Product and environmental social performance: Varying effect on firm performance

Corporate social performance (CSP) consists of actions in different domains that vary in the information they provide stakeholders, and hence, in their effect on firm performance. To demonstrate this, the authors examine the impact of CSP on firm performance in two areas—the product and the environment, referred to as product social performance (PSP) and environmental social performance (ESP), respectively. PSP has a stronger positive impact on firm performance compared to ESP. The findings using disaggregated measures of PSP and ESP indicate negativity bias in that PSP weakness has a stronger negative impact on firm performance compared to PSP strength. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

浅谈IPv6网络下的用户管理

随着全球IPv4地址的告罄,IPv6的大规模应用已经走上舞台。由于业务与用户的迅猛增长,如何能够将IPv6建设成和IPv4网络一样安全、可管理、可运营的模式成为IPv6网络环境下新的挑战。本文结合在IPv4网络中使用的用户管理模式,探讨了IPv6网络环境下如何对网络接入用户进行控制和管理。     

The formation and interplay of social capital in crowdfunded social ventures

The multi-levelled processes taking place in Crowdfunding (CF), when tapping a large heterogeneous crowd for resources, and the often fundamentally different intentions of individual crowd members in the case of highly desirable social ventures with little prospect for economic gains, may lead to a different logic and approach to how entrepreneurship develops. Using this under-institutionalized sphere as both, context and subject, the author seeks evidence and a new understanding of entrepreneurial routes by using the sociological perspectives of Bourdieus' four forms of capital as a lens on 36 cases of social ventures. In the cases, opportunity recognition, formation and exploitation could not be distinguished as separate processes. CF and sourcing help form the actual opportunity and disperse information at the same time. In addition, the ‘nexus’ of opportunity and entrepreneur is breached in CF of social causes through the constant exchange of ideas with the crowd, leading to norm-value pairs between the funders and the entrepreneurs. Issues of identification and control are thus not based upon any formal relationship but based on perceived legitimization and offered democratic participation leading to the transformation of social capital (SC) into economic capital (EC). Success is based upon the SC of the entrepreneurial teams, yet the actual resource exchange and transformation into EC is highly moderated by cultural and symbolic capital that is being built up through the process.     

社会资本对企业营销的影响

社会资本对企业营销的影响具有双重性,既存在积极作用,也会产生消极影响。社会资本对企业营销的积极影响表现在降低代理成本、提高营销组织工作效率、推动开放式营销组织治理模式的构建、提供更多商业机会和提高顾客满意度等5个方面;社会资本对企业营销的消极作用则表现为竞争的扭曲和营销的僵化两个方面。     

Gender,family ties,and international mobility: Cultural distance matters

This study empirically tests a model of associations between family-domain variables and willingness to accept an international assignment, and applies the general model to sub-samples of men and women to examine gender differences in the pattern of relationships. We further explore these patterns in culturally similar and culturally distant country destinations. Analyses conducted with a sample of 148 men and 79 women employed MBA graduates from dual-earner couples revealed that perceived spouse willingness to relocate, beliefs regarding spouse and couple mobility, relative income, and the presence of children are associated with willingness to accept an international assignment. Moreover, consistent with social role theory, significant gender differences in willingness were found across low and high cultural distance country destinations.     

中部崛起战略的重点突破方向

文章回顾了中部崛起战略提出以来中部省份取得的发展成绩,也指出其依然未摆脱东部地区粗放型增长的老路,未能充分发挥比较优势,实现真正意义上的全面协调持续的发展,并针对性地提出了中部崛起战略中应该重点关注三大突破方向:立足国内市场,加快发展内循环经济,转变经济发展方向;建设资源节约型和环境友好型社会,大力发展低碳经济,转变经济发展方式;营造良好的区域发展文化,平和社会发展心态,转变传统社会价值观念。     

The heterogeneous relationship between board social ties and corporate environmental responsibility in an emerging economy

Firms in emerging economies are faced with multiple, incompatible institutional forces in their environmental activities. Which of these forces will be dominant and instantiated within an organization is partly determined by the social relationships that a firm maintains with external actors. This paper investigates the relationship between board social ties and the level of environmental responsibility undertaken by firms in China, an emerging economy, by categorizing board social ties into three types in terms of the three isomorphic forces in the institutional field (coercive, normative and mimetic). Drawing on institutional and agency theories, using a sample of listed firms in environmentally sensitive industries, and a generalized least squares regression method, the results provide empirical evidence that ties that are linked to coercive and normative forces (i.e., political organizations and universities) are related to a higher level of environmental responsibility; however, those that are linked to mimetic forces (i.e., industrial peers) have a negative association with environmental responsibility, which is mitigated by CEO power. These findings suggest that the heterogeneous effects of board social ties on environmental responsibilities experienced by firms in a context of environmentalism are at an early stage.     

Dialect,transaction cost and intra-national trade: evidence from China

Growing evidence emphasizes the important role of network effects on bilateral trade. This paper proposes a new factor – dialect difference, which decreases social network across regions, may increase transaction costs and thus shape interregional trade pattern. Taking China as an example, we use a gravity model considering network effects and provincial data from 1997 to 2009 to examine the effect of dialect difference on intra-national trade. We find that dialect difference has a significantly negative effect on interprovincial trade. Moreover, this paper explores the time dimension of the effect of dialect difference. We find that the negative effects of dialect difference on trade have been diminishing over time. Migration and the promotion of Mandarin have increased interregional cultural connections and thus mitigated the negative effects of dialect difference.     

老年人的精神需求及其社会政策意义

养老问题实质上是老年人的需求与满足问题。精神需求是老年人需求的基本方面和重要内容。老年社会政策应关注老年人的精神需求,建立老年人精神支持和精神保障机制,以提高老年人生活质量,促进社会和谐与稳定。     

社交网站中网络口碑对消费者团购意愿的影响——考虑品牌信任的中介作用

分析了社交网站中的网络口碑对消费者团购意愿的影响,并探讨了品牌信任对上述影响的中介作用。基于对304位有网络团购经验的高校学生的深度访谈和问卷调查,运用因子分析、相关分析以及结构方程模型等方法,对相关假设进行了实证分析。结果表明:社交网站网络口碑的数量、质量和时效性与消费者团购意愿之间存在显著、正向且直接的影响关系,品牌信任在二者之间发挥部分中介效应。