Solidarity based economy： The success of work integration social firms in Spain

The work insertion social firms have grown in the last decade in Spain. The aim of this work is to help unemployees and workers with several problems （being in prison, drugs...） to start in ＂normalized＂ companies as workers. The aim of the paper is to analyze the success of work insertion social firms defined by social and commercial dimensions. Using a sample of 49 companies in Spain, the authors have developed an explanatory model in which the doubt about the success of these companies is explained. This paper seeks to analyze the main problems of the poor financial situation of companies that are based on social help. The work integration social enterprises could be a new entrepreneurship form that helps improving work skills of workers to be able to obtain a ＂normalized job＂.     

Beyond Regulation: Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Complexity and Emergence

Drawing on and contributing to materialist state theory, the regulation approach and institutional economics for more than three decades, Bob Jessop can certainly be considered one of the foremost Marxist political economists of our time. Recently, he has taken on board the cultural turn in social analysis by developing a highly original cultural political economy of the knowledge-based economy. As a contribution to the further development of a cultural political economy that is sensitive to the cultural dimensions of social life while retaining an emphasis on capital accumulation and state regulation, this article directs attention to the limits of Jessop's approach and suggests possible amendments to the theory. In particular, the article highlights the need to move beyond a concern with regulation towards a cultural political economy of complexity and emergence.     

The impact of SARS on China's human resources: implications for the labour market and level of unemployment in the service sector in Beijing,Guangzhou and Shanghai

In this paper, we examine the effects of SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) on China's human resources, its labour-market and its level of employment and unemployment, looking specifically at what was one of its economically most vulnerable points, the hotel industry. The paper hypothesizes that the greatest impact would be on human resources in the service-industries and on particular sub-sectors, such as employment in hotels, located in three main cities in the PRC, in Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai, catering to both overseas as well as domestic tourism. It tentatively concludes that the almost dramatic demand and supply ‘shocks’ may have directly affected both the demand for and the supply of labour in the sub-sector, with discernable employment consequences.     

Diffusing the Marketing Concept in a Transforming Economy: Class Consultancies for State-Owned Enterprises in Vietnam

ABSTRACT

Modern business education in transitional economies such as Vietnam must provide students with a strong conceptual base, but also give them practical experience in application of concepts. Local companies, used to central planning, likewise badly need marketing know-how to become more competitive. However, relying on new hires from among recent graduates is not going to help companies upgrade very quickly. Building marketing research (MR) courses around consulting projects for local companies helps bring real world marketing into the classroom, upgrading experience for both students and teachers.     

区域循环经济发展的产业政策研究——以深圳市宝安区为例

发展循环经济是缓解资源约束矛盾的主要途径,是提高经济增长质量和效益的重要措施,本文综合分析宝安区循环经济及其相关产业发展特点,探究宝安区循环经济及其相关产业发展过程中存在的主要问题,从政策扶持、技术支撑、基础配套三方面提出推进宝安循环经济发展的对策建议。     

中国经济长期高速增长的主要动力——从消费的作用谈起

随着我国经济的发展以及金融危机的影响,消费问题日益重要和突出。本文通过深入研究马克思消费理论和分析现实发展情况,从理论依据和现实依据出发,论证消费是中国经济长期高速增长的主要动力,并对未来消费的发展提出几点建议。     

Post‐Cameralist Governance: Towards a Robust Political Economy of Bureaucracy

I develop a robust political economy of bureaucracy by highlighting the conditions necessary for hierarchical administrative bodies to govern protectively and productively, but not predatorily. These conditions are residual claimancy and jurisdictional competition. I make this argument by exploring a post‐cameralist interpretation of governance. Cameralism arose as a governance philosophy in the fractured principalities of seventeenth‐century Germany following the Thirty Years' War. Post‐cameralism focuses not on particular cameralist governance strategies but on a paradigm which sees governance as an activity provided within a larger exchange order, rather than imposing itself on that order as in more conventional treatments of public economics. While a post‐cameralist conception of governance comes with its own challenges, such as tensions with normative visions that promote self‐governance, it nonetheless presents an intriguing synthesis of monocentric and polycentric insights.     

低碳经济环境下温州皮革企业发展现状与对策研究

文章首先阐述低碳经济方式发展的时代要求,分析了温州皮革企业的现状,并在此基础上总结出温州皮革企业在发展经济与适应低碳经济的要求存在矛盾;提出在低碳环境下温州皮革企业将面临的问题;最后在问题分析的基础上提出温州皮革企业应当顺应时代的潮流,积极应对低碳经济发展的要求,保证温州的皮革企业在低碳经济环境中的实现可持续发展。     

浅谈“智慧城市”与“智慧产业”发展——以南京为例

随着互联网技术的日渐成熟,人与物、物与物之间的信息交流将成为第三次信息技术革命的主要趋势。IBM智慧地球概念提出后,引起了广泛关注,国内多个城市相继提出了构建智慧城市的设想。文章分析了南京的教育、科技、人才、技术、经济优势,提出了以创新为先导,充分发挥南京自身优势,通过智慧城市建设带动相关产业发展的思路。