Outward foreign investment by transnational entrepreneurs: Insights from emerging economies

This research considers how transnational entrepreneurs in emerging economies identify and develop opportunities for investment into international ventures. Specifically, this study seeks to identify common drivers for outward investment by transnational entrepreneurs from their country of origin (Brazil and India) to their adopted country (the US). Findings indicate three common drivers of this type of internationalization: formal education, effectual logic, and the leveraging of perceived market differences. Furthermore, the data show that entrepreneurs prefer a gradual process of investment rather than a large-scale initial investment during the exploitation of international opportunities in the adopted country. The results of this study have important practical implications and are valuable additions to the scholarly understanding of the growing field of transnational entrepreneurship.     

The effectiveness of information interventions to improve domestic food safety among rural consumers

Consumer education on food handling behavior is regarded as an effective method to improve domestic food safety and prevent foodborne illness, but is usually overlooked in rural areas. Using a presurvey and two rounds of postsurveys targeted at rural consumers from China included in a randomized controlled trial, this study investigated the effectiveness of two information interventions—a leaflet with tips for best practices and the leaflet plus consumer education sessions conveyed by phone—and compared them with a control group. Cloth use behavior was the target in the trial and five specific aspects were evaluated: (1) whether the cloth was made of old clothes, (2) whether the one used to clean kitchen tables was also used to wash dishes, (3) whether it was hung to dry, (4) how it was disinfected, and (5) how long the cloth was used before being discarded. Firstly, consumers' behavior was scored by summing the above-mentioned five behaviors. The results estimated using the difference-in-difference model showed that respondents in the leaflet-only group improved to a greater extent than those in the control group, but their difference in progress was not statistically significant until the second round of the postsurvey. Respondents in the leaflet-plus-phone group were quicker to adopt suggested practices and made discernible improvements compared with those in the leaflet-only group in the first round of the postsurvey, but the gap between these groups narrowed to statistically insignificant in the second round of the postsurvey. It was concluded that one consumer education session was effective and made a difference in the long term, whereas more education sessions produced normative behavior at faster rates, showing a significant improvement in the short term. Then, the study estimated the effectiveness of interventions on the five specific behaviors separately. The results were estimated using a probit difference-in-difference model and showed that the suggested behaviors with lower costs or a greater difference from past behaviors were more likely to be adopted by consumers. Consumer education facilitates proper food handling practices among rural households, which should be considered by policy makers.     

探析德国职业教育教学改革中的行动导向法

在普通教育大环境中成长起来的职业教育研究,无论是教育内容所传授的知识类型,还是教育对象所具有的智力类型,都有其特殊性。我国职业教育改革的重点,迫切需要彻底打破学科、“大专业”体系,恢复职业教育的“本来面目”,其结果必定是教学方法的改革。在德国,作为一种已经被实践证明的有效方法,行动导向法在职业能力的培养中体现出了突出的优越性。加强行动导向教学法的研究,总结出一套适合我国国情的职业教育理论,进而推进我国职教事业的发展,在我国具有重大的现实意义。     

文化产业关联特征的动态分析——基于广东省2002年和2007年的投入产出数据

文化产业已上升为我国的战略性新兴产业,加强对文化产业的产业关联度及其经济影响力研究,对于制定政策措施,进一步发展文化产业,推动产业结构升级有重要意义。现有的基于投入产出分析的文化产业发展研究,绝大部分都只是分析了文化产业对国民经济的影响力和感应度,并没有分析文化产业在最初投入和最终使用中的构成情况,也没有进行动态比较研究,而且在文化产业的具体外延界定方面也存在着不足。本文在前人研究的基础上,将文化产业分为文化品制造业和文化服务业,以广东省2002年和2007年的投入产出数据为例,分别研究了广东文化产业的中间需求、最终使用和增加值的构成,以及文化产业对广东省国民经济的影响力和感应度,同时考虑2002年到2007年的动态变化,更加全面深入地分析了广东文化产业的产业关联动态特征。研究发现广东文化品制造业呈现出＂高影响力、低感应度＂的终端型产业特征,文化服务业则呈现出＂低影响力、低感应度＂的最终需求导向型特征。     

创新研究生教育工作 促进高校后备干部队伍建设

通过分析研究生教育与高校后备干部建设的相关性,并呈现中国研究生教育中所存在的问题,提出从创新研究生教育管理的视角,全方位地提升研究生的能力和素质,以促进中国高校后备干部队伍的建设。     

对我国农村教育现状及发展的思考

农村教育是中国教育改革和发展的重点。20世纪90年代中期之后,随着财政体制与农村经济状况的变化,农村教育出现了形势严峻、困难重重的状况。因此,大力发展农村教育,把沉重的人口负担转变为人力资源的优势,不仅是教育发展的重要目标,也是影响现代化建设进程的战略性任务。     

论加强高职大学生的职业道德教育

高职院校培养学生良好的职业道德是体现高职教育特色,提高高职院校办学质量的重要举措.高职院校职业道德教育,必须从学生成长成才阶段的实际情况出发,把社会对人才的要求与高职学生成长的特点结合起来,建立完善的教育内容体系,通过多渠道多途径使之得以实施.思想政治理论课是大学生思想道德教育的主阵地,实习实训、专业知识课等都承载着职业道德教育的任务.     

The Competitive Advantage of Collaboration – Throwing New Light on The Nordic Model

ABSTRACT

In one of the most influential contributions to modern political economy, Hall and Soskice have launched a distinction between ‘liberal’ and ‘coordinated’ market economies, placing the Nordic countries firmly in the latter category. We argue that, while the H&S distinction may serve classificatory purposes, seeing the Nordic model in terms of ‘coordinated capitalism’ blurs the distinctive features of the Nordic countries’ success as productive and fair economies. We contend that the central formula behind this success lies in what we call the Nordic model’s ambidexterity – the capacity to combine collaborative and competitive elements and skilfully navigate between them. Using an interdisciplinary perspective (inspired by organisation theory, cultural semiotics and evolutionary analysis), we provide a conceptual basis for reinterpreting the Nordic Model as an ambidextrous combination of culturally rooted, collaborative strategies that are subsequently competitively exposed. The article illustrates the workings of this ambidexterity in three societal domains: work life (including female participation), resource management – illustrated by the Norwegian petro-economy – and international business management and regulation with a focus on CSR. In each case we will show how collaboration is intertwined with pragmatic competitive exposure, yielding high productivity, high welfare, as well as fair income and wealth distribution.     

构建校企合作长效机制 促进高职教育改革发展

以我系"联想LCSE订单班"为例,总结了实践中的经验与收获,提出了校企合作中存在的问题,并对相关问题作了深入思考,提出了构建校企合作长效机制的改进意见。希望能够促进高职教育改革的发展,并对存在同样校企合作问题的同行有借鉴意义。     

Will elders provide for their grandchildren? Unconditional cash transfers and educational expenditures in Bolivia

We take advantage of repeated cross‐sectional household surveys and a sharp discontinuity created by the introduction of an unconditional cash transfer to elders in Bolivia, to evaluate its impact on educational expenditures on children within a household. We find positive and significant impacts of the program at the aggregate level. We also find that the program has stronger effects on indigenous populations as well as on female and rural populations. Our results are robust to a series of falsification tests, survey structure, model specification, and estimation methods.