跨文化管理研究在中国酒店业经营管理提升和品牌创建中的应用

本文讨论了中国酒店业30年发展历程中始终面临的几个方面的文化问题。例如,跨国酒店公司的海外投资对发展中国家在经济和社会文化方面的积极和消极影响;现代信息技术对酒店管理的促进作用和带来的问题;酒店经营全球一体化与文化多样化之间的关系;中外酒店管理者的文化差异和文化冲突;中国酒店业跨国经营的文化适应等。本文提出,应当加强跨文化管理研究在酒店经营管理中的应用,它可以有效地提升经营管理人员的业务水平,促进酒店业经营管理的国际合作,优化酒店产品营销,指导酒店硬件设施建设,提高人力资源管理效率,指导酒店特色项目的设计运作,提高酒店对外投资效率以及指导酒店的品牌创建。     

关于青海省流动党员教育和管理问题的调查与思考

流动党员的教育和管理问题,是新时期党的建设需要解决的突出问题之一。本课题从青海省近年来流动党员教育和管理工作的实际出发,分析青海省流动党员教育和管理工作呈现的新特点,总结青海省流动党员教育和管理的成功做法,并针对这一工作中存在的主要问题提出相应对策和建议,以期对流动党员教育和管理的规律性作一研究探索。     

欠发达地区高校图书馆的知识管理

为促进欠发达地区高校图书馆的可持续发展,本文从高校图书馆知识管理的内容、特征入手,对欠发达地区高校图书馆管理必然走向信息资源管理发展的新阶段——知识管理,进行了探讨。     

现代企业管理中的人心资本经营探析

本文尝试从企业经营管理层面重新审视人心资本经营问题,在确定人心资本概念的基础上,深入地对人心资本经营的基础理论作了一些探索性的研究和分析,进而提出有效经营人心资本的对策。     

市场经济与政府参与

改革开放以后,中国实行的社会主义市场经济推动了经济社会的飞速发展,也使企业获得了更加广阔的发展空间。但同时,由于政府在宏观调控的力度及角度等方面存在不足,也给企业及整个经济社会的发展带来了一些隐患。实行有效的政府参与,从宏观上进行控制,是更快更好地发展经济和解决这一系列问题的根本保证。     

Reflections on Collaborative Archaeology and Large-Scale Online Research Infrastructures

ABSTRACT

The Archaeology Data Service (ADS) is an archive working at a national level in the UK, ensuring that archaeologists have access to high quality and dependable digital resources, including openly licensed legacy data for reuse. The ADS acts as a metadata aggregator for archaeological data held by larger heritage agencies and smaller regional organizations and participates in international aggregation infrastructure projects such as ARIADNE, which allows users to access archaeological resources held in many countries from a single interface. Large-scale infrastructures can facilitate the building of long-term, complex relationships and active collaborations, not just technical solutions. This paper reflects on the roles of stewardship and equity within ARIADNE and the ADS, two large-scale online research infrastructures, and how these types of infrastructures may help to create a more collaborative archaeology, including lessons learned, challenges and opportunities, and thoughts for the future.     

‘Are we wasting our time?’: bushfire practitioners and flammable futures in northern Australia

Humans are ‘fire creatures’ that have used fire for millennia to shape local environments to diverse purposes. Our capacity for combustion has also forced global climatic changes and rendered the planet increasingly flammable, creating the conditions for progressively higher impact bushfires now and into the future. Meanwhile, governments in fire-prone countries such as Australia have continued to allow settlements to be established (and re-established) in wildland–urban interfaces. Like other ‘natural hazards’, bushfire is thereby a social phenomenon bound up with human values, practices and decisions. But, while studies of the social dimensions of ‘natural hazards’ are steadily rising, this scholarship has rarely addressed natural hazard management practitioners directly, precisely those authorised and entrusted to intervene in the distribution of hazard probabilities and consequences. This paper seeks to help remediate this research gap, illustrating how cultural, ecological, economic and political factors thoroughly condition hazard management and modes of intervention. Drawing on a case study in the Northern Territory’s Greater Darwin region, this paper suggests not only that examining such sociocultural realities provides new insights into hazards and their distribution, but also that attention to such issues is crucial to understanding our flammable future in the Anthropocene.     

Costs and benefits of environmental change: tourism industry's responses in Arctic Finland

ABSTRACT

Recent research has focused on the impacts of environmental change to tourism. In particular, the perceived costs of climate change have been increasingly studied. However, the relationship between costs and benefits resulting from the changing environmental conditions for the industry has been less examined. This paper identifies the locally observed changes in the natural and socio-economic environments and aims to analyse the financial costs and benefits to tourism businesses in two tourism-dependent communities in northern Finland. The specific focus is on adaptation and adaptive management in a tourist destination scale. Adaption is understood as an investment creating not only implementation costs, but potentially also benefits for tourism operations. Research materials were collected among tourism and tourism-related businesses through 41 semi-structured thematic interviews. Results indicate that the evaluated benefits of environmental change seem to exceed those of costs. This conforms to the on-going discourse of climate change–tourism relations associated with the Arctic region where both awareness and vulnerability to change are considered relatively high but the level of responses, i.e. adaptation, low. These results can help to further identify the most vulnerable sectors in tourism and assist entrepreneurs preparing for environmental and climate change. However, the paper concludes that while global environmental change, with specific adaptive management strategies, may create local short-term direct benefits for the industry, a long-term sustainability of tourism in the Arctic calls for mitigation responses to climate change.     

New institutionalism,critical junctures and post-crisis policy reform

Two accounts of change dominate with new institutional literature. The first emphasises ‘punctuated equilibria’ in which change is shock-driven, sudden and radical enough to loosen path dependencies. The second emphasises a more gradual-incrementalism and a view of change that is more or less constant. This article argues that neither account is suitable for the policy scholar interested in understanding the complexity of a post-crisis reform period and that a synthesis between these two views would better serve those interested in the nuance of post-crisis change. The article provides this synthesis in the form of a reconceptualization of the critical juncture. This reconceptualization merges the punctuated equilibrium and the gradual-incremental views and, in doing so, presents a much more realistic institutional account of the fine print of policy change post-crisis. The reconceptualization is subsequently justified empirically through the analysis of a specific post-crisis reform period (the Queensland floods of 2010–11).