Building an integrated issue management process as a source of sustainable competitive advantage

This paper defines the key values, principal participants and operational requirements that characterise a strategically relevant global issue management process. It is the authors' intention to reveal and provide support for the most important ‘truth’ about this great discipline: ‘Excellence and relevance is determined by the optimal mix of dedicated, focused and highly imaginative people with processes that unleash their remarkable innovative potential. You need both.’ Copyright © 2002 Henry Stewart Publications.     

论公共安全危机事件应急处置的运行机制

运行机制是公共安全危机事件应急管理的重要组成部分,包括协调机制、指挥机制与预案启动机制三个部分。协调有别于协作,建立协调机制的必要性在于保证各应急组织之间良好的互动关系,而协调机制的实施需要建立相应的协调机构。协调与指挥有区别,但也有密切联系,协调过程存在指挥,指挥过程也存在协调。应急预案的启动机制应遵循自下而上、分级管理、分级反应的原则。     

社会主义和谐社会构建中的民族问题思考

我国是统一的多民族国家。民族问题始终是事关革命和建设全局的重大问题,是构建和谐社会必须处理好的一个重大问题。民族问题对于构建和谐社会的重要性在于：加快民族发展能够打牢构建和谐社会的物质基础;和谐的民族关系是构建和谐社会的前提和基础;反分裂斗争是构建和谐社会的政治保障。解决好民族问题,必须从发展、党的民族政策和反对分裂这几方面考虑。     

辽宁高职院校学生党建工作的问题及原因

随着高等职业教育的蓬勃发展,高职院校学生已经成为辽宁大学生的重要群体,充分认识并高度重视高职院校的学生党建工作中存在的问题,科学分析出现这些问题的原因,对于加强学生党建工作的力度,提高学生党建工作水平,不断地探索和创新党建对策,继续促进辽宁高等职业教育健康发展具有重要意义。     

对侵犯公私财物违反治安管理行为的若干问题的探讨

本文就《中华人民共和国治安管理处罚法》中对侵犯公私财物违反治安管理行为的规定在实践中存在的一些模糊认识加以探讨,目的是为了更好的完善治安立法,指导治安的办案实践。     

Migration and the EU Global Strategy: Narratives and Dilemmas

Migration did not figure in the European Security Strategy of 2003. Never mentioned as a threat, it was not even mentioned as a risk. Thirteen years later, migration is widely cited in the new European Union Global Strategy. Much richer than the previous security document and global in aspiration, the Global Strategy treats migration as a challenge and an opportunity, recognising the key role it plays in a rapidly changing security landscape. However, this multi-faceted perspective on migration uncovers starkly different political and normative claims, all of which are legitimate in principle. The different narratives on migration present in the new strategic document attest to the Union’s comprehensive approach to the issue but also to critical and possibly competing normative dilemmas.     

PTV gap: A new measure of party identification yielding monotonic partisan attitudes and supporting comparative analysis

Despite the cornerstone role of party identification for analyzing voting behavior in the United States, its measurement (in terms of the classic American National Electoral Studies – ANES – seven-point scale) is affected by a systematic problem of non-monotonicity, and it proved impossible to be directly applied outside the United States. We introduce a novel, complementary measurement approach aimed at addressing both problems. We test on US data (an expressly collected computer-assisted web interviewing survey dataset) a new, seven-point scale of partisanship constructed from PTV (propensity-to-vote) items, acting as projective devices for capturing partisan preferences, and routinely employed in multi-party systems. We show that a PTV-based (suitable for comparative analysis) seven-point scale of partisanship outperforms the classic ANES scale. Groups identified by the new scale show monotonic partisan attitudes, and the comparison of multivariate models of political attitudes testify significantly larger effects for the new scale, as well as an equal or higher predictive ability on a range of political attitudes.     

Post-termination use of licensed intellectual property by licensees

Legal and practical context: The ongoing dispute between Nokia and Qualcomm exemplifies thecomplex issues that arise when the licensor–licensee relationshipbreaks down. It illustrates that any means by which a licenseecan secure rights to use licensed IP after termination of alicence agreement can be of great commercial importance, notto mention significant economic value. If a licensee can continueto use licensed IP notwithstanding that its agreement has beenterminated, a licensor's ability to control and derive maximumeconomic benefit from its IP may be fundamentally compromised. Key points: The means available to licensees to secure such rights varydepending on the kind of IP right licensed, but there are severalcommon themes, which draw on a diverse range of legal rulesand concepts, including specific IP concepts and laws (includingthe rules relating to assignment and licensing, the exhaustionof rights, revocation and invalidation, and defences to infringementclaims), contract law and competition law. This article discussespractical implications to be considered when drafting IP licenceagreements. Conclusions: From a licensee's perspective, the termination of its licenceagreement is not necessarily the end of the road. Licenseesshould be aware of these post-termination rights when expectingto face difficult renegotiations with a licensor. From bothparties' perspectives, but particularly that of licensor, thisarticle should demonstrate the importance of drafting to avoidany uncertainty that may arise on the termination of a licenceagreement.     

论城镇社会治安防控体系基本理论问题

城镇社会治安防控体系是由县城和集镇若干社会治安防控力量和诸多防控措施手段互相联系而构成的一个有机整体。城镇社会治安防控体系有广义与狭义之分,主要包括人口、巡防等五个子系统,有战略性、整合性等四个特点。