Social Comparisons in Ultimatum Bargaining

Experiments are used to examine the effects of social comparisons in ultimatum bargaining. We inform responders about the average offer before they decide whether to accept or reject their specific offer. This significantly increases offers and offer‐specific rejection probabilities. For comparison, we consider another change in informational conditions: telling responders the total pie is $30—ex ante it was either $15 or $30—affects offers and rejection probabilities roughly as much. Our results are consistent with people’s dislike for deviations from the norm of equity but inconsistent with fairness theories, where people dislike income disparity between themselves and their referents.     

New Labour and Community Protests: the Case of the Govanhill Swimming Pool Campaign, Glasgow

Taking the case study of a community based protest against the closure of a swimming pool in Glasgow, this paper seeks to raise important critical questions about some of the key ideas informing New Labour's urban policy agenda: social capital and active community. It argues that normative notions of active citizenship seriously conflict with bottom-up community protests, highlighting in the process issues of power and inequality. Against claims that New Labour is promoting government through community, here we claim that in the context of this community protest, there was government against community.     

Out of the Mouths of Babes: Business Ethics and Youths in Asia

A model of corporate ethics and social responsibility (CESR) was developed and empirically tested among Chinese business undergraduates in Hong Kong and Singapore. As predicted, it was found that CESR beliefs were negatively related to Machiavellianism and two Confucian concepts, guanxi (interpersonal connections) and mianzi (face). CESR beliefs were also lower among Hong Kong than Singaporean youths. The negative effects of guanxi, mianzi, and Machiavellianism were more pronounced for the Hong Kong than Singapore sample. Implications of these findings are discussed and directions for future research suggested.     

转型背景下的社会心理优化

社会转型带来的一项艰巨工作就是解决人们的不良社会心理问题.如何从理论上探索优化社会心理的方法.这是当前构建和谐辽宁急需解决的理论问题.通过对辽宁地区不良社会心理的特点、不良社会心理的形成原因与机制的解析,提出优化社会心理要发挥舆论导向、营造社会公正公平环境、切实解决民生问题、建立有效心理疏导机制、不断提高科学思维能力等心理疏导路径.     

企业社会责任若干问题探析

企业社会责任一直是社会关注的热点问题,文章对企业社会责任的性质、企业社会责任的范围与结构以及企业社会责任法律化等问题进行了分析,对有争议的一些问题进行了梳理与厘清,并提出了企业社会责任法律化应遵循的若干原则。     

提升农村公共危机管理能力——建设社会主义新农村的必经之路

2006年关于三农的\"一号文件\"提出了建设社会主义新农村的战略构想,为了建设社会主义新农村,我们必须认清我国农村潜伏的危机,并力图提升我国农村公共危机管理的能力.关于农村公共危机,文章着重分析了我国目前农村公共危机的五种类型,最后根据张成福的\"全面整合\"模式提出了提升农村公共危机管理能力的七种途径.     

供应链视角下的农产品质量安全管理研究

近年来,我国农产品安全问题事件层出不穷,解决农产品的安全问题已经成了一个紧迫性的全国性问题。文中基于供应链的视角,从农产品供应链的各个环节、上下游企业角色的博弈、激励和惩罚机制、政府监管等各个角度分析了目前中国农产品供应链管理中存在的食品安全问题的症结所在,并且提出了相对应的解决措施,最后以安徽青松食品有限公司的“安心豆芽”项目为例进行了实证研究。     

粮食安全视域下的湖南粮食专业合作社发展研究

粮食安全的内涵包括总量安全、结构安全、质量安全、价格安全、生态安全和产业安全。借鉴国外粮食合作社保障粮食安全的经验,我国发展粮食专业合作社有利于促进粮食生产的市场化、规模化、集约化和现代化,是解决我国粮食安全问题的根本出路。湖南作为我国粮食主产区,其粮食专业合作社的发展面临着规模小、土地流转不畅、产业链短、农田水利基础设施薄弱及融资难等问题,需要采取相应措施加以解决以发挥粮食专业合作社在确保国家粮食安全中的积极作用。     

社会公平:构建和谐社会的重要基石

公平是社会经济持续发展的基础和保障,是构建和谐社会的重要基石.解决我国社会生活中的公平问题,特别是分配领域的公平问题,是构建社会主义和谐社会的基本需要.必须营造一个维护社会公平的制度环境,完善社会分配机制,完善社会保障制度.