Competing priorities as constraints in event travel careers

An event travel career is a potentially lifelong pattern of travel to events linked with an individual’s preferred leisure activity. This paper applies the concept of an event travel career to non-elite triathletes. For these active sport tourists, ongoing pursuit of an event travel career is arguably constrained by competing priorities that intervene between everyday life and their pursuit of an event travel career. In-depth interviews were conducted with 21 triathletes identified as pursuing an event travel career. Interpretive analysis revealed seven domains of competing priorities that could work to constrain their event travel career aspirations. These domains included familial relationships, domestic responsibilities, sociability, finances, leisure, wellbeing, and work/education. The seven competing priority domains were interrelated, and cyclical in their constraining effects. Data assisted in clarifying some defining characteristics of the event travel career concept, and challenged notions of leisure participation as entirely positive and fulfilling.     

Furthering Organizational Priorities with Less Than Truthful Behavior: A Call for Additional Tools

Though codes of ethics exist in many businesses, employees still view less than truthful behaviors to be a significant ethical problem. The current study examines the related and somewhat counterintuitive issue of less than truthful behaviors intended to further organizational priorities. Such behaviors risk violating one organizational priority (e.g., adhering to a code of ethics) to achieve another. Data indicated four unique though non-mutually exclusive motivations: (1) to avoid confrontation or conflict; (2) to ensure quality in the delivery of a product or service; (3) to buy time for an organization’s strategy to play out; and (4) for self-protection or self-enhancement. The evidence further suggests that enhanced managerial training, particularly in handling confrontation and conflicts, could reduce the contradiction between stated codes of ethics and actual behaviors.     

浅议我校内部审计的现状及对策

本文根据我校改革和发展的新形势,在分析内部审计工作实际情况的基础上,紧紧抓住学校改革建设的一些重点和热点问题,明确提出了今后内审工作的重点,并就如何搞好各项审计提高审计成效,分别进行了阐述。     

Values and the Social Responsibility of Global Business

ABSTRACT

Business is widely viewed as one of the major institutions in society. It has assumed a socially responsible role for itself that has given rise to two competing paradigms, social philanthropy and corporate citizenship. Business, however, has not fulfilled its social responsibility particularly well. One reason is that business does not seem to have understood the interplay between individual-level, culture-level and corporate-level values nor the implications of national differences in culture-level value priorities. Some recent developments in cross-cultural psychology offer a useful paradigm for understanding this interplay and resolving any conflicts which result from the attempts of global business to implement socially responsible policies.     

2013年土地科学研究重点进展评述及2014年展望 ——2013年中国土地科学研究项目资助情况分析报告

研究目的：依据《2013年土地科学研究重点进展评述及2014年展望》所引用的中文参考文献,梳理国内重点研究进展项目的成果来源及特点,分析国内土地科学研究的学科基础,总结国内土地科学各研究方向的平均成果周期;结合2013年国家自然科学基金、国家社会科学基金、教育部人文社科基金、国土部公益性行业科研专项的新立项目,分析各项基金及科技项目对中国土地科学研究的资助偏好,展望未来土地科学研究热点。研究方法：文献检索法。研究结论：各省部级以上基金和科技项目的资助偏好存在一定差异。土地科学研究未来的热点主要集中在优化土地空间格局、完善土地管理制度、重视土地质量提升等方面。     

工会组织如何围绕矿山企业工作重点开展立功竞赛的实践与思考

如何根据矿山企业的工作重点,创新开展立功竞赛,为企业稳健持续发展做出应有贡献,是每一个工会干部应思考的问题。本文结合企业实际,在"转观念、抓改革、调结构、促发展"大讨论活动的重大意义,对工会组织在新形势下如何创新立功竞赛,展现工会组织的新作为做几点思考。     

Selling and sales management: An introduction to the special section and recommendations on advancing the sales research agenda

Effectively managing the sales function is a prerequisite for success in business markets. Thus, practitioners are increasingly interested in improving the performance of their sales function. However, there is evidence pinpointing that academic research in the area may be experiencing a decline in its status among other subject areas in the marketing discipline. Fortunately, advances in the field of selling and sales management as reflected in the organization of specialized conferences/meetings and the development of special journal issues hold the promise of enhancing the status of sales within marketing academia. Following this stream of activities, this IMM special section on “Selling & Sales Management” aims at stimulating the level of discourse regarding how research in our field can be advanced. The present article introduces the special section; next, it summarizes the articles comprising the special section; and, finally, it concludes with some thoughts on fruitful research opportunities in the sales area.     

对审计实施方案编制中几个重要问题的思考

在编制审计实施方案时要确定具体审计目标,要对被审计单位的内部控制制度进行测试,学会重要性水平的确定和审计风险评估.     

New development: Between politics and strategic planning—the management of government priorities in Lithuania

ABSTRACT

How do political agendas impact on strategic planning practices? This article shows that recent changes to the framework for managing government priorities have made Lithuania’s strategic planning system more politically responsive by mobilizing political attention, leadership and state funding to major government commitments. However, these changes have not yet translated into any longer term outcomes because policy implementation practices did not change very much.     

SUPPLY CHAIN PROCESS INTEGRATION: A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

The current study was undertaken to further understanding of supply chain process integration. It is suggested that supply chain integration, the practice of realigning firms' operating structures, should be understood from an internal‐external perspective and a process view. Drawing upon four theories—Strategy‐Structure‐Performance framework, the resource based view of the firm, transaction cost economics, and social network analysis—and combining industry inputs, a theoretical framework of supply chain process integration is developed. It is argued that a firm's strategic priorities are key factors of supply chain process integration. Superior performance is likely to be achieved when necessary supply chain capabilities are developed through supply chain process integration.