Gap year volunteer tourism: Myths of Global Citizenship?

The valorisation of cross-cultural understanding and promotion of an ethic of global citizenship are at the forefront of the recent development and proliferation of international ‘gap year’ travel programs and policies. Governments and industry alike promote gap year travel uncritically as a guaranteed pathway to the development of inclusive ideologies associated with global citizenship. In this paper we examine how the neoliberalist context in which gap year travel programs have proliferated does little to promote tolerance. We then consider the recent growth of ‘volunteer tourism’ as an alternative gap year youth travel experience and explore how the implied resistance to self-serving neoliberalist values that it engenders can become coopted by neoliberalism.     

从“三聚氰胺事件”看如何提高政府危机管理效能

最近发生的三聚氰胺事件暴露出我国政府在危机管理中存在的管理低效能问题.在危机的事前管理、事中管理和事后管理的三个阶段中,都存在着不同程度的政府管理职能缺位、越位和错位现象.为了更好地建设服务型政府,提高政府危机管理效能,我国政府需要采取增强危机管理意识,建立有效的危机管理配套机制,完善危机管理法律体系等一系列措施.     

金融危机正在改变世界

当前金融危机是经济周期的必然结果,其直接原因是以美元为核心的单体国际货币体系和保护主义日益严重导致的全球经济的长期失衡,要通过这场金融危机来平衡全球金融体系和经济的关系。因此,建立多元的国际货币体系,是这次金融危机之后最重大的金融制度的变革。目前金融还是现代经济的核心和心脏,不能因为金融危机而停止中国金融的市场化改革的步伐;同时,金融危机给中国带来了两个难得的机遇,即人民币的国际化和全球金融中心的构建。     

21世纪桂林旅游业发展问题研讨

为使桂林旅游业在２１世纪能够有大的作为,并在激烈竞争的国际旅游市场上立于不败之地,针对桂林市旅游业现存的问题,就桂林旅游企业改革、城市定位、旅游法制建设、旅游产品开发、旅游意识建设５个方面进行了较为深入的探讨     

地方政府住宅用地出让价格跨区域联动模式研究

研究目的:刻画、解构地方政府住宅用地出让价格跨区域联动系统。研究方法:全局向量自回归(GVAR)模型与网络分析工具。研究结果:(1)地方政府住宅用地出让价格跨区域联动系统呈现出高聚类、短路径的"小世界网络"特性。(2)地方政府住宅用地出让价格跨区域联动网络分为3个板块:板块1为"领导人"角色,板块2为"经纪人"角色,板块3为"谄媚人"角色。(3)地方政府住宅用地出让价格跨区域联动表现出明显的空间异质性。研究结论:应该从跨区域联动视角,深化对地方政府住宅用地出让价格形成机制的认识,有效管控地方政府住宅用地出让价格的跨区域影响。     

China feels the heat: negative impacts of high temperatures on China's rice sector

We analysed a county‐level data set of single‐season rice yield and daily weather outcomes in China to examine the effects of temperature on China's rice sector. We found that rice yield exhibited highly nonlinear responses to temperature changes: rice yield increased with temperature up to 28°C and decreased sharply with higher temperatures. Holding current growing seasons and regions constant, average rice yield in China is projected to decrease by 10–19 per cent by 2050 and 11–33 per cent by 2070 due to future warming under the global climate models HadGEM2‐ES and NorESM1‐M. These results imply that future warming poses a major challenge for Chinese rice farmers and that the effectiveness of adaptations will depend on how well they reduce the negative temperature impacts on rice yield because of very hot days.     

对外直接投资逆向技术溢出与全球农业价值链地位提升——基于G20国家的经验研究

中国农业处于全球农业价值链的"微笑曲线"谷底,长期遭受不平等待遇。对农产品出口技术复杂度所作的测算显示,相对于G20国家而言,中国农业在全球农业价值链地位并不高,且与最高国家差距呈现逐渐扩大的趋势。对G20国家农业OFDI数据所作的面板回归表明,农业OFDI存在溢出效应,能够提升母国农业出口贸易品技术含量,且其提升需要"学习过程"。此外,农业FDI对出口贸易品技术含量的影响具有滞后性。据此,研究认为,中国为了实现全球农业价值链地位的攀升,应该进一步鼓励农业企业"走出去";改善农业投资环境,为外商直接投资创造条件;提高对外开放程度,为农业发展提供支持;推动金融体制改革,提高国内金融服务发展程度。     

Does Social Media Matter? Investigating the Effect of Social Media Features on Consumer Attitudes

The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of social media's features (i.e., entertainment, usefulness, informativeness and irritation) toward consumers’ attitude toward the brand. Subsequently, this study explores the impact of this attitude toward consumers’ brand loyalty, brand awareness and purchase intention. Data for this study was collected through a large public university in Australia. Paper surveys were distributed to students, their friends and members of their immediate families (N = 724). The findings show that entertainment feature has the strongest impact on consumers’ attitude toward the brand's social media use, followed by informativeness, usefulness and finally, irritation. Consumers’ attitude toward a brand's social media strongly influences consumer loyalty, awareness and purchase intention. The findings of this research provide some insights into the impact of different features of social media which will be useful for practitioners and academics interested in social media.     

Competing on the edge: Implications of network position for internationalizing small- and medium-sized enterprises

Three generic competitive strategies attributed to internationalizing SMEs of targeting niches, differentiating products and leveraging networks fail to adequately explain how SMEs win customers in other countries against both large and small competitors. This study distinguishes competitive strategy (how firms compete) from competitive advantage, and from competitive engagements where firms deploy their competitive advantages to win customers within business network relationships. By abductively reasoning from the competitive engagements entered into by the internationalizing SMEs from the Fleet Management Systems industry segment in New Zealand, we show that these firms often compete with foreign rivals by using their position on the edge of a business network to leverage information asymmetries across structural holes. We contribute by integrating this conception of internationalizing SME competitive strategy with the business network foundations of the Uppsala internationalization process model.     

论物业管理企业"以人为本"的管理理念

物业管理企业管理的对象是物,但服务的对象却是人,即业主和使用人,因此,在实施物业管理的过程中,必须树立“以人为本”的经营理念,并且不断提高员工们的服务意识。只有这样才能在激烈的竞争中打败竞争对手,提高市场占有率,提高本企业的社会知名度。