Revisiting the logical and research considerations of competitive advantage

This commentary addresses the main points made in the recent article by T. C. Powell on the logical and philosophical flaws in the main thesis of strategy research. Each one of Powell's three points is refutable. The main thesis of strategy research retains logical causation given a reasonable definition of the main explanatory variable. Strategy theory is falsifiable when the implied assumptions of the theory are exploited and the endogeneity of its explanatory variables is considered. The characterization of strategy research as pragmatic instrumentalism void of progress to the objective truth is a proposition without any logical or empirical support. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

记者思维：营造新闻作品境界的关键

新闻作品是记者以新闻眼观察社会事实并对事实予以反映的精神产品。采写新闻,记者必须将正义直言的历史性思维、辩证深刻的哲学性思维和激情四溢的文学性思维融会贯通,形成复合型的新闻思维。记者的思维是营造新闻作品境界的关键。其中,历史性思维是营造真实厚重的新闻境界的关键;哲学性思维是营造辩证深刻的新闻作品境界的关键;文学性思维是营造浓情多彩的新闻境界的关键。     

The Technology Workshops at Oundle

Psychologists have shown that knowledge can be acquired independent of practical action, by observing and imitating others and by extracting knowledge from vicarious experiences coded in text. Yet experiential learning theorists suggest that real learning takes a practical event to embody it. In schools we ask our students to learn through study. This paper examines a concept of learning in which personal experience is the base or framework for learning. Oundle Public School has a tradition of learning through technology workshops. Using the case study and narrative research traditions, the author illuminates the philosophy behind this orientation. The period of history which spawned the orientation has many parallels to the information revolution we are witnessing today. The response by the headmaster then, including the curriculum policy and implementation issues which relate to it, are central to the debates and responses which characterize curriculum change now. The philosophy that gives Oundle its reputation in technological education is visited, the lessons it imparts are reviewed. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The problem of unobservables in strategic management research

In this paper we argue that unobservable constructs lie at the core of a number of influential theories used in the strategic management literature—including agency theory, transaction cost theory, and the resource-based view of the firm. The debate over how best to deal with the problem of unobservables has raged in the philosophy of science literature for the best part of the current century. On the one hand, there are the positivists, who believe that theories containing unobservable constructs are only useful as tools for making predictions. According to positivists, such theories do not inform us about the deep structure of reality. On the other hand, there are the realists, who believe that our theories can give us knowledge about unobservables. Herein we review this debate, we argue for adopting a realist position, and we draw out the implications for strategic management research.     

卢卡奇对李凯尔特历史哲学的批判及得失

卢卡奇对李凯尔特历史哲学的批判主要体现在三个方面：一是从历史客观性的基础方面,以人的活动反对文化价值;二是从方法论上,以总体方法反对个体方法;三是认为每一种方法与阶级存在密切相关,无产阶级超越资产阶级就是超越直接性,以具体的中介反对直接性。卢卡奇将方法与论点对立起来。仅仅推崇方法的做法使正统马克思主义走向了唯方法论。其次,卢卡奇从方法论上对李凯尔特历史哲学的批判,略显片面．缺乏全面性。但不可否认的是,卢卡奇在批判中认识到了中介的重要性。这为中介的本体论转向奠定了基础。卢卡奇对李凯尔特历史哲学的批判既有得又有失,我们应该辩证地看待。     

商品房买卖中房屋损毁的风险承担问题

本文通过对一房二卖中的风险转移问题进行质疑,从而提出商品房买卖中风险承担的问题,通过分析得出把房屋毁损、灭失的风险负担归于所有权人,而不是房屋占有人,以所有权的转移来确定风险的转移,是符合法律的正当性并有利于房地产市场正常发展的。     

On the Dialectic Time Philosophy of Shakespeare's Sonnets——A Case Study of Sonnet 19

Sonnet 19 is a reflection of Shakespeare's dialectic time philosophy.For one thing,time is extremely destructive by killing off beautiful attributes of everything and everybody.However,the speaker can make full use of poetry to perpetuate the beauty of his sweetheart.Thus time has amazingly intertwined its destructiveness with beauty retention.     

荷兰学派的技术哲学思想初探

荷兰学派是指在技术哲学领域,以特温特大学、埃因霍温理工大学、代尔夫特大学以及瓦格尼格大学哲学部为代表的荷兰学者们及其相关研究。他们掀起了国际技术哲学界的＂经验转向＂,提出了＂技术人工物双重属性＂的技术解释学论纲,具体表现在对工程哲学、技术与社会的关系、信息技术、技术文化、技术可持续性等的关注。在国际技术哲学的舞台上,荷兰已有取代美国成为研究中心的趋势。     

基于内部营销的战略性人力资源管理运行模式研究

内部营销与人力资源管理的关系非常密切。在战略性人力资源管理日益兴起的今天,如何将内部营销管理哲学和管理方法运用于战略性人力资源管理中,如何实现有效的战略性人力资源管理,如何充分挖掘和调动人的潜力,是理论界和实践界面临的现实问题。只有认清内部营销与战略性人力资源管理的契合点及本质区别,才能构建起基于内部营销管理工具的战略性人力资源管理运行模式。     

Strategic management and the philosophy of science: the case for a constructivist methodology

In this paper, we suggest that constructivism has the potential to inform research in strategic management. The realist paradigm currently dominates strategy research, and constructivism, a well‐established tradition in the philosophy of science, is often ignored. However, a study of strategy literature and research reveals that it is drawn upon more frequently than is explicitly acknowledged. Constructivism occupies a methodological space characterized by ontological realism and epistemological relativism. Ontological realism is an important cornerstone of a field as applied as strategy, while epistemological relativism helps us explore the constructed nature of the field, where the researcher is an active participant rather than a reactor or information processor. In this paper, we demonstrate the precedents and possibilities for constructivist research in strategic management. We examine some of the existent constructivist works in the strategy literature, and point to specific techniques, including historical analysis, to demonstrate how this perspective may advance the boundaries of strategy research. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.