完善行政问责制的对策探讨

行政问责制是一种良好的责任追究制度,但仍存有：缺少监督、问责不力、权责不一、问责不公、暗箱操作、问责随意等缺憾。完善的对策：一是构建完整的责任形式体系;二是加强监督,积极发挥其它主体的作用;三是信息公开化,实现＂阳光问责＂。     

新破产法中管理人制度的缺失与完善

新破产法首次确立了职业化、市场化的管理人制度。新制度的引入实施具有重大的意义,但同时也存在着诸多不足之处,突出表现在管理人选任制度不完善、没有得到充分的监督、相应的民事责任不明确等三个方面。结合司法实践中出现的一些问题,新破产法只有建立和完善管理人选任的双轨制,建立和健全管理人的监督机制,并完善管理人民事责任的相关规定,才能真正发挥破产法对社会主义市场经济的保障和促进作用。     

Gerrymandering in personnel selection: A review of practice

Gerrymandering personnel selection systems is defined as those practices explicitly intended to improve the outcomes of individual applicants or groups of applicants to the detriment of other individuals and groups. Gerrymandering can serve a variety of purposes, such as enhancing demographic diversity, rewarding political allies, or giving hiring preference to specific individuals. This paper reviews eleven strategies for gerrymandering personnel selection systems. The strategies fall into three categories of decisions: decisions in choosing or designing personnel selection tools; decisions in scoring personnel selection tools; decisions in selecting among passing applicants. Perspectives on the appropriateness and ethics of gerrymandering are then reviewed.     

日本公司董事会改革现状研究

日本模式的公司治理机制一直是企业界和经济学界所关心的内容。泡沫经济崩溃以后，日本经济陷入长期萧条，出于内部和外部的压力，日本企业不得不对其治理机制进行改革，董事会改革是其重要组成部分。日本企业董事会改革的措施主要包括董事会规模的缩减、外部董事的启用等。然而日本企业推动的董事会改革具有不彻底性．     

Supervisor Support for the Permanent Replacement of Economic Strikers

Sixty-one supervisors were surveyed to examine the importance of organization commitment, union approval, and quality of union-management relationship in explaining supervisor support for hiring permanent replacements in short and long strike situations. Organization commitment and union approval exhibited a unique negative relationship with support for hiring replacements in a short strike, and union approval exhibited a unique negative relationship with support for hiring replacements in a long strike situation.     

机构投资者的治理角色——过度投资视角

本文以2007~2009年我国上市公司的过度投资行为为背景,考察机构投资者持股对过度投资的治理角色。研究结果表明,机构的期末持股比例、长线型机构投资者尤其是长线型基金与过度投资显著负相关,表现为有效监督者的角色;短线型机构投资者则缺乏公司治理的意愿和动机,表现为利益攫取者的角色。研究结果意味着,我国的机构投资者同时具备有效监督者和利益攫取者的角色,何时表现出何种角色取决于持股比例以及持股时间。     

创新农民专业合作社治理结构促进农村改革和发展实现“第二次飞跃”

农民专业合作社是实现农业适度规模经营的有效途径,治理结构是农民专业合作社高效运作的基础和保障。文章指出,目前我国农民专业合作社数量扩张很快,但在内部治理结构上存在许多问题,致使合作所带来的规模效应和互补效应为合作社内部的摩擦效应所抵消,合作社的组织资源未得到充分发挥。文章认为,为确保农民专业合作社高效运作,在治理结构设计上要充分重视不同成员的能力差异与利益关系,区分两类决策类型并赋予不同的投票权,设立独立监事以加强合作社内部的监督与制衡。     

Communicating CSR practices – Role of internationalization of emerging market firms

Emerging markets suffer from institutional voids, and in such resource deficient economies, corporate social responsibility is given scant attention. However, when firms from emerging markets globalize, international stakeholders become suspicious about firms’ products, services, and business practices. Grounded in the liability of emergingness and legitimacy theory and using a sample of 134 manufacturing firms from one emerging market, India, this study explores how firms’ international diversification intent and market-seeking motives influence emerging markets’ firms communication of socially responsible activities as an attempt to eliminate illegitimacy. Furthermore, the study reveals that business group affiliation enhances the influence of internationalization on firms’ communication of socially responsible activities.     

Do national political parties matter? Evidence from Italian municipalities

Recently several countries have experienced a drop in popularity of national political parties, accompanied by the success of independent movements (e.g. “Civic Lists” in Italy). I exploit the success of “Civic Lists” in Italian municipalities and use them as a comparison group for party-affiliated politicians, to test whether national parties affect fiscal discipline. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD), I show that party-affiliated mayors are more fiscally responsible: they run lower deficits, accumulate less debt and reduce expenditures. The effect is significant only for municipalities not constrained by fiscal rules. This suggests that national parties act as a substitute for fiscal rules in constraining politicians. Besides, I provide evidence that the discipline of party-affiliated politicians is linked to better career prospects: party-affiliated mayors have a higher probability of being re-elected and better chances of being promoted to higher levels of government. Alternative stories find less support in the data.     

Is job control always beneficial? Exploring its nonlinearity in creativity and in-role performance

This study draws on resource allocation theory to examine the relationship between job control and two kinds of job performance, namely employee creativity and in-role performance, as well as to investigate whether supervisor encouragement of creativity moderates these two potentially nonlinear relationships. To test the proposed model, we collected data from 234 employees in Indonesia. The results show that job control has an inverted U-shaped relationship with employee creativity, but a U-shaped relationship with in-role performance. Supervisor encouragement of creativity moderates both relationships, such that the control–creativity relationship becomes U-shaped, while the control–in-role performance relationship becomes inverted U-shaped when supervisor encouragement of creativity is high. Implications for managers on how to provide resources to employees are discussed.