Nonprofit organizations,institutional economics,and systems thinking

The present paper applies the logic of John Kenneth Gailbraith's institutional economics analysis of corporate power to inquiring into the societal role of the nonprofit sector. Building on Galbraith's insight that corporations cause subtle but pervasive societal imbalances, the paper locates the role of nonprofit organizations in compensating for these imbalances, thus showing corporations and nonprofit organizations to be mutually complementary rather than antagonistic actors. This argument is supported by Niklas Luhmann's vision of the precarious relationship between the complexity and sustainability of social systems as well as by Kenneth Boulding's analysis of the farmer and labor movement. Luhmann's and Boulding's perspectives show profit-seeking corporations to be social systems developing high technological complexity at the cost of sacrificing their societal sustainability, while the improvement of the latter constitutes the rationale of many nonprofit organizations. The same systems-theoretic logic suggests, however, that nonprofit organizations may tend to underestimate the technological complexity of implementing their mission-related activities, thereby undermining their own effectiveness.     

Rethinking Institutions and Organizations

In this Point–Counterpoint article we argue that institutional scholarship has become overly concerned with explaining institutions and institutional processes, notably at the level of the organization field, rather than with using them to explain and understand organizations. Especially missing is an attempt to gain a coherent, holistic account of how organizations are structured and managed. We also argue that when institutional theory does give attention to organizations it inappropriately treats them as though they are the same, or at least as though any differences are irrelevant for purposes of theory. We propose a return to the study of organizations with an emphasis upon comparative analysis, and suggest the institutional logics perspective as an appropriate means for doing so.     

民间组织管理制度的经济学分析

我国现行的"管制型"民间组织管理模式不利于民间组织的发展。通过比较现行管理制度下的成本与收益发现,要推动民间组织管理制度的变革,建立和谐的国家与社会关系,必须放松对民间组织的控制。     

香港社会中介组织的经验与启示

近年来,香港各级各类中介组织在促进经济社会事业发展中发挥着越来越重要的作用,借鉴香港社会中介组织发展的有益经验,探求国内社会中介组织发展的特色之路尤为关键。     

The Evolving Logic of the External Institutional Financial Organizations of China

Starting from the initial conditions of Chinese financial reform, the author tries to analyze the inherent logic why the External Institutional Financial Organizations （the EIFOs） steps into a tight comer. He points out that the financial marginal reform carried out by the country has no endogenous solution under the initial conditions such as the dominance of state-owned finance, lacking market basement for interest forming, no real finance price, the administrative approval system, and lacking market basement for financial supervision,     

金融危机背景下我国农民专业合作社组织的价值思考

蔓延全球的金融危机波及到我国农村,产生一系列负面影响。农民专业合作组织在此次金融危机中,初步显示出其价值,随着规模的不断扩大,必将进一步发挥其在农村中的作用,引导中国农村走上内生型发展道路。     

合作教育缺失与中国农村合作经济组织的发展困境

农民合作社是一种“人的结合”而非“资本结合”自治性组织,因而合作经济最终行为主体——农民的合作意识和合作文化素养对于合作社发展壮大有着举足轻重的作用。文章基于全国对合作社较为发达5省问卷调研发现,农村合作知识的缺乏及合作教育缺失,是农民对合作制度产生低认同度一个重要原因。基于此,政府应在明晰合作教育对象的基础上,学习国外发达国家经验,大力发展合作教育,一方面。推行学校的合作教育,即体制内一些高校设立合作经济专业或课程;另一方面,体制外可以针对不同施教对象采取灵活多样的社会化培训方式来进行合作教育。为合作经济可持续发展提供源源不断的人才支撑。否则,中国的农村合作事业极有可能还是在“发展难”与“难发展”怪圈中循环,已有的农民合作经济组织仍会是一种缺少灵魂的“空壳”。     

创新协同网络组织间信任建立与知识共享机理研究

创新协同网络组织通过优势互补协作创新,能加速科技成果的产出和转化。其产出和转化的绩效很大程度上决定于共享网络组织成员间知识共享和知识创新程度。研究表明:知识共享的前提是创新协同网络组织成员间的相互信任。影响创新协同组织间信任的因素包括成员声誉、品牌影响力、结构保证、专有资产投资、沟通和兼容性。而创新协同网络组织成员间信任不仅能促进知识共享,还能正向影响合作绩效以及合作伙伴关系。     

东营市事业单位岗位设置管理工作研究

在事业单位建立岗位管理制度,是事业单位人事管理制度的一次重大改革和创新。笔者采取实地调研、座谈等方式,对东营市事业单位岗位设置管理工作现状、存在问题进行了研究分析,并提出了下一步完善岗位设置管理工作的建议和措施。