文化产业、创意经济与和谐社会

随着社会转型的发生,促进文化产业的发展正在成为推动经济增长的重要途径.而文化产业自身的空间集聚特征,使借助市场力量的城市再开发和通过规划培育创意经济成为塑造创新文化气氛、营销城市的重要政策工具.然而全球化的宏观背景不仅使这种以营造独特和多元地方文化为初衷的努力往往以千篇一律的形体景观和单调社会构成的结果出现,而且通常也是以发展中国家劳动力和社会弱势群体的利益遭受侵害为代价的.因此,在中国,成功发展文化产业不单需要研究如何将针对具体地方特点的市场和规划手段相互结合,以实现真正的创新,更需要警醒地认识到文化产业发展过程中的社会福利效应.从而达到建设和谐社会的根本目标.     

弱势群体公共文化服务体系建设研究——基于残疾人公共文化消费状况的调查

满足广大弱势群体的公共文化需求是时下加强和创新社会管理的核心要义之一。文章在对东、中、西部三个城市的残疾人公共文化消费进行调查分析的基础之上,揭示了当前弱势群体在文化权利上面临的困境。研究表明,既有的公共文化服务体系还没有惠及广大弱势群体,当前弱势群体的公共文化消费水平十分低下。其中,个体地位结构因素、区域经济发展水平、社会政策倾斜性配置水平以及无障碍环境是制约残疾人这类弱势群体公共文化消费水平的显著因素。文章认为,要确保弱势群体的文化权利,政府必须加大公共文化服务资源向弱势群体倾斜性配置,构建专业化、社会化的服务供给模式,坚持服务为本的逻辑,构建弱势群体的参与机制,并试点向弱势群体发放文化消费补贴。     

高职文化创意营销人才创新能力培养策略探析

"十三五"期间,北京的文化创意产业继续蓬勃发展,尤其是北京市通州区,成为首都副中心,文化创意企业人才需求旺盛.但通过调查发现,文化创意企业对人才需求出现的是结构型短缺,这些企业最看重的是学生的创新能力和素养.目前高职院校营销人才的培养在课程设置、考核标准、校企合作、技能大赛和创业实践方面还存在一定问题,制约了营销专业学生的创新能力培养,需要进一步改进,才能提升高职营销类学生创新能力,适应文化创意企业人才的要求.     

能源安全测度的新维度:能源多样性

作为经济发展的源动力,能源及其安全测度问题一直是政府和学者研究的热门话题。将多样性引入到能源系统和能源安全研究中,探讨了能源安全和多样性之间的关系;界定了能源多样性的内容,包括国内能源供应的多样性和能源进口的多样性;利用香农-威纳多样性指数和Pielou均衡度指数,计算和分析了美国和中国近5年来的能源供应及进口情况,进而对其能源安全进行了对比研究。在2009—2013年,美国的能源多样性水平比中国高。结果表明能源多样性在一定程度上可以作为衡量能源安全的维度,中国能源多样性水平表明应致力于改变煤炭的主导局面,改善能源供应结构,拓宽和均衡能源进口渠道。     

Novel approaches to the regulatory control of financial services providers: The importance of cultural context

This study investigates the effectiveness of a public sector financial management initiative. Specifically, the powers awarded to the Irish Financial Services Ombudsman (FSO) in 2013 to name and shame malfeasance by financial service providers (FSPs) in its annual reports. As the first country to award such powers to its public sector financial ombudsman, Ireland represents a novel setting in which to test the impact of regulatory disclosure as a way to promote accountability and transparency. Our results show that the number of complaints lodged against malfeasants dropped in the immediate aftermath of this and, following a one-year lag, so did the percentage of complaints lodged that proceeded to a full investigation and legally binding finding. Despite the failure of such strategies in some jurisdictions, the Irish experience indicates that regulatory disclosure can, in line with Neo-Durkheimian institutional theory and consistent with the accounting and accountability literature, have considerable impact where and when contextual preconditions are met. These findings have important implications for the operationalisation of regulatory disclosure as an accountability enhancing measure in other jurisdictions.     

