An institutional perspective of public policy and network effects in the renewable energy industry: enablers or disablers of entrepreneurial behaviour and innovation?

This study extends theory on the effects of public policies stimulating technology demand and of industry network ties on firm-level entrepreneurial behaviour. We take an institutional perspective to develop a theoretical model examining the mechanisms through which public policies, regulatory uncertainty, and industry network ties affect firm-level entrepreneurial decision-making processes and the ability to introduce highly innovative products and to sustain superior performance. We focus on firm-level effects, which enables the study of the tension between institutional pressures of homogeneity and competitive pressures of heterogeneity for entrepreneurial decision-making processes in environments characterized by policy-induced market demands. To test our hypotheses, we draw on data from a large-scale survey among German renewable energy firms. Our results show that public policies can constrain firm innovativeness and risk-taking behaviour because they steer firms towards a more conservative attitude and discourage the pursuit of high-risk innovation projects. However, firms can counteract these influences and enhance their innovativeness by maintaining close network ties with research associations as we find that innovativeness and a highly innovative product portfolio are key success factors. In summary, these findings provide important implications for the study of public policy effects, industry network ties and entrepreneurial behaviour.     

组织管理中的心理契约

市场经济本质上是契约经济，契约是组织存在的基础。经济模式的转变和全球经济竞争的加剧使员工和企业双方关系和需求发生改变，经济管理活动中的契约性质更加突出。如何针对员工和企业相互要求的内容和特点进行管理，已成为当前管理理论和管理实践的重要问题。     

《诗经》教学与大学生爱情教育

《诗经》中展现了古代爱情生活中的全景性画面,几乎涉及到爱情婚姻生活中可能会遇到的各种问题.针对当代大学生中普遍存在的情感问题,在解读《诗经》的过程中对大学生进行情感教育,将情感的熏陶和道德的升华相结合,具有相当的可行性.     

论如何对歌曲进行二度艺术创作

歌曲作品是词曲作家情感的寄托,是歌曲演唱者酝酿感情的依据。词曲作家谱写的歌曲可称之为首度创作,它为歌曲的演唱者提供了演唱的前提与基础,要想歌曲达到感染人、影响人的艺术效果,它还需演唱者对歌曲进行艺术表现形式创作,即对歌曲作品的二度创作,才能把作品传达给欣赏者,实现其艺术的审美价值。如果没有经过二度创作,歌曲作品永远只能以歌谱的形式存在,只是一个没有生命的符号系列。演唱者如何进行二度艺术创作呢?其方法可从咬字归韵,训练良好的语言表现能力;感情酝酿,做到以情带声、以声传情、声情并茂;体验生活,使歌曲表达的情感更深刻、更丰富;善用表情,为歌曲演唱画龙点睛等四个方面进行探讨。     

Development and Validation of a Forced Choice Emotional Intelligence Measure for Chinese Respondents in Hong Kong

Emotional intelligence (EI) has been an emerging topic for psychological, educational, and management researchers and consultants in recent years. Unfortunately, there have been relatively few empirical studies on EI conducted with scientific rigor, especially in Asia. A recent study clarified the definition of EI as a set of mental abilities related to emotions, and developed a self-report EI measure by demonstrating the relationships between EI and life satisfaction, job performance, and job satisfaction for Chinese respondents. To facilitate future EI research and EI-related human resource practices in Asia, we develop an alternative EI measure in this series of four studies using forced choice items. Scenarios with alternative responses showing different levels of EI were generated in the first study, and 20 items were selected empirically. In the second study, pairs of abilities were generated and 20 EI items were paired with various ability facets. In the third study, we examined the social desirability of the 40 items developed in the first two studies. In the fourth study, these 40 EI items were cross-validated. The results indicated that this forced choice EI-scale had acceptable convergent, discriminant and predictive validity using life satisfaction, job performance, and job satisfaction as criterion variables. We discussed the implications of our findings in the conclusion.     

