Conceptualising corporate community development

Globally there is an increasing focus on the private sector as a significant development actor. One element of the private sector’s role emphasised within this new focus has been corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, whereby the private sector claims to contribute directly to local development. There is now a substantial body of work on CSR but it is a literature that is mostly polarised, dominated by concerns from the corporate perspective, and not adequately theorised. Corporations typically do development differently from NGOs and donors, yet the nature and effects of these initiatives are both under-researched and under-conceptualised. In this paper we argue that viewing CSR initiatives through a community development lens provides new insights into their rationale and effects. Specifically we develop a conceptual framework that draws together agency and practice-centred approaches in order to illuminate the processes and relationships that underpin corporate community development initiatives.     

Revisiting the 'Responsibility to Protect'

The Declaration on 'the responsibility to protect' (R2P), unanimously endorsed by the Security Council in April 2006, identified both national and international responsibilities in relation to genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity. This was highly significant in appearing to accept that the prevention of mass atrocities was a legitimate international concern. Subsequently, there has been some disappointment about the limited practical impact of R2P, and also anxiety that its progress may be impeded by the fear that it is designed to legitimise military intervention. However, this article concentrates on a different concern. Arguing that an earlier version of R2P (in the International Commission on Intervention and Sovereignty of 2001) linked the issues with those of human security and development, it suggests that the contemporary focus is far narrower, undermining its critical potential with regard to the policies of the global North and reducing its appeal to developing countries.     

对高校学生会运行的法律思考

高校学生会是大学生的自治性组织,受学校党委的领导和团委的指导,不具有民事主体资格,不具有民事权利能力和民事行为能力。高校学生会在运行中存在法律主体身份不明确、责任承担等问题,故应加强对高校学生会成员的法律教育和管理,规范高校学生会的运行。     

理性对待企业社会责任——兼评我国《公司法》中的企业社会责任条款

通过对我国《公司法》中的企业社会责任条款的实证分析表明,企业社会责任不是空洞的宣言,它的价值理念蕴涵在《公司法》中,通过相关的条款予以体现.对企业社会责任不应该只进行纯理论性的法条解读,有必要将其与实体意义上的惩罚权联系起来,做到理性的对待企业社会责任,以推进企业社会责任在我国的实施.     

完善我国刑事法律援助制度的基本思路——规范的自省与政策的关照

我国刑事法律援助制度的不完善,在一定程度上制约了我国刑事诉讼制度的发展。刑事法律援助是一种国家责任,国家应当切实承担起提供刑事法律援助的责任而不能将义务转嫁给律师。我国刑事法律援助制度存在法律规范和制度运行两方面的问题,应当通过规范的自省和政策的关照加以完善。当然,刑事法律援助制度根植于整个刑事诉讼制度之中,要真正提高刑事法律援助的水平,还必须改善刑事诉讼的整体环境。     

按共同治理原则构建国有企业的治理模式

传统公司治理理论在单一委托—代理框架内强调股东主权以解决所有者与经营者之间的利益冲突。随着人力资本产权理论、利益相关理论和企业社会责任理论兴起 ,尤其是 2 0世纪 80年代在美国兴起的恶意收购浪潮和反收购立法运动 ,人们对传统公司治理的经济学逻辑产生怀疑 ,共同治理原则开始孕育并日益为人们所接受。按照共同治理原则 ,我国国有企业的治理模式关键是在扬弃股东至上原则的基础上确认共同治理主体 ,建立有效的共同治理机制。     

犯罪定义的疑惑与思考

我国刑法关于犯罪的定义中规定:犯罪是“应当受刑罚处罚的”行为,同时又规定犯罪“应当负刑事责任”。应当受刑罚处罚与应当负刑事责任的涵义不同,以致在司法实践中和学理上都令人产生疑惑。犯罪最基本的特征是行为具有一定的社会危害性,犯罪的法律特征中的“应受刑罚惩罚性”以“应负刑事责任性”取代更为确切。另外,在刑法中应将最低刑事责任年龄由已满十四周岁降为已满十三周岁。     

对公安行政执法责任的思考

公安行政执法的主要目标是使每一个公民的合法权益在法律规定的范围内免受不正当侵害。而由于公安机关性质的特殊性所引起的行政违法和行政不当现象在现实中屡禁不止,因此在扩展公安权力和自由裁量权的同时,必须充分考虑其执法权力与责任的一致性和相当性。我们在对公安行政执法责任进行理性分析的同时,应积极探寻落实这一责任的可行路径,以保证我国的公安执法在法治的轨道上运行。     

Socioenvironmental Risk and Adjustment in Latino Youth: The Mediating Effects of Family Processes and Social Competence

The direct and mediated effects of socioenvironmental risk on internalizing and externalizing problems among Latino youth aged 10–14 were examined using prospective analyses. Participants in this study were 464 Latino mother and child dyads surveyed as part of the Welfare, Children & Families: A Three City Study. It was hypothesized that socioenvironmental risk (i.e., maternal psychological distress, maternal parenting stress, neighborhood disadvantage, and perceived financial strain) would influence later adolescent adjustment by interrupting important family processes and interfering with opportunities for adolescents to develop appropriate social competence. Using path analyses, the mediational model was compared across high and low acculturation groups. With two exceptions, the models for the high and low acculturation groups were equivalent. Results supported a mediated effect between early socioenvironmental risk and later adjustment problems for the low acculturation group through family routines and adolescent social competence. Among families high in acculturation, socioenvironmental risk effects were partially mediated through family routines and adolescent social competence. Finally, a path from gender to maternal monitoring was present in the low acculturation group model but not the high acculturation group model. Assistant professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Texas. Her major research interests are risk and resiliency processes in minority youth. Assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Michigan State University. Her major research interests are the effects of microenvironmental factors in the externalizing and internalizing behaviors of European American and Latino youth. Assistant professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Michigan State University. Her major research interests are risk and protective factors in children and adolescents at-risk because of parental substance abuse.     

论企业核心竞争力

核心竞争力一词在 1990年《哈佛商业评论》出现以来便立即引起人们的广泛重视。企业核心竞争力是在市场竞争中一种能使企业长期持续发展、获得超额垄断利润并能为顾客带来更多独特价值的核心能力。这种竞争能力为企业创造的优势与一般竞争优势不同 ,它是建立在知识而非经验的基础上 ,具有价值优越性、模仿的高成本性、不可交易性、相对先进性、延伸性、整体关联性、阶段性、层次性与长期性等特性。如此多特性决定了企业核心竞争力的培育与获取不是一朝一夕之事。