Using the Strategy Tripod to Understand Strategic Management in the “Evaluation-Friendly” Organizations of Cultural and Creative Industries

Abstract

This article provides a new conceptual framework based on the Strategy Tripod to understand challenges and orientation that affect performance evaluation in the organizations of cultural and creative industries (CCI). The analysis is built on a quantitative study carried out in Estonia. Multinomial logistic regression was performed to assess the ability of different variables to predict performance evaluation. The new conceptual framework provides a holistic understanding of the uncertain environment and its impact on strategic management in “evaluation-friendly” organizations in CCIs. It adds new insight into theoretical and managerial discussions on how and why strategic management in CCIs is practiced.     

Discussion Content and Perception of Deliberation in Western European Versus American Juries

Jury research has dealt almost exclusively with the American system wherein 6-12 laypersons decide verdicts under a unanimity or non-unanimity rule. However, most Western European countries follow the escabinado system, in which laypersons and judges together decide verdict and sentence, under a non-unanimous rule. We experimentally compared the processes and outcomes of both types of juries. Under the guise of a Student Judicial panel, seven undergraduate students in Spain comprised 10 juries, whereas five undergraduates and two fifth-year Law students comprised 10 escabinado juries. We assessed pre- and post-discussion verdict, penalty, and confidence, discussion content, and subjective reactions to the discussion and outcome. Escabinado jury deliberations were driven by the imbalance of power between trained and lay jurors. Escabinado and lay juries differed in their perception of the deliberation but not in their outcomes. Implications for the impact of cultural differences and task requirements in jury decision-making are drawn.     

Popular punitivism and cultural mediation: The case of Spain

In the last decade, an increasing number of scholars have discussed and articulated embracement of popular punitivism within Spain. The discourse while vital to the study of popular punitivism has missed an important element, specific to the cultural mediators present within the nation. As the current discourse has missed this vital component, the intent of this article is to examine how a post-Franco Spain emerged to embrace elements of popular punitivism, most notably the use of prisons, while embracing a penal structure and philosophy that is reintegrative at its core. As such, it is offered that the cultural factors present within the nation have enabled it to mitigate some of the most harmful characteristics of popular punitivism     

美之为美——略论“最美精神”的文化内涵与现实基础

美之为美,斯恶已,社会道德失范现象频生,激发了人们对“最美精神”的渴望,本文通过对中国传统文化中“美”的梳理,认识到“人格美”在中国传统文化中的特殊地位,从儒家“人心向善”理论出发,重视人的外在行为举止与其内在道德情操的和谐统一,并相信“礼失求诸野”具有现实意义.第二部分,主要从社会现实,教育方式,法律制度保障,道德成长累积效果等四方面阐述了最美精神的现实基础.     

韩国文化外交：路径与启示

韩国文化外交是其软实力的重要来源和体现。韩国文化外交卓有成效,其路径主要有政府、企业和社会组织三个方面。韩国文化外交的启示在于：经济现代化是文化外交的物质保障;政治民主化是文化外交的制度保障;完善的社会建设是文化外交可持续发展的内生力;明确的文化产业政策是文化外交的直接推动力。     

试析新加坡的文化软实力

新加坡在发展的过程中积累了自身的文化软实力。其文化软实力可从政治制度和政治文化、社会制度和社会模式、意识形态和价值观念、文化多元与整合、文化艺术、教育科技等6个方面来进行分析,可概括为：高效清廉的政治、新加坡特色的民主社会主义、基于儒家伦理的共同价值观、和谐的多元文化、优雅的文化艺术、腾飞的教育科技。     

The meaning of war: A heterodox perspective

This article raises serious methodological, conceptual, historical and empirical questions concerning the notion of China as the next world superpower. The most dynamic sector of growth is the private sector, but within that sector foreign capital is growing the fastest, especially in strategic export sectors and increasingly in finance and the domestic market. Historically China has passed from a semi-colony to a collectivist state to a state capitalist economy toward a neo-liberal economy which contains the seeds for the re-emergence of a foreign capitalist-dominated economy. Contradictions in the current neo-liberal economy are leading to increased class struggle especially in the countryside and increasing tension between the super-rich Chinese bourgeois allied to foreign capital and ‘national statist’ sectors of the governing class. The efforts by the new leadership to ameliorate the contradiction through increased social spending are too little and too late.     

论妨害文物管理犯罪行为的刑法规制

文物是不可再生的文化资源,具有丰富的历史价值、艺术价值和科学价值,同时也具有较高的经济价值,自然也就成为了犯罪分子侵害目标。近年来,盗掘古墓、倒卖文物、走私文物的现象日益猖狂,这种链条式的不法行为,使我国的珍贵文物大量流失,犯罪分子利用娴熟的作案手段,将盗掘而来的文物进行倒买倒卖或者走私,使其很快进入流通领域,甚至流向国际市场,获取高额利润。因此,必须及时有效地规制此类犯罪行为,击破文物类犯罪的"盗掘—倒卖—走私"的典型经营链条,保护国家的文物管理秩序,防止文物的大量流失。     

中华优秀传统文化融入党的文化软实力建设的探讨

传承和弘扬中华优秀传统文化,是中国共产党的性质所定、使命所在、职责所属。把中华优秀传统文化融入党的文化软实力建设,这是坚持中国共产党对文化建设领导权的内在要求,是中国共产党在新的历史条件下把握执政规律,丰富执政文化资源,以自我净化、自我完善、自我提高的内在体现。这是推进党的建设新的伟大工程的重要载体,有助于培育和形成强大的执政党文化软实力,有利于提高党的领导水平和文化执政水平,加强党的对文化建设的领导权。