Controlling the Urban Fabric: The Complex Game of Distance and Proximity in European Upper‐Middle‐Class Residential Strategies

This article presents an open discussion of the processes of urban secession and gentrification in contemporary European cities, arguing that intergroup social dynamics in urban spaces are generally more complex than either extreme mutual avoidance or the colonization of neighbourhoods by the wealthiest groups. We analyse the residential strategies of urban upper‐middle class managers in various European metropolitan areas through in‐depth semi‐structured interviews to argue that these groups develop complex strategies of proximity and distance in relation to other social groups. The development of these ‘partial exit’ strategies takes place through specific combinations of practices that allow groups to select the dimensions they are willing to share with other social groups, and those in which they prefer a more segregated social environment for themselves and their families. The responses of our interviewees were consistently more nuanced and complex than suggested by a simplistic theory about their drive to withdraw from society, forcing us to develop more sophisticated conceptual frameworks to account for the growing prevalence of multi‐layered identities and spheres of reference and solidarity, specific combinations of elective segregation and local involvement, and more active patterns of mobility combined with local embeddedness.     

丽水市社会公德建设的问题、原因及对策

社会公德是一个社会良性发展、和谐发展的必然要求。本文从丽水现实出发,在对丽水社会公德存在的问题进行剖析的基础上分析成因,同时提出针对性的对策,以期对丽水市公德与文明的进步与发展作出些许贡献。     

试析中国行政伦理建设

行政伦理本质上是一种政治伦理。政者不正,政者缺德,必然导致政治的腐败。执政者只有把法治提高到自觉的程度,把他律与自律结合起来,才能治理好国家。目前在我国行政伦理建设中还存在着不少问题,其产生的原因也日益复杂化和多极化。因此,应当从多角度、多方面入手,加强我国行政伦理建设。     

论电子政务信息系统的负效应与伦理诉求

电子政务作为一种新型的行政管理形式,它在日常的工作中发挥着重要的作用,但是在进步的同时,也存在着一些负面效应。本文就针对电子政务信息系统的负效应与伦理诉求这个话题进行简要的探讨。     

Selection of influential variables in ordinal data with preponderance of zeros

Presence of excess zero in ordinal data is pervasive in areas like medical and social sciences. Unfortunately, analysis of such kind of data has so far hardly been looked into, perhaps for the reason that the underlying model that fits such data, is not a generalized linear model. Obviously some methodological developments and intensive computations are required. The current investigation is concerned with the selection of variables in such models. In many occasions where the number of predictors is quite large and some of them are not useful, the maximum likelihood approach is not the automatic choice. As, apart from the messy calculations involved, this approach fails to provide efficient estimates of the underlying parameters. The proposed penalized approach includes ?₁ penalty (LASSO) and the mixture of ?₁ and ?₂ penalties (elastic net). We propose a coordinate descent algorithm to fit a wide class of ordinal regression models and select useful variables appearing in both the ordinal regression and the logistic regression based mixing component. A rigorous discussion on the selection of predictors has been made through a simulation study. The proposed method is illustrated by analyzing the severity of driver injury from Michigan upper peninsula road accidents.     

Selecting people based on person‐organisation fit: Implications for intrateam trust and team performance

Teamwork is widely adopted in organisations. Although much evidence indicates that using person‐organisation (P‐O) fit as a selection criterion benefits individual employees, little is known about how this practice influences team functioning. Drawing on the input‐mediator‐outcome model and the research on value congruence, this study built and tested a model that links P‐O fit in recruitment to work teams' performance. Based on data collected from team members, team leaders, human resources managers, and chief executive officers in 96 firms, we found that P‐O fit in recruitment had a positive relationship with team performance and that intrateam trust mediated the relationship between P‐O fit in recruitment and team performance. Further, this mediated relationship existed only when the organisation had a weak, rather than strong, respect‐for‐people culture. This study contributes to the P‐O fit and team literature and has practical implications for human resources practices and team management.     

Corporate financial distress: The case of publicly listed firms in an emerging market economy

Occurrences of financial distress (FD) are not readily obvious yet can span several periods. This paper examines episodes of FD using industry‐relative (IR) firm‐/ accounting‐, market‐ and macro‐level information. Mixed logit regressions reveal that firm‐ and market‐based measures, as well as macro‐level variables explain the likelihood of FD in 263 publicly listed non‐banking firms in the Philippines during the period 1995 to 2018. Rates of identification of firms in financial distressed states of close to 69 percent are obtained at a cutoff probability of 0.30 in the model with time‐varying intercept and slope. This study shows the importance of recognizing heterogeneous firm behavior. The ability to more accurately predict the probability of FD and to determine the financial health of firms can help financial institutions in allocating funds and policy makers in predicting crises episodes.     

浅析会计舞弊的防范与治理

文章从职业道德、会计监管、会计信息、内部控制等方面入手,浅析如何建立和完善会计经济机制,防范和治理会计造假行为,减少会计舞弊案的发生。     

基于道德的企业产品定价博弈模型及其分析

企业产品定价道德是指导产品定价活动中企业行为善恶的规范。利用博弈方法对产品定价过程中企业的道德问题进行了理论分析,在建立基于道德的企业产品定价静态博弈模型和基于企业长期收益的重复动态博弈模型的基础上,对其纳什均衡结果进行分析,找出了影响企业道德水平的主要因素,并确定了具体的控制水平,为管理实践中的定价道德控制提供了理论依据。