Bridging Business and Society: The Abrinq Foundation in Brazil

This article presents the process of creation and expansion of the Fundação Abrinq pelos Direitos da Criança et do Adolescente (Abrinq Foundation for Rights of Children and Adolescents). Established in 1990 by a group of entrepreneurs from the Brazilian Toy Manufacturers’ Association (ABRINQ), the Fundação Abrinq has been successful at raising the issue of children in Brazilian society by bridging business and several other sectors of society. This article more particularly examines (1) the societal challenges related to the situation of children in Brazil; (2) the creation and development of the Abrinq Foundation; and (3) the achievements of this innovative bridging organization over 15 years.     

高职市场营销专业创业教育实践教学体系的构建——以江苏财经职业技术学院市场营销专业为例

创业可以带动就业,而中国的高校创业教育明显滞后于社会经济发展对高校人才的要求。以江苏财经职业技术学院市场营销专业为例,以认知体系、情感体系、创业能力训练体系三大体系为支撑构建创业实践教学体系,强化学生的创业意识、创业意志和创业能力。     

新时期地球科学发展与地学创新人才培养的思考

面对人类社会发展的新格局和经济社会发展的新需求,地球科学研究视域、学科任务、知识体系和方法手段等正酝酿着新的变革。面对经济社会大转型和新时期地球科学的发展,创新体制机制、培养地学创新人才是地质教育义不容辞的责任和重要课题。创新人才有类别和层次之分,可以区分为学术创新人才、技术创新人才和创业人才,应遵循＂尊重意愿、鉴识潜力、分类培养、通专结合、以专为重＂的方针进行培养。最后给出了一个成都理工大学实施创新人才培养的典型案例。     

Clothing as an environment for older adults' successful ageing

This research tested a conceptual model for proximity of clothing to self (PCS) in relation to age identity, self‐actualization, psychological well‐being, self‐assessed health, sex and chronological age among older adults, aged 65 and over, within the human ecological perspective. A mail survey was sent to a national random sample of 1700 older adults in the US resulting in 195 usable respondents in the final sample. The respondents returned two completed questionnaires, which were (1) Clothing: A Resource for Successful Aging? (to measure PCS, age identity and demographic variables) and (2) Personal Orientation Inventory (to measure self‐actualization). The results indicated that older adults' psychological well‐being, one component of successful ageing, was directly affected by their self‐assessed health, age identity and self‐actualization. PCS indirectly influenced individuals' psychological well‐being in a slightly negative way in later life. In sum, clothing may be used as a needs satisfier for different levels of needs or related more closely with needs in addition to self‐actualization needs for older adults. Further research should be conducted to explore relationships among PCS, different levels of human needs, clothing‐related variables and psychological well‐being for this age group. In practice, the effort should be given to teach the use of clothing (or other human‐built objects) as a tool or need satisfier to contribute to success in a person's later life by offering some educational or training programmes through local senior community centres or universities.     

论企业家超常思维的问题意识

问题意识在思维活动乃至人的认识活动中具有举足轻重的地位。企业家成功的因素很多,其中最主要、最核心的＂基因＂或＂密码＂是他们与众不同的、超常思维的问题意识。培养和激发非常规、非线性的超常思维的问题意识,有助于改变僵化的心理定势和认知习惯,有助于企业家个性特质的形成,有助于创新能力的提升。     

津工超市配送中心成功运营经验分析

天津津工超市配送中心已经成为连锁商业物流配送的成功范例。文中重点从分工与战略合作的运营模式、配送对象的不断拓展、货物分类仓储与配送的方式、分时段作业以充分利用设施与设备、先进物流信息技术与设备的研发五个方面来分析津工超市配送中心成功运营的经验。这些经验值得连锁商业物流配送企业(尤其是连锁超市配送企业)借鉴。     

National culture, networks and ethnic entrepreneurship: A comparison of the Indian and Chinese immigrants in the US

This paper uses a combination of national cultural frameworks and social capital theory to explain the formation and management of entrepreneurial ventures among immigrant communities. The varying rates of venture formation and performance among different ethnic groups points to the role that the different dimensions of culture play in how immigrants use their social networks to start such firms. We use the specific example of the Indian and Chinese communities in the US to demonstrate this effect and explain how businesses created by members of these communities could have potentially different ways of starting and operating that can be directly traced to the differences in cultural orientation of their owners. What emerges can be summarized as: (a) different immigrant communities have different ways of accumulating and using social capital in starting and managing their ethnic ventures; (b) these dissimilarities manifest themselves in variations in the motives for forming these ventures, human resource practices and termination rates; and (c) that these variations can partly be explained by the differences in their respective national cultures.     

The emergence, advance and future of international entrepreneurship research — An introduction to the special forum

Since its genesis over twenty years ago, research in International Entrepreneurship has emerged as a field of study, and moved through the process of differentiation, mobilization and legitimacy building. Generally referred to as IE, research in this area is conducted by scholars worldwide and supported by various community structures, conferences and journals. In recognition of IE, this Special Forum was initiated to help clarify its parameters and history of development, the areas of research pertinent to it and critically, directions for future research.     

企业家精神对中国经济增长影响的动态研究

实证分析表明:企业家创业精神和创新精神对中国经济的增长产生了显著的正效应,企业家创业精神对经济的影响在研究期内有波动但2001年以来一直保持较高水平,而企业家创新精神对经济的拉动一直稳定但维持在较低水平。     

资源对公司创业行为的影响研究

全球金融危机以来,公司创业越来越成为企业界与学术界研究的热点问题。公司创业战略的制定与执行是决定其绩效的关键所在。创业战略的制定究竟取决于哪些因素？资源观认为,公司创业就是不断地投入资源以连续提供产品与服务的过程。在对创业资源进行系统分类的基础上,界定了创业资源维度,在理论上深入探讨了资源对公司创业行为的影响。