Measuring the Extent of Impact from Occupational Violence and Bullying on Traumatised Workers

Across the industrialised world, there is evidence that both the incidence and the severity of occupational violence and bullying are increasingly being reported over time. While there have been few substantive scientific studies in Australia, all the available evidence shows a similar increasing level of risk. It has long been assumed that those who suffer a physical assault during the course of violent events are more likely to be emotionally traumatised by the experience than are those who are merely threatened or bullied at work. However, there are no substantive data published to date. In this paper the authors aim to elucidate and quantify the extent of emotional injury/stress suffered as a result of different forms of occupational violence, based on empirical data collected during face-to-face interviewing of 800 Australian workers employed in the tertiary education, health and long-haul transport industry sectors. The authors conclude that the impact from more covert forms of occupational violence (such as bullying) can, in many instances, at least equal the emotional trauma following assaults on-the-job.     

辱虐管理对员工心态的影响:代际差异的调节效应研究

研究辱虐管理对员工心态(情感承诺、情绪耗竭)的影响效果,探讨员工代际差异在其影响机制中的调节作用。共收集661份有效样本数据,采用层级回归和分组回归对文章提出的假设进行检验。结果表明,辱虐管理与情感承诺、情绪耗竭有显著的相关关系,且存在代际差异的调节效应,辱虐管理对新生代员工情绪耗竭的正效应更显著,对文革代员工情感承诺的负效应更显著。最后讨论了本研究的管理启示、研究不足以及研究展望。     

The role of coworker support in the relationship between moral efficacy and voice behavior: The case of hospitality students in Ecuador

ABSTRACT

This article explores the relationships among employee moral efficacy, coworker emotional support, coworker instrumental support, and employee voice behavior regarding abusive supervision in the hospitality industry in Ecuador: a high power distance culture. The results indicate that employees’ moral efficacy predicted their voice behavior with regards to abusive supervision and that coworker emotional support strengthened this relation. However, an interaction effect between moral efficacy and coworker instrumental support on voice behavior was not found. This study provides a theoretical extension of the voice literature by introducing the roles of moral efficacy and coworker support, and has practical implications for the hospitality workplace.     

A comparison of the enactment and consequences of emotional labor between frontline hotel workers in two contrasting societal cultures

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Emotional labor is compared between hotel workers in the Philippines and Australia based on idiocentrism and allocentrism dimensions. Employees were surveyed using the Individualism-Collectivism Scale (INDCOL), the Emotional Labor Scale and the Maslach Burnout Inventory. Filipino employees reported significantly greater allocentrism and idiocentrism than the Australian sample, presenting a distinctive cultural pattern and highlighting dangers in making generalizations about societal culture. Idiocentrics in both countries reported using more surface acting and experiencing greater burnout than others. Therefore, coping and support mechanisms may be beneficially adapted to the Filipino sample's distinctive cultural orientation, to maximize benefits and minimize the harm of enacting emotional labor.     

Alliance or Acquisition? A Mechanisms‐Based,Policy‐Capturing Analysis

Research summary : While alliance researchers view prior partner‐specific alliance experience as influencing firms' subsequent alliance or acquisition decisions, empirical evidence on the alliance versus acquisition decision is surprisingly mixed. We offer a reconciliation by proposing and testing an analytical framework that recognizes prior partner‐specific experiences as heterogeneous along three fundamental dimensions: partner‐specific trust, routines, and value certainty. This allows us to use a policy‐capturing methodology to rigorously operationalize and test our mechanism‐level predictions. We find that all three mechanisms can increase the likelihood of a subsequent alliance or acquisition, and in terms of the comparative choice between alliances versus acquisitions, partner‐specific trust pulls towards alliances, and value certainty pulls towards acquisitions. We conclude with a discussion of the theoretical and empirical implications of our approach and method . Managerial summary : This study focuses on an important corporate decision: When a firm has had an alliance with another firm, how would that experience affect the likelihood of a future alliance or acquisition with that same firm? We first suggest that it will depend on three factors: the level of trust that existed in that prior alliance, the extent to which specific work routines were developed, and the degree to which the firm was able to confidently assess the value of the partner firm's resources. We then find that trust is a particularly strong predictor of future alliances, while confidence regarding value more strongly predicts future acquisitions. In this way, we demonstrate more precisely how past corporate choices can affect (consciously or unconsciously) future ones . © 2017 The Authors. Strategic Management Journal Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.