Flow Signals: Evidence from Patent and Alliance Portfolios in the US Biopharmaceutical Industry

Integrating signalling theory and the portfolio diversity literature, we theorize that diversity in a firm's patent and alliance portfolios sends contrasting flow signals impacting its market value in a nuanced way. Diversity in an alliance portfolio mediates the patent portfolio diversity – market value relationship by suppressing the negative effect of patent portfolio diversity creating an overall positive effect. We test our mediation model on a longitudinal set of 225 US biopharmaceutical firms that were awarded 17,078 patents and participated in 37,744 alliances between 1990 and 2006. Our theory and findings contribute three novel insights. First, we demonstrate the value of a temporal lens in explaining why diversity in a firm's patent and alliance portfolios send flow signals that establish expectations among market observers and have performance implications. Second, establishing that patent and alliance portfolio diversity are temporally sequenced provides compelling evidence for the value of studying multiple types of portfolios, their temporal relationships and effects on firm outcomes. Third, since diversity in a firm's portfolios can send contrasting flow signals conditioned on the cognitive demands and proximity involved in interpreting the signals, firms that do not maintain a ‘signalling fit’ with market observers increase the probability of unintentional negative signalling effects.     

Managers’ psychological diversity climate and fairness: The utility and importance of diversity management in the hospitality industry

ABSTRACT

Despite corporate investments in diversity management programs, there is a dearth in the literature that examines managers' attitudes toward diversity management practices. This is a glaring gap in the literature because the success of diversity management programs is highly depend on managers. A survey was distributed to hotel managers from properties in the southern United States. The results showed that psychological diversity climate predicted the perceived utility and importance of diversity management, and these relationships were mediated by the fairness of diversity management. These results suggest that psychological diversity climate has an impact on attitudes toward diversity management practices.     

高职院校人才培养亟待加强审美教育

2006年,我国高等教育规模已跃居世界第一,其中,高职教育占据了半壁江山.高职人才培养水平的高低,会直接影响我国高等教育的质量和竞争力.高职院校人才培养中"重视技能、虚化人文素养"的倾向,将直接影响人才培养的质量.高职院校的人才培养只有"技能"是远远不够的,还必须加强"人文素养"的培养.而加强人文素养培养的关键着力点和基本途径就是审美教育.     

Off-season tourists and the cultural offer of a mass-tourism destination: The case of Rimini

This paper assesses the potential implications on off-season tourism of enhancing the cultural offer of Rimini, a popular Italian seaside holiday destination hosting about 12 million overnight stays per year. Since more than 9 million of these stays are concentrated in the summer season, in the last 20 years. Rimini has been undergoing a policy of seasonality smoothing, which mainly pivots around business and cultural tourism. This assessment has been carried out through discrete choice experiments submitted to a sample of about 800 tourists who visited Rimini outside the summer months. Since tourism can be viewed as a composite good, which overall utility depends on how the component characteristics are arranged, the choice experiments allow to disentangle the importance and the willingness to pay of tourists for different attributes of the holiday. The choice model incorporates a number of possible changes to actual tourism features (which are also the subject of public debate), including them in hypothetical alternative “holiday packages”. The conditional logit analysis of the choice experiments can highlight any synergy or trade-off between cultural and business tourism. Results suggest that business and leisure tourists share many features related to the use of the territory, while there are important trade-offs between these two groups and cultural tourists. Since business tourists have a higher willingness to extend their stay, a softer budget, and their demand is also complementary to the demand of summer tourists (Brau, Scorcu, & Vici, 2009), from the destination point of view investing in this market segment would be the best option. Although a “second best”, however, cultural tourists share with the local population of Rimini many aspects of the demand of territory (Figini, Castellani, & Vici, 2009). Hence, cultural tourism can play a fundamental role in the intermediate season as a tool for smoothing seasonality, to diversify investments and to give value to the city’s cultural heritage.     

Managing Swiss Hospitality: How cultural antecedents of innovation and customer-oriented value systems can influence performance in the hotel industry

Research into innovativeness and customer orientation in the service industry is burgeoning, yet our understanding of the antecedents and consequences of both activities in hospitality management remain unclear. To address this problem we investigate the link between corporate culture, indicators of innovativeness and business performance in the Swiss hotel industry, because the Swiss have a proclivity toward innovation as well as a long established record in hospitality management. Data were generated from 96 businesses in the hotel industry and the results were analysed using structural equation modeling. They suggest that cultural dimensions are positively associated with customer orientation, innovativeness, and company performance. The implications of the findings are discussed along with limitations and future research directions.