跨国企业食品安全与社会责任担当探析

从2006年美国的毒菠菜事件到2007年染毒点心事件,再纵观中国毒奶粉和肉制品食品安全事件,食品安全问题所呈现出的企业社会责任感的弱化再次引起公众的关注。企业社会责任在20世纪20年代由美国欧利文.谢尔顿首次提出。此后,美国和英国司法机构相继制定了利益相关法,以促进企业承担社会责任。本文认为,在经济全球化的背景下,跨国企业更好地承担社会责任,更好地进行法律规制,对于实现企业的长远利益具有积极的推动作用。     

Entrepreneurs,investors and the state: the public and the private in sub-Saharan African irrigation development

This article draws on ethnographic research in Tanzania to interrogate the discourse of ‘public’ and ‘private’ in sub-Saharan irrigation development. It contrasts the complexity of social and political relations with narratives suggesting that ‘private’ is necessarily opposed and superior to ‘public’. We argue that support for models of private-sector development obscures access to and control over resources and can result in the dispossession of those least able to resist this. Different interests of ‘entrepreneurial’ individuals and corporate investors and the ways in which these relate to the state are also glossed over. Conversely, the failure of the ‘public’ cannot simply be read from the chequered histories of irrigation schemes within which public and private interests intersect in complex ways.     

The politics of Japan's free trade agreement

For a long time, the Japanese government showed awkward and indecisive attitudes towards trade policy. There was strong opposition from the two political actors — bureaucrats at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) and politicians in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) — to market opening in the agricultural sector. This article highlights private interests and the public interest of MAFF bureaucrats and LDP politicians and examines how the evolving perception of the interests has influenced debates and the progress of free trade agreement (FTA) policy over agriculture. The central argument is that economic linkages and institutional cooperation in East Asia have changed basic interests of MAFF bureaucrats and LDP politicians, and such changes, then, have induced new moves in Japan's FTA policy towards countries of the region.     

Public–private partnerships (ppps) in global health: the good,the bad and the ugly

Global Health Partnerships (ghps) have become ubiquitous within global health governance (ghg). Even before the onset of the global financial crisis public–private partnerships (ppps) were an omnipresent policy tool in global health and in the current austerity climate ppps have been heralded as an effective way to address a growing resource gap in ghg. Despite their omnipresence, ghps have not received adequate attention from critical scholars; few efforts have been made conceptually and theoretically to grasp how ppps are transforming the logic of ghg. We argue that ghps have contributed to the emergence of a complex global health governance architecture in which private solutions (market mechanism) are generally privileged over public approaches. Drawing on Gramscian conceptualisations of public/private, we suggest that the reshaping of the private and public realm inherent to ppps represents a further deepening of the neoliberal management of individuals and populations, allowing private interest to become more embedded within the public sphere and to influence global and national health policy making. This undermines the attempt to improve global health results as the inequitable distribution of social determinants of health, especially poverty and social exclusion, remain the main barriers to achieving health for all.     

Capitalising on the financialisation of agriculture: Cargill’s land investment techniques in the Philippines

This paper has two objectives. First, it aims to analyse how transnational agricultural traders are positioning themselves in, and capitalising on, the financialisation of agriculture. Second, it seeks to position land investments in this process. This is done by situating Cargill – one of the largest agricultural trading companies in the world – into the transformation of agriculture in the world economy and by assessing its strategies of adaption through private equity-driven land investment in the Philippines. The article notes, following Burch and Lawrence, that the transforming position of agriculture is created by reshaping relationships in the agri-food supply chain and is based on the logic of finance capital. An example of this process from the Philippines is provided, where Cargill’s private equity arm – Black River Asset Management– is investing in land through equity acquisitions of a Philippine company, Agrinurture, in a manner that allows the company to adapt to national and local dynamics. The evolving and deepening connection between finance and agriculture is presented first, followed by a discussion of how Cargill fits into this transition in the Philippine context.     

Governance in Public and Private Management

This article analyses the effect of governance in the delivery of public services, and the advantages of collaboration with the private sector in the provision of these public services. The article is not intended to be the conclusions drawn from an empirical study, but rather is based on the experience of a practitioner who has worked as a civil servant in the public sector and as a manager in the private sector. The advantages of private participation are listed, without prejudicing the role of regulator which must be exercised by the public sector.     

刑事诉讼领域司法鉴定争议探讨

司法鉴定在刑事诉讼活动中具有重要作用,是刑事案件有效侦破和公正审理的技术保障。但在实践中,刑事诉讼领域一直存在的司法鉴定争议日益突出。产生很多相关问题,既影响司法公正、司法效率,也不利于公民合法权益的维护。成为各方关注的焦点。从体制机制、制度设计的宏观层面对刑事诉讼领域出现司法鉴定争议问题的原因进行分析,就如何有效解决该问题进行了一些理性思考。     

古希腊私法文化萌生与法治理念形成

作为西方思想文化摇篮的古希腊是西方法治思想的发源地,亦是私法文化的萌生地。古希腊比较健全的私有制和奠基于其上的比较发达的商业贸易经济,为私法的产生、存在和发展提供了一个较为坚实的社会经济条件。古希腊的城邦民主制度为私法的形成提供了良好的法治环境。私有制度、财产观念、商业精神和民主制度促进了希腊私法文化的萌芽。希腊人把法律作为建立一种理性、正义的秩序的重要依据;同时,也把法律看成安全、自由、权利的保障。希腊城邦的法治精神也因此而奠定。这种法治思想体现了人性的要求,是私法精神的理论基础。     

私法概念之再研究——兼论私法观念的革命

私法概念的界定应当从研究市民社会的理论入手,并以家庭、市民社会和政治国家这三者的关系为基础。根据法律的调整对象是否为国家统治关系,可科学地界定私法。这种界定同时也实现了私法观念的革命,产生了新的私法观。对于今日中国的民法法典化而言,这种新的私法观有助于将未来的民法典建成宏伟大厦,而不是将其弄成"三根棒棒";对于民法的理论研究而言,这种新的私法观有助于丰富现有的民法理论,使其更加充实和丰满。     

对做好当前企业宣传思想工作的几点思考

企业宣传思想工作要弘扬主旋律,传播正能量,积极宣传企业、服务企业、贡献企业.