文化亲近、经济发展与文化产品的出口——基于中国文化产品出口的实证研究

文化产业是一种高能低耗的新兴产业形态,是体现一国"软实力"的核心力量;作为国际贸易的组成部分,文化贸易日益彰显其特有的战略性和重要性。本文选取1996-2009年中国核心文化商品的出口作为研究对象,通过贸易引力模型的面板数据来分析文化亲近、经济发展水平等相关变量对我国文化产品出口的影响状况。研究表明,我国及贸易对象国的GDP、人均GDP、文化距离、语言同一性、贸易条件等因素对我国文化产品的出口有着重要影响,其中文化距离及是否使用同一种语言这两个因素的影响最大;最后,在实证分析的基础上本文提出相关政策建议。     

文化智力:个体差异与跨文化适应关系研究新视角

文献研究发现大五人格等稳定的个体差异不能有效预测跨文化适应,而文化智力作为个体普遍的差异特征能够进行有效干预,具有动态特征,因而成为跨文化适应研究的新视角。在此基础上结合国际商务的特点对文化智力量表进行修订,删除某些交叉、重复内容,增加国际商务的专业知识认知题项。探索性因子分析得出与原有量表一致的四个维度,共可解释81%的变异,证明文化智力结构具有跨文化一致性;验证性因子分析证明修订后的文化智力量表具有很好的结构效度。     

文化创意经贸发展及其制约研究

文化创意经济发展迅速,各国文化创意经贸往来无论从范围上还是从内容上都在迅速扩张。本文从理论角度和市场角度追踪文化创意经贸发展脉络,梳理文化创意经贸发展程度和阶段,对于文化创意产品贸易形式、内容、贸易特点进行统计归类,通过分析联合国教科文组织《世界文化发展报告-文化、创新与市场》数据信息,概述了分析范围内的文化创意产品贸易的增长特点,深入分析文化创意经济发展的路径障碍、产品方面的障碍以及法律规则障碍,据此论证了实现文化创意产品贸易增长关键要素以及制约瓶颈,并从国际视野剖析了未来文化创意经贸发展产生重要影响的成因,从国际及国内理论与实践角度对于未来文化创意产品贸易的发展如何克服制约性因素进行阐述。     

浅谈当代中国大学班级组织管理状况

班级是构成大学教育发展体系最基本的元素,是大学生在大学期间学习的团体性家园。良好的班级组织秩序是高等学校发展、进步、提升最重要的因素,对构建和谐校园和学生的发展有着举足轻重的作用。     

试论文化发展战略中的创意产业

全球化推进了经济社会的快速发展,同时带来了文化的全球化,也带来了区域性的文化危机。文化的发展需要文化产业的承载和推动,同时产业的发展也会促进经济社会的功能升级。我国各级政府正在全面推进文化创意产业的发展,文化创意产业也已经奠定了一定的基础,取得了一定的发展。     

Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books

Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this corpus of collectables. For the observation period 1975–2019, I find that in those 45 years investing in rare political economy books yielded an average annual real rate of return of 2.8%, which is well in line with the returns to collecting rare books of classical literature. Compared with other collectibles such as fine art, investing in rare books turns out to be financially more profitable.     

“We are all so different that it is just … normal.” Normalization practices in an academic hospital in the Netherlands

Internationally, academic hospitals are giving increasing attention to diversity management. This paper sheds light on the actual praxis of cultural diversity management by professionals in workplace interactions. An ethnographic study in a Dutch academic hospital showed that normalization practices were obscuring diversity issues and obstructing inclusion of cultural minority professionals. The normalization of professionalism-as-neutral and equality-as-sameness informed the unequal distribution of privilege and disadvantage among professionals and left no room to question this distribution. Majority and minority professionals disciplined themselves and each other in (re)producing an ideal worker norm, essentialized difference and sameness, and explained away the structural hierarchy involved. To create space for cultural diversity in healthcare organizations in the Netherlands and beyond, we need to challenge normalization practices.     

Ideological taboos,entry barriers,and FDI attraction: Evidence from China

Developing and transitional countries often impose a wide variety of entry barriers on foreign direct investments (FDIs). One important reason behind these entry barriers is ideological taboos. However, do these taboos actually affect the inflow of FDIs? With the help of China’s “cultural system reform,” this study uses a panel data of 283 prefecture-level cities in China for 1994–2017 and the difference-in-differences method to evaluate the effect of the cultural system reform on regional FDI. We found that the cultural system reform remarkably promoted the inflow of FDIs by deregulating institutions and removing entry barriers, and the attraction of FDI has slowly increased along with the deepening of the reform. Our conclusions still hold after performing several robustness tests, thereby highlighting ideologies as important barriers to the inflow of FDIs into less developed countries.     

Cultural distance and cross-border bank linkages

This study investigates the effect of cultural distance on global bank linkages using country-pair data for the period 1990–2013. We followed Schwartz (2006) to measure cultural distance, and employed the number of bank pairs involved in cross-border syndicated lending from the source to target countries as a measure of bank linkages. We found that cultural distance has a negative association with bank linkages. This effect is stronger in countries featuring higher informational asymmetries, as represented by weaker institutions, higher uncertainty, or revolution shocks. Our results hold even when employing alternative measures of bank linkages and cultural distance, and when considering the potential endogeneity of cultural distance.