认知语境,采用灵活手段在译文中重建关联。     

详解「気持ち」的用法

「気持ち」这个词在日语中是一个使用频率很高的词,一般解释为：心情,情绪等。在日语教与学的过程中,许多师生没有深究其意,往往把它与中文的＂心情＂等同起来,这就导致一些错句产生。应全面了解其在不同语境中的不同含义,从而达到正确理解和运用的目的。     

情景语境中教学方法对学生语言习得影响的研究报告

如何能提高英语教学的质量和学生英语学习的效率是英语教学工作者和学习者十分关心的一个问题。文章旨在探讨情景教学法对学生语言习得的影响,以及其对英语教学的启示,以探讨英语教学的方法,提高英语教学的质量。     

浅谈欧美影片片名翻译的语境效应

电影是门艺术,电影译名是影片的眼睛,如同书名翻译一样,是不同文化的交流。观众对象不同,文化和欣赏习惯也有差异。因此,在进行影片片名翻译的时候,就应该引入一个新的元素——语境。好的译名应具有以小见大、贴近文化、意境美的特点,要把语境因素与片名的翻译结合起来,真正达到片名的＂入乡随俗＂。     

LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS WITHIN A GLOBAL CONTEXT: AN OVERVIEW

This paper reviews 726 academic research studies covering logistics and supply chain management (L'SCM) applications within a global context. Articles are analyzed according to their publication year and outlet, common themes, and countries or regions investigated. The sample was drawn from the ABI/INFORM Global database, which includes almost 1,800 journal titles. The review offers a starting point for researchers, graduate students, faculty members or practitioners examining international L'SCM applications. The article also draws attention to the wide array of global L'SCM studies conducted, their settings and viewpoints. Additionally, this paper highlights some of the most interesting works and draws attention to lesser‐researched countries and regions of the world. The overview also provides an introduction for practitioners and managers to what academic research has covered in the area of global L'SCM. Practitioners can use this review as a starting point for the identification of relevant and useful references for their particular task.     

文化语境下的英汉植物词汇意义与翻译

思维方式、民情风俗、心理以及文学积淀的差异,赋予英、汉语中植物词汇以不同的文化内涵。因此,在英汉翻译中了解与掌握植物词汇的文化意义差异是达到＂真实＂翻译所必备的条件。本文通过对英语汉语植物词汇的差异比较,提出了三种具体的翻译方法。