How CEO hubris affects corporate social (ir)responsibility

Grounded in the upper echelons perspective and stakeholder theory, this study establishes a link between CEO hubris and corporate social responsibility (CSR). We first develop the theoretical argument that CEO hubris is negatively related to a firm's socially responsible activities but positively related to its socially irresponsible activities. We then explore the boundary conditions of hubris effects and how these relationships are moderated by resource dependence mechanisms. With a longitudinal dataset of S&P 1500 index firms for the period 2001–2010, we find that the relationship between CEO hubris and CSR is weakened when the firm depends more on stakeholders for resources, such as when its internal resource endowments are diminished as indicated by firm size and slack, and when the external market becomes more uncertain and competitive. The implications of our findings for upper echelons theory and the CSR research are discussed. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The impact of corporate social responsibility on investment recommendations: Analysts' perceptions and shifting institutional logics

We explore the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ratings on sell‐side analysts' assessments of firms' future financial performance. We suggest that when analysts perceive CSR as an agency cost they produce pessimistic recommendations for firms with high CSR ratings. Moreover, we theorize that, over time, the emergence of a stakeholder focus shifts the analysts' perceptions of CSR. Using a large sample of publicly traded U.S. firms over 15 years, we confirm that, in the early 1990s, analysts issue more pessimistic recommendations for firms with high CSR ratings. However, analysts progressively assess these firms more optimistically over time. Furthermore, we find that analysts of highest status are the first to shift the relation between CSR ratings and investment recommendation optimism. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Sharing Common Resources in Patriarchal and Status-Based Societies: Evidence from Tanzania

ABSTRACT

In rural African societies, socioeconomic differentiation linked to gender and social status exerts an important influence on the distribution of common-pool resources. Through a behavioral experiment conducted in 2008 in rural Tanzania, this contribution examines the influence of gender and social status on distribution behavior of users of self-governed common watersheds. It finds that men and women with low social status distribute water equally when water is abundant but keep larger shares when water is scarce, although low-status women try to be as fair as possible at the expense of their returns from irrigated agriculture. Men of high social status keep more than half of the available water for themselves, both in abundance and scarcity, and deprive others from sizeable returns from irrigated agriculture. Women of high social status share altruistically when water is abundant and equally when water is scarce, giving up on returns from irrigated agriculture.     

城市居民税负感及影响因素的实证研究

根据北京市居民税负感调查所得数据,通过对居民税负感及其影响因素之间的相关性实证研究,得出结论,税负感与收入、文化程度、年龄以及对税收的了解程度等因素呈显著正相关,与是否参加社保呈显著负相关。在被调查的居民中,超过一半的居民税负感较重或很重,其中,收入越高和对税收了解的越多税负感就越重,本科学历和中年人群税负感较重,未参加社保的居民税负感较重,参加社保的居民税负感较轻。税负感研究的结论显示,居民税负感不仅与税收负担的高低密切相关,而且与国家的财政支出方向密切相关,扩大财政的民生开支是降低居民税负感的重要途径。     

马克思劳资关系理论视域下的我国私营企业劳资关系问题研究

私营企业的劳资关系在我国的社会经济关系中占有重要地位。马克思的劳资关系理论对于研究我国私营企业劳资关系问题有着重要的指导意义。在我国的私营企业中,生产资料归私营企业主所有,我国的私营企业还是以雇佣劳动为基础的生产活动。因此,我国现阶段私营企业劳资关系实质上是资本对劳动的占有和资本对劳动的强制。由于我国的私营企业是在社会主义初级阶段产生的,因此私营企业劳资关系又呈现出一些新特征。私营企业中资本占有劳动具有双重属性,私营企业中资本对劳动强制不会发展为社会的强制,私营企业主与工人之间是具有中国特色的人与人之间的关系,这为我们研究私营企业劳资关系的和谐性与对立性提供了理论基础。     

应用型本科院校教师、学生、服务“三位一体”的转型新机制研究--以安康学院数学与统计系统计学专业实践教学为例

应用型本科院校作为中国高等教育发展的时代产物,占全国高等教育人才培养的半壁江山,对中国高等教育人才培养影响极大。随着应用型本科院校将逐步转型以职业技术教育为核心,以培养技术技能型人才为内涵的发展之路,应用型本科院校必须过好转型三关：突破专业教师转型的困惑关;创新应用型人才协调发展的成长关;构建社会服务互动机制的双赢关。     

多个教学环节、多门课程互动的实践教学机制探索

社会工作及相关专业的本科教育中,集中或分散进行的实践教学如果没有形成统一的主题和形式,就难以达到调动学生积极性和主动性的效果。采用多门课程、多个教学环节互动的形式,在课程与教学环节之间进行衔接和协调,并使之机制化,可以有效地提高学生的社会调查研究实践水平。     

上市公司社会责任财务绩效评价存在的问题成因及对策

目前,我国上市公司的社会责任财务评价存在诸多问题,国家没有具体规定评价体系,存在信息披露的不充分性和公司自身短视行为,对上市公司的财务评价造成制约。挖掘其原因,除了我国的研究起步相对晚外等历史原因,也有着社会责任存在不易使用会计指标反映的自身原因,不易量化的指标成为了社会责任财务评价绊脚石。要解决这些问题,不仅需要对上市公司披露社会责任信息进行强化和监管,更需要公众的监督。     

How to encourage social innovations: a resource-based approach

During the last decade, social innovation has emerged as an outstanding topic for scholars, businesses, and public institutions. This growing interest is due to its potential positive effects on well-being and sustainable development. This study analyzes social innovation under the umbrella of the transformative service research framework. Adopting a resource-based perspective, the research attempts to determine whether the deployment in service organizations of two types of factors that support dynamic capabilities, i.e. internal market orientation, and information and communication technology competence, impacts the extent to which these organizations develop different kinds of product, process, marketing, and organizational social innovations. The study also assesses the impact of these innovation activities on the organization's transformational performance in terms of increased access to new targets. Empirical research is based on a two-step survey to a sample of Spanish nonprofits (particularly, a representative sample of foundations), since the nonprofit sector provides services that possess inherent transformational characteristics. Results confirm the expected positive effects of these two factors on social innovation and performance, and provide several guidelines for implementing social innovations in service industries.     

我国新型农村社会养老保险制度改革探讨

“新农保”缘起于2002年,是农村社会经济发展的必然要求,也是解决农村人口老龄化问题的根本出路,更是统筹城乡发展的现实需要,但该制度在建立过程中存在资金相对缺乏、制度衔接困难、法律法规不完善、基金管理机制不健全等问题,应进一步加强法制建设、实施法律保障,优化制度设计、解决制度碎片化问题,加强政府财政投入力度、夯实物质基础,改进管理方式、提升养老金增值水平。