Repairing damaged reputations through targeted poverty alleviation: Evidence from private companies’ strategies to deal with negative media coverage

When negative media coverage causes reputational crises, companies must find suitable tools to repair their reputation and reverse their negative image. As a CSR activity with political- and livelihood-related implications, targeted poverty alleviation may be an effective tool. Using data on negative media coverage of Chinese A-share private listed companies, we examine whether companies engage in targeted poverty alleviation in response to reputational crises caused by negative media coverage. We find that negative media coverage leads private companies to engage more actively and intensively in targeted poverty alleviation because of the significant increase in public attention to the bad news. These companies must urgently rebuild their positive image using targeted poverty alleviation to resolve their public opinion crisis. Further analyses suggest that original and in-depth negative media coverage is more likely to cause companies’ active participation in targeted poverty alleviation. In addition, negative media coverage is more likely to lead companies to engage in targeted poverty alleviation when they are in heavily polluting industries or face greater pressure from external investors. Finally, we find that active involvement in targeted poverty alleviation helps companies improve their market reputation and thus effectively manage public relations crises caused by negative media coverage.     

The sources of the Kuznets relationship between road fatalities and economic growth

This paper reports the results of an empirical analysis of the Kuznets curve relationship between per capita income and road fatalities across 60 countries over the period 1972-2004. This relationship hypothesizes that the number of road fatalities increases with increasing motorization in the early stages of economic growth. Eventually, due to advances in technical, policy and political institutions, it declines as per capita income increases. The quality of political institutions as well as improvements in medical care and technology are hypothesized to impact road fatalities. Results indicate evidence of a Kuznets curve relationship between per capita income and road fatalities for both highly developed and less developed countries and support our hypothesis that changes in institutional quality and medical improvements underlie the Kuznets relationship. The evidence presented in this study suggests that lowering corruption levels as well as improvements in medical care and technology would help to reduce road fatalities.     

产业集聚的外部性与企业融资行为

虽然不少文献都明确了产业集聚的外部性对企业的债务融资具有正向作用,但就产业集聚外部性如何系统性影响企业融资行为的研究较少。本文综合运用产业组织理论和公司金融理论,从理论和实证两个方面分析产业集聚与资本结构间的关系。理论分析发现,产业集聚与资本结构在权衡理论框架和优序融资理论框架下呈现出不同的关系。实证结果则发现产业集聚与资本结构负相关,更多的支持了优序融资理论。原因在于,我国制造业企业的债务融资存在较高的交易成本,"信息不对称"问题严重,使得企业融资的首要选择是内部融资。     

A sensemaking perspective on network pictures

This paper examines the concept of network pictures through the lens of the organizational sensemaking perspective. Essentially it develops the concept of network pictures by suggesting we think of them as exercises in sensemaking. It does so by providing an introduction to organizational sensemaking before establishing a degree of commensurability between network pictures and sensemaking. It suggests that what we may then see more clearly is that the concept of network pictures needlessly gets involved in reification when talking of ‘the’ network picture whereas a more dynamic approach leads to ideas of network picturing in which the complete discrediting or collapse of extant sensemaking and network pictures provides a research opportunity that could be jointly explored by both perspectives. The paper concludes that paradoxically ‘finding’ this new sense or new network picture appropriate to radically changed times is facilitated by a process that involves first ‘becoming lost’.     

商誉会计主要争论综述及启示

近百年来 ,会计理论界对商誉会计问题研究成果丰硕。本文对商誉的本质、自创商誉的会计确认、外购商誉的会计处理、负商誉性质等问题的主要争论进行了综述。     

公司股份回购负财务效应分析

股份回购早已成为上市公司为配合资本结构决策或股利政策而广泛采用的财务举措,而在我国股份回购无疑也是证券市场上的一项重大制度突破和金融创新。本文首先阐述了股份回购的基本理论,然后结合东北老工业基地公司股份回购的相关情况,着重地分析了股份回购的负财务效应。最后针对股份回购负财务效应分析中所发现的问题,提出了一系列相应的建议和解决措施,使其无论在理论上还是实践上的研究都得到了进一步的完善。     

农村城镇化进程中污染外部性规制的若干思考

农村城镇化的迅速发展,一方面,促进了农村经济的发展;另一方面,使城镇生态环境不断恶化.城镇生态环境的恶化反过来又限制了农村经济的进一步发展.本文以外部性理论为基础,分析了农村城镇化存在的负外部性问题,并揭示其产生根源,最后提出规制措施.     

Voluntary Cost-Sharing for Environmental Risk Reduction: A Pollution Abatement Case Study

This paper develops the notion of voluntary cost-sharing as a paradigm for ameliorating pollution: polluters and sufferers can choose to share the costs of pollution abatement and participate together in reducing pollution. If both polluters and sufferers each care about the state of the environment but have limited resources, the issue is one of optimality: a better level of environmental quality could be achieved if polluters and sufferers in a locale share costs of abatement. An example—nitrogen pollution due to fertilizer for food—is used to demonstrate that a preferred outcome can be obtained with cost sharing among polluters and consumers as compared to a “Polluter Pays” outcome. Input taxes and ambient subsidies or taxes are also relevant policy tools with cost-sharing.     

教育投资及其市场化初探

由于教育投资的对象是人 ,而人是有思想的 ,因此 ,对教育的投资比对物质资本的投资要复杂。其中一个关键问题是 ,当教育投资主体与教育投资对象不同时 ,可能会引起教育投资的套牢 ;而当二者合一时 ,又会 (因为人力资本的外部性和个体的财富约束 )引起教育投资的不足。由于教育所形成的人力资本具有外部性 ,教育投资主体与教育投资对象适当的分离是必要的 ,而解决由于这种分离可能引起的投资主体的套牢在于使教育投资实现市场化。     

Logarithmic quasi-homothetic preferences

We study a class of quasi-homothetic preferences, which result in demands that are logarithmic in own prices when these have a negligible impact on aggregate prices (as in monopolistic competition models). Thus marginal revenues are computationally friendly and well behaved.