Identifying Worldviews on Corporate Sustainability: A Content Analysis of Corporate Sustainability Reports

Companies commonly issue sustainability or corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports. This study seeks to understand worldviews of corporate sustainability, or the corporate message conveyed regarding what sustainability or CSR is and how to enact it. Content analysis of corporate sustainability reports is used to position each company report within stages of corporate sustainability. Results reveal that there are multiple coexisting worldviews of corporate sustainability, but the most dominant worldview is focused on the business case for sustainability, a position anchored in the weak sustainability paradigm. We contend that the business case and weak sustainability advanced in corporate sustainability reports and by the Global Reporting Initiative are poor representations of sustainability. Ecological embeddedness, or a locally responsive strategy that is sensitive to local ecosystems, may hold the key to improved ecological sensemaking, which in turn could lead to more mature levels of corporate sustainability worldviews that support strong sustainability and are rooted in environmental science. This must be supported by government regulation. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

创新驱动产业转型升级研究——基于中国1998-2016年省域面板数据

为了探究创新驱动产业转型升级的作用机制,构建了创新投入与创新产出对产业转型升级内涵质量与外显效应的影响模型,并提出研究假设。基于中国1998-2016年省域面板数据,借助Eviews 9.0计量软件,采用固定效应模型进行实证研究。结果表明,所提出的研究假设均得到验证。创新产出对产业转型升级内涵质量具有积极影响,创新产出的各表征变量(专利授权数、技术市场合同成交金额、新产品销售收入)每增长1%,产业转型升级内涵质量的表征变量人均国内生产总值将提高0.014 8%～0.051 1%。创新投入对产业转型升级外显效应具有积极影响,创新投入的各表征变量(R&D经费内部支出、R&D人员全时当量)每增加1%,产业转型升级外显效应的表征变量产业结构层次系数将提高0.007 1%～0.010 5%。因此,创新能够驱动产业转型升级,但创新投入与创新产出对产业转型升级的影响机制并不相同。研究结果为创新驱动产业转型升级问题的研究提供了一个新的研究范式,对实施创新驱动发展战略、促进产业转型升级有借鉴意义。     

Factors influencing customer engagement with branded content in the social network sites of integrated resorts

The integrated resorts rely on social network sites (SNSs) for content marketing, while one of the main purposes of content marketing is customer engagement that will leverage the impact of branded content. This study investigates the factors influencing customer engagement with brand posts of integrated resorts on the SNSs. The findings highlight the important influence of both media-type and content-type factors on the level of customer engagement in SNSs of integrated resorts. This study provides practical implications for integrated resorts to develop SNS online content marketing strategy.     

广东高校档案网站建设状况调查

调查分析广东省高校档案网站建设的状况.广东高校设置的档案网站的数量不多、比例不高;大多数网站的主要内容设置不齐全或者混乱;网站所能提供的利用与管理功能有限.除极少数高校外,总体建设水平不高,提供档案信息服务能力差.     

水含量对162型中温蜡成型质量的影响

传统的蜡处理工艺采用静置沉降法,蜡料在使用中经常出现蜡件凹陷、流纹多、气泡明显,以及修蜡时粘刀、蜡屑很难清洗等问题,严重影响了产品质量。为了解决这些问题,采用162型中温蜡料生产铸件,探究蜡料中水含量对蜡料综合性能和成型质量的影响。研究发现:随着水含量的上升,蜡表面质量趋于变好,蜡件比较饱满;当蜡料水含量控制在4%~7%时,蜡件的线收缩、凹陷及表面流纹较轻,综合使用性能好,且修蜡不粘刀,蜡屑容易清洗。因此,生产中可通过制作标准对比块,采用观察颜色的方法严格控制并监测蜡料中的水含量。此法简单、方便、可行,可用于蜡料生产中水含量的监测。     

Automatically extracting tourism-related opinion from Chinese social media

Existing tourism-destination investigations of Chinese texts remain weak, and no approach is available to realize Chinese context semantically and automatically. To resolve this, we provide a novel method based on qualitative analysis for studying the online opinions of Chinese tourists regarding the destinations to which they travel. Both traditional and simplified Chinese forums were chosen as the object of study. Spain was selected as a travel destination to evaluate the proposed method. After processing the natural language, unstructured Chinese content is analysed to derive the general sentiment and relevant topics regarding the destination through user comments on social media. The proposed method allows us to understand what tourists are interested in and how they form opinions about tourist destinations.     

基于沙堆模型的供应链竞争力提升分析

通过将沙堆模型应用于供应链,为供应链竞争力问题提出新的分析思路。供应链能够通过依次提高质量、可靠性、灵活性、敏捷性和成本获取竞争优势,从而为供应链如何追求这些优势,建立竞争力提供了一个理论框架。     

高职铸造专业实训改进研究与实施

为了提高高职学院铸造专业学生实训效果,通过消失模铸造改进传统木模手工造型,既提高了学生实际动手能力,又使学生掌握了该门先进铸造技术,增强了学生就业竞争能力。     

对辅导员评价与考核的几点思考

对辅导员进行科学、合理、公平的考核,是切实加强高校辅导员队伍建设的客观要求和重要保障。本文对辅导员考核评价内容,以及指标体系提出几点的思考,旨在建立更为科学、合理的辅导员考评模型。     

Alternatives to local content requirements in resource-rich countries

This paper discusses whether and to what extent resource-rich developing countries should introduce local content policies, i.e. requirements to include local inputs in petroleum extraction activities of multinational corporations. We argue that local content needs to be seen as a public expenditure question, since local content requirements increase multinational costs, and hence reduce the taxes which can be extracted from these companies. This implies that there are opportunity costs in imposing local content requirements, since the forgone taxes can be used in others ways which could potentially do more to improve development prospects. Moreover, past experiences of resource-rich developing countries suggest that local content policies can exacerbate key problems of patronage and rent-seeking which resource rents generate, increasing the chance that the resource wealth will prevent rather than help development. These arguments suggest that an optimal local content policy in the context of flawed institutions is a more limited one than those typically pursued by developing countries with recently discovered petroleum reserves. Using qualitative data from Tanzania, a country with recent discoveries of substantial natural gas deposits, we analyze why local content tends to become such a central issue in debates and policy processes, despite its potentially problematic aspects.