Walls of secrecy and silence

Research Summary Most analysts of the causes of the contemporary credit crunch have concluded that the supervising agencies failed in their duties. The same is true for studies of several major fraud scandals, including the Madoff affair and the Dutch construction fraud. The remedy seems immediately obvious: more and better regulation and supervision. However, this line of reasoning seems somewhat simplistic by ignoring the question of how illegal activities can remain hidden for many years from supervising agencies, victims, and bystanders. This research article argues that the problem also lies in the successful concealment of illegal activities by the perpetrators and in the presence of silence in their social environment. Policy Implications The cases analyzed in this article suggest that financial misconduct also could be controlled by breaking the conspiracies of silence. The strengthening of supervision is unlikely to be effective without simultaneous efforts to encourage people to speak out and to give them incentives to want to know and to tell the truth.     

The East European agrarian reforms of the middle of the nineteenth century in a new historical perspective

Organizational change processes involve many stakeholders, but the roles of capital owners and managers have not received enough attention in research on organizational change. Exploratory research results in Estonia elucidate how the interplay of owners and managers influences strategic change efforts in an organization operating in a rapidly changing transition economy. In addition to linking theoretical approaches to organizational change and development to corporate governance challenges in transition economies, this article uses data from interviews with 26 prominent decision-makers in Estonia to highlight the differences between foreign and domestic owners in controlling managers in the strategic change processes.     

俄罗斯企业社会责任履行现状及对我国的启示

在俄罗斯政府推动下,俄罗斯企业社会责任在过去近十年内出现了一个新发展。俄罗斯与中国有着类似的转型背景,在企业社会责任的履行方面很大程度上受政府的影响,采取的是自上而下的企业社会责任推进方式。俄罗斯企业社会责任履行过程中政府在承担主体上注重区分不同类型企业的社会责任分层次履行、在推进主体上以政府推进为主导模式、在推进方式上注重"公私协作"等成功举措及主要经验,对于完善我国企业社会责任履行具有重要的借鉴意义。     

Social change and social conflict in nineteenth century England: A comment

This article addresses the potential for food movements to bring about substantive changes to the current global food system. After describing the current corporate food regime, we apply Karl Polanyi's ‘double-movement’ thesis on capitalism to explain the regime's trends of neoliberalism and reform. Using the global food crisis as a point of departure, we introduce a comparative analytical framework for different political and social trends within the corporate food regime and global food movements, characterizing them as ‘Neoliberal’, ‘Reformist’, ‘Progressive’, and ‘Radical’, respectively, and describe each trend based on its discourse, model, and key actors, approach to the food crisis, and key documents. After a discussion of class, political permeability, and tensions within the food movements, we suggest that the current food crisis offers opportunities for strategic alliances between Progressive and Radical trends within the food movement. We conclude that while the food crisis has brought a retrenchment of neoliberalization and weak calls for reform, the worldwide growth of food movements directly and indirectly challenge the legitimacy and hegemony of the corporate food regime. Regime change will require sustained pressure from a strong global food movement, built on durable alliances between Progressive and Radical trends.     

企业社会责任议程的管制：现状与启示

企业社会责任议程的管制可分为企业自我管制、政府管制、公民社会管制三种模式。当前，间接立法管制成为各国首选，软法措施日益盛行，公民社会通过诉讼方式管制企业社会责任议程成为新亮点。中国企业社会责任议程的法律制度化问题尚处于初级阶段，政府必须对现有的政府／企业／社会关系框架进行重新思考，强化民众通过诉讼获得正义的权利，并以“市场的自发对抗”补充“国家的立法干预”，跳出“强政府、弱社会”的路径依赖。     

独具特色的企业文化为“凯德”插上腾飞的翅膀

1993年创立的天津凯德实业有限公司,其产品和技术已全方位通过多个权威机构的检测认证,某些设备已达国际先进水平,稳占国内市场,并远销东南亚、中东及独联体国家。此得益于该公司一贯重视如下方面的企业文化建设：一是将客户视为公司发展的保障;二是用高新技术引领行业发展;三是将员工视为企业发展的根本;四是努力把企业建成员工的家。     

商业银行的企业年金业务及其意义

企业年金是我国社会保障体系的重要组成部分，是实施养老保障“多支柱”战略的重大制度安排。获得企业年金基金管理资格的商业银行可以开展企业年金基金受托管理、账户管理和托管等业务。这些业务的开展，对促进我国企业年金制度及商业银行自身的发展有着深远的意义。     

企业政治优势转化的有效途径

探索企业政治优势转化的路径，就必须进一步明确优势转化的资源和主体，明确优势转化的路径和载体，明确优势转化的目标要求和构成要素。通过深化理想信念教育、推进党建工作创新、强化队伍素质建设、融入生产经营中心工作，努力把政治优势转化为助推企业发展的凝聚力、创新力、执行力和发展力。     

论控制股东对公司债权人的诚信义务及法律责任

我国在经济转轨时期,大部分公司股权相对集中,存在着控制股东现象,由于控制股东持有大比例的公司表决权股份,具有控制公司股东大会和操控公司经营管理层的能力.随着股东控制权的滥用,公司控制股东侵害公司和债权人利益以及其他股东利益的现象不断出现,这时我国加强公司治理,建立控制股东制约机制提出了迫切的要求.由于公司形式多样,受控制股东影响的公司利益相关者众多,本文将研究视角局限在我国股份公司中的债权人保护上,提出在股份公司中,控制股东应对公司的债权人承担诚信义务,以免发生侵害公司债权人利益的事情.